Easy Way To Make 100k/Year

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Great thread guys, I haven't posted here in forever, but this is good. Thanks for the information, I have already bought a couple of domains and have my niche picked out. Anyway, I do have a few questions before coding and design stuff starts. What type of directory could be used here. It almost seems like you would need a yellowbook type directory, with a featured section on the homepage?

Or, on the flip side, would just a script directory work for this? You would obviously need more than a link, you would need address and phone with it?\

Any information would be helpful. Thanks
 


Tobidotman said:
This looks good on paper but can it be successful in most niches do you think?
please recommend some niches please...
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Recommend niches? I think he did, in a way. Restaurants.......ect. stuff like that. You should actually learn how to research your own niches like the rest of us here. I researched and found mine in about 30 minutes after reading the thread.
 
Tobidotman said:
This looks good on paper but can it be successful in most niches do you think?
please recommend some niches please...
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Do you want a hand wiping your bottom as well?

Do your own research - it's really not that hard.
 
This is a very cool approach. Are there any particular niches that work better than others- like B2B or retailers. Do you typically reach them by phone, or send initial mail? I'm just wondering what the offline component would be.
 
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I am currently starting up a big US Auto Dealers Directory cardealerbystate_._com

I was thinking of adding a Featured listing for Car Dealers and contacting these companies and charging a monthly fee. Although I am not sure how to go about this.

I would also consider partnering with someone to do the selling to businesses and share revenue.
 
Ok I'll bite. I've acquired a copy of eSyndicat Pro. Working on pulling some data out of the yellowpages.

I am doing a restaurant directory, which I know is hard, but I've got contacts in the area who are interested in something like this. I'm thinking long-term cash flow here. If it's successful it'll probably get bought by the area newspaper. We'll see.

With this method you can't simply throw some directory online and hope for customers; to get decent advertising inflow it takes a disciplined approach.

I'll keep this thread updated with any insights that I have.

On a side note: I'm looking for decent templates for eSyndicat. The designs seem targeted toward an "all-online" approach, so if anyone has any ideas, please post on this thread.
 
Oh yeah, one more thing. If you're going to cold call restaurants, you want to do it between 2 and 4 PM. That's shift change and the managers will be more apt to listen to your pitch.
 
Well since I'm on a roll, here's how the initial setup will go.

The most important part in my opinion is the structure of your website. My site is going to be a hybrid of the directory and client sites (see the 200k project).

So we have directory.com. That's going to be driven by eSyndicat (or your favorite directory program). I'm going to have to hack up a design since theirs really aren't that aesthetically pleasing.

Now the second tier (client sites) is going to be under directory.com/sites. That's going to have WordpressMU set-up. That will incorporate a leasing structure, and various upsells (logo, webdesign, seo, reviews, video) will be used with that.

Driving traffic will be the next issue. PPC will be used along with organic seo, but the most important thing you can do is build a community around your site. Since I'm doing restaurants, I'll get on FB and MySpace and get some friends in the area. Don't do anything spammy; you're trying to create value to the user. Create groups like "Atlanta Suburb Foodies" or "San Diego Wine Lovers" and invite them to be a close group of reviewers. Develop a following, and you have free content generation. You can even give them their own blog (the /sites/ part).

Another thing you can do is go on CL and yelp and start pumping out partial reviews and have "to see the full review, goto directory.com."

Now for conversions. Show the business that you are offering value. That in a recessionary economy you want to maximise your advertising dollar. If your niche has clients that only indirectly compete, show how the sum is greater than the parts; that their advertising dollars on your site will be pooled together to drive larger ad campaigns (PPC, radio, newspapers) which in turn will give them a targeted demographic.

I'll add some more later, but I drank too much Monster and I need to take a rest.
 
I think that the most important part of your pitch is emphasizing the value that you are providing. Ideally you should be able to pitch this to a company without getting into any technical details.
 
LotsOfZeros:

One of the main advantages you can promote is bang for their buck. You can comment about how we're in a recessionary environment and that you know money is tight. So instead of going and buying expensive tv or radio adspace, you can buy a cheaper (and much more effective) advertising deal on directory.com.

You can start collecting e-mails from users so you can send them coupons from companies that pay for it. Stuff like that. The important part is the upsell once you acquire the customer.

You need to look through the eyes of a small business owner. All that junk mail that you get advertising domino's and jiffy lube? They pay for that opportunity. TV, radio, newspapers. What are the differences between your advertising and everything else? You have permission based marketing. The people that come to your website *want* to be there. They *want* to see what you recommend and what you feature. All the other types of advertising are intrusive and offer lower conversion rates than what you have.
 
tomer1 said:
Easy Way To Make 100k/Year... Seems like SPAM
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Hey dipshit, read the whole thread before you come in to WF and spam your affiliate links with a worthless 3-word post. Most members here are loyal to this cause (serious people helping each other) and won't take kindly to crap like the shit you are spewing.
 
Hi people.. I don't belive there is Easy Way To Make 100k/Year

and I don't say it for nothing, I really mean it and not for promoting my sig
 
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