DEVELOPING A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE
Social networking websites are one of the Internet's great success stories with such names as Facebook and Twitter coming to the fore. In days gone by, developing sites of this complexity took many months and several tens of thousands of dollars to bring a project to completion.
Our experience with the Drupal web application framework, together with an extensive library of modules which may be used to enhance and add flexibility to the core site, has provided the expertise, knowledge and tools needed to create complex site structures with economy and short development times. Typically, we can deploy a fully-featured networking site within one calendar month from whoa to go. Our flagship community networking site for Hawkes Bay, New Zealand residents is discussed below.
AN OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD YOUR OWN INTERNET BUSINESS
As a commercial enterprise, the concept behind this purpose-built community website was to build a user base or membership by making freely available a variety of appealing and useful amenities such as blogging, free classified advertising, image galleries, forums, games and magazine style editorial within a localised community. Much of the other site content is provided by the members. Once a loyal membership has become established the site owners may then approach retailers, merchants and trade and professional people in the community to place advertising. The software is highly adaptable to the needs of clubs, organisations and cultural groups.
Our flagship and prototype site, www.HawkesBayNZ.net serves the people of Hawkes Bay. Please do visit - you will get a better sense of the concept than can be conveyed by the words on this page. We can build a similar site tailored to the needs of your specific community.
In our flagship site we offer a range of advertising products which we believe are very economically priced when compared to advertising in other media. Our most attractive drawcard is retailer pages in which the advertisers can maintain their own content. Our pages are priced at $160 as a once-only charge for building plus $120 per annum ($10 a month) to continue hosting the page. A hundred such subscribers will yield almost immediate revenue of $27,500 with annually renewable revenue of $11,200. Two hundred such pages sold will, of course, double those amounts. There are additional opportunities for revenue by selling premium banners at the tops and bottoms of each page and in the left and right side bars. These typically fetch $50 to $100 per month each.
This is not a franchise offer. The purchaser will own the site plus all rights to onsell. The only immediate outgoings are hosting at $100 per month which includes weekly backup of the database containing the site's content.
This is an excellent opportunity to build a family business, especially where one or two family members have some computer graphics ability.
For a fully functional site, installed on the net with header graphics and a domain name suitable to your region of choice and including initial content such as national and international news feeds (automatically updated every hour), a selection of appealing on-line games and various other useful sundries to get you started, our asking price is $4400 plus GST in New Zealand. Our price includes 3 months on-line IT support to help you learn the content-management system.
We can furnish web server statistics to interested parties. Please use the form on the Contact Us page to forward your enquiries.