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I was playing around searching google to see if my website came up and when I entered it in, my post from this forum showed up.  That`s pretty cool.  I decided to throw out the idea of starting a business.  I thought building a business meant my goal was to make money.  So I focused on just creating a website centered around my journey through life, with my goal being to help others through experience, strength and hope.  Over the last week, I realized what I`m building is a more of a non-profit organization.

 

I owe a lot to Start up Nation because it was through these forums that I found what I`m really passionate about and am turning that into reality.

 

So thanks everyone for all your in put and questions that helped me figure things out.

 

Julia

 

this is cool news, julia. congrats on landing on a specific direction on how best to manifest and serve your passion.

 

just curious, where, other than StartupNation will you reach out to find out how to be an effective non-profit entrepreneur. i`m considering adding step-by-step advice here at the site on EXACTLY that subject. bringing the disciplines of successful entrepreneurs to 501(c)3 non-profits, it seems, would be extremely valuable.

 

rich

 

The step by step advice sounds great.  I haven`t considered yet on how to do this effectively.  I had stated on my website that it was a non-profit organization, but then I changed "organization" to "website" because I realized there may be certain protocol in setting up an organization.  When I started this whole thing, I was scared out of my mind, I`m new to internet technology, and doubted my capability. So it was important that I just begin building it and getting it published.  Then I would work out the schematics of turning it into some sort of business.

 

So it started out as a personal website about a month ago, and now that I`m gaining more confidence, and learning to create better pages, it seems I have the basis for developing  a non-profit organization.  It`s still not fully developed, but I`m working on it.

 

I`m a little clueless on the business aspect of things.  But I love what I`m doing as far as reaching out to others, so learning more on how to set things up as an organization would be a good idea.

 

So far aside from family and friends, the only ones that have posted in my forum have been spammers.  Unfortuneate, but I guess it goes with the territory. It will probably take awhile for strangers to realize I`m not out to scam them and begin to trust what my site is about.  That`s partly why I started thinking of turning it into an organization.

 

I look forward to learning from your step by step advice on this matter.

 

Julia

 

 

Welcome !

 

I`m a bit confused....what is, or are, PPM`s ? What are `interesting transactions and quality projects ?  I`m in the real estate business also...is it related ?