Buisness names? ideas?

Hi I was wondering what is a good name for my buisness i will be starting soon. I will be selling ball pythons. maybe condas and boas. Thank you

YES shelby helped me out and we came up with Regal Boids so Regal Boids is the name. who do you all go with for hosting and domain name? Also what software does everyone use to make websites? Alos for logos.





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Nice name, I like it.

Dreamweaver is the most popular application to create websites. However it's made by Macromedia which has just been bought by Adobe. Adobe have thier own excellent website application called GoLive. With Adobes track record if you are going to buy and learn an application now I have to strongly suggest GoLive.

I generally host my own websites on my own broadband connection. All you need is a cheap computer, webservers do not need to be anything fancy. Install Linux or windows - run Apache, set up a firewall - tada... webserver.

This works well for low to medium traffic sites and all the software for the webserver is free (apart from Windows). If you have a good stable internet connection it really is my preference. And will save you in hosting fees in the long term, plus you can make instant updates and so on without having to mess about with someone elses file system and uploading :)

Can you please make that more detail on how to do it your self?

Andre,
I registered my domain name through Yahoo (it was 2.99 for a year, I think) and I get my hosting plan through Clay English (he runs his own herp forum, and many people who have herp websites get hosting through him). I'm getting Clay's highest plan for only 9.99 a month, and he's great about getting with you if you have any problems or whatever. If you want to check his stuff out, pm me.

I've been using FrontPage, and get along with it fairly well. There are things that you can do better with Dreamweaver, though (check out my web page for an idea of what you can do with FrontPage).

Hope this helps a bit!

This is a good site for information on how to set up a home web server. It's explained better here than I could do.

http://www.dslwebserver.com/

I get my hosting from TekWarren (a user on this site) for SUPER cheap... (a better deal than Clay's) Shoot him a PM, I'm sure he'll hook ya up. :)

I plan on using Dreamweaver...

I like your new biz name... catchy!

yup it means royal pythons and boas.

Andre, I realize you have great aspirations to have a business.. but I think you should know, because you are a minor, you cannot legally enter into a binding contract with anyone.... meaning, you technically cant sell. Unless your parent/parents are willing to do this for you, it may not be a good thing to start a business at what 13 or 14? Since it is Shelby that seems to help you out with these things (including the decision to buy species that will get HUGE- not good at your age) did she not tell you the legalities part of business?

Yes I understand that my mom would have to be the person to do my transactions. I am 14. Also shelby did let me know about the YELLOW annaconda that does stay smaller wich is what I was looking at and a male wich stays 6-8 feet but I would most likely have at least a years experience with an RTB. I wont be getting it for more than a year so like the summer of 2007. Abd no she didnt tell me about the ;egalities part of buisness. at least from what i remember.

Andre,

I think it's great that you have such high ambitions for yourself at such a young age. Don't let anyone deter you from following your dreams and goals. It's great that your mom is willing to support your endeavor. We could all be so lucky to have parents that are so willing to deal with these kinds of things.

The research and thought you have put into acquiring your animals and putting together a business is great. I wish schools still taught entrepreneurial skills, but sadly, not many people are into working for themselves anymore.

Anyway, kudos to you, man! Don't let your physical age hold back what your mental capabilities are!

I agree that you should set goals, and work to achieve them. Having said that you need to be sure you are upfront with people about yourself and your situation.

I do not think Anacondas are snakes for the average keeper. You are still young, and have a lot coming your way. (college, apartments, jobs) I would hate to see you get over your head, but at the same time not to try. Baby steps. ;)

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I get my hosting from TekWarren (a user on this site) for SUPER cheap... (a better deal than Clay's) Shoot him a PM, I'm sure he'll hook ya up. :)

I plan on using Dreamweaver...

I like your new biz name... catchy!

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When I was about 12 I told my parents I wanted to be a computer programmer. They thought it was a bad idea, and I was too young to know better.


20 years later they eat crow, and my dad begs me to stay in that industry despite my desire to go back to driving truck.

Do what you love, but do it better than anyone else.

