what’s the best way to create an online group and share information amongst the members?

I want to create a group on real estate agents so we can share leads, opportunities and market information. A blog won’t do it, facebook won’t either, and an email alias/group there is no way to track information easily…and creating or bulding an app from scratch doesn’t make much sense either. There has to be an onlin service that can help me get there….

Ecommerce or Blog? What makes more money?

I have read tons of info about ecommerce and or blogs and how to use them to make money. And when I say blog I mean a pro-designed highly monetized one. Eventually I want to roll out both, but can a blog make any real money alone? Is it worth the 2-3K in design fees? I’ve seen $2 a month all the way up to 5K-10K a month for some blogs in earnings. Or are blogs better used as a marketing/info site for your products/website and not really a vehicle for money making? Is a blog alone viable enough? I love to write and find sales/inventory/customer service, etc difficult and expensive. But at the same time ecommerce also has huge potential. I have to do one or the other for now due to budget restraints.
Your info, insight, experience and interest are highly appreciated! Thanks.

If greed and fear are the main factors in spot gold pricing, would blog listing greed/fear factors be saleable?

This would be a daily blog, on a subscription basis, listing greed and fear factors operational at the time of publication. It would retail for around $50 per month. It would arrive by e-mail to subscribers, or on their kindle machines.

It would contain only non-insider information. No information from inside any gold mining firm. No information from insider any bank.

Everything would be public data, but on a global basis, so when you get your e-mail, you get a greed book with every factor listed in order of importance, and you get a fear book with every factor listed in order of importance.

You are supposed to combine this information and analysis with your own insight and knowledge and develop a competitive trading edge that is personal and that gives you a fair advantage in the spot gold market, as a bullion trader, or as an ETF trader, or as a futures trader (calls and puts).

Would people pay $50 per month for this? How about if it included bulletins in real time for major greed factor or fear factor events?

How much would the competitive advantage be worth to the average bullion trader, handling say a moderate portfolio of assets.

How about if the first 100 subscriptions were sold at a discount premised on the idea of giving honest endorsements that could be used in advertising (affidavits, but where the ads would just give the first name of the customer — like Bill from New York, or Sally in Paris). Let them buy 6 months for half price — see how the endorsements come in — if they are good, pick out the best ones and use them for marketing.

In the second year, if the business is still up and running, new customers pay $1,200 per year. Old customers get a one year extension on their original price ($600/year). In the third year, same thing, price doubles for new customers, all old customers pay last year’s price. So new customers in the third year pay $2,400 for the year, and all the old customers pay $1,200 for the year.

This is a pure service. There is no product. There is no anti-trust law that applies. Whatever pricing power exists is there because the service works well and people make money using it. The pricing power should be exercised strongly until it starts to result in a sub-optimal number of customers. The free cash flow should be used to hire more global research personnel to monitor greed factors and fear factors in real time, especially when the spot gold market is closed. So the morning report has huge competitive advantage impact on those who receive it and read it. They have to see the money they are making — show them the money!! That’s the world we live in today. OK good — my question is how powerful is this business model?

If the person starting the business was an MBA/JD with 30 years experience trading gold, and the service was really very good, is there a better way to get the business up and running? Does anybody have a suggestion for a publisher besides Kindle, Google, Sony, Yahoo, and Microsoft?
The report of greed factors and fear factors is publicly available information to all persons who want to stay up all night and analyse what is happening in the world. The factors are also put in order of importance. That requires analysis. Analysis can be done skillfully or unskillfully. Let’s assume that unskillfully done analysis is worth less than zero but that very skillfully done analysis is worth at least $10,000 per day to a gold bullion trader. Let’s also assume that there are at least 1000 businesses that make a lot of money by providing data and interpretational guidance to clients in real time — so my idea is not completely new.

Not everybody knows everything at all times with correct weighting of its relative significance.

Why would an MBA/JD ask about a business model that contained no value proposition for the customer?

Just so a moron could offer an inane comment? I think not.

My questions does not go out to the morons, it goes out to the geniuses.

Where Can I Advertise For Free ?

I’m trying to learn the ropes with affiliqate marketing and have joined a few sites as an affiliate.

Where can I advertise for free if I don’t have the budget for a google adwords campaign etc..?

Also are there any blog sites that would allow me to advertise my product or service ?

Thanks.

Please help….. I have a website question

I will be going to school in the fall to study to be a Natural Health Specialist. Also my husband and I are marketing executives for a company called Melaleuca.

We have a website regarding our Melaleuca business. I’ve been thinking about starting a blog about natural health & wellness and write blog posts a couple times a week. I’m also thinking about having people email me question they have about certain health & wellness topics then talk about it in the blog. Basically it would be like a Q & A type thing.

My question is would this be a good idea for a blog? How would I get people to notice and read my blog?

Which blog service is the best? Blogger or WordPress?

I’ve been thinking about name ideas for the blog. What do you think of these names ideas and which one do you like?

Everyday Wellness (This is the name of my website. Would it be weird to name my blog this considering this is the name of my website?)

Health Matters
Discover Wellness
Wellness Discovery
Total Wellness
Healthnut (which is my screen name that I use on yahoo answers)

If you can think of any other name ideas for my blog please list them.