Going back to work after a life changing experience is one of the toughest things that a person could ever face. There is a part of you that wants to get back in the swing of things… since you know that you can’t drown yourself in misery forever. There is another part of you that wants to just sit there and stare at the screen and feel contempt & hatred for the backlog of projects that you are faced with since everything was put off due to the personal problems you were going through.
In other words… you spend a whole lot more time working on projects because you are torn between those two poles to begin with. As the days go on… you start to realize that you are getting more work accomplished than you were… say… a week ago. You start to heal a bit more each day and try to use your emotions in a positive way to hopefully produce positive results from your work.
I was so backed up on work after everything that went on in my life… that my main website (EastWave.com) has been offline since before Christmas. In a way this was actually positive because it let me and my team finish up all of the backlogged work and get that out of the way. It also let me sit back and analyze what my company actually IS… over 5 years after I started it.
I mentioned in a previous blog post of how my hands were in too many cookie jars before all of this took place…
I remedied part of that issue by turning over our web hosting clients to my friend at MatrixEast.com. Another partner & myself also agreed to shut down the domain monetization idea that we had worked extensively on… because neither of us really had the time to put our full efforts into making it successful. It’s still a great idea… but sometimes you have to say to yourself “the juice is just not worth the squeeze”… not at the present time anyway.
I wrote the previous posts as a way to let everyone know what was going on… since I have had a few customers and associates ask “When is your site going to be back online?”.
Going forward here are the plans and everything should be coming online shortly:
EastWave will no longer be offering web hosting to any new customers… we will however… recommend companies for hosting… dedicated servers and any other type services of that nature.
All development services will now be handled through our development & consulting division of the company at EastWaveMedia.com. We will have other websites under the EastWave Media arm… which will be specific to the new services that we will be rolling out soon.
There will be no referral fees given out from this point forward. If a previous customer recommended EastWave development services in the past… they would get a huge discount on their next project with us… or cash back if they preferred. We have realized that this just gave us more work to do… while making less money overall… in the end.
EastWave.com is going to become the main website in a new EastWave Products shopping network which will feature beach gifts… coastal décor… camping supplies… barbeque accessories & more. We have made strategic partnerships with a few different suppliers of product lines that we think will really take off.
For the local music friends of mine:
NCScene.com is still alive at this point (Forum Only) but that will be changing drastically in the future. I have plans to build a large social interaction network catered specifically to rock & metal musicians… tattoo artists… bikers… goth freaks… etc… I had plans for this… years ago… which got pushed off due the amount of work I had at hand. This project is back on track and we hope for completion within the next month or so.
So with all that said…
I look forward to the future of EastWave…
The Next Wave Begins Today…
