Successful Web Business: What Has Been Your Strategy?

Discussion in 'General Business' started by gohard, Jun 14, 2007.

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    If you have a successful web business, or have created a detailed plan and are executing it as we speek, what has been your strategy?

    I'm curious to here some of the ideas out there -

    - have you started an information sales pipeline, leading from a small intro product all the way to coaching?

    - are you in an intermediary between vendors and consumers?

    - do you offer subsciption based information or services?

    Or a combination there of?

    I'm talking about a "real" business, where you are providing original information and services and have goals of growing it in the same field in the future.

    No offense to Adsense or Bum Marketers - I know those can be lucrative, but that's not what I'm talking about -

    So let me here some ideas - let's throw this one around and I'll put in my 2 cents - thanks
     
    gohard, Jun 14, 2007 IP
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    Game Producer Well-Known Member

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    I created a long business plan ... long time ago. Nothing happened.

    Then I saw a shorter business plan that they had in south park:
    1) collect underpants
    2) ???
    3) profit!

    I just switched "collect underparnts" with my passion (that would be "games"), and started taking tiny steps every day. I thought I'd figure the "???" part along the way. So far it has been good, and getting better and better.
     
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    the gnomes business plan hhhehe :D
     
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    simple, yet efficient.
     
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    Awesome. Awesome to the max. :D
     
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    Thank south park gnomes - it was their idea anyway ;)
     
    Game Producer, Jun 14, 2007 IP
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    I like your username because it describes the work ethic you should have to be successful online. Go hard or go home! :D

    One business model which has worked for me is being an intermediary between vendors and consumers, selling direct advertisments on the site. Adsense was a bonus.
     
    dcristo, Jun 14, 2007 IP
  8. gohard

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    ahh - so true!

    That's my business plan as well - sort-of -

    My passion is fitness, and my career is personal training -

    I'm structureing my model in the traditional Information Product format - starting with a free product, to low priced product, to higher priced product, to live coaching.

    However, in the new competitive age of information product, I must continue to prove myself off-line by growing my offline business, paracticing what I preach, and networking. Info-conusmers are so smart these days that if you aren't doing that your long-range chances are bleak.
     
    gohard, Jun 15, 2007 IP