My own little company...
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But seriously... 
I have a couple of web businesses:
Downloadable ring tones (God knows why people buy them but they do)
Internet statistics reports (Most sites have their own stats, but people still buy them)
All I did was build the sites myself to see if they would work. I don't advertise them, but they are found by people on search engines and generate about a grand a year. Useful beer money.
I have a couple of web businesses:
Downloadable ring tones (God knows why people buy them but they do)
Internet statistics reports (Most sites have their own stats, but people still buy them)
All I did was build the sites myself to see if they would work. I don't advertise them, but they are found by people on search engines and generate about a grand a year. Useful beer money.
www.mms3.com
Edit: Basically you build a site and include a script that contains all the code for the products and purchasing. Easy peasy, as long as you have reasonable web development skills - or you can pay a bit and use their skills to do it for you.
>> Edited by jacobyte on Thursday 16th December 18:52
Edit: Basically you build a site and include a script that contains all the code for the products and purchasing. Easy peasy, as long as you have reasonable web development skills - or you can pay a bit and use their skills to do it for you.
>> Edited by jacobyte on Thursday 16th December 18:52
TimW said:
How do you go about ringtone's?
do you make them yourselfs?or what?
Depends on the make, a lot of phones now can download Wav or MP3 samples as ringtones, my Samsung can convert a midi tune into a polyphonic ringtone.
I'd have thought only older phones or entry level (mass marketed) Nokia's need to have specialist ringtones downloaded to them. I see the market getting weak in that area.
i dont get that?
selling mp3 files
lol tallbloke said:
I do cheap webhosting.
www.tallbloke.net
How cheap.
Rico does a basic package
150mb Hard Disc Space
500mb Traffic per month
Server-side Scripting Front Page Extensions
Complete graphical website statistics access
Full CGI-BIN and CGI Support, Use Perl and CGI, Access Statistics, Active Server Pages & .NET, ODBC compliant database
£4.99 pcm (or £50pa in advance)
TimW said:
I do cheap webhosting.
<a href="http://www.tallbloke.net">www.tallbloke.net</a>
How cheap.
Rico does a basic package
150mb Hard Disc Space
500mb Traffic per month
Server-side Scripting Front Page Extensions
Complete graphical website statistics access
Full CGI-BIN and CGI Support, Use Perl and CGI, Access Statistics, Active Server Pages & .NET, ODBC compliant database
£4.99 pcm (or £50pa in advance)
Not that cheap, more like £100pa, but you can use more disk space and bandwidth at no extra cost. Half price for new start-ups though, so your first year is as cheap as Rico's deal.
tallbloke said:
I don't think you can legally sell mp3s mate... unless you fancy having the suits from Sony down on you
Nonsense. You can sell Mp3's of me farting the national anthem without copyright issues.
Unless they are copies of original Sony produced farting from their recent double CD release "National Anthems of the World in farts" Or all of Michael Bolton's material.
I’ve got one or two ventures which successfully keep the wolf from the door and a few principles which have served me well over the years are:
1) When going into business a lot of people think that they have to come up with a completely new concept – something which no one has thought of. In reality, to market a totally new product or service you’re asking your customers to jump through an additional hoop. Not only are they buying from you (someone they don’t know), but you’re also asking them to buy into a new concept. The point being, I tend to look at sectors which are currently successful but could be improved. In my case, when I sold a business many years ago, I realised that there’s very little around to help business owners sell their business. At the time it tended to be (and still is) accountancy firms – and it’s a scientific fact that accountants can’t sell. So, you could go into a well established sector with a view to being “better than the rest” in some way. If you think about Richard Branson, he specialises in being better than the competition – not new concepts (airline, records, wedding dresses, credit cards, mobile phones, etc.)
2) The 2nd point is that to be successful in the venture it’s important to have a “passion” for your product / service. The reason I bought my Tiv is that the salesman at the garage was genuinely passionate about TVRs – he owns two himself, and his enthusiasm and ‘rubbed off’ onto me.
3) There has to be a market for your product. A year or two ago a lady came to see me with an invention that she wanted me to invest in. It was a particular ‘lifting mechanism’ to allow vets to lift dogs above a certain weight. The product was very ingenious, but as I did my sums of: (a) the number of vets in the country; (b) the proportion that might be interested; (c) the cost of sales; (d) the margin on the product; It became clear that the market simply wasn’t big enough to merit a serious investment. In the end I suggested she locates, and establishes, a royalty agreement with a distributor of vet products.
1) When going into business a lot of people think that they have to come up with a completely new concept – something which no one has thought of. In reality, to market a totally new product or service you’re asking your customers to jump through an additional hoop. Not only are they buying from you (someone they don’t know), but you’re also asking them to buy into a new concept. The point being, I tend to look at sectors which are currently successful but could be improved. In my case, when I sold a business many years ago, I realised that there’s very little around to help business owners sell their business. At the time it tended to be (and still is) accountancy firms – and it’s a scientific fact that accountants can’t sell. So, you could go into a well established sector with a view to being “better than the rest” in some way. If you think about Richard Branson, he specialises in being better than the competition – not new concepts (airline, records, wedding dresses, credit cards, mobile phones, etc.)
2) The 2nd point is that to be successful in the venture it’s important to have a “passion” for your product / service. The reason I bought my Tiv is that the salesman at the garage was genuinely passionate about TVRs – he owns two himself, and his enthusiasm and ‘rubbed off’ onto me.
3) There has to be a market for your product. A year or two ago a lady came to see me with an invention that she wanted me to invest in. It was a particular ‘lifting mechanism’ to allow vets to lift dogs above a certain weight. The product was very ingenious, but as I did my sums of: (a) the number of vets in the country; (b) the proportion that might be interested; (c) the cost of sales; (d) the margin on the product; It became clear that the market simply wasn’t big enough to merit a serious investment. In the end I suggested she locates, and establishes, a royalty agreement with a distributor of vet products.
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