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One experts' web site you should visit is www.swapsmarts.com. Swapsmarts has over 1400 experts and their range of expertise includes, in no particular order; cricket, mathematics, relationships, ecommerce, investing, writing, and astrology. And to think some people still don't believe free enterprise helps people. In researching this vignette, I visited www.askjeeves.com and asked Jeeves 'where can i become an expert'. (Jeeves doesn't care about capitalization, punctuation, or syntax. Unlike my editor, school teachers before him, parents before them, and so on.) Jeeves tells me I can become:
a volunteer wedding expert
an expert in anything in
Greater Milwaukee area at www.asktheexperts.org,
a computer expert helping students at Stanford http://www-facilities.stanford.edu sg/expert.html,
a pole barn expert,
a travel expert, and my favorite
How to Make Extra Money as an Expert Witness from www.welldressedmonkey.com.
The lunacy aside, expert web sites are a good idea. They help solve classic problem in marketing - meeting people and getting leads. This problem will never go away but expert systems really do give you opportunity to get introduction.
Comments on this article? Have an extra plate at dinner table? Contact me!
Jeff Gilman
jgilman@marketingforidiots.com
www.marketingforidiots.com
Mr. Gilman is the President of Galileo Consulting and Marketing for Idiots. He brings over twenty years of diversified business experience to his businesses from government, private sector and international consulting.
