Reflection on Choosing a Business

 


This week was fairly stressful. I'm going to be honest, I have no clue what I'm doing. Business creation is not my strong suit and there were quite a few assignments to work on which piled up along with everything else due for all of my other classes (barely even touched the excel worksheet). What did I learn this week? Well, I'm happy to announce that I did learn just a bit. There are many types of businesses that can be run on the web from doing almost everything yourself, to doing almost nothing. Because of that, we were also able to learn how you can scan Google Search to see how much competition you idea for a business has and how much it costs to run ads on it. And when it came to seeing how many clicks each search item had... well... I actually couldn't find that information. The scariest thing about this class is just the fact that I don't know what kind of business to run, and the fact that an in person environment may be more helpful for me to understand what we are doing. I like reading, but those websites were almost short stories with the amount of information they piled on. Anyway, as long as I don't owe Google thousands of dollars by the end of this class and have some sort of website based business running, I hope I'll be okay.

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