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Why can't yahoo launch an online consultancy service portal and take 5% as service charge?
This Q&A forum is getting very interesting. There are a lot of top professionals and well experienced retired people are participating. An online "consultancy forum + audio/video conferencing" with yahoo's payment service similar to the ebay deal with 5% as service charge of the deal can help everyone. This can be very attractive for outsourcing industry where the buyer and seller has access to another platform of very cost effective and issue based consultants and experts from the international talent. What's your opinion?.
2 years ago - 7 answers
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It may be a good suggestion & Business opportunity for Goggle, but Business consultancy is not like answering questions. It is analysing the problem,Impacts & Causes and Identifying the means to solve it ,Evalution of Options,Pros and cons, Reaching optimal solution. In few cases probe for more information and data. It is a continuous process and involve lot of confidentiality. But I do believe with slight modification and precautionery measures the suggestion can be implemented.
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by mannan_malar
2 years ago
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Because that is the business model at all of the competitor sites. There are a ton of websites that do just that like google answers.com. Yahoo is gaining more users, by having providing this feature for free. Its pretty amazing that the quality of the answers have been so high up to this point.
by No More Cubes- 2 years ago
They could but as soon as they did they would get sued, by some moron claiming to have recieved back advice. I've seen Engineers who charged a $500 fee to review something wind up in court being sued for $65,000. Even if you win every case you'll be broke by legal expenses. Won't happen.
by Roadkill- 2 years ago
Yahoo is focusing on a different business model than the traditional paid Q & A service like Google Answers. They are going after the social networking crowd -- e.g. the social aspect of search offering a more dynamic aspect of search. I would reckon they want to be the MySpace version albeit for the "thinking man" despite having some really jaw dropping and mind numbing questions and answers. The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article that focused on the point system of Yahoo Answers entitled "Success and Greed In the New Economy Of Web Point Payouts" online ...
by imisidro- 2 years ago
I believe it would have to be set up separate from questions and answers, but certainly...it would be nice to get paid for having a best answer to someone's question. It would filter out many of the users who are just here to establish shock value and pull in more reasonable and professional answers.
by peacemaker- 2 years ago
I know that it amazes me when I give someone a factual correct answer based upon my 25 years of professional experience and the asker picks someone who gave them incorrect advice that somehow appealed to their emotional stance on the matter. It seems a lot of people don't actually want an answer ... they just want to be told what they want to hear or they want to feel like they are right, no matter how wrong they are or the consequences involved.
by SharonLovesKeyLimePie- 2 years ago
Ok, Mr.Indian we will consider your this point in our next meeting and our Customer service officer will be in touch with you.
by Vijaypappu- 2 years ago