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Do have a business plan put together yet? What will be your costs? Servers platform, bandwidth, database, administrative (you need paid)? How are going to make
by randomerr 9y ago
Do have a business plan put together yet? What will be your costs? Servers platform, bandwidth, database, administrative (you need paid)? How are going to make money when everything is voluntary? Please talk with a mentor at the link below:
https://www.score.org/find-mentor https://www.score.org/find-mentor
If you factor all that in you you have to charge 10%-20% to fund the base services?. If have an abusive client or contractor are you going let them go to harass? Yes, then you'll have low overhead but a bad reputations for not protecting your people. No, then you'll look restrictive and have a higher administrative cost.
Don;t forget admistrative costs. Your time costs money. It also keeps you away from working on contract.
Your point about 'designed to make the owner a bunch of money': you do realize that most of these site work on 1-10% profit margin with the owner putting in 60-100 hour a week for 5-10 years before they turn a profit if ever. Here's a good read on that:
https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/financial-management/long-business-profitable/ https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/financial-management/long-bu...
I really think you need to set done with a pen and paper with electronic devices turned off and write down a list of similar services. Write down what you like and dislike about them. Then write out what why they would do something you dislike.