Cool blog, by the way! I’m off to bed, but leaving it open to check out first thing in the morning. Glad you stopped by & joined in!

-Lynn

It’s nice to know that other people think of these kinds of things as well.

And yes – I’ll check back in with you. We can be ‘accountability partners’ It will encourage me to get on top of it all too!

~ Lynn

Lynn, I bought the report- good, organized info in there.

Now, will you hold me accountable, in, say- a month- to check that I actually DID all the stuff advised??

FYI – All of the proceeds from this product go to Scharlene and Scott, the ones mentioned in my post above.

Thanks again for posting the link here

I just had to point out this limited-time offer- it looks like it’s just what we need! From a respected marketer, and $5, let’s go for it, and get organized: http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=82494

It’s really interesting to hear everyone’s views on the topic, and it’s motivating me to get more organized and prepared.

I have no idea who would take care of my children if I were not here to do that, much less handle the business end of things… and that’s something I need to give some serious thought to.

I was a horrible record-keeper previously – but as I mentioned in my previous comment, I’m working on that. All my junk is present and accounted for!

I don’t understand your comment about who’s going to clean up the web after this “guru phase”? What do you mean exactly in relation to the rest of your blog entry? Isn’t our own responsibility to make sure our families (or people who want to buy our online empires!!) have what they need to carry on?

It takes time to do, but somehow you really don’t have the option not to do it.

And the biggest chunk of work will be when you create the initial document.

I have lots of passwords that I’m changing all the time because of password lifetime restrictions. Whenever I change a password I hit the shortcut on my desktop to my password file, enter the site, username and new password, save it, and exits it.

It’s just a part of a routine that takes very few seconds to do.

Lately I have created my own setup guide for how to launch new sites. Making the guide in the first place took time, but it has three distinct advantages:

1) I’m building sites much faster now that I have a step by step guide.
2) I can easily recreate a site from scratch.
3) The rest of the family can (with time and training) do the same.

Another thing I’m maintaining on a per site basis is a change log or maintenance document.

I log the new versions of scripts and stuff that I install on my websites, including additional things I had to do to get the new version to work as intended. I also log the location of the new versions on my computer and where I have uploaded them to.

And once you have these documents in place they really don’t take up that much of your time.

The biggest problem I see is how to pass on all the tacit knowledge that I’ve accumulated over the years. All my education, training and experiments is difficult to pass on. And stuff that’s even more impossible to pass on is how I validate things, how I estimate and how I decide, because these things are influenced by my values and beliefs.

My wife and I are two different types of persons, so a manual on how to go about internet marketing and making a living online that makes perfect sense to me might not fit in with my wife’s way of thinking aboout things.

But hey, one cool thing that could arise from this is that centuries down the line, some smart internet marketing guru could find my document and re-launch it as “an ancient manual for internet success that has been lost and forgotten for centuries” and make a fortune from it

We are basically the pioneers of Internet Marketing. Creating e-history that will stump the minds of users in future years, I imagine.