Reply to: Plan B

[NickFitz]

I thought the royalties from Night Hunter was your plan A/B?

Nah, the conversions didn't get royalties, despite the fact that the improvements for the Amiga over the ST amounted to a total rewrite from scratch

My former employer was a bit too quick to agree to that particular contract with Ubisoft

[vwdan]

Prostitute

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Though I thought that was Plan A for most of us. When someone asks me what I do I just tell them I'm an escort with a lower hourly rate and less class.

[Lola]

I see mentions of a "Plan B" quite often around the forum and I just wondered what kind of things people were doing? I'm not asking for your secrets or anything, I'm just curious really. Are people just turning second hand cars, selling other services on the side, starting consultancies?

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[Gaz_M]

Good stuff. Given the stage you are at my advice is to view it as an experiment. The objective of the experiment is to prove or disprove that the market you are targeting or product you are building is viable.

Get the website out there and start building traffic. Everything else can wait.

Good luck.

Thanks. I have taken it on the chin and put it down to experience. Using that experience I am now working on my second project which I've carried out far more research for and have ready made suppliers and I know there's a viable market & profit margin.

And you are right, everything else can wait. My current gig has 14 more months to go and I plan to use all that time to build & build. However, I'll be gutted if it's not turning over a viable second income in that time.

[Gaz_M]

If these aren't stupid questions:
1. Doesn't ecommerce website software exist already?
2. Did you lose your first one?

If I understand you correctly...

1. Yes it does & I'm utilising that for this project. My first website was so much more content based (with an online store attached) so had to use different software.
2. I just closed down the website but have kept the domain name to stop anybody else profiting from all my hard work

[VectraMan]

I'm personally spending my spare (hotel) time writing my second ecommerce website.
I spent 18 months on the first one and built up quite an audience in a very niche market. However, when I started to sell (about 12 months in) I found the suppliers for that industry (music related) very hit and miss. I just couldn't find any reliable wholesaler and after much heartbreak I had to ditch the project.

Anyway, I'm positive about my current project & I've learned a hell of a lot from my first experience. I really, really want this to work because I don't think I can face much longer of this dreadful contracting game which just gets more & more boring by the day.

If these aren't stupid questions:
1. Doesn't ecommerce website software exist already?
2. Did you lose your first one?

[tomtomagain]

I'm personally spending my spare (hotel) time writing my second ecommerce website ....
. I really, really want this to work

Good stuff. Given the stage you are at my advice is to view it as an experiment. The objective of the experiment is to prove or disprove that the market you are targeting or product you are building is viable.

Get the website out there and start building traffic. Everything else can wait.

Good luck.

[Gaz_M]

I see mentions of a "Plan B" quite often around the forum and I just wondered what kind of things people were doing? I'm not asking for your secrets or anything, I'm just curious really. Are people just turning second hand cars, selling other services on the side, starting consultancies?

I'm personally spending my spare (hotel) time writing my second ecommerce website.
I spent 18 months on the first one and built up quite an audience in a very niche market. However, when I started to sell (about 12 months in) I found the suppliers for that industry (music related) very hit and miss. I just couldn't find any reliable wholesaler and after much heartbreak I had to ditch the project.

Anyway, I'm positive about my current project & I've learned a hell of a lot from my first experience. I really, really want this to work because I don't think I can face much longer of this dreadful contracting game which just gets more & more boring by the day.

[northernladyuk]

Front Bottom Inspector.

You come round our way then, love. The old man's incision is looking a bit weepy, and what with his surgeon being based in Tehran, we could do with some local aftercare expertise.

[eek]

I thought the royalties from Night Hunter was your plan A/B?

I love the fact that programs used to have a single coder.

Even in 1991 when I was project managing some CD-i titles, the day of the single coder had gone...

[TheFaQQer]

I refer the honourable denizen to the answer I gave some years ago: http://forums.contractoruk.com/light...tml#post464179

I thought the royalties from Night Hunter was your plan A/B?

[tomtomagain]

Well I'm sorry, but the only thing I can think of saying in response to that is... Git!

I'll take that as the compliment you undoubtedly meant it to be.

[NickFitz]

I refer the honourable denizen to the answer I gave some years ago: http://forums.contractoruk.com/light...tml#post464179

[alluvial]

Developed software solution for business. Selling it to the world. It became "Plan A" six months ago and I haven't been into an office or spoken to an agent since.

Well I'm sorry, but the only thing I can think of saying in response to that is... Git!

[tomtomagain]

Developed software solution for business. Selling it to the world. It became "Plan A" six months ago and I haven't been into an office or spoken to an agent since.