While we are doing the Camcon project we need to be preparing to get income from some other source(s) when the project ends.

We need to interleave this preparation with the Camcon work. Where appropriate, we might be able adapt the way we do the Camcon project to help with the preparation (e.g. by giving us relevant experience).

We can't pursue all the following possibilities at once. We need to select at most a few to concentrate on initially. We need to be able to try out ideas quickly, so that we can (if necessary) abandon them before we have expended too much effort on them.

Possible sources of income:

• Permanent job
• Computing
• First steps:
• Look at Jobserve to see what additional experience might be useful
  
• Non-computing
• First steps:
• Think of possibilities
  
• Web service
• Modbus-related?
• Other
• First steps:
• Think of possibilities
  
• Web advertising
• Informative content to attract advertisers
• Tutorials
• FAQs
• Reference material
• Forum
  
• On existing Modbus website
• First steps:
• Check what advertising is on other Modbus sites
  
• New website for some other area
• Computing-related
• Non-computing (e.g. health)
  
• First steps:
• Think of possible areas
• First steps:
• Investigate likely income per number of visitors
• Investigate banner advertising services
  
• Online selling
• Non-computing (e.g. scarves)
• First steps:
• Think of possible items to sell
  
• Computing
• Hardware
  
• Modbus-related (e.g. USB-serial converters, transceivers)
  
• Other
• First steps:
• Look for possible suppliers (e.g. Far Eastern)
  
• Check for competition
  
• Software
• Modbus
• Existing products
• Enhance
• Promote them
• Put new products on modbus.org & other directories
• Use Modbus-related domain name (modbussoftware.com/.co.uk is available)
• New products
  
• Non-Modbus
• Simple, cheap Windows product that will sell in 1000's
• Other
• Use Open-Source core as loss-leader?
  
• Hardware+Software
• First steps: see Project Notes
  
• Custom software
• Informative web content to attract clients
• Tutorials
• FAQs
• Reference material
• Forum
• Modbus
• Promote ourselves
  
• Use Modbus-related domain name (modbussoftware.com/.co.uk is available)
  
• Non-Modbus
• First steps:
• What other possible areas