Urb wrote:
> Just got back from vacation. Let me tell you, all types of strange
> things happen to your mind when one is away from a computer for a week :-)
I CAN live without email, I can live without email, I...
> About 75% of my business revenues comes from upgrades to existing
> accounts. So, I though while sitting in the sun, the answere is obvious.
> Bring in a lot of low-end accounts. Marketing aside, I beleive there is
> vast potential for new sites, if they bould be brought in at about $250.
Most of my revenue also comes from changes and additions to my client's
sites. I don't think the percentage is as high as 75%, since I do take on
large projects whenever I can, but the maintenance work is a regular stream
of revenue, that's for sure.
Now, something to consider with this idea that you have is "do I want to
maintain all these little sites?" With all those little sites will come
people with little money and lots to learn. You will have a larger client
base, and thus more people to keep happy. Personally, I prefer a relatively
small client base, which translates into less people calling me on the phone
and asking me questions.
> I already have several "Home Page Creators" (see below), so
> modifying one for a startup business site would be easy. The real problem
> is hosting. To make the package work, hosting has to be done for about
> $100/year.
This is one of the features that http://www.zip2.com/ tried back a few years
ago (maybe they're still doing it?). They provide a template and people can
sign up and create a home page for x amount of dollars. Same thing as
Geocities, Earthlink, Tripod and others. The difference with Geocities and
Tripod is that they supply the service free, so they're not in the
maintenance business. They don't have their fingers in their site owners
work, thus it's not a maintenance revenue stream like you are talking about.
I don't think they're in the business of developing sites for others, but I
may be wrong (please correct me if I am).
> As I turned over to fry the other side of my brain, the though
> struck me, why not co-op. Co-op purchasing is very common in many trade
> groups. Why not the WC list members since that's what we do?
>
> Haven't researched many of the details but I do know servers are
> available for $400/500 per month. Disk space is 2/4 gigs. That's a lot of
> 5 meg accounts.
That price is in the same price range that I have seen for colocated
servers, including the monthly machine rental charge (which translates to
maybe $200 for the machine rental and $250 for the bandwidth, rackspace and
basic admin services). Add a one-time installation fee on top of that, which
could be around $500.
Jack
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