Start A Business Backwards

These are tough times, on CNBC this morning they annouced that Citigroup was going to layoff 50,000 workers world wide. CitiGroup plans to reduce their world wide workforce from 350,000 to 300,000 in the next few months. Many other businesses have laid off workers, it seems no sector of the economy is immune from job losses including auto sales, tech, and many more.

After losing a job, many people are going to look to starting a business. They will start to think about taking hard earned money to invest in starting a business and that may not be a bad idea. 

But starting a business requires planning and that the Start A Business Backwards Strategies are designed to reduce risk.  I suggest you spend more time planning upfront then spending hard earned dollars. Over the next few posts, I’m going to write about a strategy any potential or current business owner can use to reduce risks and ensure success. 

Each post will you a Start A Business Backwards strategy to create a USP, create a list, test to see if the market exists, perhaps pre-sell products or services each post designed to reduce risk and increase success. 

Checkout the posts over the next few days, Start Your Business Backwards and ensure business success

I messed up, thats what happened. Here is a lesson in blog maintenance. A few weeks ago in my infinite wisdom I decided to oupgrade the site to a newer version of Wordpress. After the upgrade I wasn’t able to login. What a pain (the problem was caused by me). Anyhow, since I was in a hurry, I re-installed Wordpress (complete new installation) and that killed the link to the old database. Long story short, since I gave the new database a new name (so I have the old posts) all of the content is in the old database and I have to transfer it to the new one.

Here are the lessons;

1. Backup, Backup, Backup - install a Wordpress backup plugin and use it regularly. Otherwise you could lose all of your data
2. Do change the way stuff was done in the past. Normally I do all of my upgrades using the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin, this last time I didn’t and that hurt.
3. Search to see if there are issues with an upgrade BEFORE you upgrade. Didn’t do that and in hind sight there was an issue. Had I searched for problems first I could have put off doing the upgrade.

Thats it for now, but boy what a lesson. Even an experienced web guy has issues sometimes mostly by taking stuff for granted. Learn from my mistakes