Comments on: Let’s do a case study comparing five money-making websites

By: omer c.

omer c. — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:36:30 +0000

i think 1-2-3-4 will bomb.
on the other hand i think there is a green light for the 5th site. As many people like to search for usefull information accros the www it would beneficial for the visitors to be able to purchase some of the books that is relevant to there field which they already have some insight about the content of books, exchange informations with other community members. And best of all no mather what FREE always sounds cool….

By: Troutnut

Troutnut — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:20:42 +0000

I think 1-4 will bomb. Who wants to pay that much for an online course when they could buy 10-20 books on the subject from Amazon for less money? It’s an absurd price for people to fork over for training information without knowing exactly what they’re getting.

5 depends on the specific merits of the site.

I can’t imagine there’s much market for expensive e-courses. Every good example of that kind of thing I’ve seen involved e-books being sold in high volume for 5-20 dollars each, an amount people are more easily willing to part with.

Then again, there’s a sucker born every minute…

By: Primrose

Primrose — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:10:36 +0000

I know people in the health-care field who be pretty interested in #4. There’s so much money thrown around in health-care, that site might do well.

By: cheesedude

cheesedude — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:19:45 +0000

I think #5 will be the most successful. To tell you the truth, sites 1 – 4 sound like get-rich-quick scams.

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By: chris ward

chris ward — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:19:18 +0000

I’d pick #5 for the community aspect of the site, and there’s no initial fee to start using it.

By: Nerveman

Nerveman — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:59:42 +0000

It all depends on how good you are at online marketing. For example: how much optimisation of your sites will you be doing? Will you be using Google AdWords or other pay-per-click services? What sort of link building plan do you have?

I’m sure you will have the right content for each site so I believe it will come down to your marketing skills and how much time you (or your co-workers) spend promoting each site.

By: peterb

peterb — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 07:22:49 +0000

After looking at the site examples, I believe that #3 has the most appeal not only for profit but because it happens to be in tune with the times for people interested boosting their careers.
#1 and #2 are more of the gimmick type of marketing and sales and #4 also falls into that category but at a higher price.
As for #5, I think that will be the least effective because most people will sign up expecting someone to come knocking on their door with a bundle of money and that’s not going to happen, thus lost interest.

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By: alkatraz

alkatraz — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:09:47 +0000

^^^ lol good point if the market is saturated (which the research would conclude)

reading back over option 4, the “free guide about how to run a profitable healthcare practice” could be the saving grace of that website. If people are searching for info on “how to run a healthcare practice” they can build a mailing list by giving away that guide, then backend the $499 package to those people after creating a relationship over time.

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:10:00 +0000

Number 4 has the most potential to provide a distinct market with info that not everyone else is already providing with fake credentials (1,2,3) or have no plan to make money (5).