SEM Tycoon

**watchitmister** · 10-17-2010, 06:44 PM

Situation:

Got a Website where customers post projects for contractors to bid upon and then complete offline. I would like registration to be free. Not only to attract customers/businesses, but to ultimately earn more money by charging commission on the services performed. Trying to figure out how to monitor how to do so. Should I charge the customer the comission prior to selecting the contractor then have the contractor deduct the commission from his price? I just dont want to get screwed out of comission by the contractor saying he couldnt get a hold of the customer and could not complete services when in actuality he did but doesnt want to get the commission?

I was thinking about charging a flat rate for the year. I am not sure though. What do you guys think?

**jessicaleahy** · 10-17-2010, 10:20 PM

I suggest that you do it initially on a monthly basis and go from there.

**ishuvonet** · 10-29-2010, 12:34 PM

You make some research in google about other freelancer sites how they are charging.I am not talking about the big sites like freelancer or odesk.But I can recommend the middle freelancer marketplaces where there are amount of people like your site has and I am sure you will get some idea.

**jessicaleahy** · 11-02-2010, 02:03 AM

I agree with you on that one. You can also compare other prices.

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**booney** · 06-08-2011, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by watchitmister

Situation:

Got a Website where customers post projects for contractors to bid upon and then complete offline. I would like registration to be free. Not only to attract customers/businesses, but to ultimately earn more money by charging commission on the services performed. Trying to figure out how to monitor how to do so. Should I charge the customer the comission prior to selecting the contractor then have the contractor deduct the commission from his price? I just dont want to get screwed out of comission by the contractor saying he couldnt get a hold of the customer and could not complete services when in actuality he did but doesnt want to get the commission?

I was thinking about charging a flat rate for the year. I am not sure though. What do you guys think?

I think you should opt for charging a flat rate on monthly basis on the contractors, thus not giving them the contact number or the addresses of the customers, I hope that this will make sense.

**daisies1062** · 06-10-2011, 10:31 PM

I think Contractors should pay a specific fee upon registration in your site and the contract should be done online and a minimal percentage of commission should be taken out on the agreed project price.