Sometimes It’s Just For Fun

I tend to try to spend most of my behind the keyboard time focused either on growing Localtek or my blog and most any other time is spent with the family, as anyone who has ever started a business can tell you, free time is not something you get much of. Even if you are a good time manager and are able to delegate there is always much to do. But at the same time anyone who starts a business is looking forward to that, if you ask me that is half the fun of it.

That all said, I think it is very important to not forget why you started the business in the first place (money aside on this one), in many cases, and mine I know for sure, much of it was for the love of what you knew you could accomplish by using the technology or marketing knowledge that you had wrapped up into a business model that scales and can be profitable (important to note those, write those down).

For the past couple months I had really gotten away from doing things online just for fun, whether it be interacting with people on Twitter, coming up with little web development ideas just to see what happens. In other words I was getting away from the purely fun and adventurous  side of what we all do online.

Well, what is important to note there, and I am sure it is the same with many of you, which is the whole reason this post is being put together is that in many cases it was the sense of adventure and fun that led to the main thrust of whatever business idea you are currently working on. This could of been playing around with domain name searches while wanting to start a business and realizing the good real estate is gone and then making domaining a business for you. Or in my case the love of geo names leading to the Missouri.me concept which led to the larger corporate goal of Localtek.

So, do not forget to have some fun, sometimes spending a bit of time on simply playing around can lead to your most creative ideas yet, and as you can see sometimes that leads to something even greater, all because it was fun.

I hope to within the next week do a post announcing what one of the this fun ideas turned into. You will get my point on why I think spending some creative fun time can be good.