As a VA you work on a clients projects and follow all the procedures to a “T”. There’s no short cuts taken as your client is expecting every step to be completed on a project. You definitely want them to get your full attention and your best work.

But when it comes to your own, are you in a hurry to get it done and cut corners? Hmm, I wonder how this post came to light? lol

Yes, I found myself doing just that a couple of weeks ago. I was excited to get a project up and running. I was moving a website to my own hosting and was nervous about messing anything up. I’ve moved quite a few wordpress sites and it’s always gone smoothly, but I still worry until I see it pop back up on the new hosting. I had saved the database, the theme and all the plugins. I wrote down every single setting on the site separately. It took a long time to hand write all the settings that were on there. Then I was in the ftp and almost didn’t do one last save of the entire hosting to my site. I knew it would take quite a while for it to save to my computer so I was going to just let it ride.

Wow, all that work and I wasn’t going to take one final safety measure to make sure I didn’t lose any of the site? Luckily I thought better of it. It clicked in my head that however long it took to download to my computer was nothing compared to having to redo a site that has been building links, traffic and content for 2 years.

I’m now double checking everything to make sure that I take all the same steps on my own projects that I would for a client. Do it right the first time so I don’t have to do it again.

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