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Future-Proof Business Starters

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Re: Future-Proof Business Starters

#2
My initial thoughts are:

- Exclusive rights to the brand name. [You mean you invented the name and you're going to let me use it?]

- Ownership of dot-com domain. [£3/year]

- Professionally designed logo. [search for "logo" on google, find one you like, try and copy in Inkscape like I did [1]. It's not gonna be brilliant but it will probably be as good as the ones shown and you can change it later when you're earning £££'s]

- One page business plan. [Download a business plan template, fill in the questions. Fair enough though, this guy might be a genius at this stuff but I'd need to know a LOT more before spending $500]

- One hour personal consultation. [I can talk business-y stuff for an hour too. Especially if I've got a one page business plan I can go through point by point.]

And let's say that the person selling these is a professional entreprenuer with the correct experience, and that these are a bargain because you're going to get invaluable advice on starting up. Well - he/she hasn't done a very good job of conveying that on the site itself....?

[1] - http://simplyapped.com/ (haven't finished this site yet by the way)

Re: Future-Proof Business Starters

#3
Very cute; but the pricing seems a bit low. I'd expect your support, your backing, your advice. You're never going to fit a good logo design + domain name + advice in there for that little money.

For example; I own videoview.com, with a cute matching logo (http://howtowriteabusinessplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/0... ,) which I'd be interested to hand over because of a trademark dispute for the exact thing we were using it for (recruitment video interviews.)

I'm pretty sure you can create a successful business off of that domain, but there's no way in hell it'd go for $500.

Re: Future-Proof Business Starters

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post #2

My initial thoughts are: - Exclusive rights to the brand name. [You mean you invented the name and you're going to let me use it?] - Ownership of dot-com domain. [£3/year] - Professionally designed logo. [search for "logo" on google, find one you like, try and copy in Inkscape like I did [1]. It's not gonna be brilliant but it will probably be as good as the ones shown and you can change it later when you're earning…

About your second point. That's the domain renewal fees not the acquisition cost.

Re: Future-Proof Business Starters

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post #2

My initial thoughts are: - Exclusive rights to the brand name. [You mean you invented the name and you're going to let me use it?] - Ownership of dot-com domain. [£3/year] - Professionally designed logo. [search for "logo" on google, find one you like, try and copy in Inkscape like I did [1]. It's not gonna be brilliant but it will probably be as good as the ones shown and you can change it later when you're earning…

About your second point. That's the domain renewal fees not the acquisition cost.

All you have to do is pick a domain that isn't currently being used. A quick check on namecheap.com and I can have:

priorpermission.com

priorconsent.org

priorconsent.me

all for < £10