how do sites like limos.com or expedia.com actually work?

[snaepil]

I live in a developing country and, from what I know, we don't have lead gen sites such as limos.com or expedia.com (lets people book hotel online or find a taxi or a limo). I have little programming experience (developed some wordpress sites for properties and restaurant, but that's it), but I figure the website programming can be outsourced to freelance.com or guru.com.

But how about the company where I send my leads to? What online reservation do they need? And how I can connect to them?
In the case of limos.com, the user inputs where and when he would be picked up, then what? The data is sent to the company, they checked for availability, and sent the information back to limos.com for the user to view?

Thank you.

 

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[exon]

First of all you should be well acquainted with the industry you serve.

I don't know in wich developing country you are, but you should ask yourself some of these questions...

• 
  Is there a need for leads? Do they want leads?

• How can they benefit from those leads?

• Is there any reason why in your country such service doesn't exist? (Online Lead gen model in known for over 10 years)

• Does your system can automatically charge those leads? (If not - you can't serve a lot of customers)

• Can you find out what online reservation do they need and how?

• Are you able to use limos.com/expedia.com services to find out how they work? (It's free)