Crazy week - random thoughts

I started this morning with an idea about what I wanted to post about. Then one thing happened that gave me another idea...then another....and so on to the point where I had enough material for a crap load of posts. So in the essence of time, here's what I was thinking:

• I noticed a lot of SL price guide subscribers weren't confirming their accounts and I was getting a few emails a day about it (all you need to do is click a link to confirm your email before logging in). Turns out people's email programs were splitting the link into two lines and it was broken. I added a line of text explaining this to the email, and put a screenshot on the "confirmation failed" page to show what I mean (see example here). It worked - today we're getting no complaints and more people are confirming their accounts. Lesson - pay attention to your customers, and pay attention to your data.
• We've had a few inquiries (only one I consider serious) to buy iPrioritize and SportsLizard. It's always cool to hear someone likes your site enough to inquire about purchasing, but I'd imagine not too much will come out of this other than the practice of negotiating a deal...which in and of itself is pretty cool.
• I noticed something about myself - I really, really like challenges...doesn't really matter the challenge, just that it's something people think I can't do. That's why I like working out and playing bball, that's why I like playing hundreds of hours of Madden, and that's why I love business. I thought about this while thinking about what life would be like without SL or iP if we sold them. Then I realized I'd just take on another challenge.
• With things heating up, we're noticing that every good thing that happens creates a few immediate problems and a bunch more potential problems. That's expected, but it tends to diminish your accomplishments and we're working hard to put "celebrations" in place for when we hit major goals. We all work hard and sacrifice so we have to make sure that we don't spend our entire lives living in the promise of the future. We have weekly dinners as a team (every Wednesday) and we're planning on taking days off to have fun and celebrate Pure Adapt and it's accomplishments.
• Like it or not, the ability to sell is one of the most important things in life. You need to sell to get a client or on your website to get a sale, but you also need to sell yourself in a job interview or sell yourself to a girl if you ever want to get some attention from the opposite sex. Just because you don't work in sales doesn't mean you don't need to sell. People will believe in you and your business in large part because you can sell the idea, and that leads to opportunities down the road (see next pt below).
  
• Recently I landed a large SEO job (with a tech company you've probably heard of). I got the opportunity to bid on the project because my cousin works for them and talked to the CEO about me when they were out jogging together. I'm meeting for drinks tomorrow with a great businessman who happened to be my racquetball coach in college. I landed Pure Adapt a huge development job because I'd been discussing business with the person over email for about a year now. Biggest lesson of all - treat other people fairly because it's the right thing to do, but odds are that if you do, good opportunities will come your way.