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Correction

Posted By: Mr Bluto ^_^
Monday, 24 July 2006, at 8:35 p.m.

In Response To: new biz idea (Mr Bluto ^_^)

I said...

> Your main focus right now needs to be getting that site up and running.
> Your expenses will be minimal if you are doing it all yourself. You'll
> just need to pay for hosting and a domain name.

Now that I think about it, right now your main goal is to learn how to get that site up and especially how you are going to compete with all those other sites that are already popular with your market (or more realistically how you are going to NOT directly compete with them in order to gain a foothold in the market).

I don't want to scare you, but this venture requires a fair amount of knowledge to gain if you are an absolute newbie. You will have to learn how to design, host, and maintain your site, what people want, SEO, how are you going to monetize the site, and so much more.

Just don't go into thing unrealistically. Not to be a jerk, you went into the eBay thing and quit quickly because you were so new to it that you weren't thinking realistically and you did not have realistic goals and expectations.

I'll just leave this with one general tip for you. If you really want to succeed at building websites and monetizing them, then you will need to realize that you really need to build lists for all of your sites in order to build a good foundation for your business. You need to get he names and email addresses of your visitors so that you can send them periodic email newsletters so as to help you ensure that they remember you and come back to your site and do whatever it is they have to do which makes you money.

This is true for just about any online business and it is especially true with webmastering/web publishing.

Ever hear the saying "The money's in the list"? Well, it's so true, even for offline businesses. Reach out to those customers/visitors that give you permission to do so and provide them real value and you will be a few steps ahead of every other newbie or struggling Internet business person out there.

Had I understood this and practiced it myself years ago, I would be in MUCH better shape today.

^_^

The Federal Trade Commission

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I'm back, Hey MaaMaw, and new biz idea (views: 786)
Kevin Larsen -- Monday, 24 July 2006, at 7:32 p.m.
- new biz idea (views: 760)
  Mr Bluto ^_^ -- Monday, 24 July 2006, at 8:23 p.m.
  - Correction (views: 738)
    Mr Bluto ^_^ -- Monday, 24 July 2006, at 8:35 p.m.
    - Realism and Lists (views: 755)
      Kevin Larsen -- Monday, 24 July 2006, at 8:48 p.m.
    - YES YES YES!!! (what he said) (views: 751)
      MaaMaw -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 6:58 a.m.
      - Let me tell you something about lists (views: 742)
        Steve MacLellan -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 7:15 a.m.
        
        Thanks! I feel better now (sorta)... (views: 715)
        MaaMaw -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 7:58 a.m.
        
        Re: Let me tell you something about lists (views: 731)
        Kevin Larsen -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 9:16 a.m.
        
        Re: Let me tell you something about lists (views: 689)
        Steve MacLellan -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 9:42 a.m.
        
        The story of my life... Oh, and GREAT POST!! (views: 668)
        MaaMaw -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 10:39 a.m.
        
        Proper use of a list/newletter/ezine is very important (views: 707)
        Mr Bluto ^_^ -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 11:56 a.m.
  - Re: new biz idea (views: 738)
    Kevin Larsen -- Monday, 24 July 2006, at 8:56 p.m.
    - Re: new biz idea (views: 725)
      Mr Bluto ^_^ -- Monday, 24 July 2006, at 9:07 p.m.
      - Ya' got that backwards... (views: 697)
        Steve MacLellan -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 5:52 a.m.
        
        Not really (views: 785)
        Mr Bluto ^_^ -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 6:08 a.m.
        
        Re: Not really (views: 817)
        Steve MacLellan -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 6:21 a.m.
        
        Listen to Steve! Save yourself some anguish... (views: 805)
        Diana -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 7:05 a.m.
        
        Some light on the subject. (views: 726)
        Kevin Larsen -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 9:35 a.m.
        
        Then you can skip step one... (views: 722)
        Mr Bluto ^_^ -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 12:09 p.m.
- OK, let me try again for Kevin (views: 741)
  Mr Bluto ^_^ -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 8:17 a.m.
- Look at a slightly different business model (views: 676)
  Mel. White -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 11:00 a.m.
  - Some additional ideas (views: 684)
    Mel. White -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 11:07 a.m.
    - Deep and How to Tell Requirements (views: 671)
      Kevin Larsen -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 11:43 a.m.
      - "How do you tell the requirements to get into business...?" (views: 696)
        Mr Bluto ^_^ -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 12:24 p.m.

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