Go back to school and learn something, but I doubt that will save you, as you’ll never make it in business or the web.

Yep, and the word isn’t ‘spelled’ – it’s SPELT actually. Gathering ammunition to make yourself feel superior in a war of words, still leaves you as you are – eg: Nowhere – except satisfied in the knowledge that you competed in a bitching session on a forum.

But that’s all you will learn from this hehehe.

Trouble is the word ‘dumb’ is appropriate, because webmasters are so wrapped up in their ‘low budget, bad idea before they even start’ – sites, they just don’t know how tough this is – and thus will fail every time. Making pennies is the best they will ever do from these ventures, and it’s really laughable that they bother.

Lack of planning and bad ideas – yes I would call it dumb for sure.

If you’re going to use Car dealers as some reference to make a point, then at least be intelligent enough to make the point in writing. But to answer you – back then Cal Worthington was probably advised using weird PR strategies, which worked in those days, but wouldn’t be acceptable now. But what worked years ago will not work now eg: old methods lose effectiveness over time!

You were trying to get all clever by quoting from history, unfortunately they say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and seems to be a common strategy used by webmasters. My advice to you is – if you want to be an expert, that’s fine, but go and get a Diploma in the subject first – then you will have earnt that right – officially!

But it takes much more than a Diploma to be that millionaire everyone seems to crave………. Few realise this and there’s no license to print money in this world, it takes hard work and there’s no other way of doing it..

From your attacking response I take it that your a dumb webmaster, who hangs out at forums and blogs pretending to be somebody – jesus, get a life!

Oh and I didn’t mention my company because:

A. It’s none of your business
B. I’m not as desperate for crap links as you are
C I use the Media to advertise

And because I use the media, I have more money than you do – so keep your idiotic millionaire insults to yourself.

The general SE market is flooded with copycat directories/engines, but users want more than basic lists of companies, and adding user content won’t make folks spend money alone – it’s a lot harder than that, or we’d all be millionaires wouldn’t we.

Why would I want to ask about the plans of yet another Yell copycat that won’t be heard of again? And if he did work for Scoot and Thomson then he would know they have too big a hold on the market and that something original is required to compete and gain market share. Yell.com is a £400 million company, and Brownbook is going to take them out?, well, I’ll eagerly await the Brownbook news flash on BBC news then.

Here’s a tip: The Bedroom Brigade never learn.

Simply put – saying you add user reviews does not make this specialist. Nothing unique or different about this. Very difficult model to make work and tough to prise visitors away from the Yellow Pages of this world.

You will need much more than a feedback system or user generated content to make this work. Anyone can do this, and have……