In my most recent post I talked about not needing yet another affiliate marketing ebook. As I was researching some other issues today I came across an old post on James Brausch’s blog which got me to thinking about the reason for purchasing products.
I think I’m going to be cutting back even more on my product purchases — and yes, this is going to be one of *THOSE* posts!
First, the post that got me started: “Data Is Slavery” by James Brausch. In it, one of his points is that a project is not complete until the data on your hard drive is redundant.
Which led to my next question: Why do I buy stuff? Why is my currently “non-redundant” hard drive full of stuff? Is it to give me the information and/or tools I need to complete a project? The true answer, in almost every case, is “no”.
So what needs to happen to me is that I first need to focus on projects (mainly product development) and then purchase something only if it is essential for the completion of that project. Once the project is done the data can be deleted from my hard drive.
I’m also strongly considering purchasing a managed dedicated server for at least one of my websites so that I can have a place for “redundancy” that gets backed up. I’m not real sure how to address the issue of personal data being stored on a publicly accessible server, so that issue still needs to be worked out. Perhaps a better solution would be to simply subscribe to a service that allows me to store it encrypted so that “they” will never see it?
Lots to think about, but the bottom line is that I simply don’t need to purchase 99% of the stuff I purchase. And the flip side of that is that I’m going to focus on creating products that solve a problem so that I don’t contribute to the problem of Products That Don’t Really Contribute To Business Development.
Thanks for listening,
Tom
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