Advice for starting up paid posting company.

I need as much possible advice as possible for starting up a paid posting company.

I've registered a domain which is clean and professional I just need advice on how to generate customers etc. thanks.

 

pm me, got some good ideas

 

Research your competition and figure out a plan or competitive edge that will have bloggers using you over the other options.
I was just blogging about it from an advertiser's prospective.

 

Here are some basic marketing techniques for your field:
1) Paid press release at prweb.com
2) Ad on sitepoint.com
3) Forum post at digitalpoint, webmaster-talk, etc
4) Google adsense

Make sure you have something that seperates you from the competition. Some sort of "value-added." Get the logo professionally designed ($100+ sitepoint contest). Good luck!

 

Why Siteponit Contest why not DP ?

 

One suggestion...

Go to forums that specialize in forums - and post. (see my sig)

People will notice the quality of your posts, and see your sig and consider hiring you.

 

Sitepoint seems to bring in higher quality designs. DP is more webmastering while SP is more design. Just my 2cents, he/she can post the contest on whatever forum he or she chooses (or just higher a designer).

 

Paid posting as a business can be very difficult to start out with. The competition is quite damn fierce, and it can take quite a while to establish oneself in the market. Plus the margins are pretty low given the number of companies in the market, and therefore your profits won't be too high.

I agree that not all forum posting companies are great though.The cheapest ones always seem to get the job, and although they may not do it as well, the owner is relatively satisfied. I have seen some posters with absolutely no knowledge of the subject posting in absoute BS english. But in a new forum, no body takes much notice of this and the faults of the bad ones are hidden behind the good ones.

The more specialised the topic is, the more difficult it is to find experts to post. And quite a few of them are already snapped up by those who are already in the market, and it can get quite difficult for you to find real good quality ones. Again quality doesn't come cheap. Many webmasters, though not all, prefer to have quality compromised for cost.

I haven't owned a forum posting company ever in my career, but I'd think long and hard before starting one. Agree that there are lot of customers waiting to be tapped, but if you put that effort into something else, it might well yield you benefits. You have gotta be ready to be able to bear losses for a while and it will definitely take some time before turning profitable.

I, for one, wouldn't mind doing an apprentice job in any one of the companies before starting out on my own. It will help to get a feel of the industry and the experience I will get will help immensely when I start my own firm.