Template Portal

I was thinking of having a review team which I will pay to check and each seller account signup and judge if they should be allowed to sell. Then there will be a report a copied design function and that design will be suspended instantly and then the review team will take a look instantly and investigate it.
Anyway coding begins monday and I am so excited

Very good sounding!

Thought of everything there!

This is for a Portal Selling Templates or a Template for a Portal which you will sell like vBulletin? It seems more like the fore.

Sounds good eitherway!

Nope it will be just like template monster except I will be selling skins etc.. aswell

! sounds good, hope the business works out for you. i don't note really any other freatures addedd !

The script looks to have been thought through with great attention to detail, however i see some serious downfalls with your business plan.

Aside from the technical specifications, have you actually thought through the idea from a business point of view. The initial start up cost for this is going to be immense, what sort of advertising plans do you have? If you are looking to breath down template monsters neck you're going to need a substantial advertising budget well into the $x,xxx's each month.

Probably the most important factor of them all, do you have any designers? Is anyone interested in working for you? And what sort of commision will they recieve?

I don't want this to come across negative, that's not my purpose but i'm just being realistic. You need to do your homework first, the script may sound really impressive but that isn't the hard part, that hard part is trying to take a slice of the market (and over saturated one at that).

I can only see you taking $10-20 per sale (based on the current trend in template sales) which means realisticly you're going to need to sell a hundred minimum a month to keep afloat.

Just my advise. Take it or leave it, i think it's a big risk and a very costly one if it doesn't work out.

Yes that is good advice but I won't be spending to much on advertising, I am going to do one step at a time. I know it will cost money maybe even alot. Theres not much to lose really apart from designers fees and advertising. The whole idea of the sellers accounts is to get it going with a range of styles for when I begin the advertising.

Personally I don't think advertisement is a particularly useful way to spend money You can gain promotion through other means that don't cost. Affilitation; Word of Mouth; Satisfied Customers.

Satisfied Customers.

If you aren't advertising you're not going to get customers, let alone satisfied ones. Advertising on high profile/traffic websites will be cost effective if your product is good enough. I mean tm advertise on the same bunch of sites month in month out so it must be working for them.

You could take the route of word of mouth, referals and what not, but if you want to compete with the big boys you're going to have to go down that route sooner or later.

You dont jump in with the big boys right away though till you make enough money to jump in there

You dont jump in with the big boys right away though till you make enough money to jump in there

It takes money to make money.