{"id":1077,"date":"2009-04-02T08:55:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T13:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2009-04-02T08:55:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T13:55:51","slug":"simple-can-be-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/simple-can-be-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple can be Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I stand up to talk about my business at my networking meetings of of the first things I say is that many vendors will try to sell you the most complicated system that they can. This is true for websites, inventory management or almost any system that a business will buy.<\/p>\n<p>For websites there are several reasons for this. Sometimes they believe it is the best system for you, other times it&#8217;s because they don&#8217;t know any other way, but usually because it&#8217;s the solution that makes them the most money.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it is actually the best way to go, but it&#8217;s been my experience that the simplest solution to any problem that works is usually the best one. I know that it&#8217;s almost always the most economical solution. That&#8217;s why I choose for my business tagline <em>&#8220;Simple can be Good&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s the recession that&#8217;s making people take a second look at simple things or maybe it&#8217;s just because it&#8217;s the right thing to do, but I keep reading more and more of it all over the web. Yesterday on the MediaPost Publication email Insider they are talking about it on a post called<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/?fa=Articles.showArticle&amp;art_aid=103283\" target=\"_blank\">Don&#8217;t Overcomplicate It<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I stand up to talk about my business at my networking meetings of of the first things I say is that many vendors will try to sell you the most complicated system that they can. This is true for websites, inventory management or almost any system that a business will buy. For websites there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18,24,15],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}