I need a business partner to help me with my webhosting company that I started up a couple months ago, I have very few customers and need help recruting customers and helping maintain the site and answer emails. My partner would need to be able to split the costs of the servers and other items with me and profits would be shared equaly, no experence is needed because I will take care of all of the operations and maintence of the servers myself, please contact me ASAP if interested! my email is acountclosing@hotmail.com

Wouldn't we all want someone like that!!!

Very easy being a techie... sales is a damn site harder... you don't need a business partner you just need to start thinking about how you are going to increase your customer base yourself.

If money is a problem in the early days go for a reseller account, you may be frustrated by the lack of root access, but you'll save your pennies until you have a solid client base.

Just decide what makes you unique and sell yourself on that... get the word out to enough people you'll get the business in.

Try to do it without a partner. If you started with a friend that would be different. But try not to involve partners, when it is successful.... you are all money

All good advise.

Not to bash you but if you didn't know how to market and run a business then you shouldn't have started a site in the first place by yourself.

"If you build it they will come" is the biggest fantasy on the net.

I would also advise against any form of partner. In every endeveor I've embarked on - no matter the cost, techincal experince required, etc - I've always found a way around it to avoid taking on a partner - even if it's someone I know.

I've seen a few partnerships really work out well (or at least so it seems on the surface).

But for me, the few times I've tried partnering up with someone, they never seemed to come through or take it as seriously and work as hard as I did.

Solo or nothing.

Very true. I've had the same experience as you Jaiem. You start out down the same road then somewhere along the line you both seem to develop differenct priorities. Can make things very tough, particularly on a start up venture.

I think the best advice is to establish the goal of the company from the outset, so then at least you can both see if you have the same level of ambition. You dont want to have to pull anyone along with you, its hard enough going on your own most of the time ;-)

I work for a company that provides fresh leads for hosts. I don't want to get busted for spamming here, but if you're interested let me know here.

Before you get booted let me know about those fresh leads. Id definitely be interested.

This isn't the right forum to be posting about leads as it has nothing to do with the original posters question asking for a partnership.

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Certainly the important issue is raised of the nature of the business itself. Asking for a partner is not actually your priority, though. Essentially, you do not sound able to run your business as a business.

In which case it may be a better idea to ask to be "bought out" by someone else - you get taken on a tech and you bring what few customers you have. By the sounds of it, such a package wouldn't likely be worth much. But being employed as a tech with a salary and a profits sharing scheme could work out far more amenable to yourself. Not only would you only need to focus on those things you're best at, all the hassles of front end customer care would be dealt with.

I nearly went self-employed as a host for later this year - lack of technical experience put me off. But even then, I wouldn't have put in money as a partner - I would have effectively offered to be your boss, offer profits sharing, etc, as above. As a techie I would think you actually have quite valuable skills. But as a business manager you don;t paint the sort of picture that someone would actually want to invest in, unless you yourself didn't mind taking on a more "sleeping" role when it cam,e to overall business decisions, strategy, and overall running.

Still, good luck in whatever you do. It's a tough job.