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Hey,
I've been thinking about a possible website idea recently, and someting my mind keeps wandering back to is the Catch 22 - Without users, there is no draw card for other users to join, so how do you get the ball rolling so to speak?
Take Elance.com for example. They now have thousands of jobs offered everyday, as well as thousands of people taking those jobs.
What do you think the first steps for them to get the first 1000 jobs listed were?
Populate the site themselves taking ads from other sites?
Cold-call companies that might use the site and offer them it free for 6 months?
Wait for it to grow naturally, even when the site had 0 listings?
I know going to a site with 0 members, or 0 listings is off putting. Even going to a site with 50, 100, or 200 members is kind of dull.
So whats the best way to get that initial momentum? (Can we use Elance or similar as an example?)
Thanks,
Matt!
I've been thinking about a possible website idea recently, and someting my mind keeps wandering back to is the Catch 22 - Without users, there is no draw card for other users to join, so how do you get the ball rolling so to speak?
Take Elance.com for example. They now have thousands of jobs offered everyday, as well as thousands of people taking those jobs.
What do you think the first steps for them to get the first 1000 jobs listed were?
Populate the site themselves taking ads from other sites?
Cold-call companies that might use the site and offer them it free for 6 months?
Wait for it to grow naturally, even when the site had 0 listings?
I know going to a site with 0 members, or 0 listings is off putting. Even going to a site with 50, 100, or 200 members is kind of dull.
So whats the best way to get that initial momentum? (Can we use Elance or similar as an example?)
Thanks,
Matt!
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