Quintified

I guess I’ve drunk the IT Kool-Aid — hey, naive optimism fuels world change! — but I deeply believe that technology applied right can do wonders for the world, revolutionizing organizations and individuals. I’ve seen and experienced many situations in which a great database simply made people’s lives better and more prosperous in many senses of the word.

So, as I think about what I’d like to see Quintify do, I want no less than it to contribute to mass prosperity. That’s not a phrase that is used often — Google reports only 3,730 occurrences — but it inspires me deeply. As Quintify databases one day power a gazillion businesses, life will be more satisfying  and more rewarding and more free for business owners and employees alike — the masses will better prosper.

I’m not sure where I got this from, but I have this on a file on my computer that I review almost every day:

5 predictors (markers) of success

• passion
• determination
• talent
• self discipline
• faith

For me this list is mostly a reminder to keep pushing — to be determined and to be self disciplined. Perhaps those are the two items on the list that are the easiest to fake (to do anyway) if they otherwise tend to be absent?

I was a guest on Action Business Coach Reggie Shropshire’s radio program this week, and he has put notes from the show on his blog. We talked about how small businesses can make better use of databases in order to grow AND bring peace of mind. I had never done anything like this before, and it was a lot of fun.

Thanks, Reggie, for the opportunity!

The time has also come to get a real blog design instead of using this WordPress default!!! Matt Hicks to the rescue, soon!

The time has come to build the company and build the team.

Fun!!!

(In the meanwhile I sure am working a lot!)

I wrote this back in 2005 but it still stirs and drives me today.

– The ubiquity of the web (connecting everyone to each other and to every thing)

– The power of the database (store, access, and process info)

– The cost structure of today’s technology (e.g., the LAMP platform (i.e., none of this has to cost that much))

to provide individuals and organizations WOW tools that

– allow them to do new things that enhance the quality of their lives

– allow them to automate the mundane in order to have more time for more worthwhile things

– connect them to others in new, novel ways

– allow them to capture, organize, search, and share their info and keep it as long as they want it

– quite simply: significantly enhance their lives

Tomorrow I’m going to be the guest on The Business Coach Radio Show with Reggie Shropshire (Wednesday, Sept. 17 on WAAV 980 AM). We’re going to talk about “How a Great Database Can Add Incredible Value to Your Small Business”. I’m looking forward to it!

When offered to do this, I picked the last possible date on the list, knowing that this would be a great time to finally get a website but that I’d need some time to work it in. But with everything else going on, tonight has been “get the website ready enough for the show.”

So, after  building so many websites and databases for so many, I now have my very own. It’ll hopefully get tweaked to death over the next couple of weeks, but with all the standard caveats, here’s the link:

www.quintify.com

Oh — in case you haven’t heard I’m going to no longer use Majan IT. Nobody knows how to pronounce it, and nobody can remember it (even those who have been my client for years), and it sounds (and is) foreign. So now the company name is Quintify Database Solutions. “Quintify” is a made-up word just waiting to be filled with our brand.

Next on the “working ON the business” list — a design for this blog!