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Jere answers:

Http://www.devhub.com/
you can easily build vertically-focused, media-rich destination sites that have the potential to generate revenue and promote user-engagement.

Http://www.vanillaforums.com/
Vanilla is a simple discussion forum that you can use to build community around your website, brand, or business. You’ll have access to a fully functional forum, themes, categories, all of the admin features you need – Free.

Http://www.yola.com/
Learn how to make a free website. Yola will allow you to build a website quickly and will provide you with free hosting for your website.

Http://www.webon.com/
Create interactive, stylish ad-free pages, with Webon’s powerful site creation platform.

Http://www.webs.com/
Webs (Freewebs) is one of the easiest site building tools around that helps you create professional good-looking site for your family, friends, customers or just for yourself.

Http://kafafa.com/
Kafafa enables the user to create professional-looking websites with no programming knowledge.

Http://omgili.com/
Omgili is a search engine designed to index web-based discussion forums. Omgili’s unique algorithm analyzes forums not as a simple web page, but as an active discussion with a title, topic and replies.

Http://www.lefora.com/
Just a few clicks to get the discussion started on Lefora free forum hosting service. With community Moderation and Anti-Spam support, email notifications, RSS, newsletters, and search engine (SEO) friendly, videos, photos, threaded discussions, unread tracking and rich text editors, and much more.

Www.experienceproject.com/
It’s a community website that builds custom emotional support andfriendship networks for members, based on who they are, not who youknow.

Www.youfig.com/
Band together with friends and colleagues to exchange ideas, network, and collaborate in real time private communities.

Www.klostu.com/
All the message boards, all the people, all communities: All connected. This is Klostu.

Www.yackpack.com/
See at a glance who is in the ‘office’, and hold a conversation as if you’re right there – no ‘calling’, no ‘composing a message’, no ‘opening a chat window’ – just instant, effortless communication.

Www.yuniti.com/
YUNiTi goal is to create a central place where you can connect with anyone in the world in every way possible.

Www.daytipper.com/
DayTipper allows the global community to submit and share tips, information, advice, and ideas.

Www.sodahead.com/
Create and vote on public opinion polls, share knowledge and express opinions in a dynamic social community.

Www.funadvice.com/
FunAdvice combines social media with Q&A. Sure, there is the basic question and answer format, profiles and a point system that all those other sites have. But FunAdvice has more.

Www.tangler.com/
Tangler is an innovative group interaction and communication platform. It’s fun, interesting and really useful.

Www.yuku.com/
Yuku is about communities, discussion, profiles, images and blogs – all in one place. You can sign up to Yuku and create a free account.

Www.livejournal.com/
LiveJournal is an online journal service with an emphasis on user interaction. A basic, fully-functional account is free, while paid accounts receive access to premium features. You can use LiveJournal in many ways: a private journal, a blog, a discussion forum or a social network.

Jere answers:

*Low Start-up Costs – When you decide to start a business online, you can do so with as little as a few hundred dollars and a good idea. However, don’t be misled into believing that the Internet is an arena for instant riches with little or no effort. Nothing could be further from the truth. Like any business, it takes creativity, planning, money and hard work to be successful.
*Multiple Skill Requirements – Suddenly it’s not enough to simply have a good product or service. To use the Internet effectively, you now need to have or be able to acquire skills in graphic design, web server technology, programming, and a brand new marketing medium, not to mention skills needed in multi-lingual translations, international accounting and legal issues. Fortunately, it is not necessary that you have all this knowledge yourself. With the right combination of strategic partners and associates, all of these skills are easily found, if you know where to look. That’s where we come in! We can get you in touch with all the professionals you need to accomplish your task.
*Endless Marketing Possibilities – The opportunities and ease of fostering strategic alliances to bolster marketing efforts is unsurpassed on the Internet. The reason we see so many cooperative relationships between companies online is that doing so has become so simple and so profitable. The advertising industry has found itself with many more possibilities as well as significantly more competition.
*Easily Traceable Results – Another byproduct of business on the internet is that tracking potential customers as a group and visitor preferences is an ordinary part of business on the Internet. See Promotion for more on this topic!
*International Audience – Even if you do not think of your business as an international business, you must recognize that your visitors are likely to be from all over the world. You should consider whether or not you are prepared for international shipping and other transactions with countries other than your own. You should also strongly consider having your website translated onto languages other than English. The percentage of non-US businesses on the Internet has risen dramatically in just the past year! Starting an online business
* Professional Look – If you are a Web Professional who is planning and designing web pages for others, we have a secret to share with you. It’s called the “Proposal Kit”. What it’s done for our company is help us look more professional, charge higher fees and get paid for all of our work. It’s the best investment we have made since we started our business!

