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Is your site currently making money? Is theirs? Are the venues going to give you grief for scraping their sites? You are in a very good negotiating position si
by olefoo 17y ago
Is your site currently making money? Is theirs? Are the venues going to give you grief for scraping their sites?
You are in a very good negotiating position since you don't need to sell to them, and they are approaching you.
The numbers you need to know to negotiate effectively are how much it costs you to provide the listings; an estimate of what your listings are worth to the other party and an estimate of how much it would cost them to do the same things you are doing.
You should look at their circulation report and rate card (they do give these out to advertisers) to derive those numbers.
You may want to consider selling the entire site to them too.
Good luck and keep us posted on your progress.
- starnix17 17y agoI'm not making money, they're making some kind of revenue seeing they have paid staff and all sorts of web and print ads. As for venues giving grief over scraping, I haven't heard anything from larger Livenation venues (but they have an API for event information). The smaller venues that I scrape seem to love it. One of the well known show promoters in the city was nice enough to shoot me an email telling me how much he likes the site and is now testing out the iPhone version for me. I highly doubt they'd want to buy it, I'm pretty sure the woman that runs the site wants to integrate and didn't really talk much to upper management. Thanks for mentioning the rate card, I'll be sure to find out what they're charging for ads before I might them this week.