Example:
www.suggestlocal.com
SuggestLocal is useful for searching for restaurants, cafes, parking and other things by city or zip code. It ranks results with Yahoo ratings. The site’s value comes from a box it provides within the same page, better known as a widget, that lets you send your chosen listing to your friends — letting you append information like local parking, map and a personal note. It’s good for organizing events — and so is competitive with other event messaging sites such as Renkoo. See image below.
Notably, SuggestLocal doesn’t intend to rely on traffic to its site. It seeks to partner with newspapers and magazines. On a partner’s web site, you’ll be able click on the SuggestLocal icon next to say, a real estate listing, and then be able to send the listing to your friends so you can get help making a purchasing decision. Along with it, you can send a message, map and other information found with SuggestLocal.
The company’s main source of making money will based on what you could call “Click Per Discussion,” or CPD. Every time someone clicks on the SuggestLocal icon next to a particular listing, the partner site pays SuggestLocal a contracted amount per click. The other way to make money will be targeted ads that drop into the widget window.
See their demo here. It is mainly self-funded, but has just under $300,000 in angel funding.
source: http://venturebeat.com/2007/03/11/useful-local-search-sites-boorah-and-suggestlocal/
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