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Fantasy Sports Neighborhood
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Welcome to THE UPPER MANAGEMENT. Fantasy Sports Neighborhood.
You are currently viewing the UM as a guest, which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features.
The UM opened August 17th, 2007 as a handpicked 100 members who were asked to join for their smarts and community involvement. But the word got out that the UM neighborhood is not just your average start up community! .... Members begun jumping in from word of mouth .. and now the UM stands at 300+ members and over 30,000 posts and growing!
The site has it's very own Texas Holdem table which has members playing against each other 24/7! .. MLB Gameday audio only for the community. A live chat room, fantasy leagues with the winner landing up to 100 dollars in prizes. We also have our own FREE Baseball draft kit for our UM members, as well as an upcomming Football draft kit. We run our own monthly MILB prospect list. But most importantly .. The UM has grown into a community of sports friends. So jump in and, join the UM today! |
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Bizplayboy
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Joined: 16 Aug 2007
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BNole, what ever you do end up doing ... dont forget about us! or I may have to make up an anti website ..
FireBnole (dot) .Net!
 
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Bizplayboy
Website Admin
Joined: 16 Aug 2007
Posts: 5450
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| and that one WILL be a porn site!
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quiksilver
Joined: 22 Sep 2007
Posts: 2184
Location: Californ-i-a
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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| BNole wrote: |
| Oh well...it appears there are no other suggestions. I guess i'll have to just start a porn site then. I'll call it "BP's TTs." To be read as "Beepee's Teetee's." Well, you can imagine... |
HAHA. Well what sort of site are you looking to get into? I mean, right now it's pretty open-ended, so it's hard to narrow it to a few suggestions. If you're thinking strictly sports related then I think you should take the Purdue sports concept and run with it.
If you are open for any ideas, non-sports related, I've always thought that a person could get a lot of business and make some money with a textbook site independent from the school...
My school bookstore charges twice as much for textbooks as you can find them for on places like amazon.com, and pays you like 10% of the cost back when they have their book buy-backs. So, I pay $200 for an engineering book, then sell it back to the bookstore for $20, highway robbery.
One could open a site where students can list their textbooks for a small fee (say, 25 cents), and other students can search for textbooks they need and correspond to get them. So now the student selling the book gets $100 instead of $20, and the person buying it pays $100 instead of $200. You get 25 cents for the transaction. Multiply that by 100 transactions a year and you've got your domain fee covered.
I know that students could just go to amazon.com or ebay to get books, but a site like this would have two advantages -- 1) It features only textbooks, whereas those major sites feature sales of everything, this is specialized, and more importantly 2) it is strictly Purdue students, so you don't have to necessarily pay shipping or wait 7-14 days for your order to come through.
There you go, there's my plan for a site I'm considering myself. I've been looking into some money making sites and that's one small idea I had.
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BNole
Joined: 18 Sep 2007
Posts: 1150
Location: Palm Beach Gardens, FL
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| ...sooo, want to go into business? vzcoolz1
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quiksilver
Joined: 22 Sep 2007
Posts: 2184
Location: Californ-i-a
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| BNole wrote: |
...sooo, want to go into business?  |
Northern California/Indiana Book Exchange. Has a nice ring to it.
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BNole
Joined: 18 Sep 2007
Posts: 1150
Location: Palm Beach Gardens, FL
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| National...or just "Hustantlando."
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quiksilver
Joined: 22 Sep 2007
Posts: 2184
Location: Californ-i-a
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:30 am Post subject: |
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Yo Nole, just curious, did you ever end up doing anything with your domain and web hosting? Since you're a coding master, and I'm extremely rusty, I might need your help!
I have a website project I'm working on for a class, and it reminded me of the textbook idea I had on here. Needless to say I've spent the last 3 hours setting up the framework for a localized textbook trading website.
I haven't figured out the nitty gritty-- how to register and make sure people use a valid school email (like facebook does), how to get people to type the information and have it transfer it to a post on my listings page, anddd how to generate revenue (I'm kicking around a 1 time registration fee, or a transaction fee-- the transaction fee would be harder to institute, but would probably scare away less students).
I think that within the month I can have a website up and running with people joining in.
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BNole
Joined: 18 Sep 2007
Posts: 1150
Location: Palm Beach Gardens, FL
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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I've kicked around several ideas, including the thoughts of a Purdue Forum/Website (as was the original idea after getting Tiller removed). But, the domains are limited and some owners was huge $$$ to buy some of the better ones. So, i'm still in limbo.
To answer your revenue question, ads. Pay per view or pay per click...
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quiksilver
Joined: 22 Sep 2007
Posts: 2184
Location: Californ-i-a
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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Ads are good, and something I planned on-- but I dunno if that can be my main source. I'm already limiting myself to just the student base... so 15,000 would be the max. Let's say 5% join, and 5% of those click on an ad-- I'm looking at 37 clicks... with Google ads that would probably yield me $3. With a $1 registration fee, I need 4 members to top that.
What do you know about forms, and password protecting certain info in an area (this is where the registration would come into play)?
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BNole
Joined: 18 Sep 2007
Posts: 1150
Location: Palm Beach Gardens, FL
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Forms are super easy, I can probably direct you to a decent set of directions. It's been awhile since I've used passwords, but I'd recommend googling it and trying to find something on w3schools.com.
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quiksilver
Joined: 22 Sep 2007
Posts: 2184
Location: Californ-i-a
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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I know the setup of forms-- but I don't know how to get it so when someone submits it will post a "listing" on a page on my site automatically...
I would use the password protection to basically limit what portions of the listing are available for a guest to see. Once you register you can have access to contact info, etc.
Any suggestions or links would be SOLID!
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BNole
Joined: 18 Sep 2007
Posts: 1150
Location: Palm Beach Gardens, FL
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Okay, you're going to need to use SQL. I did (basically) the same thing on my website. When a visitor posted comments, they automatically posted to the website via a database. Unfortunately, I deleted all of my website files (with all of this on it), and would have to re-learn how to use it. But, once again, W3Schools is awesome for anything like this. http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_tryit.asp Basically, you're going to "post" the data to a database, and then "retrieve" the database on the appropriate form. I'm not much in the mood to code right now, but I could probably get around to helping you this weekend.
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quiksilver
Joined: 22 Sep 2007
Posts: 2184
Location: Californ-i-a
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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Send and retrieve items from a database.
Oh man, I'm going to have C++ nightmares after years of stacks, queues, databases, pointers, gahhh!
Thanks for the link man!
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BNole
Joined: 18 Sep 2007
Posts: 1150
Location: Palm Beach Gardens, FL
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Pfft, if you can do C++, you'll be fine. It's all relatively similar.
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