Hi All,

I just wanted to say, again, how much I enjoyed today’s meeting. I think this is a really bright and talented group of people with potential for great synergy and collaboration. And blog posts (hint/note to self).

Those of you I met for the first time: Laurie, Sibylle, Michael & Laura, it was a real pleasure meeting you. Bradley and Tim, good to see you as always. I’m glad we could all get “out of the building”, too. For everyone else, I think a recap of some of the important things might be valuable. I’ll start one here, through I’m sure I’ll miss something. Feel free to add in the comments or your own post.

Here are some things I learned:

1. We’re not 100% sure what we want out of this group, but we agree that meeting is worthwhile. We also agree that the more we interact, whether in-person or on this website, we’re increasingly likely to organically create value for ourselves, each other and the group as a whole.

2. We should all try to post to the blog. Bradley’s qualifying criteria of “anything anyone in this group would find interesting” is great.

3. We’re a mix of specialists and generalists, but there’s a lot of overlap around “making websites, making websites better, internet marketing, clever programming, general marketing, design.”

4. Don’t Make Me Think and The Designer’s Guide to Marketing & Pricing are both “the best book in the world”. I’m happy there are two bests because I got “free super saver shipping”—thanks Tim and Sibylle. I think posts about good books/articles/whatever are good, especially when we include our experiences implementing the ideas therein. My favorite is The E-Myth, I’ll write a post about it.

5. We should all try to post to the blog. :)

6. I learned a bit more about what everyone does. I think that’s a really important part of this whole thing. It’s probably worth each of us posting a “What I Do” post, or an About Me page/post on the site. What does everyone think about that?

7. We’re equally interested in (external) Client Fulfillment topics and (internal) Business/Management topics.

Anyway, I’m cutting this short because I have to run. Thanks again, everyone.

When others post on this site, let’s make an extra effort to comment if we have feedback. That should accelerate the group’s evolution. I’m looking forward to hearing what everyone thinks.

Cheers,

John