LinkOpps.com - Text Link Ads Marketplace
Price: $1250
URL: http://www.linkopps.com
LinkOpps.com offers marketplace services for buying and selling text link advertisements. If you wish to sell text link ads on your websites, list them here for prospective buyers. If you wish to buy text link ads for your websites, list your requirements here for prospective sellers. The website is designed for site owners to deal directly without brokers or middlemen who usually take out a big chunk of money for themselves. Sellers keep all the money here and, dealing directly with buyers, can certainly offer a better deal.
Currently set-up for free listings, the site is ready to charge for listings as you may decide - single/multiple listings, subscription-based listings, featured listings etc. You can set and increase or decrease prices as necessary. Basically, others buy and sell and you collect the fees.
The Money That Can Be Made
Let’s say you decide to charge $10 per listing for 30 days. 100 listings per month (which is no figure at all considering the size of the market) will bring in $1,000 in a month; 250 listings will bring in $2,500; 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. This is set-up via Site Admin and can be changed anytime it is needed. While you can do your own permutations and combinations - pessimistic, realistic and optimistic - note that you can make this money with no overheads at all. All you pay is for hosting and renewal of the domain name.
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.
Site’s Special Features
Built using PHP scripting with a powerful MySQL database, the site is totally manageable from a browser based Admin Panel. You can manage users, listings, configuration of the site - all from your web browser.
Payment processing can be via PayPal.com or 2CheckOut.com or another processor. You set the minimum amount a user should pay and once the payment is received, corresponding credit(s) get reflected in the user’s account via the automated payment gateway. If you decide to charge $10 for a listing, the minimum a user must pay is $10. He/She may pay a higher amount for listing multiple items and may decide to pay $30 or $50. Corresponding credits, as per payment, is updated in their account for 3 or 5 listings.
The period for which a listing can remain on the site can be set from the Admin Panel. You may set a uniform period for all listings or let users choose the period for which they would like to list. You can also charge for listings based on how long they are to remain on the site.
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 that are not required.
LinkOpps.com - Domain Name
LinkOpps stands for Link Opportunities. The website provides site owners with the opportunity to list and offer to sell or buy text link ads on or for their sites directly. Short, highly relevant, easily remembered and brandable domain, would be worth in 4-figures for the name alone.