Making Better Video Surveillance Decisions

I have an idea that may help you make better decisions through access to personalized expert help. Please take a look and let me know what you think (leave a comment or email me at jhonovich@ipvideomarket.info).

Problem: Hard to Get Personalized Information to Help You Make Video Surveillance Decisions

Video surveillance is a niche that is changing rapidly because of new technologies. This makes it challenging for buyers, the channel and manufacturers to determine the best choices. It is not easy to get local expertise. A small segment of expert professional consultants exists but generally only the elite can afford their services. This leaves most people making decisions on their own with minimal information or depending on parties that are selling them products.

Solution: IPVideoMarket.info Connects Experts to Those Who Need Help

The Internet is great at reaching lots of people from all over the world. For instance, IPVideoMarket.info is already reaching over 15,000 visitors per month, only 5 months after launch. Over half of the visitors are not even from the US. This demonstrates the ease of the Internet as a communication and connectivity platform as well as the latent demand for information and help in making professional video surveillance decisions.

IPVideoMarket.info would let experts register on the site to promote their expertise (experts could also write articles to promote their expertise). Visitors coming to the site could find an expert and select to engage that expert in a specific task (e.g., review a quote, provide feedback on my current system, or a new technology that they are evaluating). IPVideoMarket.info would manage the market, validate expertize and ensure that experts offer objective feedback. Customers would pay a small fee (say $50 to $500), the expert would receive most of the payment and IPVideoMarket.info would take a commission for managing the market and ensuring that the recommendations are unbiased and accurate.

Benefits to the Community

• For people who need help, this would provide a quick and cheap way to get help, personalized to their specific needs.
• For people with expertise, this provides them a new avenue for revenue generation.
• This would not be competitive with professional consultants as the quality and richness could not match traditional consulting services. Indeed, consultants could participate and then upsell customer to larger projects that would be outside the scope of the IPVideoMarket.info market.
• This would also not be competitive with trade magazines as IPVideoMarket.info would only be promoting expert services and not for any product manufacturers.

Benefits to IPVideoMarket.info

• Incents IPVideoMarket.info to provide quality, objective information and fair treatment so as to grow the overall market.
• Provides a business model that allows IPVideoMarket.info not to depend on large sums of money from powerful vendors.
• Gives confidences to members of the community that the site would not be aligned with a few small special interests.