ussher

I have a website that was built by a programmer (me) and a designer (my partner) that needs some love.

The site is: earner.net

It took about a year to get all the systems right, but then it never really got the marketing push it deserved.

So something needs to happen to it. Either
* sell it
* find a marketer to drive it
* other.. (?)

Right now it needs a bigger server.

The site is a combination of a few concepts:
* elance (the projects section Latest Projects | Earner.net )
* fiverr (services section http://www.earner.net/services/)
* design contests ( Latest Design Contests | Earner.net )

What I'm looking for is someone with a proven track record in sales to tell me how to turn it into cash. Then do that and take their agreed upon percentage.

So if its run it, fine. If its flip it on Flippa or wherever, fine. Its just getting no love right now, so something needs to happen.

Thanks.

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MonopolyOnline

Uusher,

Kudos! The site looks great.

As an app developer/non-marketer I feel your pain. Sales copy and marketing is a grind, but Inlove developing ideas into reality.

Should I find a good marketer, I'll promote you to them.

The idea/concept and design are excellent - don't get discouraged.

To Your Success!!! Mark

ussher

Thanks TryBPO,

The site has had about $10,000 in turn over (over a 2 year lifetime), mostly from the projects section. The largest portion of which were projects either myself or my partner did.

So 'no' is the correct box to tick for "Is it currently earning?".

I appreciate the reach out to competitors idea.

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MonopolyOnline

Uusher,

Just a quick suggestion.

Consider reaching out to a SEO expert with a partnership agreement.

Have the SEO expert build traffic to the site until it's monetizing three incomes. Then try selling it.

To Your Success!!! Mark

Peter Lessard

First off let me say nice design!

As a marketer before I would build something I always would make sure there is a school of hungry fish that actually want what I am going to build. There is not much point talking about this further since you already built it but now you get to find out the cold hard truth as to if you built something that anyone cares about or needs.

Competitors would buy it if it was a threat to them or already had a user base they could merge into theirs or if they could easily port their existing users to it. I don't think that applies here.

For you to market the site yourself you would have to consider the following:

You have created a site that is a combination of a few concepts:
elance, fiverr, and design contests. From a marketing point of view the only reasons to do that are if you have identified a group that uses those sites separately and is frustrated or they are doing something poorly (individually) that you do better and users are actively frustrated and looking for alternatives.

I do NOT know if there is a need for what you built under the criteria I just mentioned. If you think there is then run advertising for searches on things like "fiverr alternative" "elance alternative" etc...

The bad news. To get customers that are frustrated with another provider you have to have a system that is easier and does not frustrate them. They are already in a pissed off state of mind.

Generally something like this will fly if its a real aha product and makes people think "why didn't I think of that".

Again I have not studied your product, this market or your target audience enough to know if marketing your product would cause a collective yawn or a mad rush of migrants.

I get approached constantly to market sites and ideas. I can tell you that I am aware of personally a few dozen sites that have been built at great cost and time that I personally from a technical point of view think are awesome and even slightly better than what they thought they would replace. They sit their collecting dust because though they are better the general public really did not need it or care when they saw it being advertised.

Good luck!