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Well, I'm finally starting a progress thread and revealing what my little business is after the thread I made last week in the Failures section.
For most of the background info, please read the thread mentioned above (here).
Anyway, in a nutshell, here's my service: It's called The SEO Marketplace, it's located at theseomarketplace.com, and what it does it provide a way for SEO service providers to create order forms, host their order pages, manage their orders, and communicate with their clients all in one place.
My goal for this website goes beyond this single functionality, however. I have made it possible for the service providers to make sales page on my site. I want my site to be a thriving marketplace where SEO services are bought and sold. If I achieve that, I can sell advertising and even charge a small % of each order.
However, this is where SEO Marketplace stands now: 1 paying member who actually has been using it and pushing buyers through it, 4 paying members who haven't been using it, 8 members with free beta test accounts who haven't used it or given me any feedback, and 1 member with a free beta test account who hasn't used it BUT has been giving me tons of feedback.
Oh yeah, as I said in the other thread, 1 member just canceled - I've been trying to contact him to see why he canceled but I haven't been getting any response yet.
The fact that so many members have not been using it worries me - I'm sure they're going to cancel.
Here's what I've been doing so far to market my service: So far, I have only done 2 things: I have made a sales thread at wickedfire.com and at backlinksforum.com. And, I'm waiting for approval of a sales thread at blackhatworld.com.
Those 3 forums are the largest collection of my target market. After I get my thread approved at blackhatworld.com (it's taking forever), I'm not completely sure what I'm going to do. I might do a re-launch at wickedfire.com (because it's been a couple months since I posted the sales thread there). I might try to advertise it at some other forums where my target market hangs out, but not in as much volume. Other than that, I have no idea.
I'll keep this thread updated - most of the work has been done, obviously, since I have already put it together. Most of the work from here is all marketing, although I'm always trying to improve the service.
With that said, here are the things that I'm working on right now:
So, that's my intro, and here goes nothing....
For most of the background info, please read the thread mentioned above (here).
Anyway, in a nutshell, here's my service: It's called The SEO Marketplace, it's located at theseomarketplace.com, and what it does it provide a way for SEO service providers to create order forms, host their order pages, manage their orders, and communicate with their clients all in one place.
My goal for this website goes beyond this single functionality, however. I have made it possible for the service providers to make sales page on my site. I want my site to be a thriving marketplace where SEO services are bought and sold. If I achieve that, I can sell advertising and even charge a small % of each order.
However, this is where SEO Marketplace stands now: 1 paying member who actually has been using it and pushing buyers through it, 4 paying members who haven't been using it, 8 members with free beta test accounts who haven't used it or given me any feedback, and 1 member with a free beta test account who hasn't used it BUT has been giving me tons of feedback.
Oh yeah, as I said in the other thread, 1 member just canceled - I've been trying to contact him to see why he canceled but I haven't been getting any response yet.
The fact that so many members have not been using it worries me - I'm sure they're going to cancel.
Here's what I've been doing so far to market my service: So far, I have only done 2 things: I have made a sales thread at wickedfire.com and at backlinksforum.com. And, I'm waiting for approval of a sales thread at blackhatworld.com.
Those 3 forums are the largest collection of my target market. After I get my thread approved at blackhatworld.com (it's taking forever), I'm not completely sure what I'm going to do. I might do a re-launch at wickedfire.com (because it's been a couple months since I posted the sales thread there). I might try to advertise it at some other forums where my target market hangs out, but not in as much volume. Other than that, I have no idea.
I'll keep this thread updated - most of the work has been done, obviously, since I have already put it together. Most of the work from here is all marketing, although I'm always trying to improve the service.
With that said, here are the things that I'm working on right now:
- The beta tester that has been giving me so much feedback wants a way to have both a single order and a bulk order option on the same order page. While I think this would be confusing to the buyer (just make 2 separate order pages!), I'm going to implement this feature. I haven't had a chance to do it yet, but as soon as I get a chance I will (probably with in the next few days).
- 1 of my new members requested that I integrate Aweber and GetResponse in with the order pages. After looking at the APIs, I realized that Aweber doesn't allow this function with their API. GetResponse, who will NOT give me an API key, does, but since I can't get a key I don't know how I will get this installed. The member who requested it is supposed to give me his API key to use but hasn't yet.
- I want to install an affiliate program. I've been looking at iDevAffiliate, but I'm not sure it it supports recurring payments. Still not sure if it even makes sense to install it yet.
So, that's my intro, and here goes nothing....
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