Hi there! This is Lowell Heddings. You might know me from such sites as How-To Geek. So why am I launching some new site after I fired myself publicly? And what the heck is How-To Geek Pro anyway? This and more on tonight’s episode.
So there I was, a few months after hanging up my editor hat, sipping scotch by the pool while Whitson was busy doing all the actual editorial work running the site that took me 10 years to build.
The person next to me started one of those conversations where you have to explain what you do, and then all the other details about what you do because there’s nothing else to talk about. As usual, this person had a confused look the entire time. And that’s when I realized… nobody understands running a website or business on the internet — except people who have already done it.
So I decided it was time to jump back in…
Creating a website, running a server, making sure things are secure, selling things online, managing a team of people remotely, setting up payroll, etc etc etc? These are all really complicated things and there isn’t an instruction manual to help you make the right choices. I mean… technically, there are actually a lot of instruction manuals on the topic. But books are boring and academic and too often written by boring academics that have never done the actual job.
This site is meant to be the instruction manual that I wish somebody had handed me 10 years ago before we grew to…
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