Out With The Old – In With The New!

A few weeks ago, I unveiled the new Cybergenica Blog WordPress theme which my team and I spent months customizing to provide an optimal user experience, dramatically improving on our previous theme, which was not only rigid, it was also outdated and had become a nuisance since it was not responsive, and had all but disappeared from Google search results.

Noticing I was overjoyed earlier today, after going live with the new them, my wife Elizabeth asked me what had happened that transformed my mood, as recently I had been frustrated with work. I revealed why I was so happy, explaining the reason for the new theme and all, then she asked “Why did you wait so long to update your blog’s theme if it was that bad?”

The answer is, I was too busy catering to my clients, fulfilling countless work orders working with a skeleton staff over the summer. While putting my clients before my own needs is nothing new, there was one particular client who had become quite a thorn in my side, overwhelming my team and me with an endless barrage of work orders that were taking up all our time (most of which were delivered by email in Jing video format of all things, which forced me to watch every single video at least twice to take notes for my team to address). To make matters worse, just last week, the clown called me on Skype while he was sitting in his bedroom completely NAKED!

Can you imagine having to deal with such an imbecile?

You see, this client’s business and industry are close to my heart as they focus. But, it’s the man I grew to eventually despise. For starters, although at first I often enjoyed getting on consulting phone calls with him, I allowed him to reach out to me when he saw me online on Skype. He would shoot me a message asking if I had a 2-3 minutes to discuss something “quick” however, each call would last over an hour, putting me in a difficult position with other responsibilities on my plate. Eventually, I was forced to inform him I could no longer get on such short notice Skype calls. Then, he went nuts turning would be phone calls into Jing video messages, often having to record 2 messages since Jing limits video recordings to 5 minutes each, which made my job even more demanding since I was now forced to watch videos and transcribe the information therein before I could either do the work myself or place work orders for members of my team. So, my relationship with Bozo went from bad to worse…

The good news is, since we work with pre-paid blocks of time, eventually his pre-paid time ran out and when the time came for me to bill him for another block, I chose not to.

Well, as of Monday, I give praise to God I no longer have to deal with the “naked perfectionist,” a man busy chasing a dream website no one will ever be able to implement. I should have known our relationship was on borrowed time when, during our first conversation years earlier he revealed how he struggled with Internet Marketing, WordPress site and InfusionSoft implementation web contractors and companies who would not return his calls or show interested in working with him…

So, out with the old and in with the new. I give praise To God Bozo is gone, and with him part of history, my team and I finally have a small window of time to allocate toward our own business. :) #Happy