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		<title>How Hostwell Came to Be</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Potter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hostwell started off as a way to help out local small businesses in this rough economic climate. You can read the condensed story of Hostwell on my site &#8211; here you can see a bit more of my thought process. Basically, I started off with the idea that $99 per year hosting was a great [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">Hostwell started off as a way to help out local small businesses in this rough economic climate. You can read the condensed <a href="http://hostwell.cc/story.php">story of Hostwell</a> on my site &#8211; here you can see a bit more of my thought process.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Basically, I started off with the idea that $99 per year hosting was a great offer. Realistically though, other hosting companies offer it even cheaper. Even though businesses can save money on hosting, they don&#8217;t reinvest it into their site to maintain it. A light came on at that point and I saw a need for &#8220;small business website management,&#8221; that is a service that updates, adds pages, creates forms, etc. for small businesses on a monthly basis.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Still being stuck on the &#8220;hosting&#8221; side of things, I built my site around the idea of web hosting for $30-$40 per month with &#8220;two free updates and one new page addition&#8221; per month.</p>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Going to Try Something New</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Potter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[attitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seth godin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strategy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not for this blog, but for me. I&#8217;m going to write for myself, rather than writing for you. If you choose to follow along, I&#8217;ll be honored. Why? Because I have the tendency to write for others rather than for myself (it&#8217;s an attitude of &#8220;I have the knowledge&#8221; vs &#8220;It&#8217;s OK not to know [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10137670@N06/3810871034/"><img class="alignleft" title="Sunset at 12,000 feet" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2613/3810871034_998296a7a4_m.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="160" /></a>Not for this blog, but for me. I&#8217;m going to write for myself, rather than writing for you. If you choose to follow along, I&#8217;ll be honored.</p>
<p>Why? Because I have the tendency to write for others rather than for myself (it&#8217;s an attitude of &#8220;I have the knowledge&#8221; vs &#8220;It&#8217;s OK not to know everything&#8221;). When Seth talked about <a title="when tactics drown out strategy" href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/08/when-tactics-drown-out-strategy.html">how tactics drown out strategy</a> my first reaction was to start a new post and expound on his point with my two and a half cents. But then it hit me, &#8220;what do I know about strategy that you already don&#8217;t?&#8221; I&#8217;m no expert.</p>
<p>And if I&#8217;m no expert, then why should I try to write as though I am the expert? Good point. So I&#8217;m trying something new &#8211; I&#8217;m going to use this blog as originally planned, <strong>a platform for discovery.</strong></p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like to<a title="Sign up for Email Updates" href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=HostwellBlog&amp;loc=en_US"> join me</a>, I&#8217;d be honored. If you&#8217;d like to leave a comment, I&#8217;d be encouraged. Thanks for reading.</p>
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