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mytechdirectDOTnet

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Dec 13, 2007 11:00 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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I have developed a new site to help generate an additional revenue for my business. Could anyone give it the once over and give me some feedback?

Thank you.

http://ineedbusinesscapital.com

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stonesledge

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Dec 13, 2007 11:12 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Okay, we need to get some content going. What do you need help with to get some text up there? Can you explain exactly what your site does...how it works? :) Just trying to help, I promise.

Erin

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mytechdirectDOTnet

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Dec 13, 2007 11:16 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Honestly, I am just looking for some honest feedback.

I packed all of the details in the FAQ, to keep the advertising page uncluttered.

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mytechdirectDOTnet

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Dec 13, 2007 11:29 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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I forgot to mention, the site was conceived to help generate additional revenues for my existing business. We want to expand into another part of our state and this idea was the most economical for us.

The site allows potential clients to bid on 7 advertising spots for monthly advertising. With six of the spots starting at $1.00 every month, it could potentially be a very economical for any advertiser from the startup to the well established.

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CraigL

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Dec 14, 2007 12:05 AM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Honestly, Erin was giving you some honest feedback. Your site does nothing at all, not to mention providing some sort of advertising. For what?...no clue.

mytechdirectDOTnet

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Dec 14, 2007 12:33 AM ET Quote Report Abuse

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I understand that and stated that the specifics were detailed in the FAQ, as to not take away from the content of the potential advertisers. In addition, I also posted a very brief run down in my post above yours.

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CraigL

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Dec 14, 2007 1:32 AM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Alright, you have the most fantastic Web site I`ve ever seen on the Web. It`s brilliant, needs nothing at all to make it better, and will likely go on to set the standard for all future Web sites.

mytechdirectDOTnet

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Dec 14, 2007 8:41 AM ET Quote Report Abuse

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If you are going to be a smart ass, why even respond? I suppose maybe maybe this forum was the wrong place to seek advice? Kindly avoid my topic.

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Webline

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Dec 14, 2007 9:07 AM ET Quote Report Abuse

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You want to sell/auction ad space .... thats fine .... but who is the end market/user thats going to see the ads once you get them? Is the general viewer just going to search for "Ads" and come across your page? Is it linked to/promoted by/connected to your other site? As a potential advertiser/bidder, I don`t see anything telling me who the end market / audience is, how they find your page, traffic stats ..... nothing to tell me this is beneficial to me in anyway.

If it`s just ads .... is it really useful to anyone other than yourself making a few bucks?

Maybe I`m missing something, but I don`t get it .... and I did read the FAQ.

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Dec 14, 2007 10:11 AM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Thank you for the reply.

The site is still in early development stages and more development is needed and coming, but I wanted to see what people in business and potential advertisers thought before it is really promoted. Judging from some of the feedback we have received from others, the color scheme will likely be changed. Given the connections we have made in our IT services business over the last 4 years, I have already contacted some of our financial clients, including a Credit Union, Financial planners and advisors, independently wealthy investors, and our accountant about the possibility of providing some financial advice columns in exchange for advertising, but like I said this is still early in development.

Our target audience is a broad range of groups, including small advertisers that may not be able to afford a lot for advertising to larger more traditional advertisers seeking an additional click through without having to pay a lot to do it, to people trying to discover ways to get additional business capital. I will be honest and say that if this idea moves in the way we think it could, it could become cost prohibitive for smaller startups to get their message out affordably through our site, but all the spots reset monthly to their minimum bid amount, which is $1.00 for zones 2 - 7 and $2.00 for zone 1.

We have submitted the site to all of the major search engines and DMOZ. I am a realist though and do not see us being listed on DMOZ even after we are running at full speed. The site name alone will net some traffic, currently there are 48 million sites dealing with business capital and while I do not know this to be a fact throughout all the sites, after the first couple of pages a lot of the sites are just advertising sites that provide no substance, where as we intend to provide information to help capital seekers once we are up and running. Currently, this site is only minimally being fed traffic by our main site, as it has not been properly introduced their yet.

We have been trying to figure out a way to disclose traffic stats and we have decided to inform on a case by case basis to potentials that request the data. Right now the site has only been online for 5 days and we have almost 10K hits. We have one local small business that has bid on zone 1 for January and I think we can all agree that $2.00 for a month of advertising is pretty cheap, providing her bid stays @ $2.00.

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