It Courses Or It Counsellors?

[GMXam]

How about you go to reddit and ask? Get your answers through crowd-sourcing like you're attempting to do here. You'll probably have a higher success rate but be prepared to have tough skin. Forum posting is asking for others' responses, whether you like the responses or not.

 

[Girino]

There is a subtle difference between asking for a response and getting insulted or derided because you don't know stuff. Some people only do the latter. Constantly. It gets boring and people stop asking. Then they stop reading. And the forum is dead.

 

[GMXam]

I don't think it works that way, unfortunately. FB and news outlets and Reddit are still going strong, all have posts just like that. And, baexpats still prevails...

 

[Girino]

So why did you choose to attend several Spanish courses in person? There are tons of websites teaching you grammar, vocabulary, learning techniques and even native speakers correcting your written exercises for free and giving skype lessons. You are even in a Spanish speaking country and with a half Latino background.

Still, I use computers every day, I have been using technology stuff since decades, but I should read websites, not "waste" money on in-person courses because "the answers are all out there", yet if you ask for Spanish courses/tutoring is okay, if I ask for IT a courses/tutoring I am being lazy.

Maybe I've given too much credit to members of this forum.

 

[syngirl]

Your posts are so useless, I am wondering why you are still posting, at all.

I am looking at a holistic approach, not about details. I wrote it clearly: I don't want to gain the level of in-depth knowledge to know how to program, just how the 2.0 world works.

Stuff like: do people with a successful page on FB earn money from that? What about people with popular YouTube Channels? Do YouTube pay them or is the advertising, only? Or is it just royalties? What about when the videos are re-posted elsewhere?
And what about establishing an online presence? Is it really necessary to have a Facebook page, a Twitter account, a LinkedIn profile, an amazing website, etc?
What's the fastest and cheapest way to get a decent online presence? Like a website and email addresses with your own domain. Wordpress asks for $300/year. Do people really pay that every time they spark an idea and decide to give it a go? What about people following multiple projects? Are they really investing $2,000 just to see how it would go?

Do online business work like offline companies? I.e. you start little and if you are successful enough somebody bigger will pay good money to buy you and you can move to the next project? What would be better? Getting together a group with a web designer, a programmer, a communication specialist ad investors or outsourcing these tasks to freelancers?


Why there are so many websites offering things for free? Like codeacademy or How-to or Tom's Hardware. How do they maintain those websites? Are they still paying for the host and the programmers, the designers "just for fun"? When do a "hobby" turns into a business? Does it really happen by chance? When successful people are interviewed it looks so natural... they say "I was a mommy and I had this idea, so I decided to make a website/blog/portal/e-market and it was a success, I didn't expect that". Should I expect a mommy that does this by herself with Wordpress $300 package or a wealthy mommy with a IT husband doing this for a life and for free for her?

Why is Gmail free but the coolest add-ons are by subscription? I am thinking about getting your own domain email address with Gmail, using a mail tracker, etc. If I were to set up a business with a customized email domain, could I still access it with gmail through web or should I do it separately?

Is Dreamweaver still in use? What's the difference between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org? Is the latter done offline and then loaded on a remote server through FTP like in the old times?


And so on.

Ok, the questions you asked are a bit different than the original ones you posted (from your original statement I understood you wanted to learn how to code apps, now if I understand you correctly you are actually not looking to learn coding but want to understand more sort of "how does it all work"). I can answer most of those questions that you asked but don't have time right now, but if I do over the weekend I will happily respond to them.

But really if you throw all those same questions into Google you will get your answers. A lot of sites (MOST) are making extremely little to absolutely no money. And a lot of the questions you are asking aren't really about the web at all but about entrepreneurship in general -- the whole Mummy who creates a product frankly has as much to do with the web as it does with coming up with a great idea. The mummy in your scenario could have started with a wordpress blog just as easily as a 20k web marketing package -- neither one would have changed the fact that initially she would have been working her butt off to get the word out about her product, to get it into stores, to get samples into people's hand etc. If you are selling a physical product, the internet is just another marketing platform that works hand in hand with traditional marketing platforms, word of mouth, advertising, etc etc.


Anyway I have to finish up some work but if I have time on the weekend I am happy to go through each of the above questions and give you an answer.

 

[GMXam]

So why did you choose to attend several Spanish courses in person? There are tons of websites teaching you grammar, vocabulary, learning techniques and even native speakers correcting your written exercises for free and giving skype lessons. You are even in a Spanish speaking country and with a half Latino background.

Still, I use computers every day, I have been using technology stuff since decades, but I should read websites, not "waste" money on in-person courses because "the answers are all out there", yet if you ask for Spanish courses/tutoring is okay, if I ask for IT a courses/tutoring I am being lazy.

Maybe I've given too much credit to members of this forum.

I actually have done free Spanish courses online AND paid classes in person AND moved to a Spanish speaking country. If I really want to learn something and just being physically integrated is not enough (like getting on the internet and searching for my answers), I put everything I can into it. I also listen to Spanish podcasts, audiobooks in Spanish, and watch Spanish courses online. But, again, that's me.

On a different note, your initial questions were not what you last specified in your list. At least, not to me or the others that responded similarly. I'm not sure your last questions would be answered in a class curriculum at a university. Have you tried looking for a meetup for entrepreneurs or technology startups? That might be a good avenue to take.

My comment about "that's not how it works" was not about what I typed above. It was in response to your comment about the forum dying after all the users that don't respond helpfully are told off by everyone and everyone leaves.