I’m Always Surprised When People Have High Expectations in a Low Barrier to Entry Business

I'm Always Surprised When People Have High ... - Domain Shane: I was in a discussion with Abdu of Domainsville.c...

I was in a discussion with Abdu of Domainsville.com the other day about barriers to entry. Unless it’s a brilliant idea or you are”first in”, when the barriers are low then the possibility of great gain is minimized. When you do something that can be done quite easily by many people you have to “out creative” everyone else if you plan to emerge from the pack financially. We discussed aggregators specifically. I perhaps was a little blunt when I said anyone can do put one together. To do it right you have to add things that both the readers AND the content creators need and/or are looking for. Even then, the first in, Domaining.com has such a huge lead that most likely unless mismanaged will always be more popular. Just putting up a site and adding more feeds isn’t going to set you apart. Domaining is doing everything people need so you’d have to do something pretty special...

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