Golden Passage.com - Online Art Gallery and Marketplace
Price: $1250
URL: http://www.goldenpassage.com
Art, of course, is a multi-billion dollar business. It is almost always the galleries or the middlemen that make the big money. This is a website targeted towards artists offering them an opportunity to sell their art directly bypassing the middlemen.
This is a marketplace where artists can list their artwork for sale and buyers or collectors interested in buying one can browse through the listings and contact the seller directly for an artwork of interest to them. Currently set-up for free listings, you may decide to charge for listing anytime you wish. Say, you decide to charge $35 for a listing. 10 listings per month will bring in $350; 50 listings per month will bring in $1,750; 100 listings per month will bring in $3,500; so on so forth. Depending on the exigencies of the market, you can increase or decrease the fee as needed. You can have featured listings and charge a higher price.
To make money you must market your service. Initially you may need some effort to popularize the site. Once it starts getting popular, viral marketing will set in. The site, from there onwards, will market itself on its own. And you can make this money with no overheads. All you pay is for hosting and renewal of the domain name.
Users have their own control panel from where they can manage their listings. Users can add new listings, modify existing ones and delete the ones they have sold.
GoldenPassage.com - Domain Name
A highly brandable domain for such a site, would be worth several thousand dollars for the name alone. Conveys richness, refinement, superiority, high-value, and of course, is suggestive of gold-like qualities.