Jere answers:

Business degree is important for getting corporate employment, but not necessary for starting business. Remember, the big entrepreneurs of the day — Bill Gates of Microsoft, Steve Jobs of Apple and others are college dropouts and did not finish their college education

What you need are:

– understanding of the business you are getting into
– willingness to learn
– willingness to work hard
– ability to spot opportunities and take advantage of them
– persistence and perseverance, even in the face of tremendous adversities
– ability to reach customers and market the business

You can definitely succeed without earning a business degree. But if you want more knowledge and information, there are a number of ways you can get information

1. Borrow books in the library on how to start a business. Some good books include

– What No One Ever Tells You About Starting Your Own Business: Real Life Start-Up Advice from 101 Successful Entrepreneurs http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1574101129/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid
– If You’re Clueless About Starting Your Own Business and Want to Know More http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1574100939/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid
– Start Your Own Business : The Only Start-Up Book You’ll Ever Need http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1891984217/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid
-Steps to Small Business Start-Up : Everything You Need to Know to Turn Your Idea into a Successful Business http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1574101323/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid

2. Take online courses on entrepreneurship. SBA offers various online courses that are FREE that can help you learn how to start, run and manage a business

http://www.sba.gov/services/training/onlinecourses/index.html

3. Network with other entrepreneurs – you may even find mentors who can guide you and open doors for you and your business. Here are places where you can find mentors

– Government Mentoring Programs such as SBDCs, which works with community colleges and local business development councils to offer mentoring programs http://www.sba.gov/sbdc/sbdcnear.html ; or the Women’s Network for Entrepreneurial Training http://www.sba.gov/womeninbusiness/wnet_roundtables.html
– Volunteer programs such as SCORE http://www.score.org which is composed of mostly retired executives and entrepreneurs
– Formal mentoring programs such as Athena Foundation http://www.athenafoundation.org/programs/globallinks.html , Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program http://www.helzbergmentoring.org/HEMP/ , or The Aspen Institute MicroMentor Program http://www.micromentor.org
– Professional organizations such as the National Women’s Business Council http://www.nwbc.gov/Mentoring/programs.html
– Industry and trade associations
– Local business groups, such as the chamber of commerce
– Local chapters of business groups

Jere answers:

Research shows that only 4.2 % of the target audience feel that Google is too snoopy. However in the group sector that shares your favorite search criteria ie Morris dancing and Madrigal based nose flautists, the percentage was 4.3%. Don’t touch that! We know what you’re upto with your diddly diddly friends.

Jere answers:

You really need to sit down with people more knowledgeable than yourself and have a face to face discussion about what you are doing and what is the best way to go.

You must have a small business association somewhere near you… You can most likely contact them through the SBC Website. Http://www.sba.gov/

Here in Chicago, I located a great organization called the “ICNC | The Industrial Council of Nearwest Chicago” http://www.industrialcouncil.com/ and they have all sorts of classes and help for free.

There must be a service like this near you.

No one online will be able to give you the help that a group like the ICNC can in regards to federal, state, county, and local issues you will face.