Website Idea: One stop shop for your local business resource needs

I’ve been a big fan of business websites, and compared to spending tons on magazines or books on business (I’m guilty on buying loads), the internet provides free resources online. I’ve covered a website called smarta before, which was a more of a one stop shop of doing business in the UK. So I started thinking, where do we find resources for other countries?…

… I found that the information was scattered across the web thru different websites and blogs. It’s very hard to find resources and spend a lot of time searching as opposed to being able to get the right information that I wanted. So the main idea here is to have a resource for a specific local area (state, province or country) and make it easy for everyone to open a business in that area. So here’s what I thought of:

System

• Business news thru RSS of local news sources (Newspapers / Blogs)
• Legal Section
  • Government regulations announcement (any changes implemented)
  • Government Requirements (Registrations, Permits, etc.)
  • Contracts (Internal, External etc.)
  • Being able to provide free contract templates for Members.
• Marketing Section
  • Marketing Strategies
  • Marketing trends
  • Press Releases
  • Business Video Pitches
• Finance Section
  • Tips on Finance
  • Computations on taxes, and other Government payables.
• Management Section
  • Management Strategies
  • Tips on dealing with local people
• Business Directory
• Community
• Forum / Discussion Board (per section like Facebook’s)
• Integrated with Facebook and Open Social

User

• Interact with others in the community
• Private Messaging
• Contribute to news (screened by community, administrators or owner?)
• Digg like voting for news on each category
• Submit company at the local area (Business Directory)
• Rating of businesses

Revenue

• Consultants to enlist their services (Commission / Monthly rate)
• Local advertisements
• Job Board
• Organizing Events

Some Unclear Thoughts:

• With a lot of information, designing the website would be a tough job
• There are other categories that I still haven’t added, I have just placed what I had in mind.
• Looking for experts in the area that would be willing to contribute
• Pay per click advertisements?