Divide an internet site in the following.
- Ad / Brochure site for a company selling real goods and services.
- Site selling digital goods and services.
- Ad driven info site.
Traffic is important for all three and definitely for the last two chategories. Without traffice, the last will not succee. The Norwegian site
W3Schools with 30 million visitors / month is offering their services for free. It is driven by ad. About two years ago they made about USD 1 mill / year in Ad income. So to succeed in the last chategory above, you may need a lot of traffic. In my view, the easiest way to succedd is if you already have a local business selling goods in your home market. Then getting traffic is much about
SEO, SEM and other types of Web marketing and traditional media marketing.
To succeed in selling digital goods and services, you need to offer good solutions. Your nick indicate that you are a C++ expert. May be you can use this expertice to buy
Borland's C++ Builder 2007 platform and develope some web 2.0 applications. That platform is the best I know of for developing desktop applications. I made a simple web browser with it some years ago in a few hours. Now the 2007 version is out with the following functionality:
"Rapid Windows C++ development with seamless support for Windows Vista including VCL support for Aero user interface, Vista Desktop, and API support
Develop applications on Windows 2000, XP, or Vista and deploy to all
VCL for the Web lets you quickly and visually build interactive and responsive data-driven corporate Web applications that support Ajax techniques
Increased ANSI C++ conformance including new Dinkumware library support
Time Saving Debugging Enhancements with a new user interface enhanced for easier and faster use
C++Builder 2007
"C++Builder® 2007 the leading RAD C++ IDE, revolutionizes C++ development with full API support for Windows Vista™ including themed applications and seamless VCL support for Aero™ and Vista Desktop™. With VCL for the Web you can quickly and visually build interactive and responsive dynamic data-driven corporate web applications that support AJAX techniques. We've also increased our ANSI C++ conformance including new Dinkumware library support. With the new build flexibility that supports MSBuild and custom build options you can radically boost your performance with up to 5x faster in-IDE build performance - as fast or faster than command line builds. The new DBX4 database architecture streamlines database connectivity and simplifies writing of data drivers. Plus, you'll save additional time by developing once on your choice of Windows® 2000, XP, or Vista and deploy to all".
If you are a C++ expert, you have a definite comparative advantage that you should be able to use to start a successful web 2.0 company".
Is there a need for IT-education in your local market? If you kow C++, XML Tagging, JavaScripting, PHP Scripting, etc should be very easy for you. The largest problem may be to find customers in your local market.
Some days ago I noted thay Africa is one of the regions in the world with the fastest economic growth. So I am sure there are even urgent need for your expertice, in your region of the world. To succeed globally is much more difficult.
Why do you think Europe has about as much virus attacks as the rest of the world together according to Trend Micro statistics, that I read about some days ago.
Sit down with your partner:
1. Take a sheet of paper and decide on which of the above three chategories you will be involved in.
2. Then find your niche in that category and may be start locally and expand from there.
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Originally Posted by incrediblehelp
Well since the goal here is to offer the visitor the best possible product/service through your website, understanding your products/services better than your competitors only makes sense doesn't it?
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Fully agree to that.