Due to part-time?

1 point·Jaggu··5 comments

Entremate ( www.entremate.com ) started in 2003 and I have personally seen advantages of that. It is just one another way to find other business minded people. But person started that in part time - no risk - and result as a result, it is now on ebay for just 899$.

Whats % chances to become successful in part time business? I say 10-15%.

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entremate.com looks like just a message board with maybe 100 messages posted. I don't want to devalue it totally but it doesn't seem to be worth even near $900.

I'm not sure how you value yourself, but even a simple message board would cost me a lot more than $900 - time wise - to make.

If you were to write the messageboard yourself yes, that is true it would take at least a week maybe even two depending upon how many features you put into it.

At the bottom of this site it says: Portal By vbPortal Version 3.5.0 http://www.phpportals.com/modules.php?name=Credits

But I have just figured out the value, there seems to be 11,242 registered users and they are not active. The value is figuring out a way to make those users interact with the site. I believe the site is the problem not the idea. Bringing together a better portal suited to there needs would be key, provide them an additional value because there isn't enough there now.

If 2/3's of the 11,242 users are quality or maybe even half I would market that (the users not the forum) as worth $900 rather then the site. Let someone else figure out how to remake the site into something that would draw these people back in..

It looks like that message board is build by phpBB ..very simple to install and configure. But still if you count min hosting cost for 3-4 years then total is fair.

You can install phpBB, Phorum, or various other free message boards in a couple hours, including customization time.

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