Hi guys, I've been a member of digitalpoint since I know myself and lately I've been focusing more on business than posting here . Today, after a lot of hesitation to be honest, I opened TheyKnowBest.com although it's early BETA. To keep things short, in a nutshell TheyKnowBest gathers currently only a few experts from diverse fields which help those who are very new to the online business environment. For free.. For the most advanced users (or regular entrepreneurs how I like to call them) we've made a newsletter which will present fantastic deals from web services providers -- Web hosting, domain name registration, design & development deals, coupons for SEO services as so on. My question and here comes your feedback which I'll cherish is that being a start-up obviously it doesn't have many subscribers (~100) so I'm trying to build it up the regular baby steps way in order to get more and better deals. Obviously the providers want to offer a huge discount or freebie when the audience is huger. How do you feel that every 2 weeks, one of the subscribers receives a new .com domain name or a new 1yr registration to his own domain? Would this marketing strategy work into attracting professionals from the field? I'm definitely only interested in those which I can help further and not go broad with this. What other similar budget prizes would you offer? (Be creative here!) Also, I'm definitely positive that there are experts behind the computers here at DigitalPoint forums so if you think you can help the community, let me know via PM about your expertize. Let me know, thanks! Sergiu (Scorpiono)
Hey Scorp, it is a brilliant i dea i must say, a dedicated support guy for all your queries, all it requires is a pool of experts and a lot of users. In order to attract the experts to the site, you might need to apply diverse marketing strategies, such as cashreards, paid staff, point system e.g earn this many points by satisfying this many people and then reward them by buing them hosting, seo package or something on the likes. It is not a new idea, but the way you are executing it ensures qualitative service. I would like to think, your design is pretty appealing and people will sure like to visit it over and over and remember it as a brand once its popular. For pooling experts in particular categories, you might want to try facebook and target particular set of people and make them sign up for your services, in addition to that, post on multiple web forums and get more social with in the industry and get people to sign up for services. I just wanted to say, as it will be very hard to generate traffic from the begining, you might want to post 100s of highly searched questions in multiple categories and write insightful replies to them, get them indexed well and then you might start gettig some natural traffic. Over all i would like to wish you all the good luck.
Is your homepage the final product? Your idea is a good one and certainly has potential. I went to the homepage and the only clickable link was the "Ask the Experts". Easy navigation is one of the most important things you should have for a website. You are advertising "Expert" help, and yet the homepage really needs some work. Even the first title on the right "See how it works" is not clickable. It should be and it should take you to a page that shows you how it works. Nothing else on the right side is clickable. You have good topics that newbies will really love and are interested in, yet you don't give them a way to check it out. Your homepage should be of "Expert" quality. Good luck. It is a great idea and has a heck of a lot potential!!
@Jin Traffic is not really a problem and I'm going to focus high quality (paid even) content for the blog. My concern is attracting more subscribers to something which essential is a very transparent win-win situation for them. How should I motivate them? If I run the content with win a domain name every 2 weeks, would that work? would that attract more?