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I like it and think it would be useful if there`s nothing like that out there.  How would you make money?

As soon as I saw social networking site I was going to stop reading, but I think this sounds like a really great idea and there is probably a good sized market for it. Go for it.


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We had someone not too long ago who was building a site like this. That`s not to be discouraging, but to point out that it`s highly improbable in today`s world that someone has a "new" idea along the lines of using a Web site for anything.

Truly new ideas will most often apply to a product of some specific type. Less likely would be a whole new service. By far, the most common practice is to replicate an already-in-place idea.

So the key here isn`t to examine the new-ness of the idea. It`s instead to examine the competitive strategy for selling and/or marketing the thing.

"Social networking" has become as tiresome as adding a "-gate" to ANY kind of scandal. "Watergate" was a new idea. But now we have everything from firefighting-gate to politics-gate. Same with social networking. The term`s practically lost all meaning.

What if you change the phrasing of your mission statement? "I`d like to put together a Web site where stay-at-home moms can get together to chat, ask for advice, give advice, and exchange gossip."

Basically, you`re putting together a forum. Great, but so what? How will you attract those stay-at-home moms? There are lots of forums, lots of places, lots of clubs, lots of groups, lots of magazines. The point is that you don`t want to put together a forum----you want to put together a *product!*

What will be your product?

There are sites out there already like that. It`s not really a new concept.  A lot use meeting.com and MOPS that is the basic concept is linking of SAHMs. I`d further investigate it if I were you because I think there are a lot of others I`m just not aware of. Plus there are other parenting sites that offer similar things like BabyCenter.com that have region specific areas for moms to meet many of which are SAHM.

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Lois
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