Equinox
New member
Hey guys,
I was here reading through some of the posts about google the other day and had a thought. After speaking to my boss about it as well as some of my colleagues, I thought I'd ask your opinions and maybe even pick up an investor or two.
I am an active member on IRC networks worldwide and have made somewhat of a name for myself as being 'that guy who works in the IT industry'. As such, I often have people coming up to me and asking me how exactly I make a living 'off the web'. Now, I usually tell them about my business and stuff, but lately I decided I would start recommending Affiliate programs and stuff and was amazed to see how much effort people would put in just for a couple of bucks.
A client recently approached me about a Search Engine / Web Crawler which we designed, but after all the effort, the deal fell through and I got stuck with a DBengine and a front end. Wondering what to do with this, I hit on the concept.
To my knowledge, there isn't a 'well known' directory (which is simple and easy to use) where people can search for a particular item and recieve a list of prices and stores where they can purchase the item from. Now, with a rather substantial amount of capital, I reckon that an initiative like this could take off with a boom.
What I am looking at doing, is finding people who will submit prices, links etc. into the database manually (and keep it up-to-date) for a couple of cents per store (and per item). For example, if I dish out a list of 400 items to one person, tell them to find each of those 400 items in at least 3-5 different online stores and then submit it into the database and maintain the prices for 6-8 months...I'm sure that people would be happy to do this for a couple of cents per item they submit (and a recurring bonus for every time the price is updated).
This 'online store directory' could be reference to nearly any type of item, from watches...books....perfumes....computer software....web hosting...(You get the point).
Online Stores could get 'Gold Affiliate' status (and therefore appear higher up the list of search items) for a per-item fee and banners accross the site could generate a fair amount of income as the site grows.
I am looking at looking into outsourcing my marketting program as I would like to launch it as a sort of worldwide campaign (not only web based...but in other forms of media as well). If I am going to do this, I'm gonna do it BIG TIME.
For this reason, I would be looking for a good deal of investors and advertisers from the word GO, as well as a good international marketting firm and a powerful (ultra-high-quality) web host, who would be able to offer a discount, for a period contract whereby we 'promise' to keep the site on their hosting services for an length of time and put a small banner ad on the site.
Well, there you go. Thats my idea. I'm sure it can work, but as I said, there is no use doing it if you dont want to do it PROPERLY. We are talking about a very large project, that 'could' (if handled correctly) make investors very satisfied.
Hit me with your ideas, suggestions, support or **SPONSORSHIP** and we can go from there!
Good...my fingers can have a rest now...
Regards,
~Equinox
I was here reading through some of the posts about google the other day and had a thought. After speaking to my boss about it as well as some of my colleagues, I thought I'd ask your opinions and maybe even pick up an investor or two.
I am an active member on IRC networks worldwide and have made somewhat of a name for myself as being 'that guy who works in the IT industry'. As such, I often have people coming up to me and asking me how exactly I make a living 'off the web'. Now, I usually tell them about my business and stuff, but lately I decided I would start recommending Affiliate programs and stuff and was amazed to see how much effort people would put in just for a couple of bucks.
A client recently approached me about a Search Engine / Web Crawler which we designed, but after all the effort, the deal fell through and I got stuck with a DBengine and a front end. Wondering what to do with this, I hit on the concept.
To my knowledge, there isn't a 'well known' directory (which is simple and easy to use) where people can search for a particular item and recieve a list of prices and stores where they can purchase the item from. Now, with a rather substantial amount of capital, I reckon that an initiative like this could take off with a boom.
What I am looking at doing, is finding people who will submit prices, links etc. into the database manually (and keep it up-to-date) for a couple of cents per store (and per item). For example, if I dish out a list of 400 items to one person, tell them to find each of those 400 items in at least 3-5 different online stores and then submit it into the database and maintain the prices for 6-8 months...I'm sure that people would be happy to do this for a couple of cents per item they submit (and a recurring bonus for every time the price is updated).
This 'online store directory' could be reference to nearly any type of item, from watches...books....perfumes....computer software....web hosting...(You get the point).
Online Stores could get 'Gold Affiliate' status (and therefore appear higher up the list of search items) for a per-item fee and banners accross the site could generate a fair amount of income as the site grows.
I am looking at looking into outsourcing my marketting program as I would like to launch it as a sort of worldwide campaign (not only web based...but in other forms of media as well). If I am going to do this, I'm gonna do it BIG TIME.
For this reason, I would be looking for a good deal of investors and advertisers from the word GO, as well as a good international marketting firm and a powerful (ultra-high-quality) web host, who would be able to offer a discount, for a period contract whereby we 'promise' to keep the site on their hosting services for an length of time and put a small banner ad on the site.
Well, there you go. Thats my idea. I'm sure it can work, but as I said, there is no use doing it if you dont want to do it PROPERLY. We are talking about a very large project, that 'could' (if handled correctly) make investors very satisfied.
Hit me with your ideas, suggestions, support or **SPONSORSHIP** and we can go from there!
Good...my fingers can have a rest now...
Regards,
~Equinox
