I have been using ecademy over the pat 4 months or so by now . Ecademy is a Social Network for Business People founded in 1998 now with over 170,000 member profiles worldwide. As one would expect , i was invited to join , by a good friend, who found the website considerably useful . Ecademy , besides being a great haunt for networking people worldwide , also provides a marketplace with both buyers and sellers of all kind - lawyers , doctors, web developers, lecturers, carpenters, office owners as well as students and authors and hypnotists etc. Whats better is , unlike sites such as orkut , or Hi5 where majority is people from India , Brazil , china etc, here we have members from European countries such as UK , France , and America , Canada , Australia etc.
When my friend invited me till now , i have been contacted for different jobs and projects as well have made some interesting contacts and based on that I upgraded my membership to a power networker and once i get some more time , i would be highly interested in upgrading to a BlackStar member ( which my friends have already ) , and gain entry to various locale meetings and come more closer with hundreds of other Blackstars . The way you can think about it - the cost of a Blackstar Membership is around 100 USD a month , so if a person who has upgraded by paying that just to keep in touch with several other like minded professionals and businessmen , they would surely have the budget to pay for some product you can sell or service you provide pretty easily , at a percentage of that cost . Considering Ecademy has around 170,000 members even if you get a 1% of those interested in the service / product … it is worthwhile anyday .

While writing this post , i received notification that i have received a query from another ecademist , this being the 3rd in past 2 days only

Hi Arindra
How much would you charge (roughly) to develop a PHP, MySQL site like TreatHer.com?
Look forward to your reply.
Matt

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