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| the other day, and I found a quote that went | | | | you build up a business to find if there is a demand |
| something like this (although I can't remember who | | | | for products. |
| wrote it): Common sense is uncommon. Although | | | | Another major mistake that people make is to |
| many people know what it takes to succeed in their | | | | always go for the free solutions. Look, some things |
| home business (eg focus, targeting a profitable | | | | have good free solutions like Open Office or even |
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| still not able to make a decent income online, read on | | | | names, dedicated servers etc. All these require an |
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| enter into a business that doesn't have a profitable | | | | loads the page? And can you imagine your domain |
| market. They may like what they are doing, but they | | | | name looking like it was set up for a high school |
| are making money. It's one of the keys to do | | | | project? I don't either. |
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| monetize it, then it is not something you may want | | | | |