Comments on: Setting a budget http://www.ecommerceexperiment.com/2009/05/29/setting-a-budget/ Detailing an ecommerce startup from scratch! Wed, 19 May 2010 17:25:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: A very good question | Ecommerce Experiment http://www.ecommerceexperiment.com/2009/05/29/setting-a-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-45 A very good question | Ecommerce Experiment Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:30:27 +0000 http://www.ecommerceexperiment.com/?p=140#comment-45 [...] we received a new comment on the blog with regards to our “Setting a Budget” post. I felt it was so well written that it was worth responding to in full. The comment was [...] [...] we received a new comment on the blog with regards to our “Setting a Budget” post. I felt it was so well written that it was worth responding to in full. The comment was [...]

]]> By: Oliver Ker http://www.ecommerceexperiment.com/2009/05/29/setting-a-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Oliver Ker Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:55:03 +0000 http://www.ecommerceexperiment.com/?p=140#comment-44 I don't have a great deal of experience of budgets when setting up, is this budget what you would expect your customers to pay to you as a start up looking for your services? As a designer I am worried about the design/development being "swept under the carpet". Are you noting down the hours spent developing this project to calculate the cost later? Also I would be worried about £100 as a marketing budget? What does this cover? Marketing can make or break your company. What do you class as marketing? Writing these blog posts and your twittering about the project is classed as marketing and Im sure you have spent more than £100 of your time. Personally to start a business on a shoe string, I would have used a platform that already exists and anyone could set up (I have done this, and (http://mlbadges.com/schools) is now quite successful, and would not like to add up the hours spent developing, designing and marketing it). BUT does this not contradict with why you started this experiment, as your client left to seek a bigger platform to handle a bigger turnover. As you can tell I am following this project and interested to see where it goes. Good Luck I don’t have a great deal of experience of budgets when setting up, is this budget what you would expect your customers to pay to you as a start up looking for your services?

As a designer I am worried about the design/development being “swept under the carpet”. Are you noting down the hours spent developing this project to calculate the cost later?

Also I would be worried about £100 as a marketing budget? What does this cover? Marketing can make or break your company. What do you class as marketing? Writing these blog posts and your twittering about the project is classed as marketing and Im sure you have spent more than £100 of your time.

Personally to start a business on a shoe string, I would have used a platform that already exists and anyone could set up (I have done this, and (http://mlbadges.com/schools) is now quite successful, and would not like to add up the hours spent developing, designing and marketing it). BUT does this not contradict with why you started this experiment, as your client left to seek a bigger platform to handle a bigger turnover.

As you can tell I am following this project and interested to see where it goes. Good Luck

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