what I think YOU should do depends on how much you have to lose if the business goes under. I've have several, all quite small, and I've done it both ways.
The thing you might want to think about is that I wrote up an idea I had in a business plan an instructor made me do for an e-commerce class and found out that shipping costs were going to kill me and I had competition who was giving away an essentially identical product. I concluded that I would not have many customers, at least not sane ones. I was disappointed but as the instructor said, I found that out without struggling for a year or so in a no-win situation. Shipping may not be your issue if you're going to do web consulting. But, for example, how do you feel about sales? keeping track of expenses? You may want to see if there's a SCORE group near you. They're retired businessmen who'll listen to you for free and provide you with some sort of sanity check. On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:57 AM, PT <[email protected]> wrote: > > Did you write up a business plan, do a competitive analysis, do a > marketing plan, or a financial plan, or did you use your own capital and > just start businessing? > > ----- > "Because I can lie beautiful true things into existence ..." > Neil Gaiman on Why I write. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343854 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
