In Reply to: Re: Time For Something New posted by Len_ on May 14, 2007 at 11:40:21:
Len's ideas are all good ones. Except for the price. Seriously, who is going to spend $ to advertise at a site with no traffic? Certainly not me. nor will I bother looking there for anytyhing when there's maybe 10 ads listed. (other sites suffer the same fate, incl. AA's classifieds which are poorly moderated, unfortunately). Free ads... maybe. if it looks worth while. there's piles of free ad classifieds already (craigslist) that have way way more traffic than any startup is going to have. so it has to be a site with promise to even be worth the time/bandwidth to bother with. The way to get people there w/o any real ads is community. E.g. like what we have here. maybe a bit more elaborate/different/etc. But some sort of hook to bring traffic, which will then bring ads. which will then maybe bring revenue. Without serious start-up capitalization in the form of site development, marketing, identity, etc., it's an idea that will likely not get off the ground, unfortunately. The days of easy web success are long past (think 1999), barriers to entry are much greater now.-Ed
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- Re: Time For Something New - Ed Sawyer 19:49:09 05/14/07 (3)
- Re: Time For Something New - Rod M 09:38:26 05/15/07 (0)
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- Re: Time For Something New - Len_ 00:28:39 05/15/07 (0)