Help needed about GEO Domain please!

[horatioab]

Hello!

I own the GEO Domain France.me and I would like to build a online portal for French users in France for each major city in the future. I see my website providing information to users and partnering with local advertisers.

Picture this, a website with lifestlye, events, gallery, news, education, locality, classifieds, and a forum.

I live in the UK and Im not sure if I could run a website about France because I have no contacts in France.

As a possible alternative to running the site I considered the doing the following:

a) Build a Beta bespoke website with sample real content, but for only one city - Paris. The other cities will be blank. Then try to :

A1) Sell the site to a Domain Investor, Venture Capital Firm or Media Company probably in France, for $xx,xxx - $xxx,xxx.

A2) Partner with any of the above buyers for a share of profits and let them operate the site.

A3) Lease the site to any of the above buyers for $x,xxx- $xx,xxx per year.

Question 1:

Which option do you think would most likely happen, and why please?

OR,

Should I try to run the my site and hire in help. I have a budget of £3,000.

I believe I would need :-

1) Editor(s) in France to do the website copy and update it.
2) Business Development Manager, to take care of advertising the site and other duties like finding advertisers for the site, and taking advantage of any other opportunities.
3) Technical Engineer, to make sure the site runs well.

Of course I probably would not have enought money to pay the above people so I would offer them a performance related package. Like Adsense profits, etc.

There could be more people that I would need but I can only think of the above for now.

++++ Any suggestions would be welcomed please.++++++

About Me:

- I am only an individual
- I do not have any experience running a business although I have studied business.
- I do not want to be burdened with work, I want my site to be a delight to own or for someone else to have.
- I have a great domain so I do not need to spend a fortune on a name, maybe just some money on building, running the site and marketing. The same could be true for any buyer of my website.


So just to summarise:

Should I :

1. Build a bespoke site with content, but not live, and hope that an investor, VC, or Media company sees the opportunity and sell it for $xx,xxx - $xxx,xxx. (Like property/real estate, build a house with some new furniture and sell the showhouse.)

2. Partner with a company.

3. Build the site and try to lease it to a company. - Keep control.

Please could you try to help me with my project as soon as possible.

I would appreciate any answers, contacts, or proposal offers.

All posts will be answered quickly.

Thanks again.

 

[Soofi]

we can develop a geo site for you

And I think you can run a geo site sitting just anywhere n the world.. I have ideas lol

 

[horatioab]

we can develop a geo site for you

And I think you can run a geo site sitting just anywhere n the world.. I have ideas lol

Thanks for the reply. Good Im gland you can

I will get back to you tomorrow evening about 8pm UK Time to discuss it in more detail.

There's another company that could build a GEO site, but I will discuss it with you to see what you can do.

Thanks .

 

[Soofi]

Thanks for the preference, just message me whenever you are ready and we can discuss it on skype or here..

Thanks for the reply. Good Im gland you can

I will get back to you tomorrow evening about 8pm UK Time to discuss it in more detail.

There's another company that could build a GEO site, but I will discuss it with you to see what you can do.

Thanks .

 

[horatioab]

Thanks for the preference, just message me whenever you are ready and we can discuss it on skype or here..

K.. we'll see what we can sort out wither with you or other company, thanks!

 

[Soofi]

K.. we'll see what we can sort out wither with you or other company, thanks!

thanks, looking forward to it

 

[horatioab]

Hi, are you there?

Im here to discuss plans for my GEO site France.me please.

Regards,

Horatio.

 

[yru]

There are a lot of developers who run geo sites from different areas of the world.

I would spend time visiting other city/country portals and look at what kind of content they have and how they are monetizing their site.

You should visit: http://hellometro.com/ they have 100's of city portals. They don't manually add any of the content other than when they first launch a site. Their content is aggregated from many sites that they have an affiliate account with.

Here is a city site to look at: http://www.helloboston.com/

I would model my site/business after them. Their main revenue is affiliate based and not solely PPC

You could setup a network of subdomains for each major city.

paris.france.me etc.

 

[horatioab]

There are a lot of developers who run geo sites from different areas of the world.

I would spend time visiting other city/country portals and look at what kind of content they have and how they are monetizing their site.

You should visit: http://hellometro.com/ they have 100's of city portals. They don't manually add any of the content other than when they first launch a site. Their content is aggregated from many sites that they have an affiliate account with.

Here is a city site to look at: http://www.helloboston.com/

I would model my site/business after them. Their main revenue is affiliate based and not solely PPC

You could setup a network of subdomains for each major city.

paris.france.me etc.

I sincerely thank you for your response, the information you submitted was extremely useful, and I will definately put it to good use.

If I have any job openings, whether skilled or unskilled, in the future, I'll send you a private message about them.

Thanks again.

 

[Soofi]

I'm available if you would like to talk.

 

[horatioab]

Thank you for letting me know you are available to talk. Unfortunately Im away from my computer today and will not be available. However I will be available to talk Monday, and will contact you to see if you are free Monday. Thanks.

 

[Soofi]

Thank you for letting me know you are available to talk. Unfortunately Im away from my computer today and will not be available. However I will be available to talk Monday, and will contact you to see if you are free Monday. Thanks.

cheers, do let me know

 

[horatioab]

Hi,

Im still away from my computer and not attending to business. However, I will be back tomorrow. If it is ok with you we could talk then, at around 7pm. If you can please let me know if this is going to be convenient for you. Otherwise I will just assume its ok with you. Thanks. Goodbye. Horatio

 

[Soofi]

Hi,

Im still away from my computer and not attending to business. However, I will be back tomorrow. If it is ok with you we could talk then, at around 7pm. If you can please let me know if this is going to be convenient for you. Otherwise I will just assume its ok with you. Thanks. Goodbye. Horatio

cheers, just msg me once your online tomorrow

 

[horatioab]

Hi, I must apologise for not contacting you sooner. Some work I was doing for another Internet project ran over longer than expected and I just finished now. I did remember to contact you about 7pm however it just slipped me and I just remembered now. Let me make it up to you, I will set aside some time Wednesday for you from 7pm - 9pm. Just go online at 7pm Wednesday or stay on online if you are already there and I will be waiting for you. There's no need to contact me, however if this time is not convenient for you, you can schedule a time that is more convenient for yourself. Hopefully I will talk to you Wednesday. I apologise again. Regards, Horatio

 

[Soofi]

Hi, let me know if your around to discuss anything

 

[horatioab]

Hi, its Horatio, Im online, are you there?

 

[Soofi]

Hi, its Horatio, Im online, are you there?

yes, I'm here.. do you have skype or yahoo messenger?

 

[horatioab]

I have skype... I'll contact you now.