Cold Again, What a surprise

Tuesday March 8, 2005 - 7:15PM EDT

I've finished the initial layout for the new website I was working on. Just need to get more content to fill it with from the website owner. I have to finish up two other web sites, then I'll work on the software again. I still am very broke but maybe another month or two before I start brining in steady monthly income(maybe). This special version of the software that I hope will catapult it into wide use, should only take about a day or two to complete. Then I can cut a deal with my first real client (yes there is some company out there that is interested in the software already) and see where it goes from there. I think this path may be the way to go, as seems like personal website owners aren't inclined to use the software. But if it is bundled as a part of their web hosting then they will use it just for the hell of it. And with web hosting companies putting it on their servers it will be available to more people right away than trying to sign-up people for individual copies. How I am going to make money off web hosting providers, I don't know. License fee, support contract, I don't know. Obviously those who use the software can make money off affiliate links, but can I or should I get a piece of that? I'm guessing my best bet is either support contract or just a licensing fee, probably a subscription based fee that includes free upgrades to the software and access to a link database. I figure I can charge a yearly or monthly fee for unlimited domains, per company, with no limits of the amount of servers they can put it on. I think web hosting companies would be willing to spend a low monthly fee for something they can offer unlimited to all their clients and where they would get tech support on it so they wouldn't have to worry about that. I would make the monthly price low enough so that it could easily be offset by their regular clients monthly fees. In the begining I would leave it up to them to decide whether they charge their clients. If I could get 50-100 webhosting companies to signup I could make a decent monthly income. I am thinking small-time with my pricing. Maybe later I can be more bold in the pricing but to start I'll have to be cheap. It would all depened on what kind of support I needed to provide, if it started to get out of hand I would need to charge more but if its stays manageable then I can stick with a low price. I just need this to workout as a stepping stone to bigger things, like making that movie. Well back to work.