How to Start a Website Business
Sunday, January 4th, 200912 steps
- Plan - A business plan.
- Pause - Wait, sleep on it.
- Plan - Redo you business plan.
- Assemble - Start to assemble your web launch team. (designer, programmer, promotions, customer support)
- Budget - Working with your team set, budgets, time lines, and project scope.
- Manage - Trust your team’s expertise in each field, but make them help you understand it as well. Watch them like a hawk.
- Test - You’ve been doing this all along. Do it again.
- Beta Launch - Start attracting a small number of people to iron out the kinks.
- Track - Setup tracking, and review user experiences.
- Launch - All out marketing blitz. Guerilla, paid, search optimization. Whatever it takes.
- Tweak - Listen to your users, give them what they need, what they’re looking for, and do it fast.
- Go Back to 10 - Stay on top of your new business, and always keep improving. Your competitors are.
Please notice, that I did not end the title at “website”, I ended it with “business”. Why? Because you can start a website on blogger.com, but if you’re looking to start a website as a revenue producing vehicle, then you are really starting A Business.
Like any business the first thing you need is a business plan. You need to put your ideas down on paper. You need to visualize and have realistic goals for what can actually come of a website venture.
I get quote requests for building a websites everyday. Almost all of them have a list of features they want in a website. I rarely see any quote request which starts with… We want X,XXX users by XX/XX date who were able to X to fulfill X need.
The simple stating of that goal, completely changes the entire conversation and I promise, it will lead to (more…)
