The duplication of the success of a site like eBay is long yearned for by folks world wide. To duplicate such efforts takes much work beyond the time, skills, and finances of most people. Perhaps one can do better and surpass eBay's success in a different manner. To do so might be to incorporate a bunch of niche market e-Bay type sites, each on a particular subject. One might focus on art while another focuses on computer related items. This would attract people who were more targeted to those areas of interests. In addition, since the material was more unified on a particular subject then the engines like Yahoo and Google would tend to rank them higher. There's certainly time constraints to creating lots of niche market e-commerce sites. Setting the related specs for each niche market site takes time to plan. It would be great to push a button and create a site on any particular subject in little time as from a template. That way you could invest the time but not too much to see which niche market worked and which didn't. You could create a site on real estate, then one on house rentals, and another on cars with little effort. Skill and expense go hand in hand. For what skills you lack and are unable to do the work yourself, you need to invest in someone or something to do that work. Besides graphic design, each site would require database programming. I think that's out of the reach of many web folks to tackle themselves and quite a substantial expense for them. Besides if you don't know what such a database should have in it then it's quite a predicament to build it. To make it easier, you need some type of pre-built design for the database. This design would have typical database specifications for that niche market. For cars, for example, you have make, model, year, and mileage and so on. One site strives to combine e-commerce, graphic design, and database into one package,MemberDatabases.com (www.memberdatabases.com). Their aim is to remove the time, skill, and finance restraints. Once done, you have the freedom of mind to pursue what you want to. Dexter Coelho Tech writer and pro developer Emerald Designs Inc. (305) 931-2060 |
