I would like to have built a website that will host my reverse auction software (that I will probably provide – one of three platforms).
This website will not be for mom and dad to save 15% on a digital camera to take on vacation. This site will service government and commercial end users for procurement of construction,, construction materials, heavy equipment, office supplies, capital expenditures, etc.
The site needs to require registration to really see anything of value, and some demos of the platform will have to be available for my clients’ viewing. Buyers will be able to see everything during an auction event, but sellers will only be able to see their current bid, their current rank, and what they are bidding to sell.
I could care less about SEO. I will be working in only one geographic area, and have little or no desire at this time to service anything outside that area. 99.9% of my clients will go to the website and sign up because I ask them to do so. Truth be told, I would rather not be able to be found under a Google search.
The website should be professional looking and polished, and include an area for visitors to register as a buyer, register as a seller, or register as both. I do not want a forum. I need setup for three email addresses right now, and perhaps more in the future.
I’m on a bit of a budget for the time being but if I can just get off the ground and find the right person to do little upgrades from time to time, we can polish off the site at a later time. http://www.bidbridge.net/ is a business that provides much the same service as I will provide, but their home page looks stupid. The rest of the site that I can see is pretty nice, although I don’t know what all of the rest of the site looks like because I can’t register as a buyer or seller.
I would like to have a section on the home page for articles that I find from time to time extolling the virtues of the reverse auction process, and I need to be able to update that all by my noob self without assistance from someone.
As I said before, if I can get something decent off the ground in the beginning, we’ll do a bigger spend later on polishing the site and making it look really top notch with neat graphics and such. For now, give me a price on setting up my software, putting together a home page and setting up my email accounts.
In the near future, I will want to add a database section inside the site so that if I am selling tires, for instance, I can enter the word, “Tires” into the subject field of my auction and have it pull a list of suppliers that I have entered into the database prior. That’s just an example of the functionality that I will require later on as we move forward. This is a long term project. I am a fiend for user-friendly platforms, and the more my site can do for me so that I don’t have to have someone work for me, the better.
Also, I really prefer someone with some personality. I also need a couple of references, and some examples of your work.
Thanks in advance and I sincerely look forward to working with a talented individual. Best of luck to you all.