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HOW TO: Run Your Business Online with $10 and a Google Account

29 points by Garbage 16y ago

ecaradec 16y ago
the title is misleading, it's how to start a blog and put it a domain name
- Garbage 16y ago
  That is the title of the post on Mashable.
  - whimsy 16y ago
    That's fine. Regardless of who's to blame, it's still misleading.
sentinel 16y ago
He didn't mention anything about Google App Engine, which is a very good (mostly free) solution for running your business (or part of your business) online.
- chii 16y ago
  Its because most sites that tell you about how to [do something] with [cheap thing] is trite.
davidedicillo 16y ago
Sadly I've seen way too many times people with "Founder of [name of their personal blog]" as a position in their bios...
mvalle 16y ago
Step 5: write an article about how cheaply you made you blog.
10ren 16y ago
Google App Engine seems pretty cool. 1 GB per day free (outgoing) http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Requests http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Requests - there are other quotas for other resources, like datastore etc.
ecaradec 16y ago
One of the hardest thing I found trying to sell something online is that you actually have to learn to spend on intangible goods. It's difficult to spend money on things you don't know whether or not you'll see your money back. Believing that you can make money by investing only $10 for a dns won't help you.
user24 16y ago
Trouble is, you follow all these steps, and you're left with a mediocre website on a free web host with no audience. How has this "run a business"? You'd honestly be better off not buying a domain, getting a crappy angelfire webpage and spending the $10 on google adwords, at least that way you've a chance of connecting some customers with your product.
csomar 16y ago
There is a lot more you can do, not only a blog - A forum (Google Groups) - A website (Google sites) - Server Side (Google App Engine)
nikosdimopoulos 16y ago
Indeed this is a how to create a blog kind of article but then again isn't this one of the ways that a lot of startups or ideas begin? I know a lot of people that started blogging about something they are passionate about, people did follow them and in the end a strong business model was built to move the whole operation to the next level. Granted there are limitations to what you can do with this example. For instance you can only use it for blogging and sharing of information but there are other tools one might use as csomar points out (see comments). I think that there are a lot of 'hackers' out there. There are those who have the guts to put everything on the line for something they believe in, put all their savings into a project, borrow from friends and family, raise VC etc. with the dream to achieve something. Some succeed and some fail. However the vast majority of people out there are might have really awesome ideas but they lack the courage to move that one step forward to make their idea materialize. If the idea is information sharing based and can be achieved by starting up with a blog, then this article is a really good starting point for a baby startup :) /0.02 USD

29 points by Garbage 16y ago

ecaradec 16y ago

the title is misleading, it's how to start a blog and put it a domain name

Garbage 16y ago
That is the title of the post on Mashable.
- whimsy 16y ago
  That's fine. Regardless of who's to blame, it's still misleading.

sentinel 16y ago

He didn't mention anything about Google App Engine, which is a very good (mostly free) solution for running your business (or part of your business) online.

chii 16y ago
Its because most sites that tell you about how to [do something] with [cheap thing] is trite.

davidedicillo 16y ago

Sadly I've seen way too many times people with "Founder of [name of their personal blog]" as a position in their bios...

mvalle 16y ago

Step 5: write an article about how cheaply you made you blog.

10ren 16y ago

Google App Engine seems pretty cool. 1 GB per day free (outgoing) http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Requests http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Requests - there are other quotas for other resources, like datastore etc.

ecaradec 16y ago

One of the hardest thing I found trying to sell something online is that you actually have to learn to spend on intangible goods. It's difficult to spend money on things you don't know whether or not you'll see your money back. Believing that you can make money by investing only $10 for a dns won't help you.

user24 16y ago

Trouble is, you follow all these steps, and you're left with a mediocre website on a free web host with no audience. How has this "run a business"? You'd honestly be better off not buying a domain, getting a crappy angelfire webpage and spending the $10 on google adwords, at least that way you've a chance of connecting some customers with your product.

csomar 16y ago

There is a lot more you can do, not only a blog - A forum (Google Groups) - A website (Google sites) - Server Side (Google App Engine)

nikosdimopoulos 16y ago

Indeed this is a how to create a blog kind of article but then again isn't this one of the ways that a lot of startups or ideas begin? I know a lot of people that started blogging about something they are passionate about, people did follow them and in the end a strong business model was built to move the whole operation to the next level. Granted there are limitations to what you can do with this example. For instance you can only use it for blogging and sharing of information but there are other tools one might use as csomar points out (see comments). I think that there are a lot of 'hackers' out there. There are those who have the guts to put everything on the line for something they believe in, put all their savings into a project, borrow from friends and family, raise VC etc. with the dream to achieve something. Some succeed and some fail. However the vast majority of people out there are might have really awesome ideas but they lack the courage to move that one step forward to make their idea materialize. If the idea is information sharing based and can be achieved by starting up with a blog, then this article is a really good starting point for a baby startup :) /0.02 USD