Internet Based Business

Oh gods.. here we go.

If you like Ferrari's hang around and lay off the salesman pitch.

Otherwise take this with you....
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You'd probably get more traction if you subscribed and posted this in the business section.

If not, enjoy the cards.

 

pay the 15 bucks to get into the business section, it is worth it. This question has been gone over so many times i doubt anyone will reply here.....

 

"So this is my first post on this website, but I spend quite a while reading various threads."

If he really has 'spend quite a while reading carious threads' (nice English!), he would have posted that in the B&I section!

*Agreed

*Card well played

 

No point in getting your panties into a wad.

What I told you is good advice. People tend to be more willing to reply to business related threads in the BUSINESS forum.

 

To Korr you listen.

Even though not subscribed, I am pretty sure he was at one point and either way he knows what he is talking about.

 

After what words?






*Afterward, wax resumed weeping for humanity*

 

Seems quite a bit like a form letter...stuff like this pops up every few months.

"Hello, dear sirs, I am a graduate of (or about to graduate from) X University with a degree in X. I have excellent marks, blah blah blah..."

 

Agreed.

 

What university?

 

Can I guess???

 

In or Out of US?

Mike in Kuwait

 

OUT

 

ALL TOGETHER NOW:

SCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCHOOOOOOOOOOOOOL's OUT FOR SUMMMMMMMMMER!

 

Well you don't have that great computer skills... You haven't even bothered to GOOGLE the basics before asking your question.

Domains are $10~ a year it varies between companies and what type of domain, like .com/.net/.org are cheaper than .tv/.watever etc. You can reserve them for 10years in advanced. Your idea might be great in theory but without a great URL to go with it you might struggle, if there is a name you have in mind, reserve it now.

Web hosting is very cheap as well(well this depends on which country) but in the USA you can get 10000GB/mth for around $10/mth. Having your own private server/s does cost a lot more, but for a start up company you wouldn't need to worry about that
If you plan to be as big as say ebay, then start writing those million dollar checks now...

Web Designers are a dime a dozen. Also there are so many tools and scripts that are free(legally) on the net if you have some programming knowledge you could get by for the 1st year.

Marketing is free. The best way to get your links up in google besides making your site SEO etc is to spam your site. Google ranks your site the more people are linking to it from other sites. Of course spamming is frowned upon these days so you have to put the hard yards in and visit hundreds of boards/blogs/tweeter/facebook/wiki/watever and just post your url in a way that doesn't annoy others, some sites let you have sigs, in blogs you can leave your details every time you reply to something. Even self promote your site at places like digg or if you find a site that recently did a review about online selling sites you can submit your site to be reviewed. Just get all your friends/family to do the same.

You will actually need to submit your site to google, yahoo and other search engines. Google also has free tools to webmasters to help you. There are guides out there. Just google "improving your page rank".
Even Google.com has its own guide @ www.google.com/webmasters/


It is difficult to be successful as an online only company. Twitter for example has been around since 2006 and only this past 12mths has really made the headlines but they have yet to turn a profit. Youtube always ran at a loss b4 they were bought out by google.
Maybe you're not thinking that big at the moment, but the net is global, you will eventually need to think of international sites, different languages, the more people that can use the site the more chance it has at succeeding.

All the biggest online only companies all come from programming backgrounds. If your idea is as great as you think it is, its best to team up with a programmer or become a programmer.



Finally sell the YZF-R1*, you need to be spending your summertime in a basement not having fun, if you really want to make your mark








Ok maybe you don't need to sell it, but if you are really serious then you will have to spend alot of your free time trying to make the site grow in the early days to reap the rewards later on.

Good Luck!

 

For future reference, the highlighted word is spelled; University, not "univeristy"...

Example; University of Alberta

 

Too late.

 

Now HERE's an example of someone who's after words

 

Yes, somewhere around there. And oddly the same area as another user we haven't heard from for a few weeks.

 

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