Dot com 2.0
In an entrepreneurial mood today - helped on by the realisation of how easy it is (seems) to set up an online business:
Buy some webspace and a domain name, then get a site designed fast and cheap. Personal outsourcing is just one way (and a sign of things changing in a big way)
The content/service could just be simple processing of data from one of the mega online companies, like lastminute-auction.com are doing - Web 2.0 style. Or it could be whatever you're doing in your day job (or hobby).
Google adverts brings traffic to the site using cheap targeted worldwide advertising (and potential advertising revenue in addition to bonuses for referrals to Amazon, Ebay, etc.). Or make the idea cool enough, and get free advertising in the blogosphere.
And receive payments using PayPal.
A week of hard work, and a few hundred dollars should be enough to get started. I'm ready to give it a try right now - and I imagine lots of other people will too. Google and PayPal will get rich. Clever guys.
Buy some webspace and a domain name, then get a site designed fast and cheap. Personal outsourcing is just one way (and a sign of things changing in a big way)
The content/service could just be simple processing of data from one of the mega online companies, like lastminute-auction.com are doing - Web 2.0 style. Or it could be whatever you're doing in your day job (or hobby).
Google adverts brings traffic to the site using cheap targeted worldwide advertising (and potential advertising revenue in addition to bonuses for referrals to Amazon, Ebay, etc.). Or make the idea cool enough, and get free advertising in the blogosphere.
And receive payments using PayPal.
A week of hard work, and a few hundred dollars should be enough to get started. I'm ready to give it a try right now - and I imagine lots of other people will too. Google and PayPal will get rich. Clever guys.
2 Comments:
what will you be selling? will it be for a niche market?
By chaucer, at July 27, 2005 2:56 AM
The low startup overhead makes it feasible to target a niche market. The "goods" I'm thinking of selling are "knowledge products" and don't require shipping. The main problem is how to package knowledge work/services into products.
By Max Melchior, at July 27, 2005 1:24 PM
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