Hi all,
much depends on the way you approach your business. I would have to change my approach extremely and that’s not the end of the world but it would be necessary.
nobody needs a gambling guide to find casinos that will pay once vegas goes online. They will likely knock your postman over getting money to you in a timely fashion.
This will be today’s online casinos’ biggest downfall. They have not done that whether due to the obstacles they have faced and some are just slow in-house which really makes all the current OC’s look bad especially if the player has not experienced a better place.
people that know nothing about Vegas may be interested in reviews but I think it is a mistake to think that those aware of MGM etc … won’t if they want to know something about them … choose to go to their site.
see the difference is that for instance if i am wanting to know about red wagons then since I don’t know anything about them I would probably visit redwagon.com and then (or perhaps before but definitely at some point) google that brand name for reviews about that particular site i was thinking about buying something from.
but here’s the rub.
If I were seeking a search engine then I would not visit a review site to find out about google because even if I had never used google … the mere fact that the word google is so often used to refer to “look up on a search engine” … would be enough for me to trust going straight to google instead of going to a site for a review about it.
to further my point is the many times the word Vegas is used by online casinos. They use that because it has only one meaning to the majority of us … a place to gamble. but it goes further than that. there are a lot of places that you can gamble. It adds credibility. You hear vegas and you think gambling and you don’t even question “would I get paid if I won?”
that is a given.
so to think that there will be a rush to read a review about a vegas casino gone online may be a mistake.
If i had to guess I would guess there will be an initial rush to read the review but once the casino is established and been online a year or so … that the interest in reading reviews about it will fall far short of the interest in reading a review about a casino that has been online a long time ….. lucky nugget for instance.
why? because you may have heard about lucky nugget … may have heard all good things … but any savvy net user will still seek to know more about lucky nugget and do searches such as that name + words like rogue.
it is unlikely anybody will seek such answers when dealing with a vegas casino because of the regulations they’d be forced to have met because of the US gambling laws. In other words even those unfamiliar with MGM … are not going to hesitate to gamble there because to date there isn’t any USA gambling establishment that has cheated a player and not been severely punished or is completely gone never to be heard from again. Certainly a name like MGM has never been of question.
current online casinos will be welcomed with open arms as soon as they agree to pay taxes which would likely include some sort of tarrif that gives Vegas an edge … though it won’t be worded that way … and that they agree to all the tests and etc that any Vegas online casino would be forced to endure.
that’s how I see it.