Hello, I am planning to start a similar service like squidoo and hubpages are giving. Can anybody please tell me if it worths anything? i have some unique ideas to gain people's interest and those ideas are not yet implemented by squidoo and hubpages... P.S aditionally i am looking for a list of all such services if anyone can provide. Thanks Imran
well mate, 1st of all squidoo, hubs, ezine: these have made tremendous progress in few years and are the top of web 2.0 .. you really have to work hard to get on it. but its not impossible, if you have good strategies maybe you can pull if off. i would personally want to see new web 2.0 cheers
There is always a leader in every niche and every business. But that doesn't stop newcomers. Don't worry if you are smaller in front of Squidoo or Hubpages, because they also started as small sites several years ago. I advise, be with your decision. I also like your decision.
I am giving a more easy but powerful way for people (lensemasters,hubbers) to get traffic and market their lenses or hubpages to their visitors. Something that squidoo and hubpages isnt giving in this way. I dont think its really impossible however it will took a lot of time. I am not interested in making money at the moment, my main focus is to capture as much community members as i can. Money is the later step.
If you want to compete with the big sites you should keep in mind that most of them don't make any profit at all, at least when they start out, but instead are funded by venture capitalists. They are also usually founded by people who are big names in the web world, and their relationships with other Silicon Valley types helps give their business a boost. HubPages was founded with a $2 million initial investment from a venture capital firm. Squidoo didn't have VC funding, but was founded by popular business writer and entrepreneur Seth Godin who could assemble a team of experts to get things going. Godin could just post about Squidoo on his blog and build a lot of buzz that way. That doesn't mean you won't be able to compete with those sites, but just realize it will be very difficult if you don't have funding or industry connections.
Yes there is still a market for this kind of site. Just be more innovative than the current one and you will sure be big. For now,you can start collecting feedback from hubpage user about what they like about it or what they think still can be improved so that your site is perfect
Well it certainly could work as it is an expanding market rather than contracting, but it will certainly be hard to top the big names in the industry.