You know, running your own business is not that easy. I have some friends who’ve tried it and gave up. They said it was too much work or it wasn’t as successful as they needed it to be, etc.

If you’ve tried running your own business you know the reasons!

But I will say, that running an SEO business is just a little more difficult only because there really is no “model”, there’s no standard set of rules, no mentor readily available! Especially my business with Eckweb Designs. We focus on SEO for small and home based businesses, so the number of SEO firms that cater to that niche market is very, very small. Which means that when we do get a chance to speak to another SEO firm their structure is so expensive for us that it wouldn’t work in our business model. It’s frustrating.

But, with that said, it’s also exciting. I mean, we’re basically creating a business from nothing. We’re learning all the nuances of SEO (and the constant changes) daily! We’re also learning the business side of an SEO business, creating forms, establishing schedules and routines, hammering out best methods to collaborate with designers and graphic artists and copywriters and anyone else who seems to want to get in on the action!

A client this morning just told me he didn’t know who to go to for the change he wanted on the website. The graphic artist, the web designer, the site manager or the SEO firm. Frankly, for what he wanted he could have gone to all of them and it would have been changed but I could easily see his point of how confusing this business is for website owners!