Being a webmaster, business owner, entrepreneur and marketer can be lonely. If you work from home, are self-employed or even work with other people who don’t understand what you do, who do can you turn to when the going gets tough? You could consider a business partnership, but is a partnership right for you? Yaro Starak formed a business partnership with Gideon Shalwick. He thinks it can work because two people are often better than one.
There are ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ to teaming up. It’s about getting the right kind of technical, business and personal relationship between you. But it can be hard to find the right person, especially locally, so your ideal partner could live anywhere. Meeting up, face-to-face, is important. With this in mind, and just for fun, tinychat has launched videochat. It’s a peer-to-peer video chat system that’s really simple to setup and use. Simple is good.
What if you don’t want a business partner, but still want to talk to your peers and brainstorm with other webmasters, entrepreneurs and marketers? Webhostingtalk is probably the largest and most influential webmaster forum on the Internet. When I looked there were 15 main forums on different topics with more than 5.7 million posts and 216,000 registered members! And registration is free.
And if you have started, or run, a blog (a terrific way to get traffic and garner authority in your niche), Darren Rowse has recently launched the problogger community. Daniel Scocco asks are you a member yet? He signed up straight away. It costs $1.95 a month currently. Darren Rowse is a well respected, professional blogger and there are already more than 600 members.
You don’t need to be on your own in this business.
