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I am looking to start a series of websites. Each one building upon the other. My problem is that I do not know web design or programming. My Ideas would need custom programming.

The first is an kind of like an Idea farm.

We purchase the rights to peoples story based on public opinion.

 To submit a story you would pay or use a one time code.

We pay for the stories based on the number of submissions.

To kick it off right we guarantee a certain amount that we would purchase a story (we only purchase the ones we choose kind of like a book company or that the public chooses through a voting system).

Now to do as little work as possible you have the public judge.

I am lookin for:
A. Someone that is able to produce a professional site and custom programming willing to work for equity.
B.Basic ecommerce designer that will create a fund raising site that will raise funds and sell equity to create a proper business website needed.
C. Investors to fund.

below is more details
http://club-rules.blogspot.com/
Please do not steal this

Hi--

I am not the sole programmer for websites I have created

Two of the sites I was a part of designing and programming:

www.basketball-software.net is my business site and www.lifecoachhelen.com is a site worked on; I hired programmers to make necessary behind-the-scenes programming for search engine friendliness.

I have hired and managed web site programmers and application programmers  through a site on the internet to create my business` web site as well as a web site for another professional who hired me to create her business` web site;  I`m not sure what being paid with equity means in this case.

 Ryan 

I once read an interview with Kevin Rose who started Digg. One brilliant
thing he pointed out was that the majority of successful web businesses
are free or almost free to the majority of the website`s users. That really
resonated with me as I was just beginning to brainstorm my first web
business. Digg, Craiglist, Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, Myspace,
LinkedIn, Mapquest, Startup Nation and tons more. Using websites is
virtually cost-free. I think that is an important part of the formula for
online success.

My web business is based on user created content that the people rate,
not unlike what you describe for your biz. It`s simply not feasible for us
to charge people to submit. Given the free-use culture of the internet, I
just don`t think people would pay. Let me ask you, how do you justify
charging people to submit their content (stories) that you may or may not
purchase?

When you think about the target market you will understand.

I thought of the idea a few years ago when everything went in the toilet. I needed money and I needed it fast and I have no family and friends. In the area where I was at. I had no phone at my residence, I was fired my car was repossessed and my power was turned off, my was in the hospital and my girlfriend dumped me. All in 24 hrs. I had no means of transportation. My wallet was in my car and my cell phone had died.
So I went to the closest gases station for miles and they did not take out of town checks.

I had a few dollars and bought a beer and some lottery tickets and went home. I won nothing.

That is when it hit me:
1. everyone has bad days.
2. You want someone just listen.
3. Instead of gambling I would rather pay to have my story heard by someone else maybe have them leave a message or at least rate me.
4. If someone has a worst day than me I would have no problem giving them a dollar to make their day better and to hear their story.

Plus I am in the entertainment industry doing improve and acting as well as other jobs and to have access to actual life stories make the material ten time better. (Based on a True story)

This is a mere entertainment service.

My question to you is how could you justify bottling water?

As for the rest of my story I had someone stealing my mail. I had paid everything got the car back and found out from the land lord that they had this problem all the time.
 

Also a lot of these free sites are cluttered with advertisement which ruin the experience for me. So since we are offering a service with no advertisements we need to get paid some how.

And for Justifying the payment I have spoke to many individual and they all had a breaking point at which they would participate in the site.

So may be someone would not pay at $100 or even $200 but if we start paying out $500 or $1000 I guarentee people would start paying.  At that point we would grow ten time faster. EVERYONE HAS A BREAKING POINT!!!

"I`m not sure what being paid with equity means in this case.

 Ryan"

 

It is more of a profit sharing.  We will agree upon a percentage.

I have Price quoted this particular venture with professionals the average minimum price is $20,000.

This is out of my price range so I am looking to partner up with others to minimize expenditures and form a relationship for future ventures.

Thanks for explaining the equity part.

You could build more web sites than you need for $20,000.

I think if you hired a foreign programmer who speaks English such as someone from India, you could get a web site made for under $1,000, possibly even by an American. I only charged $300.00 for www.lifecoachhelen.com because she had the design and graphics already; I just needed to get it into web page format and pay someone to make it compliant with standards which is behind-the-scenes programming that no one sees on your site but which search engines see and use to determine your ranking in the listing of search results.  Now the graphics design could be expensive.

You can have a web site hosted for $50/year on godaddy.com. You need to register a URL, a "www" address wilth a domain name registrar, someone like godaddy.com or dotster.com and that costs around $15/year at dotster, cheaper on godaddy.

I got my product logo for $20 from a kid in an Adobe photoshop (image editing software) class at the community college. Years later I  hired a Russian graphic design person over the internet for like $20 to change it to a slightly different design.

I already have the domain and site hosting if you are interested let me know.

I have been using it to mess around with the joomla format.

I have special requirements to the site this is where the money came into play.

But if you think you can manage what are your terms.

How long will it take to make?