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Thursday 12th April - It's gone Forever

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Posted by: knightrider45 Thursday 12th April 2007, 3:31pm

Well,I won't forget yesterday for a long, long time to come. The constant need for more money all the times means that I cannot be satisfied with life as it is. That makes it my job to make really heart wrenching decisions

The financial situation here has forced me to drop one of my main businesses. Oh, Okay, theres other things involved as well but finance is the main reason.

It's not so much my pride that's been hurt here, but the fact that I've let other people down because of this decision is unforgiveable.

Anyway, the worst is done. I certainly don't want to have to do it again. I've managed to help persuade my web master to carry on for a while longer at least anyway. My new retail site is safe.

My decision has forced my web master to seriously consider her options too. Let me introduce you to her: she's a lovely, professional lady who is disabled and depends on what comes through the door to live. In over 4 years of trading on line, I've never "met" anyone whos as honest, reliable and dedicated. I've never seen her, met her or spoke to her, but you just know with some people, don't you?

I've told her that she'll always have a special place in my heart because she has broke all records getting this demanding, server draining, time consuming business on line for me.

Anyway, what shes going to have to do is move everything onto one server, after closing a lot of her marketing groups down to make room. Because the groups use email , the servers are under constant heavy use and the only way she can run a business and host her other sites, including my retail one, is by closing a lot of the groups down, otherwise the server would just wouldn't handle things and keep crashing.

Hours and hours of work for her. What I've said this morning after getting her last email is that I'm going to really start promoting my new site as hard as I can, not least of all because I act as agent for her hosting and web design services, and I know she is an excellent web designer. In other words, I'll help her by helping me.

I'm just pleased, if anything can be retrieved from this sad, sorry mess, is that, firstly, she is going to carry on,and secondly, that my new retail site is safe. Otherwise, if she had stopped trading totally, I would have had to re-upload my new site to a another company's server after transferring the web (domain) name back into the UK.

I don't know how much money I've lost yesterday, certainly not without going through the accounts. It's at least £2,500-3000, since September. Don't get me wrong, it was a good decision at the time, but within 6 weeks of starting, Paypal decided email marketing was in contravention to it's terms of use and told me to stop selling the service using Paypal.

Bearing in mind that the vast majority of businesses on the net are part time, and are run by people who will only use Paypal for business and internet use. If Paypal refuse to process payments, then, it doesn't matter to them, but it takes a lot of little businesses down.

And that's what happened. And I can only afford high server charges for a certain time out of wages. I'm not saying the business would have been a brilliant success with Paypal support, but it was at least manageable, and viable. Now, it's nothing.

Okay, moving on. I've still got two businesses up and running. I'm revamping my business to business site now, aiming to get ths done over the next 10 days, and then I'll concentrate on making the retail one really successful. I've just submitted the new site to the top 50 search engines, including Google and Yahoo, so, when it does get fully listed, that will start bringing in some cash. All cash taken will be re-invested in advertising the business offline.

Thanks everyone for your concerned comments. Simon, I sent you my personal email address over the weekend through IMM's personal messaging service - did you get it OK? Looking forward to those caravan photos!! Letty, I'll aiming to do your survey tomorrow.

I'll try and be more upbeat tomorrow. At the moment, life is, and i feel, s*it.I've just this second had another email from my web host. She tells me she's blessed that I've found her. Why I don't know.

Paul

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