Have you had any luck getting additional publicity or heard back from Timothy Ferriss?

Let me know if you have any other concepts you want to test out and I’d be glad to give it a shot.

– Aaron

I keep debating in my head this concept of an item belonging to multiple categories. I was actually doing this in the first release of BuyersVote and it unfortunately made the user experience a bit too complicated so I dropped it here. If I can think of a way to bring it back and have it still be simple and easy, I’m open to it. One way it could work is to keep the UI identical to how it is now, but when someone adds a new item it would check if that exact item title already existed and use it if it did. This by itself wouldn’t remove all dupes since there will obviously be variations in titles…there would have to be some sort of way to combine items down the road (probably an administrator privilege for users with enough rep).

Great point on people being wary of OpenID, I’ll add a link with more info on that. And yep, only monetization idea for it down the line would be ads or some sort of affiliate thing. Thanks again!

The title tag, h1 tag, and url all say “iphone reviews”. I automatically appended the “reviews” keyword word here to all the pages to try and target this phrase in search engines. Google hasn’t picked up these changes yet, but long term I’m hoping this will be a major source of new traffic (along with word of mouth).

Just added a few items on Buyers Vote, and wanted to give you some feedback.

1) It is really intuitive. I was able to browse categories until I found one I was interested in, added a few items, and voted them up.
2) It’s always a struggle to determine whether to categorize them or not, but maybe there is a way the users can help you do it, if nothing else by linking categories or products. For example, I wanted to add details about my smart phone, but had to choose between “Nokia phones”, “Blackberry Phones” and “Cell Phones”. If there was a way to associate a product to more than 1 category that would help.
3) You may want to provide some more information on OpenID and the ability to login with an existing account, as some people will be a little wary to do so, as they’re not sure what gets transmitted, i.e. their password, etc. (I know it doesn’t but it would probably help to include that information until OpenID really goes mainstream.) Out of curiosity, what percentage of your users so far use it?
4) I like the reputation concept, and think that will really help as the site gains popularity.

What is your anticipated revenue strategy (if you have one) once you hit critical mass? Just advertising, or do you have another idea such as an affiliate program or other revenue based on the potential referral benefits of the site?

Keep it up,
Aaron