Dogs: Remodeling

I'm remodeling my website right now. If you have a website, every once in a in a while you'll have to somehow fix it or completely start over. I've done this many times and it is always a chore. A necessary chore, but still a chore. 

With each new website, or major change, you learn something. One thing you learn is that it is never perfect. There is always something that could be better, or something that has broken. For the customer, like me, I need to work with professional help. I think the most important thing is that you choose someone who is as motivated as you are to have things work. 

Years ago, I hired a consulting company to help me do some web based work. I paid them money for nearly 6 months... with no results... they kept saying they were working on it... needed that next payment. I had to chase them down. Eventually, I just ended it. I think it was a scam. There are a lot of web/ social media gurus out there, but I bet quite a number of them are scams. I think you need to know the person you are working with rather than finding them some other way. 

In the meantime, please look at my web page, SamTheDogTrainer.com , and send me your feedback. Anything broken? Anything that would look better? Is it loading properly on your computer or phone? I'm also going to have to go in and do some editing on old articles. I have something like 500 articles on my website, written over a 25 year period, and the way I might have described this or that then isn't the way I'd say it today. Then there is this blog. No way I'm going back and re-writing all those posts! All I'd be doing is editing instead of training dogs!

I always wanted the business side of what I did to be authentic. I get offers from others to write articles for me. No, sorry, that wouldn't be honestly me. Except for a few necessary photos, every picture on the website is a dog that I actually worked with. There was this picture, you've probably seen it, where there is a line of German Shepherd Dogs all in a Sit as a kitty cat walks by. I can't tell you how many times I've seen other trainers using this photo as if they had trained those dogs. It must be at least 20 years old by now. I still run across it on some dog trainer's website. I don't like that kind of marketing. 

Anyway, please be patient with my remodel. It is coming together, a bit at a time. There will be new services offered that you might find useful, so check in and see what I'm up to. Ultimately, it is all about the dogs.