The biggest challenge facing Monica's business today is keeping as up to date
as possible with new developments. "The Internet is a constantly growing,
changing, and expanding place. I'd need several hundred hours in each day to
keep up with it all so I am challenged to pick and choose what to learn
next," Monica says.
"In order to offer clients the best possible solutions to their needs, I
have made contact with a great number of extremely good Web designers who are
willing to share information, tips, and techniques with me. Many of these
designers have special expertise and are willing to subcontract to me when
special technical skills are needed."
This is in line with Monica's goal of better managing her time. She needs,
she says, to figure out how to better separate the time she actually spends
working for clients and the time she spends learning new things.
During the past year, Monica has been hired to do more and more graphics work
for a variety of purposes, for print as well as for Web work. She's been
concentrating on learning more about the differing needs of the print world.
There are also several software programs that she's been wanting to learn but has been
too busy working to find the time.
The business achievement Monica is most proud of to date is managing the day
to day running of the business, "making the simple decisions that impact
the way the business will grow and develop", and "watching the ebb and
flow of MonicaWorks and determining what to accentuate and what to leave
behind."
When she thinks about how her company has evolved, a conversation she had
with a friend while walking in downtown Vancouver 20 years ago comes to mind.
Her friend described reinventing yourself as "throwing all the pieces of a
jigsaw puzzle into the air and watching how when they land, they create a new
picture."
"It's become clear to me that this is what I'm meant to do. Sometimes in
life, things fall neatly into place, and that is certainly the way it happened
with MonicaWorks."
First page > MonicaWorks: Getting Started >
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2, 3
You can contact Monica Hogg at
monica@monicaworks.com , by phone at
(250) 539-3004,or visit the
MonicaWorks Web site.
MonicaWorks is all about communication. Our mandate is to
create an elegant website for you, which communicates to your
visitors exactly what you want it to ... and to do it with
appealing images and easy navigation.
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