[4webmaster]

I own a us city domain name that is: city.mobi (city is the city name of course like newyork, losangeles....)
I don't live in this city so will be hard to do offline marketing,.... but I know that they are mobile lover (the main university is one of the hugest mobile site I ever seen).

What to develop on it? any project ideas?

[WiraTime]

Map & Directory...

[midasman09]

Great! Create a "Mobi-Directory" for the "city" AND....what you will discover is....YOU CAN CHARGE A VERY HANDSOME MONTHLY FEE to stay in your "Mobi-Directory"!

Home Page -
...Where to Eat (List Restaurants alphabetically according to Cuisine)
...Where to Shop (Gift Shops, Retail Stores)
...Where to Stay (Motels & Hotels)
...Services (Oil Changes, Car Washes, Auto Repair, Insurance, Electricians etc)
...Attractions

I'd only list 3 of the same in each Category! This makes it a little more "exclusive" (ex: 3 Mexican Rest., 3 Auto Repair Shops,)

The MORE "exclusive" you make the Directory...the more you can charge Monthly and....the MORE participants will want to STAY.

Don Alm

Ohhh....I'd make up a Sample Directory to show prospects. And...you could use "DudaMobile" to make up Sample Mobile Sites

[theysawgold]

Nice suggestion midasman09. Thanks!

[nickhumph]

Originally Posted by midasman09

Great! Create a "Mobi-Directory" for the "city" AND....what you will discover is....YOU CAN CHARGE A VERY HANDSOME MONTHLY FEE to stay in your "Mobi-Directory"!

Home Page -
...Where to Eat (List Restaurants alphabetically according to Cuisine)
...Where to Shop (Gift Shops, Retail Stores)
...Where to Stay (Motels & Hotels)
...Services (Oil Changes, Car Washes, Auto Repair, Insurance, Electricians etc)
...Attractions

I'd only list 3 of the same in each Category! This makes it a little more "exclusive" (ex: 3 Mexican Rest., 3 Auto Repair Shops,)

The MORE "exclusive" you make the Directory...the more you can charge Monthly and....the MORE participants will want to STAY.

Don Alm

Ohhh....I'd make up a Sample Directory to show prospects. And...you could use "DudaMobile" to make up Sample Mobile Sites

that's a great idea! huge potential in that!!

[JustinG30]

I am actually doing something similiar but mine is a desktop site with a mobile version. Question i have is how would you guys advertise and promote something like this? Because the problem i am having is i cant get advertiser because i dont have traffic and i dont have traffic because i dont have advertisers.

Any ideas?

[xlfutur1]

I recently did an app for the city I live in. It includes all kinds of stuff that a resident or visitor would like to have quick information on...news, weather, sports, business, living, dining, nightlife, facebook, twitter, gas prices, etc.

I included a coupon page to sell to local biz owners as well as sponsor pages where I could use RSS feeds for clickbank and CPA offers. You can check out the app at http://www.grtoday.com

[JustinG30]

Thats a cool idea. I actually own some really nice domain names for Grand Rapids that im working on having developed.

[Kiril S]

Originally Posted by midasman09

Great! Create a "Mobi-Directory" for the "city" AND....what you will discover is....YOU CAN CHARGE A VERY HANDSOME MONTHLY FEE to stay in your "Mobi-Directory"!

Home Page -
...Where to Eat (List Restaurants alphabetically according to Cuisine)
...Where to Shop (Gift Shops, Retail Stores)
...Where to Stay (Motels & Hotels)
...Services (Oil Changes, Car Washes, Auto Repair, Insurance, Electricians etc)
...Attractions

I'd only list 3 of the same in each Category! This makes it a little more "exclusive" (ex: 3 Mexican Rest., 3 Auto Repair Shops,)

The MORE "exclusive" you make the Directory...the more you can charge Monthly and....the MORE participants will want to STAY.

Don Alm

Ohhh....I'd make up a Sample Directory to show prospects. And...you could use "DudaMobile" to make up Sample Mobile Sites

Creating a directory is the easy part; however, how would you attain traffic? I don't think anyone would want to buy ad space on a lifeless directory.

[Taimour]

Creating a city directory is just a portion of what you can do on this site. This site could be a complete package about any particular city. Every thing about that city can be categorize in to it. like :
Whats happening in the city
whats in and out for this city in fashion
News related to the city
a complete history

The point is ..any thing you want to do can happen.

[nickhumph]

Originally Posted by JustinG30

I am actually doing something similiar but mine is a desktop site with a mobile version. Question i have is how would you guys advertise and promote something like this? Because the problem i am having is i cant get advertiser because i dont have traffic and i dont have traffic because i dont have advertisers.

Any ideas?

I'm thinking you could write alot of articles on your city like what to do, nightlife, culture, etc and that way you can bring in traffic through search engines.

Yeah, SEO would be the primary way to go for you I think.. unless you do some offline stuff with QR codes aswell?

Good luck!