Comments on: Stop Thinking About Products

By: Farooq Khan

Farooq Khan — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:30:10 +0000

Converting your business online or starting online business, some time people think that its enough for their business, but i believe that to make your business effective and business generating is much more important and difficult rather just to create your online presence and say thats enough. So for this than comes ecommerce shopping cart software which help you to build and promote your business online.

By: Jonathan Hartman

Jonathan Hartman — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:47:00 +0000

6/15 is a lofty goal.

By: Jonathan Hartman

Jonathan Hartman — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:46:00 +0000

By your silence, I suppose I’ll have to wait and see. I hope these new business ideas work out.

By: Neville

Neville — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:03:00 +0000

MC,

If you start a micro business yourself, you can simply use a DBA (Doing business as) if you aren't making much money.

After that, it would be best to create an LLC for the business!

By: MC

MC — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 04:25:00 +0000

So with all these new businesses, how do you deal with the legal aspects? Do you establish a sole proprietorship, corporation, something else? Do you get the appropriate licenses for each business? Do you have separate tax forms for all of your different businesses?

Just curious, not an IRS agent or anything. I'm considering starting a few business myself and find these to be the stumbling blocks for me.

Thanks!

By: Jonathan Hartman

Jonathan Hartman — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:49:00 +0000

That’s completely ridiculous…. I’m the middle man because I’m not ready in invest in the capital to become independent. Considering I’m 20, that makes sense. And I think that the thousands I’ve made by assuming the middle man position is entrepreneurial enough for me.

By: David

David — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:58:00 +0000

What you’re suggesting makes sense for the guy who knows they want to start an online business but doesn’t have any actual marketable skills… The best job for them is middleman… sticking themselves between the creators and the buyers. That’s not very entrepreneurial.

I completely disagree. An entrepreneur finds profit. Being that middle man or creator. Are the people selling things on Canal street in NYC entrepreneurial? I’d say so.

By: Jay's Financial Blog

Jay's Financial Blog — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:48:00 +0000

Domain names are nothing without branding. Think about it. Amazon.com seems the unlikely candidate for a book store, and so does the sound of google.com — so domain names really do not play that much of a role in terms of what you intend to sell online. A Friend of mine owns Yaz! — a student portal….again an unlikely name for such a website.

The name is nothing, until you give it meaning — marketing will bring out the meaning through proper positioning and branding strategies.

Jay

By: Erwan

Erwan — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:30:00 +0000

Hi,

Just one thing that I can't understand is how you can buy a domain name without knowing what kind of products your are going to sell?

Did I miss a point?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:27:00 +0000

Not to flame or point fingers, but you really need to secure that shopping cart you`ve got on H o Rave.

I cannot see anyone going through a payment script and actually paying through it, if at least it isnt on an SSL connection.

Honestly, for your good sake, tackle that issue before some custmers come back to you with security issues.

Nice blog though, good ideas you have over here.