July 1, 2008
What Do You Avoid Because It *Seems* Too Complicated
Even though just about anyone can build a website, there are aspects of online business and web development that can be quite complicated. We can outsource some of the things we don’t want to learn, but there are always those little nagging things we wish we could learn to do…but we avoid because they *seem* complicated.
And I say *seem* because, from my experience, whenever I’ve convinced myself something was too hard to do and then I finally went ahead and did, I wondered why I was ever worried. For example, STARTING and customizing a Blogger blog (still haven’t tried customizing a WordPress blog, cuz I’m very SCARED!), customizing a phpbb forum, creating an HTML email, putting audio on my website and the list goes on and on.
One of the other things I’ve avoided is video, but through my use of screen-capture software, Instant Video Generator and recently the purchase of an ultra-easy Flip Video recorder - I’ve been taking baby steps and am slowly coming around. Soon, I’ll look back and wonder what I was so concerned about. 
So what about you - What do you avoid because it seems complicated?
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Copywriting. But that’s not really technically hard, just hard hard. For me.
But I’m getting around that by launching two new :reports: in the next month. I can get away with not “doing” copy and selling them cheap.
I probably need some slapping around for that. LOL
Too many things to list…
My biggest is learning how to do layers in Paint Shop Pro. It’s been a year now and I still havent taken the plunge
Hi Alice,
Like you, I’ve been avoiding video, even though I enjoy watching other’s and I know it is a tool that I need to add to my marketing arsenal, I keep putting it off because it seems so darn technical, and tech is not one of my strong points.
Copywriting is one of my lesser traits, I try my hardest to use what is already out there and tweek it to what I need.
Video and anything Graphical. I am so beyond technical it ain’t funny…and I couldn’t even color in the lines as a child lol.
Copywriting also, but it’s weird and frustrating. I can ALWAYS come up with something better for someone when asked to proofread and give opinions…and I can write it up in minutes, if not quicker.
But i sit staring when it comes to writing my own copy.
Writing a always a big challenge for me. It sounds great in my head but never comes out that way on paper. I’m a very good “technical” writer — I can make a complex topic very understandable but I have trouble getting to the emotion/pain/pleasure and telling a story. I dread sitting down to write.
Too many things to name. The biggest one that I’m slowly but surely starting to overcome is customizing a WordPress blog. It’s not actually as bad as I had myself convinced it was.
I avoid pay per click advertising like the bubonic plague. I just don’t feel like figuring it out!
I love reading all these answers. I love the writing…just keep me away from the techy stuff.
And “Hot Prospecting System” - I understand where you’re coming from. Pay-per-click is very detail oriented and quite labor-intensive to set up (but once it’s set up, it becomes fairly simple)…so it’s easy to try to avoid it.
But everyone one step at a time. Once you do it, you know you’ll always wonder what you were so worried about!
I’m like you with the video thing. I’m where I was a couple of years ago with blogging, I couldn’t imagine that I had anything of value to say, so it is now with video, what is there to add visually. But I guess it’s just get in there and try it.
Without a doubt, video. Not that it’s a challenge, just not a camera kinda gal :-0
Right behind that is Adwords, arrggghhhh! So frustrating. Slowing getting the hang of it but it still drives me nuts!
New technology. When all is said and done, I’m just an old-fashioned gal at heart. However, that is partly because I’ve been doing this for over twelve years now. I have most of the old stuff so downpat I can do it blindfolded.
However, my business is mainly based on helping neophytes and beginners get started online so new technologies are not that much of a day-to-day issue for me. My main problem is the fact that I’m so busy with current online projects that I really begrudge the time it takes to learn and then get up to speed with all the new technology that seems to come along everyday. I force myself to do it, but only after weeks and months of procrastination and even then only during the brief breathing spell each month between my membership site deadlines.