For the longest time now my friends, co-workers and customers have been asking me why I don’t maintain an active blog.

My answer to them is always the same: There are only 24 hours in a day, I only have two hands and, as such, I can only get so much done.

So, does that fact that I am now starting up a blog mean that I have crafted a time machine or grown extra limbs to combat the aforementioned problems? No, unfortunately that is not what it means. (All my efforts to create the time machine have ended in disaster…might be time to throw in the towel on that venture!)

What it does mean is that I’m going to get back on the horse (…I tried a blog a few years ago…) and see if I can cram more into my jam-packed day.

I honestly feel that I owe it to all our EliteAnswers.com customers to start a blog. I have consulted with for so many of them on various topics such as online marketing, email marketing and social marketing. What I have found is that most business owners (almost regardless of industry) have the same questions and are seeking the same answers.

In this blog I will often highlight customer problems and the proposed solution. I won’t claim to always have the right answer or miracle solution, but when I’m consulting I try to present the absolute best recommendations given all the information I have.  (I’ll also make up fake names to protect people’s privacy.)

I also won’t be censored. I don’t tell people the answer they want to hear, I tell them the raw uncut and direct truth. If you want a ‘yes man’, then go somewhere else. That’s not who I am and that’s not what I provide.

So, here we go…  I guess I should have some dramatic closing line as we embark upon this new blog…

…It’s one small step for man, one giant leap for man…. Damn, taken!
…I have a dream… shucks, that’s  taken too!
…ask not what you can do for my blog, but what my blog can do for… sheesh, taken as well!

I guess we’ll forgo the dramatic closing for the moment, since all the good one-liners seem to be taken already. I’ll simply close with my mantra of: GO BIG OR GO HOME!