Going down a long road - am I taking the right route?

[Mildlymanic]

I would first of all like to complement you on an interesting and meaningful site, by far the best I have read.

My partner and I are about to start out in the cyber wilderness, we have bought the domain name, comissioned a designer for the site and we are starting to move forward.

Basically, the site we are building is for a specific market of professional people. The site is going to be both a free to access community website including blogs and also a services directory running in tandem.

We feel that, if we get enough regular hits on the community side of the site, we will be able to sell preferential listings and links etc. to the various service providers such as hotels, airlines, restaurants, etc. and many more.

Due to the various complexities of connection by our users, we are totally against having advertising on the site, it has to be as low a resolution as we can get so that their bandwidth is not comprimised.

Has anyone had any experience such as this and, more importantly, is it something that companies would pay for? We don't beleive that we can approach the companies until the site is up and running with proven results, we would be happy to be told that we are wrong.

Thank You

[Blaine Moore]

Text links are a form of advertising that is in demand and which doesn't use much bandwidth.

[VestRite]

You can always direct traffic via external resources. Try business cards, brochures, magazine/newspaper ads, flyers, cold phone calls.

[Shaye Richardson]

Pardon my ignorance, but isn't it possible to structure the file management in such a way that you can run them on seperate servers?
Host both of the modules on different servers but still have them linked together and operate in tandem?

Shaye Richardson
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