Now I have seen plenty of cheesy mission statements in my day (seeing as how I am of such ripe age….) I believe they are important in business, and should be a guiding factor, but inspiring and fun.

If I ever get employees, the will have the option of writing their own personal mission statement, for how they will have fun at work, or how they contribute to the company. Like

• I will only play 4 games of solitare when I am on the phone
• Coffee + Work = good times, work - coffee = nap times, coffee + work + coffee = lots of work done, coffee + work+ coffee + work + coffee = weekend

Hopefully they will be more creative than me. But here is the working mission statement for Eliysys

Help businesses and individuals create and manage their digital identity. We do this through:

• Facilitating online community
• Ongoing training for our current and future clients
• Utilizing the long tail of customer niches

This is a work in progress. There are concepts that I want to incorporate, but right now they are very specific, and need to be generalized. Ideas like the long tail of customer niches, prosumers, and wikinomics all inter relate in my mind, but they need to be applied to my business.

A big question I have, that will have bearing to my mission statement, is how to be an online, locationless, consultant? I do not want to limit my services to only people in my hometown, and I also do not want to fly all around the country. But the way the internet has been going, there are so many ways to telecommute, and interact with potential clients.

We shall see, we shall see.