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Last year I launched ConceptFeedback.com to do exactly that. We now have a community of nearly 10,000 web designers, developers, usability experts, and marketing gurus who share website feedback and advice for free (click the "Community" link in the main nav)! We also have a hand-selected pool of website professionals who offer expert website evaluations in ...

What's wrong? With all due respect, I would say you need to do a lot more work on your marketing. I visited your home page - it was hard for me to tell exactly what you are offering - I googled "Inventory management software" and you're nowhere to be seen, up to page 4 at least. I would suggest the following: Get Dharmesh's book. Read it. Do what it ...

The best place I have found for this type of question is the ASP (Association of Software Professionals). They have an entire marketing newsgroup for questions of just this type. A typical web site review gets at least 10 (and usually more than 20) detailed reviews by different people. This is not an anonymous community- the ASP is comprised of numerous ...

You shouldn't be signing a partnership agreement without legal advice. If you can not afford to hire an attorney do not sign it. Look up the legal liabilities of a partnership agreement, and then you can see why it needs to be reviewed by an attorney. Everyone seems to want to use shortcuts. If you buy a Lexis, do you then purchase gas from a neighbor who ...

End of the year seems like the natural time to do this sort of navel gazing - business or personal. Personally I don't think the time of year is really as important as being able to get a few good distraction free days to think. You can't see the bigger picture when fighting fires. if your personal situation and business cycle gives you time around xmas ...

I am not 100% sure of the question but will guess it is one of two things: you want to create a simple form that captures reviews - if so use something like http://www.wufoo.com that will handle the form capture and send you the results via email or downloadable file that you can import into your database. you want a form that captures your data that looks ...

The best place to get honest feedback is http://news.ycombinator.com (AKA HackerNews or HN) Before you submit your site for feedback, you should do the following: Get yourself acclimated with the people, tone & feedback posts on HN Start posting and adding some value (for others) on HN to add some credibility Good luck!

Impossible to say without some sort of idea of your traffic. If you're getting a million visitors a day then there's something wrong, if you're getting 1 then it's just low traffic. Your website could certainly do with some work, the rotating image is annoying beyond belief. You also seem to be selling your product rather than selling the scratch to ...

You're basically asking: "What is marketing, and how do we do it?" Well- that's a pretty big question, but... Blog. Blog. Blog. Blog. Blog. Set up a decent, SEO-friendly site with WordPress and get every member of your team to blog once a day, even a paragraph or two, about cool things going on, projects you're working on, related news from the industry ...

Another idea would be to team up with websites about fitness and gyms. Find the places where your target hangs out online (I'd say your target is people that are into fitness) and get in front of their face with your service. "you're in this website because you're into fitness... have you been to a hotel gym lately? How was it? Leave your review here! As ...

The decisions you make regarding review quality will set the tone of your site. You can do absolutely no verification, e-mail verification, Facebook verification, you could even require a scanned license if you wanted. Which one you choose depends on your target audience. For example, a website for doctor reviews might be able to justify more verification ...

You probably only need to worry about the "low hanging fruit" for now, getting a consultant for this might be overkill. Unless you are hugely successful on launch, performance probably isn't going to be a big deal. I would say security in a similar boat, but you do need to be more cautious on that side. I would suggest just finding some articles online ...

Given your comment, if you need to optimize your DB queries, and secure your server on the other hand, you probably need two people. First about the server security: most of coders will not have skills/knowledge for truly securing a whole server (well configured firewall, file rights, uninstall of unwanted packages/apps, compilation of last versions of used ...

I'd consider using Freelancer or Elance. There is a wide variety of quality of work that you can get there so you are better off picking someone more expensive with a great reputation. It should still be far cheaper than hiring a good person in the U.S. For example, you could probably hire someone to give you feedback for $20/hour so for $200 you could ...

"Real Software reviews"... a bit confusing term. Are you talking about feedback vs marketing? Depending on your product, firms exist that can do a comparative review of your product. Or you can contact a reviewer directly and ask them to do a private review of your product. A bit of google article review will bring up some good people - then find them on ...

You changed the question so I'll update my answer with a fourth option. I'll also add that Gary E is correct. You can't afford to pay for a lawyer today, but you can't afford not to have a lawyer's blessing today, either. You don't say where you live, but here are a few generic places you might look: There are some law firms that will provide legal ...

In my experience if there is a benefit visitors will write reviews. These benefits might be earning social reputation, winning awards, learning new things, sharing their ideas, announcing their complaints or something similar. If visitors have things to say they'll want to understand if it is the right place for reaching most relevant people. The most ...

Are there any forums that deal with the topic of your site? If so you can, see if people there will help you out and give you comments/criticism*. That way you can get feedback from people who would visit the site to begin with. Also, try to make it easy for people to leave feedback directly from your site so that you can capture actual users. *If you do ...

To answer your question... go to https://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/Startup/InvestmentProfile.aspx and fill out this form. After you fill this out, the information about you and your company will be exposed to investors and other Microsoft network partners. Then it is all about patience. Make sure you fill this Investment Profile the best you can, this ...

BizSpark is not the best forum to attract investors. We have been on it for 2 years, and never had one inquiry from an investor. Its not meant for that. @Igorek pretty much sums up what BizSpark is good for. I think its a great idea. I would much rather program in .net verus php, rails or much other technologies. BizSpark takes out some of this ...

Simplify your homepage. Give your users a call to action. If you don't, I doubt your site will take off, no matter what you do. Shrink your logo. It's massive. It detracts from the search and "write a review" button. Remove the "how to search" and "how to review" info. Make your UI so simple and obvious that it doesn't need instructions. (And honestly, ...

That's a very interesting and narrow enough niche. I would use the service when it has content in it as the existence and quality of a gym is a factor when I'm choosing a hotel. However I would be unlikely to search for a hotel primarily based on its gym. Hence I recommend partnering with existing review sites that cover hotels. Could you plug-in into ...

I have to agree with some of the other comments I'm afraid. I really don't like the website and I don't think it shows your software off very well, it is not professional enough. The design really needs to be improved, the overall feeling that the design conveys is that it is shoddy and the attention to detail is quite poor. This then rubs off onto your ...

If the website is the only/primary channel to sell your product then as mentioned before you would have to focus quite a bit of your time and energy on it. I wonder how you received your first set of orders. If there were from the web then you would certainly want to investigate how you got those leads. There is a good deal of information on the site ...

One way to find coverage is find similar companies or clients that you already have, and figure out where they "hangout" or how to be visible to them. Can be via targeted posts on your blog, connect with them on twitter, on facebook, connect with whomever would probably be responsible in deciding the kind of products/services you are offering. Avoid ...