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I bet you never thought anyone would be telling you to make mistakes. However, that is exactly what I am going to do. Make them early and make them often. They will actually make your web design business much stronger in the future. Mistakes are important for learning — learning how NOT to do things and that’s the best way to learn sometimes.

Mistakes are going to happen in every aspect while creating a successful web design business. They will cause clients not to pay. Mistakes will cause extra work to correct. Mistakes may even cost you a client or two. It’s time you get over the emotions and learn from your mistakes.
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Focus Minded articles appeared in several carnivals last month. In an effort to support the carnivals, hear were the appearances.

• 5 Essentials for Kick Starting Your Business appeared in the Carnival of Entrepreneurs #28
• How To Prevent WWIII While Working With Friends appeared in the Carnival of Entrepreneurs #30
• The 2-Hour Business Plan appeared in the Carnival of Entrepreneurs #30

I am looking forward to seeing what carnivals August brings. Feel free to visit those carnivals as they contain some very valuable articles for Entrepreneurs.

Would you like to include FocusMinded.com in any of your carnivals or on your site? Send me a quick message and let’s talk.

Three weeks ago I celebrated my first wedding anniversary and we had a wonderful celebratory night out. It was, however, a really rough year for us. We’ve commented to several people, how we are just grateful to be alive!

Last year I made the choice to go full time into website design and suffered all year because of that decision. You see, I am not really that good of a designer. My strong suit is programming, but I lack patience, in fact I am more of a business man and a visionary than a website designer or developer. Yet, I learned some very important lessons along the way and I want to share them with you.

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Unbelievable that another week has gone by already. Nevertheless I have a nice list of bookmarkable links for you. If you’ve found something to be bookmarkable send it to me or comment it below.

• Daily Blog Tips presents How to Find Short Domain Names.
• Ronald Huereca of Devlounge is part of creating a very sweet plugin, WordPress Automatic Update. It is still a very young project, but could prove to be the best thing ever for WordPress CMS users.
• Scott Gledhill writes about Corporate Web Standards on Digital Web Magazine. A fairy tale no longer, give this article a read.
• Sarah Pacopac of BlueJar.com writes a contest entry called The 3 P’s for Creating a Successful Website.
• Raj Dash of Bootstrapper answers How Entrepreneurs Brainstorm with a list of 7 of the common methods.

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