Idea: Mobile Business Directory/Mobile Websites Input?

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Hey Everyone,

I was wondering if anyone had any input on the a platform that I could use for this. I would like to create a local mobile website business directory. Basically I would pick up the domain citymobi.com and build a mobile directory on that site. Rest, Bar, Hair and Beauty, Etc. All Local businesses. The though is that you would go to citymobi.com (where city is my city name) and select what you were looking for. Say restaurants. So you would tap on restaurants and that would bring you to a listing of "icons" for local restaurants with a blurb under each one, "Best Burgers" or something like that. When you see a a rest that you like you can tap on that and be directed to their website facebook page whatever they have/would like.

Than I would like to be able to setup/sell mobile websites at subdomains like businessname.citymobi.com to local businesses to highlight their business. They would get a "mobile badge" or something like that in the business directory. Then they would have their own mobile website to feature a photo gallery, click to call, driving directions via google maps, whatever they wanted on their mobile website.

Does anyone know of any platform that I could build something like this on? I learned wordpress this year and got moderatly comfortable with that. I have see some drag and drop mobile website platforms like gomobi but I am would like to host this myself or more or less not pay a specific mobile website company a monthly fee for hosting at thier domain. I would like to choose my own domain and host it there. That said I would necessarily need to host it myself I would just use hostgator or dreamhsot or something like that anyway. The important part would be to be able to use a domain of my choosing and sub domains for each business that wanted a mobile website of my choosing.

Suggestions?
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  • Profile picture of the author sunburn
    If you're comfortable with wordpress then i recommend jumpmobi. Try getting their discounted price of around $70+ instead of $200+. Trust me, their wp mobile web builder is awesome. Besides, you can install it on your own site/ domain with your preferred hosting.
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    • Profile picture of the author midasman09
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      Good Idea! Something that worked for me in the past. I created a "Town Directory" (printed).... with a nice colorful Cover and pages with Alphabetical Listings of businesses, professionals and medicos.

      I put in a few larger AD Listings to show what they looked like and went door-to-door telling biz owners I have Listed their business for Free and...was everything correct.

      I then mentioned the "Paid AD" listings and if they'd like to have one of these also. I sold about 120 AD listings. and did this every Spring & Winter.

      You could do something similar by offering FREE Listings in your "Mobile Town Directory". Ask each biz to give you their contact info..........make up the Directory then GO BACK and ask each one if everything is correct....then show them 1 or 2 of your "Mobi-Sites"....explain what it is, why they need it and what the cost is.

      You "got your foot in the door"....now see if you can find any "payers".

      Don Alm....longtime sales guy
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