Originally Posted by kane

Here is the one problem I can see from it. The sites will get little or no traffic and depending on the company will be worthless to the client. If the client wants the site to give information about their business to people, cool. But if they feel it is going to bring them more business then you have to start to wonder if they will still use it.

For example if you build a site for a local auto body shop. They like the site and never need it updated and pay you $50 a month for hosting, things are good. Then 2-3 months down the road they see that they have gotten zero business from the site they start wondering why they are paying you that $50 per month. So I have a feeling there will be a lot of people that will end up canceling on you.

Also when someone is paying you $50 a month for the site, they will want something in return. When they decide they want a picture of their son's little league team up on the site and they want to change this and that and you tell them you want to charge them they will say, "I'm paying you $50 a month for this site already." If they are not computer savvy they won't fully understand what hosting is.

All that said it could work. You would just need to target businesses that would use it more as an information resource for their customers as opposed to something that will get them more sales. Also you will want to tell them to put the web address on all their stationary and cards and whatever other ad material they have.

Good luck, it won't be easy, but it could work.