Howdy folks,
My fiancé is working on a project for one of her MBA classes and she needs some data on the costs of maintaining a forum such as stangnet. Her project is to do a business proposal for a net internet service, and her idea is for a home improvement site/forum where people could discuss and argue about home projects, download plans and instructions (for a small fee, actually I guess it would be included in the membership fees), and post their own plans on the site. All plans are reviewed by some panel of experts and are rated by forum members.
While her idea goes a little farther beyond what stangnet does, I think that the initial set up cost, maintenance costs, and potential revenue from advertisement could be similar to those things involved in the operations of this site.
Any info you could provide on this would be greatly appreciated.
My fiancé is working on a project for one of her MBA classes and she needs some data on the costs of maintaining a forum such as stangnet. Her project is to do a business proposal for a net internet service, and her idea is for a home improvement site/forum where people could discuss and argue about home projects, download plans and instructions (for a small fee, actually I guess it would be included in the membership fees), and post their own plans on the site. All plans are reviewed by some panel of experts and are rated by forum members.
While her idea goes a little farther beyond what stangnet does, I think that the initial set up cost, maintenance costs, and potential revenue from advertisement could be similar to those things involved in the operations of this site.
Any info you could provide on this would be greatly appreciated.