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cjd said:
Now that's a better idea altogether, just don't expect too much
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This whole thing is not the point at all. My idea was the actual process of generating ideas. Now I was just looking whether it is possible to make a little business out of it. Seems like not. Maybe I will go in completely different direction. It wasn't supposed to be a million dollar idea anyway, just fun to make some extra pocket money, or just make the project self-financing.
 
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Liybpg said:
I guess nobody here understands what I mean. Never realised that there was no shortage of business ideas. Seems like everyone's sorted and has millions of ideas on their own
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Hi Liybpg,

We do understand what you mean :)
People who run their business already, won't be interested to pay for a business idea! People who are thinking/planning of running their own business (like me) would be your potential customers, I guess. Now, would I pay anything for the ideas - NO! I've got my own several business ideas!
What you could do though - charge for the market research etc. That's the service that I would probably need! (And people who are in business already!).
 
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Call your business 'necessary but not sufficient'
 
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Investors-Wanted said:
What do they do on here for FREE.


You are now getting it!
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Nobody generates here ideas for free. That is not idea generation this is advice, which is good but its not idea generation.

Now I am getting it? Why are you trying to talk down to me? Give advice and your opinion, don't try to be a smarta*s here
 
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Liybpg said:
Nobody generates here ideas for free. That is not idea generation this is advice, which is good but its not idea generation.

Now I am getting it? Why are you trying to talk down to me? Give advice and your opinion, don't try to be a smarta*s here
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I am now sure that you live in noddy land.

Nobody generates here ideas for free
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Well, you had an idea about a website for peolpe with idea. Therefore arn't you giving an idea for FREE on here!!!

Why are you trying to talk down to me
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I am not talking down to you, but talking to you is like walking through treakle. Do a basic count how many people are taking the micky out of you. Then tell me if that idea was good. If you are looking for a good business may I suggest selling coal to newcastle.
 
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Investors-Wanted said:
I am now sure that you live in noddy land.



Well, you had an idea about a website for peolpe with idea. Therefore arn't you giving an idea for FREE on here!!!


I am not talking down to you, but talking to you is like walking through treakle. Do a basic count how many people are taking the micky out of you. Then tell me if that idea was good. If you are looking for a good business may I suggest selling coal to newcastle.
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reading that and loving your signature .............
 
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saxondale said:
reading that and loving your signature .............
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Well, I will help anyone out. But some peolpe need their heads knocking against the wall.

If the idea was half good, I would suggest something, but when people keep saying that this idea is no good, and they keep on. Well, I now need 3 new ribs from all the laughing I have been doing.

One of my faults is that I call a spade "A SPADE"
 
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Investors-Wanted,

What is your business? Free platform for investors and entrepreneurs to meet? Replica of quite a few very good organisations which are doing this at a much larger scale?
 
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Liybpg said:
Investors-Wanted,

What is your business? Free platform for investors and entrepreneurs to meet? Replica of quite a few very good organisations which are doing this at a much larger scale?
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No sorry to say not correct. I used this name to get funding for a project, which I have. Over the next 12 months I am launching something that will help businesses save money. I am also looking for businesses who are looking for free promotions to over 120,000 businesses. I currently own mailing lists including emails and all tps vetted to over 2 million businesses in the UK. Over the last 5 years, my business is business information which now I am going to use.

Over the years I have set up and sold several businesses. For me, running the business is boring, but the setting up a business from nothing is better than any drug. The best one I set up was a computer business which I started with £150 and sold for over 100K.
 
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Just a matter of interest.... how come you are looking for an investor for only 5k?
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I wansn't. The investment was not needed. I was looking for someone who had some balls. I used this approach to stop people who was not interested in a business proposal from coming forward. I have now found someone who now owns 1/3 of the business, just for taking the time in following my silly requirements. When you say that you want a silly amount of money, it puts a lot of people off. The end goal was to find a business partner for the business.

It worked :D I have the finance sorted for this project myself. I just love fishing. It like I placed a post about how business would promote themselves. I have taken on 5 businesses where I will be promoting their services for free to 120,000 businesses over the next 12 months. I am doing this for FREE, no commission. All my posts may seem naff, but for those who actually take the time to contact me, they will alway benefit from it.

