Hi Sharon, there are comments on thread 72014 which you should consider to improve your chances of success with this venture.I can see you've added the paragraph "Please rest assured this is NOT one of those sneaky schemes..." on the homepage, but actions speak louder than words. For example, a privacy policy and security measures are common features for sites which collect and hold personal information. Savvy visitors will always want to know where the money, and the owners' incentives, come from. This is especially the case for consultants whose stock-in-trade it is to understand how businesses work. Yet it is not transparent where the funding will come from - employers, candidates, advertisers, identity theft clearing houses, etc.The geographical targeting is very odd - this is a UK-centric forum, but the geographical fields of the registration form are very US-centric. There is no field in the registration for candidates to indicate right to work in the US, or for companies to indicate this requirement.The list of categories for candidates and companies to indicate their industry/profession is also rather random. For example, "Accident Investigation", "Appraisal", "Arts and Visual Performing". And what's the difference between "Scientist" and "Sciences", or between "Social Sciences" and "Social Sciences and Community". Since this site is essentially offering a match-making service (tagline: "Where companies and consultants meet their match"), you would imagine that sound categorisation is vital. It does not appear that any understanding of the consulting industry, or any quality control, has been applied to this fundamental aspect of the product you are promoting. Furthermore, there is no CV or job description upload facility. It seems likely that much rich information will end up being dumped into the "narrative" fields. Unless there is some powerful software churning through this text to make sense of it (and, given the design of the site, I'm very doubtful), this data is essentially useless for matching.All of this does not instil confidence that the information gathered will be used appropriately - even if the motives behind the site are genuine, the information collected simply isn't likely to support the service promised.My advice: pull it down quickly before it gets indexed and cached too widely, and before it gets referenced too many times adjacent to negative words (e.g. "is consultanthut.com a scam"). Rebuild, test and improve with some pilot user feedback, before relaunching.
