This week was pretty exciting since we had to submit our “Choosing a Product” worksheet. It was really an amazing spreadsheet that had us generate 20 different business ideas, and then rank our top 5 ideas using objective criteria. It was interesting being able to apply our demand and competition skills using Google AdWords to a real situation. In the end I decided on my idea of creating a Crossfit blog. I had this idea initially because I don’t have a lot of free time to deal with managing an inventory, but I am very interested in SEO and how the affiliate and advertising business models work.
We also discussed this week the different site builders and hosting products available. For this project I will be using WordPress so that I can get a better handle on how to use it for business. I have people asking me to build them websites all the time, and if I can master using WordPress it would be really simple to throw together a website for them if they just want a simple page.
I’ll be using my JustHost hosting and I purchased my domain for my Crossfit blog: watchmecrossfit.com I think it communicates what the main message of my site is, and it sounds fun. It will be interesting to see how my business expands this semester and how I will be able to apply the things I’m learning to *hopefully* make some revenue. As I’ve shared my experiences thus far with my friends they are very interested in creating their own web businesses too!
