Updating a web page not touched since 2007
This is how my blog’s “about” me page looked from 2007 until today. Notice the original audio’connell logo
Like most small business owners who own a website (micro business owners is a better description for me) I really try to keep my website AND blog updated with fresh content. Search engines like fresh content.
But last night while poking around my blog, I found a very ignored blog page…the “about” page on my blog, voxmarketising.
Last time I touched that page was December 2007.
Today is September 7, 2024.
That’s 17 years since I wrote the page. I still had a podcast at that time (I got bored with it –and then the industry blew up…figures 🙂 )
If I was a completely responsible business owner, I should have been mad at myself for being 17 years worth of forgetful about this page. Instead. I found it funny and fun (which I believe only makes me a “responsible business owner”, sans “completely”.)
17 years ago, my wife and I had two small children…they are small no more and there are three children…plus a dog now. I had dark hair, not the grey I carry now.
And some 40 years + into my voiceover career, I look at worldly things like a voiceover career a little less intensely than I probably did in my younger days. Still not perfect but 17 years later, hopefully a little better in all the important ways.
To give you a sense of the times, that graphic came from a website where you could make yourself look like a character from “The Simpsons”. It was very cool in its day.
It’s funny to read what how I wrote about myself at that time (something I still HATE to do because it feels egotistical and icky – but I just pretend I am writing about a “product” and not a person). I think I was trying to be creative.
It also brings back memories…for example, I had forgotten I had done concert spots for Crosby, Stills and Nash. There are some people reading this who have no idea who those three people are. Oy.
But you cannot go back…in music, in careers or in “about me” pages.
So I will update the page and move on, pleased with how far I have come and what I still have to accomplish.
That goes for you too.
