Welcome to "da Gurus"! How does it work?

Are you overwhelmed with the Internet search results? No replies on free forums? Do you need a person and not a computer program to read and understand your question? Do you want an answer to just that one question? Where can you find experts / professionals to answer your question? Do you feel like "Take a few bucks, but just answer my question"? Where do you go now?

Labor is expensive in today's world and to hire an Expert or a Professional or as we love to call them, a "Guru", to do a simple job is expensive. Now more than ever, people the world over are involved with Do-It-Yourself (DIY) projects. Let's take an example. Hiring an expert for a simple task like installing a home theater system may even cost more than the home theater system itself. Most people would rather install it themselves by going through the installation manual. But if you now have that one specific question which you want to ask the experts / professionals / Gurus, where do you go? Do an Internet search, which may end up giving you hundreds of thousands of results. After sifting through this you may end up with instructions that are as confusing or incomplete. Most people are overwhelmed with search results. Explain the problem in a free community forum like Yahoo Answers and wait for someone to reply. You only get to type your question and you may not even use other help like posting pictures to explain the problem with your installation or a video explaining what you have done so far with the installation and what exactly do you need advice about. After days of waiting, you may or may not receive any replies. The replies may not necessarily be from experts and may not even be relevant to your questions. There is no incentive for an expert to answer on such websites. At such times you desperately "seek" a place where the Gurus would take an effort to understand your question and provide you an answer for a reasonable price.

If you want to "search" on the Internet, then you go to Google.com. If you want the "news" on the Internet, then you go to CNN.com or Foxnews.com. If you want to buy a "product" on the Internet, then you go to eBay.com or Amazon.com. If you want to see a "video" on the Internet, you go to YouTube.com. If you want to ask a question or need a service, where do you go?

da Gurus is a world of services where a Seeker (we fondly call you the "Seeker" of knowledge) can ask a question on any topic or field whether it is gardening, cooking, accounting, finance, health, fitness or even electronic equipment installation.

You can post your question for all the Gurus to see. Describe your question in complete detail with the help of -

• Text
• Pictures
• Videos

Once you post a question, the Gurus in that field will review your question and they will bid on the question to provide a quote - a price for which they are willing to answer your question. You are in complete control of the decision making process. Review the bids from different Gurus, review their profile and decide the winner.

You can decide the winner -

• at any point of time and
• for any of the bid amounts at your discretion.

The winning Guru answers your question. Rest assured that there will be real Gurus who will review and completely understand your question in depth and will provide you with an answer that will be relevant to your questions instead of giving you generic information that you already had in an installation manual or from an Internet search. The key incentive for the Gurus is the monetary compensation and professional satisfaction to share their expertise and knowledge to answer your questions, to resolve your problems.

The amount that you pay for the question is not released to the Guru until you review and "accept" the answer! You can even ask a follow-up question if you are not clear about something in the winning Guru's answer.

Join us now and start asking questions. Registration is free!

We believe that every person is an expert or a Guru in some field or the other. We respect the Gurus in every field, be it a great gardener, super plumber, an expert electrician or a meticulous accountant. Many Gurus share their knowledge and provide answers on the Internet for free in their spare time to help others. But they don't necessarily receive money or respect for sharing their knowledge.

da Gurus invites you to resolve problems, answer questions and share your knowledge with the Seekers. You will not only earn the money you deserve for sharing your knowledge, but above all you will receive the respect that you deserve. da Gurus provides a convenient platform to build your income and business on the side and you will get paid to share your knowledge and expertise.

To sum it up, we are the e-bay of "services". Join our community, establish an early presence and build your reputation by earning valuable feedback. Click here to learn more about how to become a Guru and start earning for every answer.

Since this website is all about Gurus or experts in various fields and since we are inspired by Leonardo da Vinci and similar other Gurus of the past, we named it da Gurus. Through da Gurus, we wish to acknowledge, reward and honor the everyday Gurus for their knowledge that they share with us to resolve our questions and problems. And so we also named our website daGur.us - you do not need to even prefix it www. Just enter daGur.us in your browser and you will see us. Go ahead try it!