How to find a skilled programmer/entreprenuer ?

[dchase]

I am a great marketer. I know all the tricks, I've had lots of success (unfortunately for other companies). I simply do not have any web programming skills, and I dont think it would be worth the effort to learn them.

I want to find a web programmer/entreprenuer and combine my marketing with his programming, and create an amazing ecommerce.

Why is this sort of thing so difficult to do?

Any suggestions...

[ecommerceprofit]

Most people have great ideas - they are simple - the hard part is having the technical skills. The tech people with the skills are far and few in between. Just about all the tech people I have met are hard to deal with - nice/honest guys - just hard to deal with in getting them to meet deadlines.

[AjiNIMC]

technical skills help you think technically and technical innovations help you get the edge.

[julesn]

do not have any web programming skills, and I dont think it would be worth the effort to learn them.

If your marketing skills were as great and successful as you claim, then surely it would be worth any effort...

[haggul]

Or if they are so good then you'd have complete faith in the results of any project and actually be willing to pay the tech guy for his work.

Tech guys (I am one) tend to have to do 95% of the work to get a project up and running - if it falls flat we are out of pocket - and you just go onto your next idea - so offer one some money up front to do some work and you'll find it's not so hard after all.

[Quadrille]

Creating such a team over the Internet will not be at all easy; if you have those skills, you'd probably do much better outsourcing individual tasks but retaining control over the whole project - thatr way, there's no fighting fro supremacy - or having your ideas stolen.

And once you get going, you can hire in staff, and still be in control.

Point is, the skills you want are visible and can be demonstrated. But you cannot prove your marketing skills (if you had already done it, you wouldn't be here asking this question).

[OtbHunter]

Hi dchase... looks like all the comments didn't really offer you any suggestions. I have a couple for you.

For a look at Top Quality Software Program for Ecommerce... check out NetArt Media

For Top Quality technical help at a very reasonable price... check out ClickforHelp.com

Both companies are great and NO, I do not have any interest in either of them. I found the same thing when I started developing my site... very few people out there willing to help, just give you "generic" data if they respond at all

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[ecommerceprofit]

ClickforHelp looks like they are mainly not programmers - providing hosting, e-mail, web design, and Microsoft programming - they "may" offer linux, apache, php, mysql programming services but do not advertise it on their site. There are a ton of these companies out there - I'm sorry but beyond ecommerce, if you wanted to create the next ebay, google, etc. you are not going to use Microsoft solutions.

I agree with the others - you must be willing to spend money if you need help. The best way to get techs for free as partners is when you have already proven yourself with past businesses and put up a good chunk of change to start a company.

[dchase]

Thanks for the input,

And OTB I'll check out the provided resources.

[JesperFJ]

What do you mean by "create an amazing ecommerce."?

Ar ewe talking a webshop selling physical goods, or complex membership/advertising solutions?

I know you cant reveal your entire idea, but how many payments a day/month/year do you expect and at what size. And what kind of service would it provide since these people would be prepared to pay.

I myself am able to create a webshop selling physical goods in less than a week (well getting the domain name pointing to my site is usually slower), but then again this is quite simple compared to create an online poker site or ebay solution.

If is is about selling physical goods, it is simple, you take care of all shipping and stock thingies, and offer the developer percentages of sales.

If your idea is really great and requires lots of developer hours, you should be able to sell the idea to investors who are willing to take the risk of paying the developer until your site is rolling

/Jesper

[Jack_Hughes]

networking is the key. ask around your social circle, maybe they have a friend of a friend who knows somebody. if the work can be done on weekends then you may get more takers. it may be easier to get the money and just pay somebody to do the work for you. as has been said before, the developer gets the majority of the up front work. so the developer would be risking more time than you would.

[hellraiser1]

hi

ideas are cheap - its the investment behind the idea. And with that comes the time and effort of the programmer which would have to be compensated for.

[David_M]

I try to mold my ideas around currently available technologies that I can license and customize. This greatly reduces the technical expertise needed along with the development time. Often the developers of the software are very willing to take on the custmizations themselves for an additonal fee.

[edited by: David_M at 2:23 am (utc) on Aug. 15, 2006]