Private Members Newsletter or Company Directory for popular finance site
I have a website in the energy finance area – it gets about 6,000 visitors a day on average – the majority from the US and Canada.
I’ve got to take the site in a direction and i’m really not sure which could be the most lucrative.
I could team up with some good fund managers and produce an investment newsletter (it would be a good one – not one of these churn and burn ones the majority of publishers put out)
Or
Create a directory site – where companies, services pay to be listed.
There are pros and cons to both of these options – the membership site means even more content needs to be created and subscribers are a demanding bunch - also there are the added issues of working with partners.
Directories have been done to death – are they past their prime and is it still a viable way to make money?
I could cover a lot of sectors though – all of the commodity from oil and gas to gold and minerals + Finance – so hundreds of thousands of potential customers.
I was wondering which path my fellow warriors would go down.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I’ve got to take the site in a direction and i’m really not sure which could be the most lucrative.
I could team up with some good fund managers and produce an investment newsletter (it would be a good one – not one of these churn and burn ones the majority of publishers put out)
Or
Create a directory site – where companies, services pay to be listed.
There are pros and cons to both of these options – the membership site means even more content needs to be created and subscribers are a demanding bunch - also there are the added issues of working with partners.
Directories have been done to death – are they past their prime and is it still a viable way to make money?
I could cover a lot of sectors though – all of the commodity from oil and gas to gold and minerals + Finance – so hundreds of thousands of potential customers.
I was wondering which path my fellow warriors would go down.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Tyrus Antas -
Thanks
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