bobking - 7:17 pm on Jun 17, 2001 (gmt 0)

For an example. I've had over 2,000 thousand clients over the last 5 years but I only have about 250 active clients today. All those clients have not cancelled because I didn't get them placed, like any good placement specialist, I've never failed to get my clients placed, but being number one and making money isn't the same thing and if a client doesn't generate enough income to justify the expense, they are going to cancel, stop paying, or go out of business, (or demand a refund because I didn't make them rich). I don't have the time to work with each client and train them on how to sell on a website for the money I charge. That just isn't the business model I have. I doubt that many people would want to pay what I would want to charge if I did make that my business model. I send clients traffic. That's what
I do for the fees we charge. Even at that, I don't think we charge enough. Anyway.

This leaves me with hundreds of active domains that are generating traffic to varying degrees that I often have to send to other paying clients which in effect means that I'm not getting paid for my "inventory".

Some of those keywords are pretty competitive stuff and the others are highly targeted and my guess is that if I don't have any clients willing to pay for some of that traffic, someone reading this does.

Well, I know all about those keyword brokering sites and if 2 or 3 cents a click is what I'm looking for fine, but I would like to find someone that could actually use those hits and would be willing to pay for them, but where would I go to find those people?

I'm so busy just keeping up with the clients I do have, that I don't have time to go out and try to hunt down interested parties for the stuff that is available and not being paid for, but I would sure add a site that would help me find those people to my bookmarks!

I would glady pay a commission or a monthly fee to whoever had a resource like I'm describing for access to a "market" that would be interested in auctioning, buying, selling or trading top placements.

Of course now that I've mentioned it there will probably be 5 sites up next week offering this type of service, BUT, few places would actually have the resources neccessary to pull this off.

My point is simply that this industry is just getting started and like any industry, there is a huge market for specific goods and services and yet it seems no one is going after that market. It just seems to me that the time is nigh and there are few places that are in a position to capitalize on this market.

It occurs to me that all that needs to happen is for someone to look beyond displaying banners and all the traditional web stuff that has brought us all to the point of even having to make this post about generating revenue, and think outside the banner and subscription box. That stuff has been done to death and no great success story of any of them leaps to mind. Maybe it's time to think outside the banner box.

There must be thousands of us throwing thousands of dollars a day at various promotional products and the engines themsleves. But it's like an army of blind people throwing money at a fan. That money is scattered in a thousand directions and in spite of the highly targeted market this industry represents, there is not really any one resource for the things that are getting money spent on them by this industry.

Sure, we all know where to go to pay Yahoo. We all know how to find a link to web position gold. But this industry changes almost daily and we all come here to find a link in a post to something we feel we need and off we go to spend our money somewhere else. My guess is even a small percentage of that money would add up to a significant amount fairly quickly. Yet, where is that site that offers some of those products and services in one place?

Were it not for the fact that between SK, portal hosting and magic-city, I have very little time left over, I would be doing it myself because I think it is a money-making hit going somewhere to happen, but even if I did, it would take me a long time to build up the kind of reputation and trust that a place like this has, (that's assuming of course, that I could ever even do it in the first place).

No biggee, it's just me spouting off and regardless of what action gets taken, I will be eternally grateful for what this place has offered to me. I just want what I want and am willing to try to "sell" the concepts to get what I want and what I want is a place to market some of the products and services I have been developing and I'm willing to pay for it. I'm just not willing to pay for anymore 2% click thru rate banners, buttons or top of an ezine ad for $5,000.

What I want is a site that supplies me as an internet marketer with a one-stop shopping solution as WELL AS a place to hang out and talk about what those solutions are and then go try to hunt it down, get it installed and try to figure out how to use it with what is jokingly referred to by most websites as support. I want to come here, learn about what I need, buy what I need and then be able to talk about it and how to use it without having to go to a dozen different sites and forums that I don't know and trust and sign up for another dozen e-zines. All from people who should be doing exactly what I'm suggesting.

Why isn't there a CJ for SEO's?