Comments on: Should You Work For Clients Or Yourself? http://www.vanseodesign.com/seo/should-you-work-for-clients-or-yourself/ Helping you build search engine friendly websites Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:29:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Steven Bradley http://www.vanseodesign.com/seo/should-you-work-for-clients-or-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-569 Steven Bradley Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:40:59 +0000 http://www.vanseodesign.com/blog/uncategorized/should-you-work-for-clients-or-yourself/#comment-569 Thanks Forrest. I do agree with a lot of what Brian has to say. For example if someone came to me to seo their affiliate site that makes no sense since it would be just as easy to replicate their site and market it for myself. And I do think it's a good idea for SEOs to work on their own projects since there are peaks and valleys when it comes to clients and there's a lot to like about financial independence. But I don't think it's fair at all to decide you know what motivates someone or to assume only a lack of skills is the reason for not choosing the most profitable path in life. You're right that for some the passion is the seo part and not the business model part. There's a difference in the skillset of each and there's a different kind if interest to doing both. Having the skills for both is a great complement. It's also great for someone to know how to design a website or program an application, but not everyone wants or needs to know how to do all those things. In all fairness to Brian he's really only talking about a very specific type of SEO. One who is at the top of his or her game and most of those SEOs likely will move more towards the empire building, but again the ones who don't aren't automatically lacking in seo skills. Thanks Forrest. I do agree with a lot of what Brian has to say. For example if someone came to me to seo their affiliate site that makes no sense since it would be just as easy to replicate their site and market it for myself. And I do think it’s a good idea for SEOs to work on their own projects since there are peaks and valleys when it comes to clients and there’s a lot to like about financial independence.

But I don’t think it’s fair at all to decide you know what motivates someone or to assume only a lack of skills is the reason for not choosing the most profitable path in life.

You’re right that for some the passion is the seo part and not the business model part. There’s a difference in the skillset of each and there’s a different kind if interest to doing both. Having the skills for both is a great complement. It’s also great for someone to know how to design a website or program an application, but not everyone wants or needs to know how to do all those things.

In all fairness to Brian he’s really only talking about a very specific type of SEO. One who is at the top of his or her game and most of those SEOs likely will move more towards the empire building, but again the ones who don’t aren’t automatically lacking in seo skills.

]]> By: Forrest http://www.vanseodesign.com/seo/should-you-work-for-clients-or-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-568 Forrest Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:11:11 +0000 http://www.vanseodesign.com/blog/uncategorized/should-you-work-for-clients-or-yourself/#comment-568 There are a number of problems with this type of thinking; you've pointed out the most fundamental, that we're all motivated differently. Still, the problems go deeper. The articles suggest that anybody with any skill at SEO should be an empire builder. My photography site is my pet project, and yet I work IT by day. It might be more profitable to run every aspect of my life as an enterprise, but there are priorities. Besides, SEO can be a person's project, if that's what they're good at. That skill doesn't obligate a person to run some type of web store, especially if it doesn't make them happy. There are a number of problems with this type of thinking; you’ve pointed out the most fundamental, that we’re all motivated differently. Still, the problems go deeper. The articles suggest that anybody with any skill at SEO should be an empire builder. My photography site is my pet project, and yet I work IT by day. It might be more profitable to run every aspect of my life as an enterprise, but there are priorities.

Besides, SEO can be a person’s project, if that’s what they’re good at. That skill doesn’t obligate a person to run some type of web store, especially if it doesn’t make them happy.

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