powerboatlistings.com and sailboatlistings.com

Preowed Powerboats @ powerboatlistings.com Preowned Sailboats @ sailboatlistings.com

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Because I am unable to resist a good domain name, I have purchased both www.powerboatlistings.com and www.sailboatlistings.com (as well as navalarchitecture.org, boatdesign.info, yachtdesign.info, and a couple others which I am still working on developing over the next few months )

In any case, powerboatlistings.com and sailboatlistings.com are now active sites. Powerboatlistings.com currently has 150 boats listed, and Sailboatlistings.com has 250 boats listed already. Still very very small, but growing by the day. And best of all, there is no charge if you want to list a boat or boats for sale at either site.



www.powerboatlistings.com
Free Listings for PreOwned Powerboats




www.sailboatlistings.com
Free Listings for PreOwned Sailboats


Of course you are still welcome to post in our marketplace forum as well, and all "wanted" ads and ads for items specifically of interest to designers and boat builders (plugs, molds, materials, supplies, equipment, significant or one-of-a-kind or historic boats would be well placed in this forum as well.)

 

Power Boat Listings is pretty neat (better than Boatraderonline.com) I put up a listing and it is very easy to use!
Good work Jeff.

 

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Jeff

Like the sites, simple and clean, I posted up my Nantucket Clipper - no problems. Think its going to be very sucessful!

Paul

 

Thanks guys!

I still have to do some tweaking here and there and have some features to add, but I'm glad they came out ok so far.

(Just have to keep myself from buying any new domains until I finish the ones on the table Once we have a couple thousand boats listed on each I think I'll offer 'premium' listings on the front page or something along those lines to generate some income to funnel back into boatdesign.net (a second server, maybe some funds for a competition, etc.).

Anyway, thanks for the feedback.

 

Instead of putting the money towards a BD competition (feels evil glares) at first why not put it towards promoting the web sities first?

 

Because my heart is really in a design related web site rather than a brokerage site. Listing used boats is good because you get to see some nice boats and some really interesting ones now and again, but I really enjoy design and new construction most. And I would love to have our site at the center of a design competition. But it's just a thought at this point. Maybe more promotion to increase visibility is first. Maybe some print advertising, but that can get expensive too. For now it just seemed like a natural thing to get going (even if slowly at first) for a future compliment to our main site.

PowerboatListings.com
May 2002 556113 Requests : 19685 Pages
Jun 2002 542441 Requests : 18861 Pages
Total Bytes Served 7873250190

SailboatListings.com
May 2002 240000 Requests : 14148 Pages
Jun 2002 239329 Requests : 12553 Pages
Total Bytes Served 8547442694

 

Just an question/idea are you going to have a dealer package on powerboatlistings.com (like boattraderonline.com)? I know you were thinking about having a preimum ad. I thought it would be a good Idea and I would be intrested in it.

 

What program are you using to do your sites? I could help a bit possably if you need it. And I wanted to know if you thinking about adding a parts section along with a engine section besides the boats I think it would bring in more people and add diversity. Just some ideas in my deep pondering..........

 

One moe thing............("hears" the sounds of boredom)

Are you going to add a hit counter for number of visits towards a persons product? And a contact request(email request counter)?
If you want to "borrow" Boat trader's concept I could take a screen shopt for you.

 

Screen shot

 

Thanks for the suggestions Nomad!

A per record hit counter is a great idea and I've put it on my to-do list. A request counter is an even better idea - I'll have to think about the best way to implement this.

I thought I would wait until a couple thousand records have been added to approach dealers so it will be a more attractive resource.

Engines and parts - not a bad idea either! Thanks again for all the ideas.

 

Your welcome Jeff and expect more in the future..........................

 

Could you e-mail me at Mavy_14_Fl@Hotmail.Com I have some screenshots that might help you.

 

Are you going to add a current add # counter and/or a all time counter?

 

? - I was thinking of per listing. I suppose the only thing that really matters is the # of inquiries and the rest is just eye candy. If someone wanted a total for views (e.g. a dealer) I would just show them the server stats for the account. We could probably also have a "satisfaction guaranteed" arrangement for dealers when the time comes.

And I sent an email so you have my address – if anyone else ever wants to email me directly you can always send email to webmaster@boatdesign.net