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approaching vendors to advertise on my site

I have built a website that will be a directory for a niche of schools. There is a page that will list them by region and each will link to their own website. I discovered that there wasn’t a list of all these schools and as I was learning to code thought it would be a good challenge.

What I was wondering is if I am in a position to charge the school a fee to be listed - and if so how much is reasonable. I’m based in the uk . The site is yet to be hosted so I obviously have no hits but the niche is large.

The other thing I was considering is to sell a related ebook on the site.

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What I was wondering is if I am in a position to charge the school a fee to be listed - and if so how much is reasonable.

It is, but not the way you think. Build the site, list the schools for free, send them traffic, and then they’ll – maybe – accept to give you money. It’s a big maybe, though, unless you’re sending paying customers to private schools. Thus, better find other ways to monetize your site.


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