I'm basically trying to create another medium for small companies to get traffic for cheap. It's much like http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ but I'm allowing companies to post their ad for free. Right now it's fairly simple, it's only the company logo and a link to their website but I will eventually add additional information. I want to first see if this actually works and I get enough companies registering.
I'm still having a hard time understanding what I, as a company, would actually be getting from this. Is the 'ad' anything beyond the listing on your site? Companies are going to want to host banners that they can push elsewhere, not necessarily to send their customers to your site first.
A company would benefit by getting more traffic to their site if a user clicks on their link. Right now it's very minimal, it doesn't have anything I agree, but I plan on making it so you can upload some type of banner or something. I figured nobody would take the time to create a banner and upload it so that's why I just have their logo and URL, it's easy to enter that basic information for a company. If the site gets enough traffic, the companies at the top of the list would get the most visibility ofcourse.
Yes, that is very true. This is kind of where I got my inspiration for this site. The difference is that I'm allowing people to post their ads for free and then seeing if people are willing to pay for being at the top of the list. We'll see if this actually works, like I said it's an experiment but will only works if enough companies register.
That was the inspiration that made me attempt this same idea 8 years ago, when I was at college. I called it depositorybox, and the idea was people would deposit a message and money to get it higher up the page.
It didn't work and I learned I had to earn money like regular people.
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So now, are you sure you will get thousands of users?
As a User, why should I come to your site? What's in it for me? You have free ad posting, then there is no way you could guarantee that it would be spam free links and are worth visiting..
As an advertiser, why should I pay you when I get it for free? (to get a top place ??), If the users are not interested why would I be interested in spending advertising in your website..
You make very valid points. I don't think I will get thousands of users unless this goes viral.
As an advertiser, you would pay to make sure ur ad posting remains at the top because it's ordered by amount.
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It didn't work and I learned I had to earn money like regular people.
Too early for that kid of trust.
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If you are an ""advertisor"" interested in being a member of our affiliates program,
So now, are you sure you will get thousands of users?
As a User, why should I come to your site? What's in it for me? You have free ad posting, then there is no way you could guarantee that it would be spam free links and are worth visiting..
As an advertiser, why should I pay you when I get it for free? (to get a top place ??), If the users are not interested why would I be interested in spending advertising in your website..
just a thought..