Another thing we are doing which we have sold out on is allowing businesses to advertise in a publication we have going to 50,000 businesses in Devon and Cornwall for £50 for a 1/4 page. The publication is the same size as the Sun. Becuase the publication is already going out for my requirements, if I can help another business, I will.

With me, not everything you see, is a bad as it seems.
 
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Liybpg said:
I can give you 5k if you need it. Would you accept an investment from a student?
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Sorry mate, I dont need the 5K. But thanks for the offer. I will give you something if you want to run with it. I do own a web site called Investors-Wanted.net. IF you wanted to use it and try something with it, I will give you the domain, a years hostings all for FREE.

See if you can do something with it.
 
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Investors-Wanted said:
I wansn't. The investment was not needed. I was looking for someone who had some balls. I used this approach to stop people who was not interested in a business proposal from coming forward. I have now found someone who now owns 1/3 of the business, just for taking the time in following my silly requirements. When you say that you want a silly amount of money, it puts a lot of people off. The end goal was to find a business partner for the business.

It worked :D I have the finance sorted for this project myself. I just love fishing. It like I placed a post about how business would promote themselves. I have taken on 5 businesses where I will be promoting their services for free to 120,000 businesses over the next 12 months. I am doing this for FREE, no commission. All my posts may seem naff, but for those who actually take the time to contact me, they will alway benefit from it.

Another thing we are doing which we have sold out on is allowing businesses to advertise in a publication we have going to 50,000 businesses in Devon and Cornwall for £50 for a 1/4 page. The publication is the same size as the Sun. Becuase the publication is already going out for my requirements, if I can help another business, I will.

With me, not everything you see, is a bad as it seems.
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LOL.. good luck to you!.. and wish you all the best in your venture.

Would this post come under the "naff" post too...

and as a well known poster here would say

File.... under fiction!?

:D
 
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Investors-Wanted said:
Sorry mate, I dont need the 5K. But thanks for the offer. I will give you something if you want to run with it. I do own a web site called Investors-Wanted.net. IF you wanted to use it and try something with it, I will give you the domain, a years hostings all for FREE.

See if you can do something with it.
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Thanks mate, but seeing your business relationship building skills, I think I will be wasting my time with you. I am a member of a couple of incredibly good and professional organisations which will help me if I need to.

The idea that I have written here about today was not welcomed well, and I appreciate the constructive feedback and thoughts. What I do not appreciate is when people are trying to put me down by barely understanding the idea. It was only one of many ways of developing this project, if it doesn't work - fine. There's no need to "knocking head against the wall" and trying to prove something to me. It is very easy to smash any idea, it is much more difficult to find a way of making it work. I was not impressed talking to you.

Thanks to everyone who has demonstrated their concerns and provided constructive feedback, it will be definitely taken on board. I am more than happy to play around with the concept until it makes sense.
 
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Thanks mate, but seeing your business relationship building skills, I think I will be wasting my time with you. I am a member of a couple of incredibly good and professional organisations which will help me if I need to.
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I was not offering advice, a business relationship, but a chance to build something which is not a million miles away from what you was doing. You wanted to set up a site to allow people with ideas to promote them. This site would have allowed you to do that as well as inviting investors to enter information on what type of investments they are looking for.

For the record, with the site I was also going to transfer, licenses which costs me around £300 all for FREE from http://www.mightyextensions.com. The software a full membership software which will allow the someone to set up a membership system, charge for content, it will allow the admin to set up forums, to sell products basically what every you would want a membership site to do. The software is licensed to the domain. Like I said, everything I say also has advantages. Nevermind

Anyway good luck with your future projects.

This username I set up was to do a job, which was to find a business partner and nothing more.
 
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Liybpg said:
I guess nobody here understands what I mean. Never realised that there was no shortage of business ideas. Seems like everyone's sorted and has millions of ideas on their own
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The point is that it's really difficult coming up with an idea that works and meets all the right criteria (market, prices and margins, cost to set up etc etc etc) so if someone comes up with a good idea they're hardly going to announce the 'big' idea on your website.

