explorador - 7:00 pm on Dec 27, 2009 (gmt 0)

Great post Makaveli2007.

I don't live in India but in Central América and I could share some points directly related to this.

1. Limitations by country
Many services won't allow certain countries to join, to participate or to even receive payments. This is a direct problem and it doesn't matter if you have a great website. The solution is to travel and to get an address elsewhere or a foreign bank account.

2. Service Quality
Not every public service is great and sometimes even shipping can be a problem. Yes, there are alternatives but the price goes up. This represents a problem to compete. Service quality might involve problems with internet connection too or the price being too high.

3. Networking problems
Connections, knowing the right people! very often conferences serve as a great opportunity to meet people and make deals or even exchange links you wouldn't get online. The location might mean higher prices to get to the places where this conferences take place. I know this is my case. This also increases costs.

Is not the same to travel from Miami to Cuba, Houston and Canadá or even Europe than traveling from Argentina to a US based conference.

Yes, I have websites doing fine and having a good income this way but after the years I really see a great value on being there (online is not the same) to make deals, get to know other people and grow. Networking is real.

I could go on with smaller issues, but the idea is as everything has a solution, it usually increase costs and when you do the map, is not a great business anymore.