Helping Local Businesses Survive

While in the process of choosing a niche for product development, I attended a teleseminar-webinar on setting up small websites. I listened for an hour as it droned on and then the pitch, they would supply all the tools and tutorials to set up a minisite , for a paltry $997 instead of the real value of like $10.000, yeah that makes sense. In contrast I read this free ebook I got from Terry Gibbs and James Jones, called The Slacker Way: "How To Make Money Online Doing as Little as Possible!" It was a good read and I loved this statement from Terry Gibbs :

“Keep it simple or you’ll end up having to wear shoes every day.”

You either get that, or not, if you don’t get it, the rest of this post won’t make much sense either. So that got me to thinking about how I could come up with a real simple way for a small business owner like myself to put up a simple but effective website that would produce customers, clients and sales. That little free ebook had some good ideas. I have plans to help the small business owner survive this rotten economy and come out of it in even better shape than when this nightmare economy started the downturn.

Right now I see this plan having at least two components, a service to the local business owners and a product that shows how this service works. Who could use such a product?

• Webmasters looking for more and diverse income sources

• Business owners with a little web savvy that want to do it themselves

• Newbies looking for a simple system that can generate money right away

• Senior citizens looking to supplement their insecurity check

• Moms who want to work from home and be there for their children

• Displaced workers who need a new career and cash in the short term

• Almost anyone who doesn’t want to wear shoes

More later, Dale