Second Week Down

My second week of school is almost under my belt and I have yet to think of a good web business.  Oh, I’ve had several really good ideas.  My favorite is a political site that would have sample ballots and run downs of all the candidates at the local level.  But that is too big a scope for this class and all my other ideas have high competition and sky high bid rates for ads on Google.  I’m starting to get a little frustrated.

My first project isn’t getting off the ground too well, either.  Of 20 “brainstorms” I only have about 10 and am dragging to come up with anything more.  There’s not that much that I do.  I have been cut off from the world for so long that my tiny sphere just doesn’t translate well into business ideas.  Maybe I can do something with crafting.  I do a lot of “practical” crafting and could probably make some videos about it.  I will add that to my list.

Other than my lack of creativity, I seem to be understanding concepts well.  I have gotten good grades on all the work turned in so far and, like I keep telling my husband, my grades are all still green.  So I will pursuvere as my high school principal said.  (It is a combination of pursue and persevere.  He said those were the two things we should do in life but he only wanted us to have to remember one word.)  It certainly seems applicable at the moment.

In the beginning there was stress

I wasn’t too stressed about this class until I read the syllabus and watched the intro videos and realized I had to create an actual business.  Since then I’ve been pretty much freaking out.  I don’t know what to do for the business.  I don’t know if I have time to have a business.  And, of course, I can’t afford NOT to have a business because I need a good grade in the class.

The first few steps have been pretty painless so far I’m just waiting for that mythic moment when I have to make a decision.  What will this business be like?  How will it run?  Do I really have any worthwhile product or skills that I can actually sell to the public.  It would be nice if I thought I did.  Amber seems to think I should sell heating packs like the ones I made for her boys.  Joseph likes this idea best of all the ones we’ve discussed.  I just don’t know what makes my heating packs stand out.