> John,

> If I am the "so called expert"
> that you are
> referring to...I NEVER said that your site
> would not work.

> What I simply said was that its an uphill
> battle.

> Do you know anybody that regularly goes
> online
> to print off coupons? I don't.

> What I told you is that you need to turn
> your
> business model around and do email marketing
> to get people to come to your site.

> Other than that, you'll need to do what Don
> Alm said...manual marketing. Selling
> face-to-face. Even then, you'll find it
> difficult to succeed because you need to
> drive TRAFFIC and that can be prohibitively
> expensive for a start up...unless you do
> what I
> suggested (local email marketing).

> The reason I'm so down on a coupon site is
> that
> there are so many other types of web
> businesses
> that you could be dedicating your time to
> that
> are more profitable and that take less
> effort.

> You might consider me a "so called
> expert" but
> I've doing marketing consulting for over 9
> years
> and internet marketing for five of those 9
> years.
> So I do know a little bit about this stuff.

> David Frey
> Author, Small Business Marketing Bible

David,

I was not directly referring to you. Other people that have been online for a while have told me the same thing.

I remember reading a post by Don Alm, sometime back that he was putting together a business type directory in his hometown in Oregon. So I asked for his opinion about the coupon website. I know that if people say something is hard to do Don will probably figure out a way to do it.

David, I value both your and Don's opion and have learned alot by your suggestions.

John