Why You Should Never Depend on Others

I have always hated to depend on others and that’s why I’ve never got a job and I even stopped depending on my parents since I was 15. I really find this to be one of the things that can destabilize your life very much, because you always depend on others’ decisions.

And don’t get me wrong, I don’t say not to get a job, but make sure to be one of the best in your domain, so if your boss decides he doesn’t need you anymore, then it will be easy for you to replace it to something similar or even better. I’ve said it before in my previous post, do something you like and be the best.

Now I’ve found one more reason to say this. It’s TweetMeme, a service based on Twitter, which allows you to place a ReTweet button on your website. The problem ? Twitter’s developers have just made their own retweet button and people start using it instead of TweetMeme’s. Now I don’t say TweetMeme wasn’t a good idea, because it has a lot of traffic and ad revenue, but now, instead of growing, the service will probably go down if they don’t manage to develop something else. And guess what ? I’m pretty sure they will continue to depend on Twitter, which will never ensure stability.

TweetMeme is just one example of a very vulnerable business idea, but most of the webmasters face an even bigger danger. Most of us depend on Google and most of the traffic is sent by the search engine and if it happens to get our website banned, then we could say we are doomed. That’s why you need to put your eggs in more baskets and insure you won’t get bankrupt if one of your income sources doesn’t work anymore. This has happened to me a few times and I’ve seen my businesses or websites hit the dust in a matter of hours or days and I have to tell you, it hasn’t been nice at all. But I will tell you more about this in a future post.

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