Price Comparison Sites a Great Idea
True price comparison has finally come of age after all these years.
The early internet has long presented such features, but modern advancements has only made things that much easier, ever more closely approximating the promise of technology.
It’s interesting how many price comparison sites work.
They are theoretically great organizations, and take almost no money to start up and maintain.
Consider one that compares the prices of DVDs, for example.
It involves only a bit of computer programming.
The real work requires trying to convince various vendors to aid the site.
Such a price comparison site could only work – that is, work for the owner (by making money) – if those who sell DVDs will pay a small fee for testimonials from the comparison site to their own.
Every time a title that is listed is clicked, the web surfer is taken to the vendor’s own site.
If a purchase should be made, the comparison site gets a small percentage of the purchase – typically three to five cents or so on the dollar.
Very little, obviously, but it can add up if there are tons of sales.
This is, in fact, the business model of most affiliate promoting programs online nowadays.
And so such a site would be quite profitable, for one of the leading five, if not top three, things that people use the web for is to look for bargains!
Setting up an evaluation site for the most popular commodities might be a good way to crank out some affiliate cash flow.
Again, the monetary investment is minimal; the key issue, after the computer programming included, can be SEO, search engine optimization, art and science of getting graded highly so that casual surfers find you easily!
Solve those two difficulties and the third element of such a business, getting vendors onboard, is easy.