Elvis Blogs - Elvis McNeely

Tonight I was watching a show called Flip this house, or something like that. Basically, people buy houses cheap, fix them up within 4-6 weeks, then resell them within 2-4 weeks. In the end they make a very decent profit.

I saw some parallels with flipping houses (reconstructing or redeveloping) and taking an idea and created a site to sell it. I thought it was interesting how the online world does and can reference the offline world - when it comes to this kind of business.

On one of the house flips, one couple shared how they learned a few lessons. One of the major lessons, was to sell the first flip before moving on to another. That definitely applies to the online world.

When developing websites, if you have limited funds, can't afford to get things done fast (which usually cost more), and then can't sell the site done or not, you are at a loss. Loss of time and money and with a site that is not "sellable".

Most of this is common sense but I just thought is was interesting to find a parallel to our "normal" world.

One great thing about drupal is out of the box you have a very good functional and stable platform (consider this to be the old house) to build the rest of your site off of. From there, it is a matter of design, functionality, and branding. One major major point, which doesn't fit the offline world, is keeping traffic to the site. That is key and probably every webmasters question.

Probably, the traffic thing and who you are branding your site to/for, should be figured out (house neighborhood) first.

Hmm, this post is creating a lot of thoughts surrounding this whole topic. I think I will end it for now and come back to it another time.

Thanks for reading, come back in a few weeks to see more on this topic.