“Every beginning has an end and every end is a new beginning” – Santosh Kalwar. Two years have passed since I started SicanStudios.com. Over the course of these years I learned many new things, interacted and helped people all over the world, improved and multiplied my skills, but also made many mistakes. In this article, a personal one, I’m sharing with you some mistakes I made, lessons learned and the near future of my online conquests. It’s also probably the last article on this website.

Mistakes Made

The first and most important was trying to be everything to everyone. I tried to solve problems with this website in the field of web design, web development, photography, SEO, Photoshop, Flash, Twitter, Windows 7, WordPress and many many more…

Obviously that was the wrong route to go. Instead of watching the number of subscribers increase, it stayed pretty much static. The increase of the subscribers that could be observed was at a rate of 7-10 per month. I now understand the viewpoint of you, the subscriber.

If I subscribe to a website that provides for example Windows 7 tips, I don’t want my inbox to be flooded with 20 other topics totally irrelevant to the one I subscribed for (see previous paragraph for topics).

Which brings me to the next one. I was blinded by the visitors’ count. It kept rising and rising with the peak in month November, 2009. That month, the daily average arose to 835 visits! I must have been doing things correctly, right?

How wrong I was! It didn’t matter that 80% of those visits stayed no longer than 30 seconds on the website, no! I had over 200 indexed pages on Google and I was doing great! I was unbreakable!

Long story short, here are some other mistakes that I made.  I was: not caring about my audience, not trying to establish a readership, not trying to get my name out there, not updating this blog regularly, not viewing this as a business, not being professional enough, not having a specific purpose, not working hard enough, not trying hard enough, not devoting enough.

Enough with that!

So, I’m starting over! I have to start from the beginning, and everything has to go! The deletion of this website will act as an atonement for the mistakes and wrong decisions made over these last years.

I’d like to thank everyone, especially the ones that stayed with me from the beginning, for bringing me joy and making me feel important. So much, that I flew too close to the sun and burned my wings, crashing in the Aegean.

Near Future

I intend to transform this website into a professional web design agency. I’ll try and make a breakthrough with this. I’ve given myself a deadline until the 31st of December 2010. If I can’t make it by then I’ll have to make a radical change and shift my perspective away from the online world.

I am also creating a new web resource that will teach you how to improve your photos using photo editing software and changing camera settings. If you are interested, check it out: ImprovePhotos.net. All the photography enthusiasts subscribed to this blog should check it out. There, is where I’ll be writing most of my articles. The website is due to be released soon (mid-June).

Recently, I finished my last year of studying at the university. Hopefully, I will finally obtain that long awaited degree (still waiting for the exams results). I have to say that I struggled not becoming a drop-out like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or Tom Hanks. Moreover I may even manage to pass it with the highest qualification available (first class honours). Unfortunately the degree won’t be of much use to me. Apart from using it as a house decoration and making my parents proud.

I find that my character is to blame. I always get bored easily and want to experiment with new things. So, programming for me was a passion four years ago but the flame rapidly died. That is the reason why I don’t see any practical application of my university degree in my professional career. Unless I settle in the future and change my character. In other words, listen to the lizard brain, like Seth Godin advises not to in his best-selling book.

Conclusion

As a conclusion, I’d like to end this journey with another BIG THANKS to you! Thank you and see you on the other side!

P.S. I’d love to hear your thoughts about this topic!

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