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Julia.Ru · 11-22-2009, 12:56 PM

Hi all! Steve says that if you say you don’t know what business you want to start, then it’s just a lame excuse. But what if I really don’t have any ideas that would inspire me?
I used to think: ok, if the lack of ideas is just an excuse, I have to stop giving excuses and just start my own business. Last year I launched my website and put Google AdSense on it. The main ideas of my work seemed rather interesting, but not that much. As I couldn’t make up anything else, I just kept working on my website and promoting it. I had about 40-60 visitors a month and after a year I earned 69 cent))) At last all the work became really boring to me and I shut down the site. Then I launched a blog, but after a couple of months, I realized I wasn’t interested in working in that direction as well. Then another website and again, after some time, I realized it was a dead end for me.
Then, some days ago I stumbled upon one business idea – making multimedia photo albums. It had never occurred to me before (though I think it’s an old idea). I immediately started planning, then launched one of my multimedia albums I had done before on YouTube and registered as a freelancer on 3 websites. So, I really got inspired and I’m sure it’ll work and I like this kind of work. The only minus is that I’m a freelancer, but I’d like to be a website owner.

So, my question is the following: is that a lack of ideas really just an excuse?! I started everything immediately with multimedia albums, but I’m stuck with ideas about a website. Could it be that I really just can’t get inspired by any idea for a website?
Website owners, where did you get your ideas for your websites?
Thanks.

11-22-2009, 12:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
Julia.Ru Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 142	What if I really can't get inspired by any idea? Hi all! Steve says that if you say you don’t know what business you want to start, then it’s just a lame excuse. But what if I really don’t have any ideas that would inspire me? I used to think: ok, if the lack of ideas is just an excuse, I have to stop giving excuses and just start my own business. Last year I launched my website and put Google AdSense on it. The main ideas of my work seemed rather interesting, but not that much. As I couldn’t make up anything else, I just kept working on my website and promoting it. I had about 40-60 visitors a month and after a year I earned 69 cent))) At last all the work became really boring to me and I shut down the site. Then I launched a blog, but after a couple of months, I realized I wasn’t interested in working in that direction as well. Then another website and again, after some time, I realized it was a dead end for me. Then, some days ago I stumbled upon one business idea – making multimedia photo albums. It had never occurred to me before (though I think it’s an old idea). I immediately started planning, then launched one of my multimedia albums I had done before on YouTube and registered as a freelancer on 3 websites. So, I really got inspired and I’m sure it’ll work and I like this kind of work. The only minus is that I’m a freelancer, but I’d like to be a website owner. So, my question is the following: is that a lack of ideas really just an excuse?! I started everything immediately with multimedia albums, but I’m stuck with ideas about a website. Could it be that I really just can’t get inspired by any idea for a website? Website owners, where did you get your ideas for your websites? Thanks.