How to start a web design company?

Way down deep in the middle of the congo, Bill Logan and a hippo took an
apricot a guava and a mango. Stuck it with the others and he danced a dainty
tango...

 > whoa, back up the truck!
 > I know not who is or is not a spammer but to respond to a request with an
 > offer is not spam - even in this group.

And a quick link takes you to a referal account for crap software:

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://wizardsoftheweb.com/p.cgi?1&cperry" target="_blank">http://wizardsoftheweb.com/p.cgi?1&cperry</a>

That is really going to help his business.

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"Augustus" <Imperial.Palace.RemoveThis@Rome.com> wrote in message
news:c2551n$1o450i$1@ID-97594.news.uni-berlin.de...
 > No, you might not be able to, but the question here isn't about selling a
 > "good" but is about selling a service
 >
 > When I started doing web design I had a laptop and an old desk in the
corner
 > of my bedroom...
 >
 > -After a couple of jobs I bought a high end PC and had a business DSL line
 > installed at home (static IP)
 >
 > -Started doing hosting on the PC and creating websites on the laptop (I
was
 > just hosting the websites I created... charging $25/mo to host and gave
 > clients 2 hrs a month of my time for free and a discount if they needed
 > more)
 >
 > - After I had about 20 clients being hosted I moved to a 2 bedroom
apartment
 > and set up one room as an office (wife didn't like the sound the server PC
 > was making all night long with its fans going)
 >
 > - Teamed up with another guy who was good at sales and a whiz at graphics
(I
 > did programming and database). We got him his own laptop and desk and set
 > it up in the "office" bedroom
 >
 > - Wrote some custom web applications and sold them to prospective clients
 >
 > - Moved into an actual "office" at long last
 >
 > Being that this is a service industry... all you really need is a portable
 > computer and a Starbucks down the street (or somewhere recognizable that
you
 > can meet clients and show them what you are doing... until we had the
office
 > I used a "Bread Gardens" about 2 blocks from my apartment)
 >
 > As for pizza... you could technically cook it in your home oven and sell
it
 > to friends and neighbors

Interesting story Augustus, well done indeed.
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Charles Sweeney
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