We can’t wait for this one to kick off. Web-Op is getting into the escrow services business. We purchased the domain www.escrowit.com. It’s not live yet but we’ve started the design process and have hired some great writers to help get some content started for the site. Keep an eye this one.

www.businesslians123.com is a site we have started that we offer loans to small businesses. We will be giving loans between the amounts of $1,500.00 and $150,000.00 to qualified businesses. Most of these loans are offered to companies w existing merchant accounts that we we can lean. During this rough economy we are expecting to loan small businesses millions of needed dollars to update and expand their companies. Go to the site and check it out.

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.

After being in the website business as long as anybody has been in this business, there is one attribute we have decided that helps is more than any other, patience. It has become much easier to be a patient because we have money, and a strong belief in the future of what we do.

Look at these two charts comparing January 2011 to January 2012. If you make the mistake of measuring your growth from the beginning of each month till the end, it’s hard to see any increase. However, if you’re patient for a year the growth becomes quite apparent.

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

A few years ago, we got a checklist of proposed features from a client. They wanted the site “.mobi enabled”. We spent a few minutes looking at each other like dogs trying to understand calculus, and then realized, fundamentally, that we were looking at a “someone read a white paper” scenario. They wanted to get in on the big buzzword, but had yet to analyze the value proposition.

Nobody’s going to discount the growth of mobile. We’ve all got our collections of phones, tablets, and even the occasional netbook. However, a fortune thrown at mobile development will net you no extra revenue if it doesn’t serve a user purpose.
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Visits from mobile devices are up three times over the last six months on WindshieldGuru.com. The ever changing world of the Internet keeps us scrambling to keep up. Check us out on your mobile device tomorrow. We’re going live with a new mobile site today.