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Would This Work As A Business?

by coreytucker
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This seems simple but would it work? I make a facebook fan page about baking. I then create a monthly membership site where I email members say 20 new recipes per week. I charge $7 a month for this. Seems like this would work.....what do you guys think? Am I being too optimistic....would people pay for this or not?
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  • Profile picture of the author PeterMFL
    Might work but you need to think of what makes your service better then the free ones...
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  • Profile picture of the author coreytucker
    Well maybe I give some really good recipes each week. I dont know lol. I mean....are there too many free recipes online to make this work? Maybe I should choose another niche?
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    • Profile picture of the author Will Edwards
      Originally Posted by coreytucker View Post

      Well maybe I give some really good recipes each week. I dont know lol. I mean....are there too many free recipes online to make this work? Maybe I should choose another niche?
      No - competition is good. But so was the advice you received - you need a USP!
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  • Profile picture of the author Akogo
    It might work if you compile recipes into sub categories like for weight loss, athletes, over sixty, vegetarian, etc. Just because it is free elsewhere doesn't mean recipe collectors have seen it all. I was able to turn a PLR product into a series of ebooks and it sold. Other people who bought that same PLR product just gave it away free by posting them on their website. Go figure.
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  • Profile picture of the author SuperKC
    The information provided doesn't hold any value, its freely available.. so generally no it wont work.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tsnyder
      Originally Posted by SuperKC View Post

      The information provided doesn't hold any value, its freely available.. so generally no it wont work.
      There is precious little you can compile nto a product that isn't freely available
      on the internet. What does that have to do with the marketing?

      OP... if you're just going to compile some recipes I'm going to agree with SuperKC.
      Recipes are everyhere. You need to add value. One way is for you to actually be
      the product. Engage the market on a personal level... I could write a long time
      explaining this but Im just going to refer you to the guy who probably understands
      this better than anyone... go to this site and learn...

      Gary Vaynerchuk - The Home of Gary Vaynerchuk Online
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  • Profile picture of the author coreytucker
    Thanks guys. I guess choosing the niche can be the hardest part. Does anyone have any other suggestions maybe?
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  • Profile picture of the author SuperKC
    Its all about actual value delivery.. that kills your informational products unless its dynamic information (information that changes daily like research or football scores). Live data Think live data, research, downloadables, resources, things people can build other stuff with like what companies like graphicriver has done..
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  • Profile picture of the author zamzung
    It could work but you need to do much more than just throwing in a bunch of recipes... There are probably millions of recipes available out there, either free or paid, so you have a lot of competition... Just check out sites like allrecipes.com or foodnetwork and you will get the point... Also, go to Amazon and check only Kindle Store for cooking ebooks - tons of them and new being added every single day...

    However, since many Kindle books are selling pretty good, and since there are some Clickbank products in this niche, I believe it can work and be profitable, but you would need to find your unique approach and make your membership (or product) interesting to potential buyers...

    Maybe you should go with detailed recipes with photos, maybe even in step-by-step format (each step covered with a photo), or maybe you should concentrate on healthy recipes with included nutritional facts and explanation why it's a good and healthy recipe, or something different... but try to be unique in some way, or provide your customers with benefits that would be worth of monthly membership...

    Just throwing in bunch of recipes copied from another website or from PLR package won't work...
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  • Profile picture of the author Jack Gordon
    You are doing this backwards...

    First, find the hungry market (no pun intended), then deliver the product they are hungry for.

    The marketplace is littered with the corpses of "great ideas" that never found their markets.

    And I am with SuperKC a couple of posts above. You will do better bringing real value in the form of timely data. Recipes, in general, are going to be tough to monetize unless they are both highly sought after and hard to find elsewhere.
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  • Profile picture of the author coreytucker
    You all have good suggestions and I think the recipe/baking niche will be hard. What about something like photography, write a book, design clothes etc.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tsnyder
      Originally Posted by coreytucker View Post

      You all have good suggestions and I think the recipe/baking niche will be hard. What about something like photography, write a book, design clothes etc.
      No matter which niche you choose there will be thousands and thousands
      of people competing with you. The information pertaining to any of the
      niches you mentioned is freely available just the same as the recipes.

      I'll say this once again then let you do as you like... go to the website
      I posted in my last response and read, watch, listen and learn. This man
      is a genius at turning freely available information into very large sums of money.
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  • Profile picture of the author 10kaday
    the best way is to do something no one else can do
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    • Profile picture of the author Tsnyder
      Originally Posted by 10kaday View Post

      the best way is to do something no one else can do
      I'm dying to knnow exactly what that would be... lol
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