How to go about this? - UK Business Forums

Hi Ewan,

To be honest I think you're going to struggle on a few fronts here.

I don't really know your specific idea but you are right that getting external investment is probably a non starter, mainly due to your age and lack of business experience.

Likewise, if you have no money for a designer or developer and you have no skills of your own then this is also a bit of a problem.

Finally you mention generating money through advertising and affiliate promotions further down the line, the problem is that advertising is not really a viable income source for the majority of sites out there, you have to generate so much traffic (visitors) into a site to make money from online advertising that very few sites actually manage it.

I like your enthusiasm and well done for thinking about business, it's never to early to get started. I wish I'd started in business much sooner than I actually did.

My advice to you would be to finish your education and learn some skills alongside it, if online business interests you then it can never hurt to be proficient in some kind of programming / scripting language, even if you don't fancy doing it full time, having the knowledge of what is going to be needed for a potential project before approaching developers is going to serve you well.

I'd also look at online marketing as well, you could start a blog pretty cheaply, Wordpress is free and hosting is cheap now a days. It's could be a good way to get started online by creating content and going out and marketing it, you could even then drop in some affiliate offers to see if you could generate some income.

One thing I used to have when I was younger but don't have now is time, time to learn stuff and experiment with things. There are loads of things that interest me in business and online ventures which I simply don't have the spare time to progress further.

I hope this has helped you a bit, even if it was probably not what you were asking.

Good luck.

Darren

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Last edited by darren atkinson; Yesterday at 22:50.

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