i need ideas, for all of you

JTknives

JTknives

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well i have been wanting to start a web site dedacated to knife makers. i want to have a place where as makers you can post pictures of your knives and have your profile so other people (buyers) can look you up and see what your about. each month there would be a featured maker and somthing would be wrighten up about them. and every 3 months a "knives of (spring, summer, fall, winter) year (current year)" would be issued as a download. every member would have a email hosted from the site. what you think
 
I thinks that would be an awesome idea.

Personally I think some makers are hard to contact, and some dont even have a site. that be helpful.

goodl luck
 
there could also be a forsale place for them or each can have there own web page with there stuff for sale. there could be a customer rateing system with a comments page for each maker. and for makers there could be a customer caution page.
 
Sounds like a good idea

you just need to have a really good graffic web design

as this will attract normal non knife buyers in more and make the market bigger
 
I am often the one to point out the obvious, but it sounds like a full time job. Administering a site that size, single handed, would take a lot. If it was open access for the makers to all have access and control, it might end up a mess.

The concept sounds great, the logistics sound daunting.
Stacy
 
You mean something like this; www.onlineknifeshow.com ? I hadn’t thought of, or looked at that site for a couple of years, it doesn’t look like it has been updated for quite awhile. As I recall the cover knife was to be updated, maybe by a vote, every month. I also dimly remember way back in the early days of the interweb Jess Horn had a sight of links to knifemakers and related suppliers and service providers (sheath makers, engravers, scrimshanders, etc.), but I don’t think it lasted very long, just keeping things urls updated must have been a nightmare, you seemed to get more dead links than good ones most days. It sounds like a good idea, and getting ideas here is a good start. Do you charge the makers? Will you provide a template, kind of a virtual show table? Will there be some kind of contract, to keep some sort of standard and “feel”?

Todd
 
Although I am not a "knife maker" yet I do know that marketing is the key to any successful business. I think this sounds like a good idea.
 
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