Guitar businesses – not retail

Although I have not posted in awhile, that doesn’t mean my mind hasn’t been active thinking about guitar-related businesses. Sadly, I have spent much time going down the road of opening a guitar store, and I see no way to make money at it. There is a great risk that the enterprise would fail, and fail in an expensive fashion. I think I am being realistic with this assessment, and not reaching this conclusion from either pessimism or fear.So I’ve been asking myself what other businesses might I become involved with that would still satisfy my desire to be involved in something musical, or better yet, guitar-centric. I’ve thought about web sites, and realize there are many websites that cater to the guitar player demographic. I personally have over 20 bookmarks that I visit on an infrequent basis, and a handful that I visit regularly. I have 10 RSS feeds in my google reader alone (fortunately they don’t all generate to many posts). There are instruction websites, band websites, and of course, sales websites. The last thing the world needs is another FREE GUITAR LESSONS website.I am currently thinking about a website targeted towards people like me (surprise!). More specifically, the website would be targeted towards men and women in their 30’s through 50’s that play guitar, or used to play guitar and would like to play guitar again. That’s the working concept, anyway.