Unique business oppertunity

[nikkilee]

Unique Business Opportunity

Opportunity to be given 50% of potential multi million pound business
I used to own an online electronics business cybermarket.co.uk. I started it in 2002 and sold out in 2009. The T/0 when I sold was circa 1.4 million pa
During the time I owned the site I spent £380,000 on Google adwords, or Google tax as I call it.

I knew lots of other UK online businesses that spent similar sums. The Google tail certainly wags the online shops dog.

I decided to build a site that gave all UK online businesses a chance to advertise far more cost effectively. Enter Hotshop.co.uk (originally lived at Theinternet.co.uk)
We spent nearly £250,000 developing the site, added nearly 6,000 UK online shops, built an amazing toolset for the shops to use and a full admim system for us. We added a classified advertising section and a property section along the lines of forsalebyowner.com

There is also an amazing "quote me" system and a business directory (currently hidden)

Basic shop listings are free, nearly 1000 shops have "claimed" their shops, they can upgrade to use the full tool set. See these links

http://www.hotshop.co.uk/shop.php?page=shop&view=shop&shop_id=8762&parent_id=103 (upgraded shop)

http://www.hotshop.co.uk/shop.php?page=shop&view=shop&shop_id=8764&parent_id=78 (upgraded shop)

http://www.hotshop.co.uk/shop.php?page=shop&view=shop&shop_id=10578&parent_id=264 Free listing

Link to artice in The Independant

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...its-in-the-online-shopping-world-1693307.html


Having just about finished the site we spotted Groupon in the USA in June 2009 and thought that this would be big in the UK too. So we built and launched wowcher.co.uk the first UK group buying site. Wowcher grew fast and we switched all energy to it. In March last year I sold out to DMGT (The Daily Mail Group)

Since then we have been working on 2 new ventures and are fully committed. The first goes live in about 3 weeks

So the reason for the mail.
I am looking for somebody to partner with to take over the responsibility of making Hotshop work. I am willing to give 50% of the business to somebody that can commit to developing the site and making it pay. I would require a down payment of £20,000 to force a commitment to making it work. We can help with programming issues as time permits.
We set the annual shop upgrade fee at £400 so as you can imagine the potential rev is huge. We have also listed about 400 affiliate shops and nearly 3 million affiliate products via the search.

If this interest you and you feel you have the skill set to take this on please come back to me.

Nick Brummitt
[email protected]

 

[stender]

Opportunity

 

[nikkilee]

Thank you stender, I never could spell!

 

[julian]

Come on - you didn't really spend 250k on Hotshop.co.uk - it looks like something a load of 6th form ict students bashed out in the common room at lunchtime..

Good luck though..

Opportunity to be given 50% of potential multi million pound business
I used to own an online electronics business cybermarket.co.uk. I started it in 2002 and sold out in 2009. The T/0 when I sold was circa 1.4 million pa
During the time I owned the site I spent £380,000 on Google adwords, or Google tax as I call it.

I knew lots of other UK online businesses that spent similar sums. The Google tail certainly wags the online shops dog.

I decided to build a site that gave all UK online businesses a chance to advertise far more cost effectively. Enter Hotshop.co.uk (originally lived at Theinternet.co.uk)
We spent nearly £250,000 developing the site, added nearly 6,000 UK online shops, built an amazing toolset for the shops to use and a full admim system for us. We added a classified advertising section and a property section along the lines of forsalebyowner.com

There is also an amazing "quote me" system and a business directory (currently hidden)

Basic shop listings are free, nearly 1000 shops have "claimed" their shops, they can upgrade to use the full tool set. See these links

http://www.hotshop.co.uk/shop.php?page=shop&view=shop&shop_id=8762&parent_id=103 (upgraded shop)

http://www.hotshop.co.uk/shop.php?page=shop&view=shop&shop_id=8764&parent_id=78 (upgraded shop)

http://www.hotshop.co.uk/shop.php?page=shop&view=shop&shop_id=10578&parent_id=264 Free listing

Link to artice in The Independant

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...its-in-the-online-shopping-world-1693307.html


Having just about finished the site we spotted Groupon in the USA in June 2009 and thought that this would be big in the UK too. So we built and launched wowcher.co.uk the first UK group buying site. Wowcher grew fast and we switched all energy to it. In March last year I sold out to DMGT (The Daily Mail Group)

Since then we have been working on 2 new ventures and are fully committed. The first goes live in about 3 weeks

So the reason for the mail.
I am looking for somebody to partner with to take over the responsibility of making Hotshop work. I am willing to give 50% of the business to somebody that can commit to developing the site and making it pay. I would require a down payment of £20,000 to force a commitment to making it work. We can help with programming issues as time permits.
We set the annual shop upgrade fee at £400 so as you can imagine the potential rev is huge. We have also listed about 400 affiliate shops and nearly 3 million affiliate products via the search.

If this interest you and you feel you have the skill set to take this on please come back to me.

Nick Brummitt
[email protected]

 

[nikkilee]

I can prove the expenditure

Julian, I accept the site needs a complete rebrand, the original branding and build is 3 years old. If you register with the site I will allocate you a shop, upgrade it, and you will see just how clever it is. Have you ever tried to develop and build a site this complicated? The whole site is over 120,000 lines of code

 

[julian]

120,000 lines of code - is that what the developers told you to justify the 250k bill - someones taken you to china town..

I can see what your trying to do but I just think its too old, too slow. My gut feeling is that within 30 seconds of looking at this whole thing I can see its just a complete waste of time. wowcher looks ok and well done for the sale, but this feels like leftovers of an ideas no one wants.. but I am probably wrong as usual!

Julian, I accept the site needs a complete rebrand, the original branding and build is 3 years old. If you register with the site I will allocate you a shop, upgrade it, and you will see just how clever it is. Have you ever tried to develop and build a site this complicated? The whole site is over 120,000 lines of code

 

[rob]

£250k and urls like shop.php?page=shop&view=shop&shop_id=4412&parent_id=86&cat_id=90

Can you let me know who developed the site, so I know to avoid!!

 

[mat]

The vouchers page is a mess in firefox.

http://www.hotshop.co.uk/shop.php?page=shop&view=subcat&parent_id=264&cat_id=265

 

[Edwin]

£250k and urls like shop.php?page=shop&view=shop&shop_id=4412&parent_id=86&cat_id=90

Ouch! SEO car crash... On the other hand, there's potentially an opportunity for a decent developer to untangle that kind of nonsense and gain more Google love.