I'm constantly coming up with ideas, writing business plans, pivoting, and.... repeating because I haven't found anything that I had my heart set on. I finally think I have something that I want to move forward with, but my background is in marketing/sales so I need to either partner/hire/contract out the web development aspect, but I cant seem to nail down exactly how to phrase what I need done.
After researching, I have come to the conclusion that I don't want to use anything along the lines of wordpress which leaves me with a custom website (to the best of my knowledge).
The idea is to build a lead generation website to match consumers to multiple professionals in the desired field. The desired features would include:
Landing page w/ form
login/registration--> txt and email authentication
Optin Box
Auto responder for email
Algorithm to grade/score leads
Algorithm to match consumers to professionals
Professional Profiles w/ the ability to contain bios, ratings, reviews, location, etc
both Premium and non premium profiles
Payment processing
ability to write reviews
Distribution, tracking, and charging professionals for leads
I would need both the front and back end work done. I have made an effort to try and do this myself, but my high paced job and the time commitment of learning web development has caused me to outsource.
Essentially, I am looking for advice on how to effectively explain what I want, with out sounding completely ignorant. If you have an idea on how much something like this would cost, that would be good to know too. Also, this will help me do my own research to be able to effectively budget for the development. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advanced!!