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Originally Posted by JesseQuinn
whole bunch of wise words that will unfortunately go over his head, I've tried to explain this to him a bunch of times
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Not sure about wise. My questions were just an example. He needs to ask his own.
And you know, cos your did your own thing successfully, there's no one way to skin a cat.
For instance, I gave example question: "Do I have a USP? Do I need one?"
He can read all over and find loads of people saying: "Oh, you gotta have a USP. Oh yes, yes. Without a USP, you can't even start."
Personally speaking, I think having one is better than not having one. But do you need one? Of course not.
The net is full of fucking clones of other sites. A lot of them might be losing money. Almost all of them might be making less money than the successful sites they copied. But if they know what they're doing in other areas of what it is they do, there's plenty of them that can be making money. More than they spend.
The fact so many of them exist/endure proves the point.
Also it means jackshit if someone is posting they make 5K in sales a day on a forum, but not posting they're currently spending 6K a day to get it. :=p
There's no one way, and never has been. He or any of us should listen to what people have to say, maybe try out stuff that sounds interesting and draw own conclusions from bottom line.
That's all that matters at the end of the day for any business.
On a webmaster forum, vast majority of us might be snootily telling someone their site looks like complete amateur shit. And it might actually do. But so long as they tap in to the right market of enough people who are excited by a site which looks like it's made by an amateur model with three months experience of HTML ... and it makes enough more than he spends to meet his personal needs, he'll be a success. With a shitty site.
Of course, much more often than not in that situation, it'll be a complete disaster. But not always.
He needs ask his own questions, not ours. But at least ask them before he starts spending.
Even that's no
sine qua non really. There's no better beta testing than losing money. Or shouldn't be. :=D
His main problem til now is he just keeps asking the same question over and over again. And it mostly sounds like 'How do I get where I want to go when I don't know where I want to go ... ?'
Well, other than to be Chaturbate.
Of course, that's doable too. So's winning the lottery. :=)