Just brainstorming...

[nondual]

Hey all,

I have an idea for a website 'hub' that would sell advertising, 'click-through' referals to Amazon, and do interviews and product reviews. I basically want to become the 'ipodlounge' or 'amazon' of this particular problem. I want everyone who searches google for this term to come to my website. Basically, I'd be selling an audience/clientele to advertisers sellers of products/info for this problem as well as secure interviews, do book/product reviews, and possibly resell/dropship products. In addition, I'd have a blog and a discussion forum. I'm also thinking about creating my own product and using the website to sell it.

I realize this will take a lot of time and effort at first, but can it eventually be automated a la 4HWW?

[FrozenCanuck]

I don't see why you couldn't automate this through outsourcing. You would ideally hire people to write your reviews, do the interviews, and ship any products you wanted to sell. Start with pieces of the total package and just grow it in time.

The blog and forum are easy to setup. Wordpress and VBulletin are great open source solutions.

Selling advertising would proably require a more skilled outsource partner, but perhaps you just start wtih Google Adsense, which is dead easy. Google automatically puts ads in your blog for you.

[nondual]

Yeah, was going to go Google ads and Clickthroughs to Amazon for the books (unless I can find dropshippers for better profit). I figure I might be able to contract writers who might be able to use software to post their own articles on the deadlines set (I think Brad Warner does that for suicidegirls.com). Then I just have to hire someone to check up for an hour or two every week (or month or whatever) and get THEM to chew out the writer for not making deadlines (if they don't). My main idea is to create a (mostly) self-perpetuating community a la e-sangha.com mixed with a product review/news/info crossroads a la ipodlounge.com.

[nondual]

So...I'm thinking about also creating a product for this site.

Also thinking about trying to learn to use 'Rapidweaver' (Mac app) to build my own 'starter site'.