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New guy here.  I guess a little history is in order.  I was in manufacturing for 22 years.  Left that to go into teaching.  Loved the kids, didn`t like the system, meetings, paperwork, etc.  During my teaching time I invested in some real estate.  So last May I decided to become self employed.

Well, when everything is going OK with the RE I am getting restless.  So now I have begun my first internet business.  I have been browsing for a little while.  This is exiting..  I still have to learn about the marketing of this business.  I am contracting out the design and it should be finished in about a week.  I have a local target market.  I have a marketing plan and a method to measure its effectiveness.  I am also documenting everything with the plans of replicating this web business into other markets.

I will probably take some more time to read some more information before I say too much.   Thank you to all of you that have contributed to this site.

Welcome Runum!

What type of business are you setting up?  Some here may be able to offer advice.

My Dad retired early from teaching because of the reasons you list as well as he noticed a rapidly declining rate of parental involvement.  We can`t expect our educational system to raise our children for us.

Thanks Eric.  My website is focused on my local county.  It`s a board where the people can list their events for free and the readers can see the listings for free. 

My designer should be done in the next week and I am keeping busy with market strategy.  Once the traffic counts are up I will begin selling ad space.  I`m really trying to document everything so I can see what works and doesn`t.  My biggest hurdle is to get people to go to the site.

Thanks for the welcome Eric.  I welcome all suggestions, this is a new area for me.

Greg

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Virginia Louise Lawrence

Hi Runum,

Best of luck with your new venture!! You should post your website for review (once it`s done) in the website critique section of this forum. It is very helpful to get the views of others before you get to far into development.

Welcome and again...... good luck.

 

www.searchmarketingsystems.net

 

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www.searchmarketingsystems.net

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Virginia Louise Lawrence

Thanks for the welcome.  My addy is johnsoncountyevents.com  We provide a community service for the whole county, not just one city.  We encourage our viewers to list their noncommercial events on our page for free so that other viewers in our county can see what`s going on and attend local events.  Right now the final details on the page are being ironed out and the marketing materials are being readied.  We are tying the roll out of this with the beginning of school and fall events.  Take a look for yourself.  I`m open to suggestions.