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Kim Komando
She’s a Digital Goddess.
Physically gorgeous, mentally brilliant, I
have been a fan of Kim Komando for decades. She’s the “Go-to” Gal for
digital expertise and technical information, and I subscribe to her
newsletter.
This last letter offered an opportunity to
speak with The Great One on her show, so I filled out the form and emailed
it in.
I got selected!
I mentioned to the call screener that I
wasn’t born in the digital age, and
sometimes I feel like I’m chasing a rabbit
just
keeping up with it. I wanted to ask Kim for two tips to take our site
to the next level.
So I called into the show at the prescribed
time, and waited on my cell phone while I listened to her monologue. Then I heard my lead-in.
Giving me a quick moment to tell her our
brief history and the purpose of my call, she mentioned she had the chance to
look at our site.
Because she's from New Jersey, she asked if
I had ever met someone from there. I said I had - and braced myself for what I
was about to hear. Kim said that people from New Jersey can sometimes be
abrasive and went on to say our site looked like something out of the 90’s,
the disco era!
Ouch, Kim. I’m a sensitive guy and that
hurt.
“Tell me you don’t have on disco clothes…
what kind of shoes are you wearing?” She quipped.
“I have on flip-flops, Kim. I'm in Mexico.
We can wear whatever we want here.”
Laughing, I went on to say that I have a
respectable rating with Google, but I wanted to move up in the page rankings
and wondered why I hadn’t.
As if she hadn’t inflicted enough pain
already, she declared “That’s because your website’s crappy.”
Come again?
She proceeded to give me a couple of online
website editors that I could use to revamp our site. And she complimented me
on several good things we had going on. That was nice, this lady from
New Jersey...
It’s a hot radio show, so our chat ended
shortly after that to make room for the next caller. I was left with a
mixture of exuberance for having finally spoken to my Digital Goddess and
some puzzlement and bruised feelings from her comment over our site.
Sure, I get it. Move into the future!
But to me, all those newish websites look
the same: White background, black or blue lettering, interchangeable module
boxes… I feel like I’m in a hospital looking at a menu of surgical procedures.
Where’s the color? The LIFE?
For better or worse, we like our Vintage
Site and
we're still here!
Ok, so I’m the guy with mustard on his tie
and behind tech times. But you know what?
I can
help you become financially independent, and I’m proud of that.
This
reminds me of when we asked Financial Planners thirty years ago if our FIRE
strategy would work and they all said NO. But here we are! In smiling
defiance of their advice.
So let me say this.
We’re a content-based site. And we hope
that it’s the content, the humor, and the humanity that brings you back.
We appeal
to a different kind of person
- the person who prizes their independence, values their time,
and who doesn't want to mindlessly follow the crowd.
So why would I want to follow the crowd
now? THAT would be new…
Then I said to myself “Hey, I’ve been
retired for almost 3 decades and she’s still working!
Probably chasing THAT
rabbit down the hole.”