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FloatMarket Marketplace for Floating Equipment
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FloatMarket - Marketplace for Floating Equipment
Ships, Boats, Yachts - as essential and necessary as automobiles, trains and airplanes - a multi-billion dollar business - one of the basic forms of tranportation, a means of livelihood for many and entertainment or hobby for some. This website is a marketplace for such products where everyone can list his/her property for sale and everyone interested in acquiring one, can buy. Others buy and sell and you collect the fees.What exactly the site does?FloatMarket is a marketplace where sellers can list their properties for sale and buyers interested in buying can browse through the listings and contact the seller directly for a property of interest to them. Currently free, a listing fee is intended to be charged after the site becomes popular. Sellers can be expected to pay, say, $10.00 per listing remaining on the site for 180 days.Persons interested in listing their properties for sale are required to register at the site first. He/She can then publish a detailed description of his/her property along with 5 pictures. Their contact e-mail, or if they decide not to disclose it, a hyperlink to contact them, is published with the listing, along with their phone number and address. The location where the property is located along with the Asking Price is also shown with the listing. The listing typically is for a period of 180 days (set by Admin) unless the seller decides to remove it earlier or for some reason the Admin decides to delete it. The number of times a listing was viewed is shown and gets updated automatically.FloatMarket - Domain NameShips, boats, yachts etc are all properties that are in reality floating equipment or vessels. That's what this domain conveys - marketplace for floatong equipment. Short, simple and conveying its meaning and purpose unambiguously, would be worth several thousand dollars for the name alone.How much money can the site make?To make the site popular, listings are free for the time being. Later it is intended to charge for each listing. Let's say you decide to charge $10 per listing for 180 days. 100 listings per month (which is no figure at all considering the size of the market) will bring in $1,000; a 1000 listings (which too is miniscule) will bring in $10,000; so on so forth. Depending on the exigencies of the market, you can increase or decrease the fee as needed. You can have featured listings and charge a higher price.To make money you must market your service. Initially you may need some effort to popularize the site. Once it starts getting popular, viral marketing will set in. The site, from there onwards, will market itself on its own. And you can make this money with no overheads. All you pay is for hosting and renewal of the domain name.What are the site's special features?Built using PHP scripting with a powerful MySQL database, the site is totally manageable from a browser based Admin. You can manage users, listings, configuration of the site - all from your web browser.Payment system can be via PayPal or 2CheckOut or any other payment processor. You set the minimum amount a user should pay and once you receive the payment you just add the number of credits to his/her account. If you decide to charge $10 for a listing, the minimum a user must pay is $10. He/She may pay a higher amount for listing multiple assets and may decide to pay, say, $50. 5 credits gets added to their account to enable them to list 5 assets.The period for which a listing can remain on the site can be set from the Admin. You may set a uniform period for all listings or let users choose the period for which they would like to list. You can also charge for listing based on how long they are to remain on the site.Site categories can be created, added, modified as needed via the Admin. The site uses a uniform header and footer through out. Site design can be changed by just changing these two files. A cascading style sheet is used enabling further customization of the site by just changing the style sheet.You can set the number of pictures and the size of the pictures - x, y as well as bytes - you would like to permit in the listings. You can set whether you will first approve the listings before they are published or publish automatically. You can edit listings before approval and later if it becomes necessary. You can delete listings if you so wish.Listing statistics too are recorded and are available for Admin to monitor. A link to backup the database via the browser is also present.Users have their own control panel from where they can manage their listings. Users can add new listings, modify existing ones and delete the ones they have sold. Sold listings can remain on the site, if you so set, and can be marked as "Sold".Go ahead - try the site.
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