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Job description: webmaster
A brain surgeon was conversing with a famous writer at a party. "When I retire, I'd like to become a writer," he told her. "That's interesting," she responded. "When I retire, I'd like to become a brain surgeon." Running a website isn't exactly brain surgery, but like writing professionally, neither is it as easy as many people think it is. But as with writing, it looks easy. "It must be nice to work at home and make money online," they say. "Can you show me how?" How do we as webmasters answer that question?
Getting started as a webmaster
To begin, we can try to quell any misconceptions that people may have. No, we do not lie around watching TV all day while the money pours in. The skills needed to derive income online take more than a few hours to develop. And while we enjoy what we do, it's work. It takes time, sometimes a lot of time. Running a revenue-generating website is part (or in some cases, all) of running a business. Talking about business specifics can help people understand what's involved. When friends and relatives ask us to show them how to make money online, we can ask them what products or services they plan to offer. Have they researched the market to see if there is enough demand for their idea? Do they even have an idea? Have they found a niche? Have they written up a business plan and looked into the costs of the products or services they want to provide, a business license, insurance, and other business expenses? They need to know all that in addition to being able to run a website. Not that we want to discourage people, but we don't want them to waste their time getting into something that they aren't prepared for. Or perhaps they already have a bricks-and-mortar business and want to start offering their services online as well. On to the website itself. No night school course or diploma fully prepares people for running an online business. Most or all of us are self-taught to a great degree, learning from our mistakes and picking up valuable knowledge from website articles and forums. We all started at the beginning, and we had some success before we knew
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