Is starting a SiteBuilder Web-Business a good idea?

Hi all,





I am starting a hosting business that hides the user from the complexities of setting up the website backend and only providing a dedicated website builder only (based on swsoft sitebuilder)





services to include:


- domain and email setup for the user


- easy to use website builder


- full support of email and builder products


- targeted towards small/medium business that are not computer savvy


- website fully hosted





My question is, will a business like this likely generate sales enough to make the business profitable? Is the market way too saturated with businesses homestead, moonfruit, citymax, web hosters providing sitebuilders, and web designers?





Also, are there any additional services I can provide to bring in more revenue apart from custom webdesign, or banner/logo editing?





SR5k!
Is starting a SiteBuilder Web-Business a good idea?
Heck no! There are a ton of small businesses that want a low cost website to promote themselves and their services.





So, that said - you%26#039;re on the right path - and you HAVE TO MARKET YOURSELF! Have a great website for the hosting/design business and get the word out. One thing important to market w/ custom services is SEO - Search Engine Optimization - to get them high in the rankings for here Yahoo and Google. You do that by using your keywords in META tags and having good content.





The best of luck!
Is starting a SiteBuilder Web-Business a good idea?
Once you started finished it.
Reply:depends... If you know HTML you can make a much more powerfull website than using a site-builder... witch the person doing buisness can just start doing.





and if i know right.. i dont think you can really show dynamic webpages as much as with php with a sitebuilder...
Reply:Your project is ambitious.


The market is saturated with amateurs and cheap design services.


The market is saturated with computer illiterate businesses that believe that %26quot;THE WEB%26quot; is the miracle solution for their lack of %26quot;business skills%26quot;.


The web is saturated with %26quot;personal pages%26quot; offering no interest whatsoever to anyone but the ego-trip of the owner.


Making revenue with your project?


Doubtfull, seeing the competition.


Offer a very large bandwidth server host, LAMP, on several linked PCs, directly connected to an ultra high speed fiber optic to the web and... maybe...


Offer RSS feeds (it%26#039;s the fab at the moment) and video broacast (MMMMB of bandwidth required).


Offer special hosting for porn, chats and wikies.


Offer special hosting for spammers.





You need a BIG room with loads of very fast PCs with APACHE.





Good luck.
Reply:I am a consumer of website hosting products. I currently use DiscountASP.net as my provider, but I know that there are a bunch out there competing for my website dollars.





I would not try to compete with these guys. If you are like me (low investment capital) then I would suggest becoming a VAR (Value Added Retailer). Target a market (i.e., School Websites), develop a product using the tools you like. Then you become the middle man and isolate the users from the providers (and collect a fee for your troubles).





Please be warned, this is no easy path and you will need to say good-bye to sleep for awhile, but once you get your product up, running and debugged, you may find yourself with a nice little web-based business.





Good luck!