As an entrepreneur, I’m learning about business and finances the hard way—through costly mistakes. Early on, my amazing mentor, Mark Wicken, advised me to have a reliable accountant and a reliable lawyer to support my growth. Others successful peers ahead concerning me often, “You need to learn the finances. Without it, you’ll never gain control of your business.”

While these tips sounded right, they require a consciousness that comes from experience. In my case trying as a software developer, my passion was building and I yet had to learn things the hard way, often leading to hardships. These challenges, though painful, are valuable lessons that I hope to share in a way that could be meaningful to others and help their growth.

Over the years, I developed a 7-daily CEO chore list to help me stay on track. However, until last year, I made the mistake of prioritizing project management over finance and marketing, leaving those areas for end-of-month and quarterly reviews.

In 2024, I reorganized my list and shifted my focus:

1. Finance
2. Sales
3. Marketing
4. Operations
5. Team
6. Clients
7. Projects

This was a major shift. Instead of starting my day with projects, clients, and team-related tasks, I began prioritizing the harder parts first: finance, then marketing and sales. Although it sounds simple, this was a big adjustment. I had to trust that my teams were handling delegated tasks, while I focused on maintaining a healthy business by prioritizing finances.

This practice has been an interesting experiment. Each day, I write out my daily document with these seven items and time-box my day. However, I’ve felt overwhelmed and realized the need for an even more focused format and I’m starting to shift to a slightly different, weekly model of same 7-CEO Choirs.

I’m considering switching to a weekly system. For example, I could combine tasks like Sales and Finance on one day, Marketing and Operations on another, and dedicate separate days to Teams, Clients, and Projects. This would create a manageable 5- to 6-day cycle each week.

Developing Digital Experience Management solutions has been an integral part of my work over the past two decades. Started with Content Management (CMS) development, to more sophisticated developments for enterprises like hisense-usa.com, where I led the architecture and platform engineering of a complex process and developing a Digital Experience Management or DXM.

What is a DXM?

We come across the need for a Digital Experience Management through breaking the components of a CMS and sometimes the extensions of it such as a Client Relationship Management (CRM), eCommerce systems and other operations, sales and marketing I/O backend and user-interfaces that handle the data transactions of a user with the web connected interfaces, often a website or mobile app.

Over the years, we design and develop our DXM solutions based off the public user needs, what we serve to users and what they send back via our forms and trackers to understand user’s responses and behaviour.

There are hundreds of key tools and thousands of integrations available to connect to common CMSs like WordPress to establish the requirements for a website. However the moving components and various skills and interests in development result in redundant work that we often try to solve for.

In my view of the modern web, a DXM serves to define the primary administrative functions for managing an organization’s various digital experience channels. Its purpose is to synchronize content publication across these channels while optimizing result reporting processes. This ensures that content creation efforts are directly aligned with measurable outcomes.

A DXM is more sophisticated than a CMS on the backend but simplifies administration. It extends a CMS by incorporating Platform Engineering principles to address traditional CMS limitations, where code and databases are managed separately to generate the final output. In a DXM solution, micro-systems are defined to handle specific tasks related to codebase files, media files, and databases, while the DXM integrates these components to deliver a single rendered output optimized for the fastest loading response times.

DXM could integrate all digital outlets including website(s), app(s), eCommerce, and social media channels for syndicated content publishing and reporting needs.

Where AI Comes in?

The rise of AI is significant for various areas in a DXM model we are working to build. We are doing this by defining direct correlations between content production and the outcomes.

Finding out what has worked from the Analytics is an easy task for AI in 2024 by accessing Google or Bing Webmaster tools, we can easily find out what’s performing. Now AI is capable of suggestions for creating new content to advance the previous organic efforts (SEO). Same could work in analyzing the user behaviours and for paid advertisement (bidding keywords, ads) and similarly for the social media management.

Defining AI Agents that are responding to outcomes and are trained to manage and moderate the content to some degree or fully automated. Although this is already happening with some degree of integrations in 2024, purpose of a DXM system is to streamline the full production to outcome and the iterative optimization process a breeze!

I have been working on DatabyPeople.com for couple years now with our developers and designers and going through few iterations to shape this product; still a concept but getting closer to a beta launch.

The idea started from trying to demonstrate inflation on everyday consumer products, to realize the impact over time in a sensible way.

We built a tool that takes user’s numerical data, we thought it has to be location based, so we require users to have their device location on when entering their data.

We wanted the platform to grow by users’ data, much like Wikipedia, but in a numerical way, to become a public data repository. Everyday we have interesting use-cases and ideas that could help something, especially with the merge of AI.

I was reviewing one recent use case today which led me to the idea for IO by AI! Thought what if, we setup AI agents that will be checking the incoming data from Data by People, do the analysis and investigate further for the cause and effects.

For this case, what if we given people enter data on databypeople.com, on a regular basis for all their purchases, then also they enter their health symptoms – all anonymously! Comes with a specific increase of illness, the AI would be able to inspect the anomalies and make suggestions based on this data. i.e. increase purchase of products with sugar in a specific region resulted in increase of a specific cancer.

Data by People has many interesting use cases. Still requiring access to a mobile phone and internet with an interest to contribute. But we envision a day when everyone is willing to input the they are interested and help with the visibility of issues around the world.

I always thought I’d do something cool with this domain! Here I am blogging!

It was with a realization that we all are portals to similar ideas that are transmitting faster with the power of internet and now AI to accelerate the learnings, I’m often thinking about our role in leading the change and where the attention must be.

The amazing world brings opportunities to every interest, shown with effort and ambitious to earn it, we strive in creating our lives within the shortest timeframes we get, but more importantly enhance this experience for the future ones.

And I think from philosophers to philanthropists and everyone who is grateful for life, we have one theory to unite around that’s preserving life in all shapes and forms given and not only act against their extinctions, but to enable the thriving environments.

Here are some beginning thoughts for this blog, I hope to find my voice after 20 years of developing, marketing and learning the science of communication, I am eager to write what I think for myself and for those who might benefit from this collective.

And who knows, maybe Theory Junction is still a big name for my personal blog, but let’s worry about this later. We just launched our beloved TeamUP.Space to the public! TUS is my first child (digital product outside clients’ projects!) and I’m grateful for every brilliant mind that has contributed to make this project possible which brings me a great responsibility to focus and make this project possible.

Stay tuned for news and updates!