Small sites for off-line local trades

Bounderby · 11-15-2009, 01:05 PM

Does anybody here successfully market small info sites to local tradesmen? I am not thinking big markets like plumbers and electricians, rather, smaller trades like carpet fitting or mobile hairdressing where there will be 5 or 6 in a small town.

I would register a site, e.g. "townnamecarpetfitters.com", set up a simple 5 page or less template, and optimise it for 1st place SERP - competition for the term will be negligible and this shouldn't be hard. Then I will offer a 6 or 12 month rental of the site.

Is this feasible? What price point would you offer this at? Relatively low, but there is a lot of scope to scale up with several sites. If it's the right price, I figure with only a few businesses in the market, one will take it rather than let their competition have it. The only expense to me is the domain reg and some shared hosting, and a little time.

Blase · 11-15-2009, 01:08 PM

There is a Warrior name Jamie Garside
that wrote a book on this.

He is just ending a WSO on it right now.

Sorry I don't know the link.

11-15-2009, 01:05 PM	#1
Bounderby Active Warrior Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 89 Thanks: 20 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Small sites for off-line local trades Does anybody here successfully market small info sites to local tradesmen? I am not thinking big markets like plumbers and electricians, rather, smaller trades like carpet fitting or mobile hairdressing where there will be 5 or 6 in a small town. I would register a site, e.g. "townnamecarpetfitters.com", set up a simple 5 page or less template, and optimise it for 1st place SERP - competition for the term will be negligible and this shouldn't be hard. Then I will offer a 6 or 12 month rental of the site. Is this feasible? What price point would you offer this at? Relatively low, but there is a lot of scope to scale up with several sites. If it's the right price, I figure with only a few businesses in the market, one will take it rather than let their competition have it. The only expense to me is the domain reg and some shared hosting, and a little time.

11-15-2009, 01:08 PM	#2
Blase Advanced Warrior Join Date: May 2003 Location: Maple Grove, MN , USA. Posts: 742 Thanks: 30 Thanked 151 Times in 81 Posts	Re: Small sites for off-line local trades There is a Warrior name Jamie Garside that wrote a book on this. He is just ending a WSO on it right now. Sorry I don't know the link.
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