Advice for starting a home business website
Jo lives at the Jersey shore. She has a service business focused mainly on seniors. It’s time for her first website. She needs help.
What should she do?
Well, what she did was get together with thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners just like her and she asked them for their advice. Maybe some of her peers can offer counsel on what worked for them and steer her clear of some pitfalls that they experienced along the way.
Would you like to hear their advice?
That’s easy. Head on over to the StartupNation community forum and listen in to the conversation. Join in if you have something to share or another question to ask.
Jo didn’t need to leave Jersey to tap into the collective wisdom of home based business owners all over the country, and even the world. People like Karen in Greenwood, Indiana & Craig in Mineola, New York, who both offered some terrific insight to Jo at the Jersey shore.
She can hang out at the beach and build her business from the comfort of her own home.
How do you get a gig like that?
You learn from the experts, you learn from your peers and you just do it.
Now is the best time to Start it Up!!
April 7th, 2006 at 9:53 am
Jo, I’m in Jersey too, what exit ya from? I am xit 165!
having lived through this experience with the launch of the-petset.com, the best bit of advice I can offer is to have a plan laid out on paper, before you contact a web developer. (perhaps you’ve already done that?)
Know what you want the site to look like, how it fits with your brand identity, how you want each page to function — believe me, if you go to the developers with a blank page, it can turn into an expensive and drawn out process.
I started out by visiting my favorite sites and cataloguing what features, designs, language made sense to me.
In my case it was Tiffany’s. lol (This had my husband spending many hours on Tiffanys site to help nail down some of the mechanics of their site, and that turned into a subliminal message for him that has really paid off!).
April 7th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
Kim, I’m in Toms River, exit 80 (Seaside exit)
jo
April 9th, 2006 at 10:37 am
i live in vietnam, i want to talk about bussiness on web but i know a litle,can you help me. and i like a girl about ten years but i hard to say i like her. i dont know to start
April 9th, 2006 at 10:39 am
if you have idea about business,can you tell me that because i have fund but i dont know how to use it
April 9th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
Hi Jo,
I’ll be down at LBI this Sept…have been going town for 20 years!
Let us know the progress on your web site development.
April 9th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
Hi Kim
LBI is great!
Someone is building my website for me (from s.u.n.)I got the provider the other day and my site will be (tomsriverconcierge.com). I am trying to stay focused on this business so much, I cant wait to advertise butI have to have the infrastructure in place first. I showed my family what I am working on today and I got a lot of
encouragement and support. Need that since I am doing th is all alone. Also sent some emails to other members on this site about branding and car signage. One by one Im knocking items off the list. Sometimes I think, that I never will get done but that I start saying O YES I WILL! I CAN DO WHATEVER I SET MY MIND TO!
jo