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I always wanted to start an ecommerce site and thought to keep the profit margin the most minimal as possible to gain customers over time but as we all know that the ecommerce industry is being dominated by Amazon and Ebay and currently shopify is its competitor I think.
And yes I know it will take time for one business to grow. No one can climb a tree on one jump, it takes time and yes I am ready to give my everything on this business to grow. And jobs nowadays are scarce and limited, and there is no stable future and nor there is any security. One can only fulfill their basic needs from a job and not their desires. Thats what I think, but I could be wrong tho.
Hence I am looking for ideas on which business to start.
Now I have 2 things in my mind:
1) I was thinking to start to start dropshipping. I contact alidropship forum and they charge 299 USD for making a custom dropship store and then I have option to use shopify (30 USD or so for monthly subscription) to conduct dropshipping business. But I dont know how much would I have to invest at first on dropshipping and how much will I be making in the beginning.
2) This cloud hosting and web hosting business on servers, vps , etc , how much do I need to start these sort of thing and are these profitable and how much will I make approx at the beginning? I am happy if I could at least make around 300-350 USD at the beginning. Then I will invest more if I see proper ROI ( Return of Investment ).
3) Another thing that many people told me that I could make a site and get a stable and good earnings from ads and such? Heard that some people make more than 1K USD+ per month from ads and such? Is that possible? If yes then which type of site should I be looking forward to make?
Of course if it is allowed here in this forum, I will hire one of you professionals to make such a site for me. Of course will pay you.
Moreover, I am open and looking to make a site on the current trending thing as of now. Thats all. Hence I am looking for ideas. Then will hire a professional to make that site.
Kindly help me out on this.
Thanks and Regards,
Finn
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From someone that ran an online business about 7 years ago:
- Ask yourself if your idea has an audience. Secondly, ask if someone else already has that audience and does it better than you can do with what assets you have available.
- Don't expect to make money. Even if it does end up making money it's a slow ramp over time for most businesses.
- Make sure your idea brings people back for more. Customer retention is huge for long-term growth.
- The more you can do yourself the better off you'll be in the short/mid term. Good websites cost a pretty penny.
- Consider a cloud solution for hosting. You can slowly ramp up your platform over time which saves money and headaches dealing with server migrations.
- Always have a back-up plan.
In general though business is one of those things that isn't formulaic until you're already rolling along. It requires good ideas, good execution, and a fair bit of luck before then. Best of luck! 
Also as Rick pointed out above, there are multiple platforms that will basically do the "dirty" work for you leaving you to focus on the business metrics. I haven't used one personally though so no idea how cost effective they are.
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demo using PharoJS Smalltalk to generate Single Page Applications for browser and mobile (including Apache Cordova) compiled into JS.
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Why not? 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Dev Rule 27: If it seems to be simple, you must be doing something wrong.
And for mine, this looks like a tool that will help for that.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Dev Rule #13: If it's already been done, do it again. They didn't do it right.
Amber Smalltalk[^]
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Except the fact that school has ended and kids out of the open, we look forward a nice summer week, with 35C+ at day and 22C+ at night...
(and we are a moderate area, my parents has 40C+ day and 28C+ night forecast)
And I was thinking about it... When I was younger (20+) we had no AC and never remember complaining about it, now I can't think of, how to survive without...
Or weather got hotter over years or I got older...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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But it's always Summer here, 32c day, 24C night +/- 1.
Pity those that have seasons: makes things difficult, all those in-between 'should I bring a jacket or wear my shorts?' - waste of time if you ask me.
Everyday same, 1 less thing to worry about as the morning coffee infuses into the brain, dress by autopilot / muscle memory.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Because 'abundant rainfall' and 'high humidity all year round' is much better...
(I try to keep me away from the coast because of high humidity, it is much better in the inland, between the mountains...)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Because 'abundant rainfall' and 'high humidity all year round' is much better...
It is if you're a fun guy 
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--Winston Churchill
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Don't talk about rainfall, I live in the Netherlands 
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Maybe you have just gotten more comfy?
Not that we have those temperatures here but I remember hot summers, getting in old cars and just toughening it out, windows down and not complaining. Now if the AC is broken in a car you might as well tow it because its useless. ^^
I think a large part is that you adapt to new comfort levels. Same way you adapt to better and faster computers and internet speed.
Once isdn was awesome and adsl was the future but nowadays it feels like I'm back in the stone age if I'm not on a fiber connection.
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This is not a rant, nor a programming question. It is more like a plug cum programming answer. I am determined to publish something on my blog every day from now on. One of the items I want to publish every day is a mention of good blog or article I use during that day. I categorise these under Other People's Code.
Today's inaugural such post is one I find extremely helpful and almost life-saving. It is an article titled Dependency Injection, Logging and Configuration In A.NET Core Console Application. Here is my accreditation of that article.
Please note that my blog is not huge on aesthetics, as it is WordPress, and I very soon intend replacing it with Umbraco.
Immanentize the Eschaton!
modified 2-Jul-17 4:20am.
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I like the clean lay-out of you blog.
cheers, Bill
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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It's ok, but a lot of white, could use some color, e.g. for the header background. Maybe the Canadian flag colors
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Yeah, needs more red ...or orange (but then people might mistake it for Code Project).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I like the white. I'll throw pictures in the mix if I need more colour or special colours for special headings etc.
Immanentize the Eschaton!
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Thank you, Bill. I think it will be getting even cleaner. It's quite a nice little WP theme I found that should get some customisation.
Immanentize the Eschaton!
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Hi Brady,
I hope you keep it clean, and avoid excess decoration.
cheers, Bill
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Oh yes, that is a huge requirement on my side. Aversion to excess decoration even tempted me to use the Jekyll static pages framework for the blog.
Immanentize the Eschaton!
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Brady Kelly wrote: Please note that my blog is not huge on aesthetics, as it is WordPress
That has nothing to do with WordPress, and everything to do with design. Any path you take will require some design work - if nothing else, choosing a theme. Tons of free WordPress ones.
I'm not saying "Don't go to Umbraco," but WordPress can be changed to work as a type of CMS. See my site[^] for instance. A design revision is in the works, with content changes, but that is one idea for you.
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Brady Kelly wrote: cum
You shouldnt use that word, use 'come'. 
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You should learn English.
cum1
kʌm/Submit
preposition
combined with; also used as (used to describe things with a dual nature or function).
"a study-cum-bedroom"
I think my used of "plug [combined with] programming answer" makes much more sense than "plug [come] programming answer", which actually isn't even English. How can a plug "come" anything? What is the exact nature of the verb "come" in such a nonsense string of words. It's derived from "cum" but used by fools than think "cum" means something naughty.
Immanentize the Eschaton!
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Dear oh god, do I need to explain it!
It's use, and meaning, has been, shall we say, subverted. A bit like 'facial'. It is a word to avoid these days.
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