People like to do photography workshops. But information about workshops is all over the place.
TWIP talked about not having photography workshop aggregator website.
Build one (for worldwide audience) by using Google alerts for keywords and/or site scraping/RSS subscription..
Use NLP/NER to extract people/Location/keywords to make it simpler to populate the database. Maybe use SOLR for searching cached copies of ads.
Start by making it easier for a human to aggregate, then make it a destination that drives traffic, then give photographers tools to manage availability and maybe publication of their workshops through multiple channels.
Expose workshops as calendars for people to subscribe.
Expose information as a widget for SquareSpace, WordPress, etc to allow photographers to use this service for workshop announcement (and therefore locking them in into freemium model)
Making money:
* Allow people to subscribe by location, topic, dates (e.g. show me things in Dec-Jan near me)
* This creates a list to own and resource to ‘onsell’ for ads/special-offers.
* Photographers can pay to access additional features that will then send reminders about classes filling-up
People like to do photography workshops. But information about workshops is all over the place.
TWIP talked about not having photography workshop aggregator website.
Build one (for worldwide audience) by using Google alerts for keywords and/or site scraping/RSS subscription..
Use NLP/NER to extract people/Location/keywords to make it simpler to populate the database. Maybe use SOLR for searching cached copies of ads.
Start by making it easier for a human to aggregate, then make it a destination that drives traffic, then give photographers tools to manage availability and maybe publication of their workshops through multiple channels.
Expose workshops as calendars for people to subscribe.
Expose information as a widget for SquareSpace, WordPress, etc to allow photographers to use this service for workshop announcement (and therefore locking them in into freemium model)
Making money: * Allow people to subscribe by location, topic, dates (e.g. show me things in Dec-Jan near me) * This creates a list to own and resource to ‘onsell’ for ads/special-offers. * Photographers can pay to access additional features that will then send reminders about classes filling-up
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