But if you're not relying on other people giving their ideas away then the only alternative is to think them up yourself for posting. Which isn't really going to happen. Anyway, if you did come up with a good idea why sell it for £50 ?
 
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The point is that it's really difficult coming up with an idea that works and meets all the right criteria (market, prices and margins, cost to set up etc etc etc) so if someone comes up with a good idea they're hardly going to announce the 'big' idea on your website.

But if you're not relying on other people giving their ideas away then the only alternative is to think them up yourself for posting. Which isn't really going to happen. Anyway, if you did come up with a good idea why sell it for £50 ?
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Yeah, I have realised that there's a potential issue. If I commit myself to supplying business ideas to the website and then suddenly one really good idea comes out, will I post it on the website? Probably not. Then it gets a bit dishonest to my paying customers.

Well, its sorted, I need to decide on another model.
 
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Don't be disheartened if some of us have been negative. Just being honest. You just got to keep trying and one day you'll hit the jackpot :)
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Thanks ) Don't worry, this is not 'the' idea for me. It is just a little side project that I thought I'd do. That's why I don't care too much about it making money.
 
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I hear this time and time again, people searching for the business idea that will make them rich.

It is not about the idea in 99% of cases it is about the execution in 100% of cases.

Ideas are easy execution is not and hence that is why many many businesses fail or do not make any money.

Most of us and I include me are not bright enough to come up with an idea to change the world. Therefore find a market and a service that is needed and focus on the execution. Once you have done that and you have money in the bank you can let your imagination run with ideas from a point of strength.

As for a database of ideas:eek: I would question anyone who goes into business who needs a database of ideas in order to be able to figure out what they want to get involved in.
 
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It's not necessarily for people who want to start a business, you might be in a business already, then you might find that there's an opportunity spotted which you might take advantage of. It could be very specific to your industry or can require your skills set.
I would say it is for people who can already do business or it is assumed that they will ask for help from elsewhere if they need to improve their business skills. This is not panacea for business at all, it is only a very starting point or a possible opportunity for people that are already in the business to exploit.

Anyway. I have decided to try and build up the process of identifying problems first, then I think I will work with a university to help their students with coming up with business ideas. We'll see how it goes. If it works fine, we can look into developing it into something else (probably not a subscription-based database of ideas, but who knows)
 
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patientlady said:
Hi
Just found this company in my inbox, and you might like to look them up
springwise.com
they seem to be doing the same
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Thanks, I am actually subscribed to them. They are doing slightly different thing though but still useful. I actually might talk to them at some point
 
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jamesparker100 said:
I agree with you Gina... If some one want to launch a new business or in research phase he/she must consult with the Professional Business researchers so that they get the analysis data ...

Regards
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The reason I started [URLNO="http://www.businessideasandopportunities.co.uk"]my site[/URLNO] was simply out of a passion for business, to help me improve any skills I might posess, and to learn new ones with regard to building a site, and hopefully making it popular.

Any spin-offs with regard to making any money would be purely incidental, and doesn't figure in my plans at all.

The biggest obstacle I can see for the op's project would be trying to rank in the search engines for the term 'business ideas' or 'business idea' which, I have found, is not an easy task. :)

If the op feels that he would like to do this purely out of an interest in the subject then why not? but I dont think that this sort of venture, of itself, has much commercial potential - Gina :)
 
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steviemac said:
yes I think it would be hard to charge people for giving them business ideas, at the end of the day the net is full of sites where you can get ideas. Springwise.com is a good one....for the more 'lateral' thinker too
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Yep, they are on the first page of google for 'business ideas' - a very competitive search term :) - I think my site is on page 18 at the moment :D
 
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Also, people tend to start a business that is directly related to their personal skills and so some kind of bank of general ideas may not be helpful..
 
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Fuel Bar and Restaurant is really great in a fantastic location, the staff in there do their best to make your evening great. so i would say this is an impressive place. Really guys there always welcome you with big smile on their faces. I am sure you people gonna like it.
 
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