Home Working Through Selling Local Deals Vouchers

By Keith Lunt 

We have all probably heard about voucher code websites that are advertising the same old affiliate merchant discount vouchers, but why not turn that all around and run a useful voucher or deals website? The idea is very easy, if a little complicated to explain in a paragraph!
The idea
Instead of listing voucher codes cribbed from affiliate merchants, the idea here is that you approach local companies and suggest that if they can create a special offer for your website you will advertise it for free to your members. For example, restaurants might offer a free bottle of wine, or a clothing company 10% off etc. It is free advertising for the businesses you are speaking to!
You don't charge the merchants for the honour of being listed - this makes more of them happy and willing to be listed on your website. Instead, you use other means to make money.
Members
Local people will be your members and the key to the website. It is probably the sort of website that will not get a lot of natural search engine traffic, so you are going to be marketing the website a lot, but that does not need to be difficult. But by using local companies you just need local members, so there are a lot of tricks available to you.
What you are spending your time doing
Yes, it is a home working job and it will take some time and that is spent first approaching local companies and seeing if they want to create a deal to be listed, then also spending time making sure that potential customers know about your website and are visiting it. Whether you are networking in Facebook, joining in with local forums or advertising in the press, there is plenty for you to be doing! Even just posters and mentions at local events!
How to earn from it
There are many ways to earn from this idea. A little bit of extra advertising on the website such as AdSense is always a neat trick, but you can also use two level (or more) deals. You can have a basic level that is free and a paid members' level that offers better conditions, but the members are paying you a small amount each year.
Put it all in place
Unusually for my ideas, this one does not drop easily into WordPress or any other blogging platform! If you don't want to earn from the multi level method (a free membership and a paid membership) and are happy to publicly display all codes then they will work, but you need to build a basic website that allows members to sign up, chose their plan and request the appropriate level of deal voucher.

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