Hi So I would like to start a site that like www.bidmanie.info for new york city but I'm confused with all this. I don't have any programming skills what are these sites http://gripsell.com/gradlees-daily-deals-software/ http://gradlees.com/ Vs http://www.oorjit.com/ http://groupbuyingsite.com/?gclid=CISz1Yu4lK0CFWhgTAodsBSG7g https://getsocio.com/?gclid=CN-FmZi4lK0CFUhgTAodZxddmA what is a daily deal agregator so when I hire this job out...what do I ask for? Can this be done on a wordpress? I would like to include Groupon, living social, etc--- ofcourse all automated. I would like it to have a social page where there is a feed where members can socialize and homepage right bar advertising space for 150x150 banner ads what do you recommend? Thanks so much for your help JC
Hi, what you are looking for is a daily deal aggregation script. It's a piece of software that reads the RSS feeds of the big daily deal websites or is able to extract the data from the website itself. The market leader for this is www.yipit.com There are several companies out there, including mine, who create software to do most of what you want, but if you want to add a social page then you either need custom programming or install a forum. You could potentially create a solution using Wordpress but the plugin would have to be quite advanced, you would be looking to spend at least $1,000 on development. The biggest barrier to operating a website like this is the cron jobs and volume of emails you send out. Not all hosting services are suitable so you would need at least a VPS to run a site like this. The next barrier is how to get people to subscribe to you so you would need to focus your efforts on a particular niche. Hope that helps, Peter
I see that you want make the site and getting information. What suppose you did not answer yet: how are you going to make money with that site? Cause on groupon clone sites is quite hard to make money.