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Originally Posted by ppcFanatic
I personally prefer to install scripts myself but I bet there are a lot of newbies that would love to have hosting and installation help. If you think about it, most web hosts don't provide great support when it comes to installing scripts (unless you use their own that come bundled with the hosting plan.)
I guess my question/issue would be, how would you promote this and reach your target audience? Most people that know what easyndicat and and PHPLD would probably know enough to install it themselves. Would a beginner even know what that is and if so, how would you reach and convince them they need this? You'd have to really speak their language because I'm sure those acronyms would scare them off. LOL
I guess my point is, your service would probably target new, non technical webmasters. That's great but how do you reach them and let them understand that they even need all those extra scripts/services.
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You are right, I never thought of that.
However, I believe that blogs will be more attractive than directories to the common layman.
Anyhow, I am trying to check if this method works. I have already ordered a reseller package at Westnic. Let us see what turns out and I will let you know if I make any profit. (If I don't make any profit, I still have nothing to lose as I can still host my sites at the reseller and it is only $30 approx/month).
As far as my mode of advertising is concerned, I am thinking of advertising these at Buy/Sell/Trade sections of bigger forums. If I were to tell "I will create a directory for your" nobody will bite, I know. So, I will first register a domain, create a directory, promote it a little and then sell it off! This way I will have backlinks, search engine saturation, and traffic stats (or even pagerank) to impress the buyers.
What do you think of this idea?