{"id":1168,"date":"2013-10-24T20:10:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T20:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/top5seo.co.uk\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2014-04-25T17:08:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T17:08:31","slug":"new-web-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/top5seo.co.uk\/new-web-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Launching A New Web Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, you’ve got an amazing idea for a new website. You’re buzzing with excitement and day dreaming of seeing your name mentioned alongside the likes of Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> and Biz Stone as the creator of the next big thing on the internet.<\/p>\n

It’s such a good idea… nothing can possibly go wrong…. can it?<\/p>\n

Well, hopefully not! However, sometimes you can be too close to an idea and overlook the potential banana skins and obstacles that will be blocking your new site’s path to internet glory.<\/p>\n

Here are 5 questions you should ask yourself before remortgaging your house to finance that fantastic new website idea….<\/p>\n

In fact, before you read all that boring text, since it’s nearly Friday I fancied a bit of fun. So here is the whole article presented in the form of snakes and ladders \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Ok… now read on to make sense of the above!<\/p>\n

1. What Is My USP?<\/h2>\n

Social networks are all the rage and for good reason. Everyone would like a piece of the facebook pie and with ‘out the box’ software like social engine<\/a> (aff) making it a doddle to get your own niche social network up and running, it seems like a great, easy way to make money online.<\/p>\n

But here’s an example of why it is not as simple as you might think.<\/p>\n

Go Fish<\/h3>\n

Fishermen. There’s lots of fishermen in the UK. 4 million in fact.<\/p>\n

So, how about setting up a niche social network for fisherman. What a great idea!<\/p>\n

You think of ‘catchy’ domain name (pun intended), grab a social networking script, create a great logo, nice layout, put it live, throw some ‘bait’ (sorry…)\u00a0out on a few forums and social media and wait for those 4 million UK fishermen to sign up to your site.<\/p>\n

And you wait….<\/p>\n

And you wait….<\/p>\n

So What Went Wrong?<\/h3>\n

Well, put yourself in the shoes of one of your target audience, a fisherman (hopefully they are not too wet…). He sees your blurb in his favourite forum about this great new social network for fisherman where you can….<\/p>\n