Franklin and David had discussion in Salt Lake today concerning their future cooperation of nutraceuticals to Asia. Franklin will provide Web-Op w a lifetime of experience and knowledge relating to product trade within the Asian market. Welcome to our new Partner Franklin Ng.

Web-Op’s CEO, David Bailey recently returned from a week long trip to China, where he traveled to meet with new partners and sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Hong Kong based BPO firm Lifewood international. Web-Op will prepare a network of approximately 2,000 retail websites to allow their contractors and clients to effectively market their products to an American audience. David was impressed with the hospitality and thrilled to be working with Lifewood International on this project.

Chinese blog: http://www.web-op.cn/blog/Web-Op-CEO-和香港外包公司-活树国际签署2000网站的合作协议

It was great visiting with Dave today in Salt Lake. We are close to celebrating our second year of www.l-arginine.com. We have reached millions of dollars in annual sales and an amazing partnership.

Went to Snowflake this morning to deliver a truckload of new office furniture and computers. We have been expanding about a truckload of office furniture and equipment a year. I guess it’s not a startup anymore.

We hit a snowstorm during the trip. Glad to be back in the sunshine.

“Skate where the puck is going”

In the obnoxious sports cliche industry, everyone knows to try to target your business based on future trends, instead of past results.

Strangely, this seems to be a very rare occurence in business, especially the web business sector. Instead, there seems to be a lot of thinking along the lines of “skate to where someone else has already captured the puck and hope you can flail at him enough to release it and claim it”. The hundred Instagram clones, the fifteen million local sites which do exactly what Yelp does except without the user base, the penny auction sites which figured “well, Swoopo did well” (until they went broke).

The fact is, trying to cling to a “borrowed” business model often fails for two reasons:
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Had a great lunch today at the Las Vegas country club with business partner and friend Greg Herlean. We discussed the kick off next week of our new site Horizon Trust. We are also partnering on the new business and website called Business Plan Bluprint. Thanks to both Greg and Chris for showing me such a great time today.

Wireless Security Systems is rebranding their company as Link Security. Justin Fawson visited our offices from their headquarters in Ogden, Utah to discuss the upcoming years strategy. Thanks Justin, you guys have been great partners.

We are all up in Snowflake visiting our partners with The Guru. Millions of dollars worth of windshields being sold with our amazing partners on this site. A special thanks to all our partners and wonderful employees who have turned this business into a huge success over the last several. Thank You