That's a bit different. If you decided to go back to driving a truck, you can leave the computer all by itself. When working with animals, you need to be sure that you can care for them their entire lifetime. In addition, when working with such large animals you need to have multiple people responsible for them since they often require more than one person to safetly handle them. It's just not a decision that should be made lightly. :rolleyes:

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That's a bit different. If you decided to go back to driving a truck, you can leave the computer all by itself. When working with animals, you need to be sure that you can care for them their entire lifetime. In addition, when working with such large animals you need to have multiple people responsible for them since they often require more than one person to safetly handle them. It's just not a decision that should be made lightly. :rolleyes:

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Be the best implies:

Do the research.
Get it right.
Find a mentor.
Bounce ideas off other people and keep your mind open.
Find out what the successful people do and duplicate that.
Find out what their headaches are and improve on that.
Evaluate your methods on an ongoing basis and improve on those.

I could go on, but "be the best" includes not taking the venture irresponsibly.

Now personally, if you asked me I would say boa's were a bad idea, but I also laughed when a friend told me he was going to start a business that bought used furniture, repaired it and then sold it again. He recently sold it for Millions and millons of dollars, and leases the land (which he paid cash for) to the new owners. If anyone's heard of United Furniture Warehouse, that's the guy. Now he spends his money helping homeless people get back on their feet all over North America... but I digress.

So yeah.. don't raise boa's unless you have what it takes.

Not to disuade any young person with a dream but being a minor Andre you need to be aware of the legalities of running a business under another person's name and that your potential customers are aware they are entering into any kind of contract with you being a minor. Good business practise is part of snake breeding or it aught to be.

As far as whether you are ready again consider your age and the fact that as far as I'm aware you do not have adults that have a lot of snake experience (especially larger snakes) there to back you 24/7.

Rather than rushing into the business aspects of this why not just enjoy the snakes you have. Develop and define your passion for them as I truly believe without a true passion for the snakes it becomes a sad business that truly does not do either the person or the snakes any long term good. Take some business type courses at school in the meantime....they will stand you in good stead no matter what you do in life.

For me it's about the heart and the head. My heart loves the snakes and wants more and sometimes to rush things, my head defines what I can do logically and in a responsible timely manner and puts the brakes sometimes on my heart. I believe to be successful as a breeder/seller one day I will need to find a good balance of both aspects.

Just please don't rush Andre. Life is long, snakes are a major committment and there is no timetable to go by, no race to be run and won.


~~Jo~~

Many, many, many, many, many, moons ago, when I was a young boy growing up in the lovely urban paradise of northern New Jersey, one very hot summer I decide to open an ice cream "store" on the corner in my neighborhood.

I took a tub of Pathmark (local grocery store) brand ice cream from my mothers freezer, some paper plates from the cabinet, spoons, napkins, etc. I also grabbed my "piggy bank" and brought it along in case I needed to make change.

I dragged an old folding card table from the basement out to the corner, put up a sign, and opened up shop.

After about 15 minutes I had not one customer and I decided to go ride my bike with my friends instead.

Later that night I got my a$$ beat for leaving the ice cream outside to melt.

But ya know what? I remember the fun I had that day more than I do the beating ... I think that when you're a kid, that's all that really matters. ;)

ROCK ON Andre!

-adam

I once read about this 13 year old kid that had high hopes and dreams.. His parents weren't as supportive, and he rebeled against them still doing what would get him closer to his dreams in his spare time.

He eventually went on to graduate high school, and went to Harvard. Some time in the middle of his Junior year at Harvard, he decided... you know.. this high level education isn't for me. So what my parents are spending tons of money to send me here... I'm gonna drop out and try to make a go of this in my garage.

A couple of years later, him and Steve Balmer and Paul Allen released DOS.

I think this kid that didn't think Harvard was such a good idea is now fairly well off, and pretty highly respected.

I get the fact that at any point, he could have given up, and his computers wouldn't have starved... his garage would have been just fine... and Paul Allen probably would have started Apple anyway, and taken over the world... I also get that he had to exibit absolutely no responsibility to start programming computers when he was 13, and actually start a business on the pipe dream that there would soon be a computer on everyone's desk top. (Or in their lap)

I wholeheartedly agree with the "be a kid while you can" thing. (no sarcasm this time, I swear :) ) But you can't fight ambition.... and if this "kid's" mom/parent(s) are willing to support him in whatever endeavors he encounters, then he'll be far better off than a parent that would stiffle him, and not embrace the ambition and drive that few children carry these days.

All children are different. There are some that get SUPER involved in something one day, and the next, they could care less. It would seem to me that Andre's mom is the one that probably knows him best... and if he were the sort to give up this new love all of a sudden, then I'm sure she wouldn't support him in it as much as she does.

/rant off
/soapbox stepped down from