Business Jet Blog

Had some great comments on the blog the past few days. Basically kicking me in the tail for not making posts more often, and also chastising us for “Typos, formatting errors, and ancient data galore”. But, that is occasionally what we need to motivate us to do better things. I actually wish more people would send in comments like that more often. Sometimes what we need in life to motivate us is a friendly, warm, encouraging voice. Other times we need a fired-up Drill Instructor from Quantico yelling in our face. This was obviously the Drill Instructor voice.

While working on some other projects with consulting clients and doing a few other things I had gotten away from some keys to my success.

1. Break it down – I knew that the blog wasn’t being updated on a regular basis, because we had recently changed servers and the new settings had never been imported to blogger.com.
2. Write it down – I actually had written this task down in my moleskine.
3. Do it now – This is where the breakdown occurred – I continued to overlook or ignore this task as I was working on some other projects and this didn’t feel as vital. The DI reminded me that it was.

As for the typo’s – I guess we should run spell check and grammar check more often, however, this is a blog, not the Wall Street Journal. Regarding our “ancient data galore,” there is not a whole lot going on in business aviation right now, and at least we have some data that can be ancient. Two years ago we didn’t even have a blog, so we are making progress!

Now I know that this is generally an aviation blog, and specifically related to business jets so I hate to bring others topics into this space. But to read about the value of URLs or domains, check out Frank Schilling’s 7mile blog, take a look at the DNJournal for a list of the most recent domain name sales, or visit the Internet Commerce Association's website (Howdy Jude!). BusinessJet.com is not for sale, so while we are interested in the value of our assets, we take Charlie Munger’s approach and view this is as a long-term favorable trend, which we won’t interrupt unnecessarily.

With all that being said, I will take a much more disciplined approach to updating the blog on a regular and timely basis. Comments are always appreciated, and we are always happy to feature interesting people and their products on the blog and at BusinessJet.com.