Great website! I actually live about 5 hours south of SF... but my skill level is nowhere near what it needs to be to survive up there. (working on it)

My plan is to launch something along the lines of http://Miami.com

I hope to be able to provide affordable advertising for local business as well as giving them some kind of online presence, which many in my town don't have.

The newspaper in town seems to focus more on high advertising prices, where I'm looking at it from the other side of the fence. I'm hoping to attract a higher volume of advertisers at lower advertising prices, since i don't have to worry too much about distribution and production costs.

I plan on having a business directory, events, deals, rentals, jobs, dining section. Basically a city portal for it's residents. The advantage I believe to have is that no one is doing this in my area.

Now the tricky part, getting people to the site. I'm planning on running Facebook ads to get the ball rolling along with asking the people I know in my city to help spread the word, via social networking or the old school way.... actually talking to people. Depending on how this works out I would hope to be able to get a commercial on TV and/or radio, since a lot of people seem to listen to the radio while at work.

I'm a one man wrecking crew, who might be a little too ambitious, but I'm not afraid to fail.

Any feedback on my "plan" would be greatly appreciated since this is the first time I've ever planned anything like this.

Thanks again to all who have replied.