I realize it’s not my own personal curse. Within the world of people who do business on the Internet, it’s a truism that whenever you launch something new, there always is something that goes wrong.
I don’t mean a “glitch.” I mean a genuine crisis. The only mystery is what the crisis will be. (Almost always it’s one you never even imagined could occur.)
A few weeks ago, just as we were about to open the doors to the first-ever worldwide radio station imaging teleseminar, our server died.
I’m not talking about some little rinky-dink computer we keep out back with the chickens. I’m talking about the server on which danoday.com and a number of other websites are hosted, courtesy of the one of the largest Web hosting companies in the world.
Servers like that don’t just stop working. But that one did, and we spent an entire week rebuilding the site. (It would have been finished faster, but I was helping.)
On Monday evening I literally was about to click on the button to begin accepting registrations to our free teleseminar with the legendary Chet Holmes, “How To Double Your Sales By Doing Less, More Intensively,” when a brand-new technical crises arose.
I’ll spare you the details, but I’d never even HEARD of this happening.
I’m exhausted. My head hurts. I’m too wiped out to craft a gracious invitation, so instead…
If you’d like to register (it’s free), now’s the time.
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Hi Dan,
This reminds me of a bit I prepared for very well. The peak of which was to play a song that went perfectly with it. Sadly, instead of 33, the turntable was set to 45. I’m not a techie guy but i can imagine the feeling you had on these events. And it’s the sort that makes you go to the barber to fix your hair after accidentally pulling it out out of big time frustration 🙂 I’ll cross my fingers that these things don’t happen anymore when you are about to do some real big projects. I’m sure all your learners would be doing the same thing. If it helps in any way, here’s a worldwide hug from the people you have helped all over the blue planet for the one, the only, highly opinionated radio advertising guru and radio talent/morning show coach (in short, a guy who makes the perfect sense) Dan O’ Day!! Dan, mabuhay ka!!!
Thanks for the kind words…and also for giving me an idea for my next blog posting.
Dan,
You have no idea how happy I am knowing that my posting gave you an idea for your new blog entry 🙂
Remember that idea you shared in one of your early programming newsletters? Actually, it was an idea you got from doing one session in Singapore — “the whispered word of the day”. That was a great one. Listener feedback was great. Wherever our listeners were they had to crank up the volume and be silently still to catch the “The Whispered Word of the Day”.
Thank you for all the learning Dan.
by the way, is there any chance we will be hearing some of your airchecks?
Mabuhay ka Dan! Daghang Salamat!
is there any chance we will be hearing some of your airchecks?
Not from THIS blog, if I have anything to say about it.
But I’m planning to stream some really cool (non-O’Day) audio this weekend…and then take it down at midnight Sunday.