Comments on: Focus, focus http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/02/22/focus-focus/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:01:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Francine McKenna http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/02/22/focus-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-4514 Francine McKenna Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:54:41 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/02/22/focus-focus/#comment-4514 Hi Dennis, and @Richard, too, Yes, it's been a lot of fun for me to find other like minded people writing about similar topics and to dialogue with them (you , Richard, Prem, and some sexy shark attorneys...) on and off line. I agree, it's easy to get caught up in the momentum and lose focus. I recently passed the 100,000 page view and 400 post mark, after really only being in business since the beginnig of 2007. It's been an amazing ride for me. I have come to the conclusion that all my other activities are there so I can blog/write, not the other way around. That may be different that how others use their sites, but for me the revelation has set me free and made me immensely happy. Thanks for helping me see the light and for the all support and encouragement along the way. Hi Dennis,
and @Richard, too,

Yes, it's been a lot of fun for me to find other like minded people writing about similar topics and to dialogue with them (you , Richard, Prem, and some sexy shark attorneys…) on and off line. I agree, it's easy to get caught up in the momentum and lose focus. I recently passed the 100,000 page view and 400 post mark, after really only being in business since the beginnig of 2007. It's been an amazing ride for me. I have come to the conclusion that all my other activities are there so I can blog/write, not the other way around. That may be different that how others use their sites, but for me the revelation has set me free and made me immensely happy.

Thanks for helping me see the light and for the all support and encouragement along the way.

]]> By: Richard Murphy http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/02/22/focus-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-4513 Richard Murphy Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:50:43 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/02/22/focus-focus/#comment-4513 Dennis You meet the best people here, don't you? And you're right re the brand thing - it is really important I too did not get that in the past Richard Dennis

You meet the best people here, don't you?

And you're right re the brand thing – it is really important

I too did not get that in the past

Richard

]]> By: Dennis Howlett http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/02/22/focus-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-4512 Dennis Howlett Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:09:31 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/02/22/focus-focus/#comment-4512 @Richard: familiar all right, painfully so. @David: I'm just starting to accept that marketing matters - surprising though that may sound - and that a personal brand does have value. It's an accountant's DNA thing. @Mark: I like to say - pick what you want and leave the rest. With the amount of reading out there and good ol' RSS to help, there's plenty of 'help.' @Richard: familiar all right, painfully so.
@David: I'm just starting to accept that marketing matters – surprising though that may sound – and that a personal brand does have value. It's an accountant's DNA thing.
@Mark: I like to say – pick what you want and leave the rest. With the amount of reading out there and good ol' RSS to help, there's plenty of 'help.'

]]> By: Mark Lee http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/02/22/focus-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-4511 Mark Lee Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:04:37 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/02/22/focus-focus/#comment-4511 I was beginning to wonder about how you were managing to do everything Dennis. Focus is important (with Richard's valuable, and oft forgotten, caveat). Although I have dozens of blogs on my RSS feed reader, yours and Richard's have long been the ones that i check first. I guess that may change now. Time will tell. I'm waiting for the announcement, to which you allude, with baited breath! I was beginning to wonder about how you were managing to do everything Dennis.

Focus is important (with Richard's valuable, and oft forgotten, caveat). Although I have dozens of blogs on my RSS feed reader, yours and Richard's have long been the ones that i check first. I guess that may change now. Time will tell.

I'm waiting for the announcement, to which you allude, with baited breath!

]]> By: David Brain http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/02/22/focus-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-4510 David Brain Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:41:20 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/02/22/focus-focus/#comment-4510 It's also interesting Dennis how your use of the phrase 'voices' is similar in some ways to Hugh's 'everyone is a global micro-brand' thing. And I absoultely agree with Richard's wife on the definition of an expert. i will be using that one in meetings in the future . . . It's also interesting Dennis how your use of the phrase 'voices' is similar in some ways to Hugh's 'everyone is a global micro-brand' thing. And I absoultely agree with Richard's wife on the definition of an expert. i will be using that one in meetings in the future . . .

]]> By: Richard Murphy http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/02/22/focus-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-4509 Richard Murphy Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:27:17 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/02/22/focus-focus/#comment-4509 Dennis It's good to talk :-) And seriously - I agree with you - focus is good with one massive caveat. Never lose site of the wood for the trees. Keep up your ethical stuff at least - it puts everything else in context And as David says - this is a problem of success. You've deserved that. You don't think you're an expert - but you are. Richard PS My wife defines an expert as someone who has made most of the mistakes in their field, has lived through them and can now tell the tale for the benefit of others. Sound familiar? Dennis

It's good to talk :-)

And seriously – I agree with you – focus is good with one massive caveat. Never lose site of the wood for the trees.

Keep up your ethical stuff at least – it puts everything else in context

And as David says – this is a problem of success. You've deserved that. You don't think you're an expert – but you are.

Richard

PS My wife defines an expert as someone who has made most of the mistakes in their field, has lived through them and can now tell the tale for the benefit of others. Sound familiar?

]]> By: Dennis Howlett http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/02/22/focus-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-4508 Dennis Howlett Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:45:16 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/02/22/focus-focus/#comment-4508 It's not just that David - when I kicked off, I knew there were certain areas that needed addressing but there were not the 'voices' to do them real justice. Now they're here, then it's right for me to step back. I could have taken the publisher's route and turned AccMan into a site that pulled in those people. I don't think that would have worked as well. It would have been a net-net dilution which doesn't suit the medium or the people who read our stuff. I'm a great believer that when your work is done then move on. That's how it seems to me right now and I'm comfortable with the decision. It's not just that David – when I kicked off, I knew there were certain areas that needed addressing but there were not the 'voices' to do them real justice. Now they're here, then it's right for me to step back. I could have taken the publisher's route and turned AccMan into a site that pulled in those people. I don't think that would have worked as well. It would have been a net-net dilution which doesn't suit the medium or the people who read our stuff.

I'm a great believer that when your work is done then move on. That's how it seems to me right now and I'm comfortable with the decision.

]]> By: David Brain http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/02/22/focus-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-4507 David Brain Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:29:34 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/02/22/focus-focus/#comment-4507 Very interesting point on focus Denis. I guess these course re-directions are necessary periodic things, but probably brought on by success. The tyranny of choice is not a problem suffered by those not read or regarded. Very interesting point on focus Denis. I guess these course re-directions are necessary periodic things, but probably brought on by success. The tyranny of choice is not a problem suffered by those not read or regarded.

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