What a fitting topic, my biggest regret is spending the last two months putting together a service for someone and them backing out when we scheduled to launch it. I regret I did not have them sign a sub-contracting agreement where by law they would have been bound by the agreement to launch the service. By law they would have been required to give me 30 days notice in writing of calling it off. So instead of me wasting 2 months I would have only wasted 3 weeks. If I would have had them sign the contract and they bail after 30 days of the agreement I could have sued them for loss of income.
Regrets and mistakes.... You regret making a mistake. If you regret it then you are consciously saying I know what went wrong, one can make a mistake and be oblivious to it and not be educated from it. It is fine to have regrets life is full of them, what matters is how much time you spend dwelling on them.
It's always a regret if we could have done things different, but I reckon even if we knew these things earlier, we would still have regret about the things we didn't know when we do eventually know them, a vicious cycle, but that is how the human mind is
same thing as advoor. from then on I had 4 adsense accounts banned and just got the fith one banned so will be going on sixth on soon
Biggest regret, not deciding on a particular niche sooner. Instead of wandering around the net trying the next and the next "big thing". This is quite a bit later and I still reckon that "Find your niche, research the hell out of it to be sure there are hungry customers... then FOCUS!" was the best advice I ever got.
My biggest regret was making one of my members an admin of my forum. He ended up deleting the posts on the forum and banning the members. Make sure you do know who you choose to make mods or admins of your forum.
I regreat i cannot create a website of my own -no technical knowledge about it. i can create quality content. But other aspects like, linking, site map etc.i cannot do so i need to depend on others or finding out any viable auto generated website builder.
After many years of learning and spending money on learning, and hundreds of sites later, my biggest regret is not sticking with 1 website and promoting the hell out that site for atleast 5 years. Its taken me 8+ years of trying to market online to learn that. I wandered the net looking for the next big thing thats supposed to "work" but found out that some of the most basic principles on the internet are what still work years later, while the "next big thing" isnt even talked about anymore. I dont regret things that I cant do and want to do. I would just learn it. But I do regret things that I should have done but didnt even when I knew better.
There are a couple of great lessons in this thread - which I think is the whole purpose. Whether we believe philosophically or not in 'regrets', you couldn't ask for better tuition than to learn from someone else's regrets. Personally, I think my biggest regret is that for years I jumped through all the SEO hoops trying to figure out all the how-to tricks and keep up with the Google dance when I could have just let someone else do that for me... for free, too. Choose the right company with the right product and put the same amount of time into your business that you'd otherwise spend on the endless implementing of SEO strategies. If you're in the situation I was in 10 years ago, then you know what I'm talking about. I found that switching to this strategy brought me within my financial goals a whole lot faster... for a whole lot less work!