DAY # 204 -- Launch: T-05 Days!

UPDATE: Wednesday, 28-Dec-2005 9:43 PM

Down to five days before launch. Over these few days I'll talk about why certain decisions were made and the sites that will become live when things get going.

The sites under discussion are:

biig.com: An IR managed directory and search engine.
maxsimo.com: the worlds' first global discount card.
robobanner: replicating banner that allows searches of the above sites everywhere robobanner is displayed.

MORE ABOUT BiiG.COM

Some of the objectives I have for biig.com include allowing IR's to manage a KEY WORD PHARASE within it. This will enable any IR to work with one key word set and become the best at managing that part of it. Additionally, biig.com will also allow the IR to select where the template will point to based on different content the visitors may aspect.

Since yesterday, I have decided to once again use my business credit building site as an overall example. Here are my thoughts on the mistake that I nearly made had I spent six months of my time thinking about an aquarium. Anyway, I think I avoided a huge problem with my time focused on another issue.

Getting back to my discussion - What I wish to do is have our IR manage their own account that is connected to each key word phrase. By doing that, they can provide a service of pinpointing the best sites for a key word/phrase and earning their own traffic to the location that they point via the URL that they manage.

I think this is all better understood when you look at the simple template at http://www.biig.com >> and understand that nearly all the links that are part of the template per key word/phrase is controlled by the IR.

MORE ABOUT MAXSiMO.COM:

My goal with Maxsimo.com is to present offers --discount, savings, cash-back, etc. to users of the card online and offline. At this time I have ONE such offer that I negotiated with the developers of ROBOform. This is the form filling and password remembering software that I am using. The developers are giving card users a 20% discount at checkout.

In the same way, I hope to have hundreds of thousands of Merchants making discount offers to our Members online and at local stores.

The card will be sent to Members for free after they accumulate a few dollars in their online account.

MORE ABOUT the ROBO*banner:

Simply put, robobanner will generate a code that allows a webmaster/site owner to put the banner on their site. Then through the banner, anyone can search for information, discount offers, etc. without leaving the site where the robobanner resides.

MY CHALLENGE:

To keep things as SIMPLE as POSSIBLE. From sites, networks, applications, etc. I've seen on the Internet, I know that the simple, the better. For example, take the success of Google. When I first used it, I just inputted a search term and it gave back pages of results and in the first page or so, I found what I was looking for.

All of our applications have to be just as simple. Or the users will not bother too much to get around all the clicks to get to what they want.

I have to make sure that within a click or two the user --new site visitor has what they are seeking --a discount offer from a merchant worldwide, in the case of Maxsimo.com. With biig.com I want the user to see the resources for a given key word/phrase. I don't think Google, with the setup that they have can do this. It can be done better, and I hope a human managed directory can do it better than any that are so far out there.

So, the summary: All the applications need to be easy to use and understand. Very easy. And to create excellence with each product.

With that challenge I've got to go... Carpe Diem. Sam out.

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