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Re:Rate my startup: ChompStack, a mobile website builder for... by josefresco on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @05:07PM (#1492381)
Forget online ordering, just sell lead generation. I could sell your service to my local clients but not easily for 15/month. If you tracked leads you could easily sell your service on commissions alone.
Re:Rate my startup: ChompStack, a mobile website builder for... by stevenwei on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @05:41PM (#1492490)
Do you mean lead generation to potential restaurants, like an affiliate setup?

Or lead generation for restaurant customers?

Re:Rate my startup: ChompStack, a mobile website builder for... by patio11 on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @07:38PM (#1492804)
In this context it almost certainly means "We filled 68 tables for you this month. That has obvious monetary value to you. Pay us and we will continue delighting you."
Re:Rate my startup: ChompStack, a mobile website builder for... by stevenwei on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @08:12PM (#1492866)
Hmm, I'm not sure how we could directly correlate mobile website hits with actual customer visits. Although being able to record those metrics would be a great selling point.

OpenTable/Groupon has an advantage there since they have a very direct method of measurement.

Re:Rate my startup: ChompStack, a mobile website builder for... by thaumaturgy on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @06:18PM (#1492593)
Eh. This is the sort of thing I would (and might) recommend to my restaurant-owning clients free-of-charge, which is why they call me when they have other trouble, and why they recommend me to other people, which is where I make money.

That's not to say that it's a bad idea, just that it wouldn't change my recommendations, personally.

Re:Rate my startup: ChompStack, a mobile website builder for... by jroes on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @07:45PM (#1492816)
Sounds interesting. Can you give an example of how this might work? It hadn't occurred to me that you could do such a thing without physically exchanging money. Everything I can think of off the top of my head would involve tracking code that presumably the customer wouldn't be able to validate is legitimately tracking leads.