Well, it’s rant time again. So if you don’t want to hear it, you know where the big X is on the top right hand corner of your browser. This is something that burns me up to no end and the bottom line to it is people not taking responsibility for their own business. Well, you’re going to get an earful in this article and a true story. Hopefully, you will learn something about it.

I was scanning through one of the forums I belong to and I saw a topic that read “Major Registrar Blunder”. Well, I was curious as to what it was. I won’t mention any names, but it seems that this domain registration service didn’t send a reminder to the customer that his domain was about to expire. Well, the domain lapsed and right now it’s sitting there with a good old parked page while this guy is losing thousands of dollars in sales each day.

Well, serves him right. Who in their right mind leaves something as important as renewing their domain in the hands of the registrar? I don’t. The second thing I open up everyday, after my ISP program, is my spreadsheet program. The first thing I look at when I go there is my to do list for the day. Know what the second thing is that I look at? You got it. My list of domains and when they’re set to expire. I then make sure that I begin the necessary procedure for renewing at least two months in advance, if I can.

Fanatic? Maybe. But you won’t find me losing a domain because I forgot to renew it. And thus comes the point of my article. You MUST take responsibility for YOUR business. That means not depending on a registrar to send you a reminder that your business is about to go down the tubes if you don’t pay your $8 or whatever it costs per year. I’m sorry, but there is NO excuse for letting this happen. And not only with your domains, but with every part of your business. You are ultimately responsible for everything. Leaving it in the hands of others is suicide.

I hope you will take this as a friendly warning because if what happened to this person happens to you, don’t expect to get my sympathy. If you can’t behave responsibly and take care of your own affairs then maybe you don’t belong in business to begin with.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim
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