Blogger and readers Nate Whitehill of Nate Whitehill dot com has just launched a new website: Unique Blog Designs.  His first customer?  One of the biggest names in blogging: John Chow with more than 7,000 readers.

According to John, Nate approached him with the design idea.  His response:

I told him to do up a rough and if I like what I see, we’ll continue. As you can guess, I liked what I saw.

How many people start a business and try to work their way up to customers like this?  Nate took a different approach and went right for one of the top dogs.  Sure, John could have turned down the design and Nate would have been out the several hours worth of work to put it together.  But instead, Nate’s new website has a permanent link in the footer of one of the most highly trafficked blog on the web.

Smart move Nate!  And contrats on the new site.  It looks fantastic!

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented. R. Buckminster Fuller