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My Motivation

Posted by: creativescientist on: August 28, 2008

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I don’t want a billion dollar empire. I don’t want a million dollar empire. I just want make enough to keep me doing what I love doing – making a difference to people’s businesses and organisations. I had dreams of grandeur when I first started Wai Designs. How much money I would make, what I would do with it, etc. Then I got my first ‘proper’ client. She was pretty much everything I wanted in a client (and I told her so). Apart from needing my services, she was also easy-going, friendly, creative and knew what she wanted (an invaluable quality if you ask me). At the end of the project her degree of gratitude warmed my heart. She told me how much her friends and family had liked the site and how much she did too – her excitement was evident even over the phone. It was then that I decided that I didn’t want my business to be a money-making scheme. I wanted it to be something that would illicit the same reaction I got from my client that day. She could have chosen a cheaper option. She could have chosen a quicker option – but she chose me. And didn’t regret it. That is my motivation. I want people to know they can choose me and not regret it. That, to me, is worth much more I could ever hope to make with this business.

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i was wondering about the ‘customers’ in Nigeria and except for the really ‘big boys’, an internet exposure in this country right now is little less than a glorified complementary card. I’d thought Wai was someplace in Lagos, guess our experience doesn’t apply to you. After a while my friend who does web development felt like a fraud since his customers weren’t really benefiting in a vital way from their web presence.

Yes, it’s true that internet use isn’t all that widespread in Nigeria but efforts are underway to change that. Google, HSBC and Liberty Global have started a $700 million project to improve connectivity and at a lower cost to users: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1841175,00.html

This is only one of many projects in development to improve internet accessibility in Africa. I understand how your friend feels but he should look at it this way: When widespread internet access is available in Nigeria (and it’s coming sooner than we think), more people will want websites than there are professionals able to supply them. More demand with limited supply = higher prices. Your friend’s customers will be glad they got him when he was still relatively cheap. Besides, having a website can only improve the image of any business – especially where owning one isn’t all that commonplace. People will see the business as being professional and this in turn would increase its perceived value. And as I’m sure you know, perception is everything when it comes to business.

Will that effort by the Co. mentioned above be accepted by the Government if it isn’t going to benefit them in any way?? When really do you think these connectivity developments would be gaining grounds…
People in Nigeria are relatively against technological developments, if not Connectivity should have been something cheap at this stage in our countrys life.

I love this piece. I had this same experience with a client of mine, my first proper client (as you say). When he saw his website, he called over the phone and was literally pouring blessings on me. He couldn’t stop gushing for days.

I found out that day why I really wanted to set up my own web design business – not so much to make money(which I thought was the main aim), but to touch other people’s lives and other people’s business and leave them in better shape than I found them.

Brilliant piece.

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