Why is everyone whining about design all the time?

I have two websites I love to write content for. Whenever I show them to my friends - a few of them are entrepreneurs themselves - all they can whine about is...

"why does the design look so crappy?!"

C'mon man. Seriously, that's all you can think about?

One of my sites averages 1500 daily visitors. People seem to like the site even though it looks "crappy".

What does this mean? Are people less superficial than everyone seems to think?

Or, if what you have to talk about is cool enough, will enough people who don't care about appearances stick?

Perhaps that's the point?

Perhaps I only want people who are not superficial enough to not be distracted by the next shiny thing (useless it may be) to be visiting my sites...?

You might find this sounding a bit arrogant - but as a webmaster, don't you have a small say about how your website has to look like?

Of course, in the written content, only bring the good, juicy stuff. But I feel the obsession with optical tidbits a bit off-turning, to be honest.

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Setting up my virtual assistant working on his own

I am going to be working full time from January 2013 on. That means two things:

1. Almost no time to work on my online businesses.
2. A lot of more fundings available to hire additional workforces.

When I will be getting my first paycheck - yay! - the first thing I am going to do is to increase the payrate from my virtual assistant by a factor 2. He has earned it and also:

He is going to have a much tougher time working with minimal supervision.

The time until now was all for preparation of "outsourcing myself" completely out of the equation. I anticipate weekly input from my side to my VA. More will simply not be possible, I fear.

On the other hand, I trust my VA with hiring additional staff as needed, perhaps even a writer for additional content.

Or at least for guest blogs!

Yep, I think guest blogging via outsourcing could be a very good thing.

The question remaining is: how much am I willing to invest into a great guest written article?

I will have to exactly measure the ROI from these link building activites.

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When People Criticize My Outsourced Website - And have nothing to show for it

I love criticism. It is the greatest indicator of what you have to do to get better.

I also love my website(s). They are a work of passion and life-blood.

Escaping Criticism (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So if someone comes over and writes to me:

"Your website looks dead-ugly" or something similar, don't expect me to swallow that comment without a snide remark.

(hint: it had something to do with a Yo Momma is so Fat joke)


If I have a website that is doing very well, and all you can say is to whine about

"But it doesn't look prettyyyy  ~~~"  >___<

Then I can't help you.

As opposed to many wannabe entrepreneurs, I swallowed the bitter pill and JUST STARTED and got my work out there.

I'm not saying it is perfect, or even pretty...

But at least, it is THERE.

Tweaking it can still be done.

Talking about it without having anything to show is easy. Just as is bashing about it blindly.

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If you have a business idea: go for it.

Work through it until you get some results. Ignore the overly critical voices from people that have no clue (but behave like they are the experts).

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