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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! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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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