Only serious opinion please... Anyone interested in a cooking website?

Hi





I like to cook for fun and I want to make a webpage for people who cook for fun.





Now, making a webpage costs money. I dont want to charge anything but just to maintain the webpage I am thinking that I have to charge about $2.00 per customer per month (approximately).


The webpage will include a biweekly journal with recipes by the subsctibers, a help section that'll post answers to the cooking questions, some activities and sweepstakes.





Now, what I want to know is, that if there was a website like that...will you pay the $2 per month to join?





Please answer only if you are serious. And any opinion/suggestions will be appreciated.

Only serious opinion please... Anyone interested in a cooking website?
Great Question. Billie always finds these.





It would cost you more than $2 to process each $2 transaction. The idea is solid. You need to look for merchandise (yours or pass-throughs) that can be sold.





You will need a niche. As the smart girls already pointed out, we can go to food.com and get anything we need for free. Maybe a Recipe Contest Website. Different categories, sponsor prizes...that kind of thing...then you might get away with an entry fee?
Reply:I would pay the fee if is was different from the others,what you could do it feature people who cook every time you post a recipe is should have a story (love,first date,dinner%26amp;movie,games night etc) story that will make you want to try the recipes,also some sweepstakes and activities yes
Reply:Sorry but why pay 2 dollars a month when all you have to do is search the web for all your cooking needs free.
Reply:It does not need to cost a penny unless you are looking to launch a glossy magazine online. You can open your own Yahoo Group for free?
Reply:I'm ALWAYS interested in cooking and recipe websites. There are too many free ones available, so I wouldn't pay to join a site.





The ones where I submit my tips and recipes are:





Compuserve


Penzeys


Yahoo





The sites that I use on a regular basis, in addition to the above, are:





Cooking Light


Food TV


Epicurious


Williams Sonoma
Reply:ok, what would the benefits be for subscribing cause this could be bigger than people think.





I might be interested so e-mail at


vnss_130@yahoo.com
Reply:There are many of those that are already huge online. I pay around $20 a year for my premium account on recipezaar.com. Why would I want to pay $24 for a site that has no recipes at this point?





Recipezaar alone has sweepstakes and activities that are global. They also have a bazillion forums and ways to search and add recipes daily. Recipezaar isn't the only one but anybody can use all the features (except organizing the recipes you save/posting food photos/e-mailing out) for free...





(Also a Web page doesn't cost that much to put up... at this point you wouldn't even need your owns servers to store information on. It would probably cost YOU around $2 a month to run. It's not until you get super huge online that it would cost more.)

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