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I`m asking you to review a website I`ve recently started to help share the knowledge and lessons learned by fellow small business owners. I`ve started by telling my lessons of various small business and financial enterprises I`ve taken. 

I`ve done all the setup and the graphics myself. It took me several days (I already have experience with website programming and design, but I`m not a pro).

I also would like to know if you think that people, maybe you, would be interested in contributing the lessons you`ve learned in a similar format.

I also want to know what you think of the diagrams that I`m adding to the posts. Are they interesting? Helpful? Redundant?

The site is:  Small Business Lessons.

Thanks,
Jacob
http://www.smallbusinesslessons.com


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Small Business Lessons - learn from other people`s experience in small business.

Plain and Simple. Looks nice.

There ought to be a lot more content  though. I am sure there is lot coming this way !

Here`s wishing you the very best !

 

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Is this a blog? 

Yes, Craig. It uses blog software. But it`s only a platform for publishing the articles.

I plan to post my business lessons (including failures) as many as I can and the idea is to get other people contribute their stories and lessons that they`ve learned doing business in a similar or other interesting format.


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Small Business Lessons - learn from other people`s experience in small business.

Yes, I will post more articles from my experience but I also would like people to share their lessons.


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Small Business Lessons - learn from other people`s experience in small business.

It threw me off a little bit first looking at it. I assumed that, when I first saw the opening page, there would be more of an introduction or information of what the site was about, what its intention was; but it basically goes right into your articles. If I hadn`t read your original post, I`m not sure I would have understood what the site was about right off, except for the basic page title.

For me, it would have been beneficial to see some something like your "About" page first off, telling me what I am supposed to be seeing and expecting.

Your list of categories seems to be in an out of the way place. Perhaps moving it to the top left side would be helpful.


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M Hall
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I got it, and I love the idea. I`d love to see a bunch of people contributing to it!

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Okay...(donning Kevlar and standing reasonably close-by to Nikole), I think if you`re using blog software, it`ll work. But is there any way to create a Table of Contents.....out of Archives, Indexing, or something?

These are supposedly going to be life-experience lessons learned, and people will want to quickly find something pertinent to their own problems.

(Note I didn`t use the word "articles" at all, except here in the postscript.......)

There are archives but I think currently they don`t show the list of articles. This should be fixed, I guess. There are also the categories. Or how would you suggest to index the lessons?

Another question. How will it be possible to get people to contribute from their experiences?


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Small Business Lessons - learn from other people`s experience in small business.

Indexing would be along the lines of categories, as opposed to TOC being a plain title listing (maybe sorted alphabetically). The "search" would be more like a book`s index, where you find on words.

I just think it`d be easier on everyone if they can quickly browse by title, category, or search by phrase.

As for getting people to contribute...that`s a whole other story. :-) Dunno, but some sort of incentive would likely help. I`ll think on it.