We started http://www.voyando.com in March this year. It's basically a crowd sourced travel advice platform (a travel planning site in a sense). You're paying others to hash out your plans with your specifics (hours of travel, accommodation, proximity of restaurants, etc etc).
We are guaranteeing 3 good proposals for your trip and the best will receive the specified reward (anything from 5-100 dollars).
The struggle we are facing is that we are unable to get a decent amount of traffic because of the really big competitors with deep pockets to acquire this traffic. We're not in the same 'idea space' but we are still in the travel segment. This makes it incredibly hard to compete.
Despite good press, really good customer satisfaction and a business model, the site is struggling. We are now looking to partner up with one of the big brands to 'catch' drop offs from their main site with a service that can retain the customer. Maybe I'm being to optimistic that any big brand will take this chance, but I'm confident that our platform does it job and that it can be a tool to get your drop off rate down ("Didn't find what you were looking for? Let our experts help!)
If anyone can hook me up with the right people to pursue this, I would be very grateful :-).
We are guaranteeing 3 good proposals for your trip and the best will receive the specified reward (anything from 5-100 dollars).
The struggle we are facing is that we are unable to get a decent amount of traffic because of the really big competitors with deep pockets to acquire this traffic. We're not in the same 'idea space' but we are still in the travel segment. This makes it incredibly hard to compete.
Despite good press, really good customer satisfaction and a business model, the site is struggling. We are now looking to partner up with one of the big brands to 'catch' drop offs from their main site with a service that can retain the customer. Maybe I'm being to optimistic that any big brand will take this chance, but I'm confident that our platform does it job and that it can be a tool to get your drop off rate down ("Didn't find what you were looking for? Let our experts help!)
If anyone can hook me up with the right people to pursue this, I would be very grateful :-).