Hi all,

I am starting a hosting business that hides the user from the complexities of setting up the website backend and only providing a dedicated website builder only (based on swsoft sitebuilder)

services to include:

- domain and email setup for the user

- easy to use website builder

- full support of email and builder products

- targeted towards small/medium business that are not computer savvy

- website fully hosted

My question is, will a business like this likely generate sales enough to make the business profitable? Is the market way too saturated with businesses homestead, moonfruit, citymax, web hosters providing sitebuilders, and web designers?

Also, are there any additional services I can provide to bring in more revenue apart from custom webdesign, or banner/logo editing?

SR5k!

I teach a lot of small business classes and always recommend online builders to the non-technical among my students. It's true that many have difficulty even using the simplest tools. So if you could develop a very straight-forward builder, with fairly high functionality, you may have a winner. I think the space is still evolving. Presently, I'm using SquareSpace for my blockbeta.com website. I was using Dreamweaver, but since I'm more of a marketer than a developer, I'm enjoying focusing on creating content, rather than the backend. It's one of the best I've seen so far, but it still requires at least a little bit of technical knowledge. You could offer a decent tool (or license one), then offer technical and maintenance assistance as a value-add.