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Ultimate Gift Registry

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For anyone who needs a gift registry the Ultimate Gift Registry is a web site that shares profits among all members. Unlike myregistry.com our product pays people to get gifts!.

The Idea

A gift registry anyone can use to list gifts they want to receive for any occasion. Users list products, and people who want to buy the product can choose from a list of online stores to use. This way a user has their entire gift list in one place, rather than scattered among multiple stores.

The site makes money by using affiliate links to purchase items (I'm thinking like Squidoo's modules). The user who posted the list makes money when we split the affiliate income with them.

Everyone wins, and where else can you get paid to get gifts?

I thought of this idea when I was...

Looking through the gift registries of a friend at three different stores...there had to be an easier way to manage a gift list. Combine that with recent exposure to Squidoo, and their "share the wealth" philosophy, and it seemed a natural fit for a centralized gift registry.


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micco
micco Posted: April 11, 2007, 7:02 am

Kind of like myregistry.com or findgift.com?

jshaffstall
jshaffstall Posted: April 11, 2007, 8:31 am

myregistry.com models the gift registry portion of the site well, but as far as I can tell misses the boat on the profit sharing aspect. Given the choice between two gift registries to use, where one of them give me money back for using it, I'd choose the one with profit sharing.

Community profit sharing is a rising trend on the Internet, and a gift registry is a natural vehicle for it.

Brenden
Brenden Posted: April 16, 2007, 8:12 pm

gift reg for everything like birthdays, anniversaries, just because

Girls would love to send that link to there Boy friends

jshaffstall
jshaffstall Posted: April 23, 2007, 11:15 am

I hadn't thought specifically about a target audience, but I think you're right, girls are traditionally seen as getting gifts, so would make a great target audience for marketing.

Could morph the tag line with each holiday, something like "Get Paid to Get Christmas Gifts!". Get member's birthdates, and auto-emails could go out reminding them to register a couple of months before.

Rizal
Rizal Posted: May 3, 2007, 3:26 pm

i have seen this on many webpages

AdvocatusDiaboli
AdvocatusDiaboli Posted: May 6, 2007, 9:57 pm

I think it's a cool idea, especially with the revenue sharing model. A Web 2.0, clean website.. I can imagine it having a good growth...

Galvanized
Galvanized Posted: May 10, 2007, 7:40 am

Ugghhhhh! I just had this same thought last night and posted it as an idea, and YOU had already done it! What is really weird is that I also thought the words "ultimate gift registry/list," so we must be on the same plane! Gosh, I just can't believe it.

I have wanted something like this kind of website for years. It would be really big, so if you need someone to help brainstorm on it, then I would love to help out.

So I'm thankful for the person who told me, and I guess that I'll go back to my idea and post that it's taken. :( But, seriously, let me know if I can help you out in any way with the marketing or writing for it. See if you can get any ideas from mine -- I had even already bought the domain -- "CkMyList.com."

swestrup
swestrup Posted: May 12, 2007, 12:20 am

I wrote about this as an idea a couple of years ago, so of course I'm in favor. What you want to be able to do is aggregate multiple gift registries together, and have an open API for doing searches. The article I wrote is here:

http://technaut.live...ournal.com/3331.html

jshaffstall
jshaffstall Posted: May 21, 2007, 5:54 pm

Thanks for the comments everyone, some great ideas there. I'm definitely looking for help in implementing this.

Jay

 

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