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OK, let me try again for Kevin

Posted By: Mr Bluto ^_^
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 8:17 a.m.

In Response To: I'm back, Hey MaaMaw, and new biz idea (Kevin Larsen)

just in case you are getting confused, Kevin...

IF you want to build the sites by yourself and NOT pay someone else to do it.

AND

IF you have no clue on how to go about building websites

AND

IF you want to make money as a webmaster/publisher

THEN

Your absolute best bet is to FIRST learn HOW TO BUILD SITES and get them up and running. Just build some test sites.

AND THEN

when you are comfortable with your web publishing skills, THEN you can think about what type of markets you want to build sites for and do the market research necessary to figure out IF it will be worth your while.

HOWEVER

IF you have the capital to pay others to build all your sites for you

THEN

you can skip the part about learning how to build sites and start IMMEDIATELY with finding markets and doing your market research.

There's absolutely no way you can be a successful webmaster/web publisher on a tight budget IF you have no idea how to build a website. All the market research in the world won't suddenly make you magically know how to build a site.

Let's put it this way. Let's say you wanted to get a job in a city 1000 miles away from you but you have no license, you don't know how to drive and you have no car. What good will it do you if you sent in a resume and got an interview but you cannot drive to that interview because you don't have a car, you don't know how to drive, and you don't have a license. It won't do you any good. The employer will not wait for you to get a car, learn to drive it, and get your license. Your interview is set for such and such a day and the position needs to be filled ASAP, not 3 months from now.

Same goes with a newbie that wants to be a webmaster AND has to/wants to build his sites by himself. No use in doing market research for the markets you want to enter first if you do not know how to build a site in the first place. Because by the time you figure out how to build the sites, all the market research you did will have changed and will no longer be totally valid. For instance, part of your market research will include data like how many sites are already in your market. That is one thing that can and will change in a short amount of time. So by the time you figure out how to build sites well enough, you have to go back and find new markets and do your market research all over again.

I'm not saying that market research doesn't come before building a site, I'm saying that learning how to build a site comes before everything else IF you want to be a webmaster and IF you need/want to build your own sites.

So to put it in shorter terms, if you want to be a webmaster/web publisher and you want/need to build your own sites, you need to do things in the following order...

1. Learn how to build a decent website.
2. Make some sample sites for practice and perfection (any sites at all, it does not matter right now).
3. Figure out which markets you want to get into
4. Do the market research for these markets to figure out how you will need to get a foothold in these market or if it will be worth your while at all.
5. Build your sites

Good luck with your new idea, Kevin. You have a lot of work, learning, failing, and succeeding ahead of you.

^_^

The Federal Trade Commission

Messages in This Thread

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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: 756)
      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: 698)
        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: 742)
  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: 672)
      Kevin Larsen -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 11:43 a.m.
      - "How do you tell the requirements to get into business...?" (views: 697)
        Mr Bluto ^_^ -- Tuesday, 25 July 2006, at 12:24 p.m.

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