Re-review my startup - ProspectVista.com
DanielStraight: I reviewed before, and I'm afraid I can't say much different now. My review before was that I thought the profiles were not at all compelling, so I signed in with the business account to see if I could do better. I can't. There isn't enough flexibility, and there's way too much focus on stuff no one cares about. I said it before, and I'll say it again: No one cares what your address is, what your primary, second, and third industries are, or what your office hours are. Most people don't care what your phone number is either since this is a website and they probably expect to use the web to contact a business on it.There are also quite a few design issues. Sometimes bold blue text is clickable, sometimes it isn't. Something things listed in the left column are clickable menus, sometimes they aren't. I find it all very confusing. I thought for sure on the home page, I'd be able to click on "Find what you need" to go to some sort of search page, but I can't. The search box at the top gives no clue of what you should search for, and if you search for something that gets no results (or results you don't like), there's no indication of what you should do to improve your results. If search isn't your thing, oh well. There's no way to browse on the site, only search. In my opinion, the ability to search without the ability to browse works for exactly one website, and I think you know which one that is.You mention plumbers as an example, but until you reach a huge critical mass, searching for a plumber on your site will not be practical. Craigslist is one of the only websites in the world where it's practical to search for local businesses, and Craigslist is huge. You are tiny. It is not practical to search for a local business that only lists 10 businesses in your entire country. What are the chances of actually finding one? One in a billion? Worse?I think you would do much better to focus on business that don't have a "service area" (conveniently eliminating even more from the site that no one cares about). Freelance tech people would be a good target audience as far as businesses go. Software companies are also good. And then you need to give people a chance to actually show themselves on their profiles rather than a bunch of information that, I want to reiterate again, no one cares about. For comparison, this is what a good profile for a designer looks like:http://www.ganato.com/index.phpIt is simply not possible to make something that compelling on your site. On your site, it would look like:    Location: Santiago, Chile  
    Service area: Worldwide  
    Name: Lidia Gana  
    Primary industry: Web design  
    Secondary industry: Interface design

Then there would be a comment area that contains a few good testimonials, perhaps the only thing compelling that could be worked into the profile, a list of business contacts that no one would care about, a discussion board that would not have a enough critical mass for anyone to care about, and a fans section that no one would care about.Finally, there would be one single solitary chance for the designer to show what she can do: the video, but given that the attention span of users is very short and that there was nothing in the profile to compel them to care, many probably won't bother watching the video, especially if it's longer than say, 30 seconds. With 30 seconds, the designer could show only a ridiculously tiny portion of what's on her website. She certainly wouldn't have a whole page that exudes her design skill. She certainly wouldn't have a section where she gives away free stuff to show off her talent.Think of it like this: eHarmony commercials complain that other dating sites give you just a picture and a paragraph and how useless that is. Your website gives businesses and customers just a picture and a paragraph.