One change that I should have made before I opened ESINEM Rope’s new e-store is to have matched the domain name but instead, in my enthusiasm to get started, I used kinbakurope.com which I had already. Anyway, I have now bought ESINEM-Rope.com which is live and, hopefully, the redirect on kinbakurope.com will kick in quickly.
Having spent days battling with inventory and product listing updates and worked into the early hours trying to complete an SSL certificate installation, the final straw was finding a notification in my email saying my site has been disabled due to a malware attack this morning. It’s ridiculous, I thought I’d got out of IT years ago but it’s taking over my life again just when I thought I was in remission. I want to tie up girls, not get sucked into areas of geekery beyond my knowledge or understanding.
My inability to delegate has always been one of my worst failings, amongst a long list…OK, maybe not the worst, as that’s probably my inability to keep my mouth shut sometimes and say what’s on my mind 🙂 Least ways, if I ever say something nice, you can be sure it’s sincere. If it’s not nice, it might be worth considering if it has any substance before going off the deep end. I generally mean well, although sometime my bluntness ruffles feathers and bruises egos. I digress, but getting side-tracked is another problem of mine, back to delegation. I have decided that it is madness to struggle with all these IT jobs when one can hire amazingly well-qualified off-shore resources for peanuts compared to UK prices.
To this end, I’m in the process of employing a gentleman with Social Media Marketing, WordPress, Data Entry, Internet Research, SEO, HTML, CSS, Article Writing and a host of relevant experience to complete the migration of articles and galleries to the new members area. This means I can dump the troublesome YourMembers plugin and enhance site performance. Once he gets started, he hopes to complete this within a week. If it goes well, I will get him or somebody else to handle on-going maintenance, updates and enhancements.
I have also put out tenders for enhancing the sales order processing, listing and e-commerce side. I can see the software has potential that would that would be a full-time job for me comprehend and implement well. The options and features offered by the core software are daunting enough but there’s also a myriad of related software to get to grips with like Google Analytics, Adwords, security software and so on. I’m fast discovering that, at best, I’d be an incompetent ‘Jack of No Trades’ with little hope of becoming even a ‘Jack of All Trades’. It’s time to leave this to a professional so I can stick to managing things, coming up with the ideas and, most importantly, dedicate more time to tying up girls and maybe even taking a rope-free holiday in the sun. яндекс