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Posted By: Scott In Response To: Re: Any more feedback on CityAmerica.com? (BenV)
Tuesday, 31 January 2006, at 10:40 a.m.
City America seems to offer a good opportunity, yet when going through the business catagories on each of their showcase sites, you find very few advertisers! Their advertising cost is low (around $25 per month on a couple of sites). Do the math and figure out how much you'd make by getting 100 advertisers @$25 per month. Then try to get 100 advertisers.
This business is no different than any other in terms of getting results for effort expended. Be willing to do a lot of testing to determine which businesses respond and which don't and at what monthly cost to them.
Testing is time consuming and expensive, so be willing to make that committment.
The results could prove this to be worth your time or not - testing will tell.
There are a lot of city-themed cites out there and few seem to have enough paid sponsors to make this worth the time and expense.
This one charges only $15 per month - has very few advertisers and the site is for sale:
http://www.lebanoncityguide.com/pages/home
This one for Temecula, Calif. charges only $19.95 per year (yes, per year) - has NO ADVERTISERS and is for sale too!
http://www.temeculacityguide.com/main.php
Scott
> Dave,
> My recommendation would be to talk to as many of the site owners as you
> can reach to get their opinions and feedback. One thing to look for is how
> long they have been hosted by CityAmerica, and how many rate and/or rule
> changes have occurred. Personally I would rather set up a city index
> without the help of a "service group" but that is just me.
> I also plan to set up a business index for my church so that members of
> the church can go to other church members for their needs. The church site
> will be free to list businesses, and my advertising in the city index will
> be one of the businesses listed. A win-win scenario for me and the other
> businesses owned by church members.
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