The glamour of Website Maintenance

Here’s a list of things that I find glamourous.

• Coding away at my soon to be discovered webapp turned startup.
• Climbing Mt Kilimanjaro with my brother (and maybe twittering about it).
• Sitting on the beach at Camps Bay in Cape Town, South Africa with my Fiancee watching the sunset.
• Hearing a lion roar in real life.
• Walking along the Namib desert.

You’ll see that my list doesn’t include “Website Maintenance”.

Focus on Glamour

My point is the following: outsourcing the non-glamourous things in your business gives you a lot more time to do the glamourous things in business (and life) like planning and developing products, running after your dreams.

One of the reasons that I offer Website Maintenance services is because I have become very quick at the tasks that are required and I have people that I work with that are the same.  So I spend much less time on something that would take the average business owner a lot of time to do.  I want business owners and employees to be free to focus on the glamourous while I maintain something that will help them get there.

The question I ask myself all the time: Is your time worth more or less than someone else is willing to charge for this job?

Other options?

If your business and your pocket is big enough I’d suggest that you hire someone to do Maintenance for your full time.  If not then outsourcing with a firm that communicates well and delivers on time is one of the best decisions you’ll make.