So I started a website earlier last month and so far it’s doing great (sort of - postive attitude) and for every 100 people I did contact only 5 were interested and 2 were enjoying my online service. Actual fact. I’m considering social marketing as a viable business strategy but comment and let me know your suggestions. I want to get better at what I love best.
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Are you a 75yrs old Guka?
It’s an online classified site >> https://typemium.com/
Are you a 75yrs old Shosho?
if its for selling things online why not use a more searchable domain name like ,soko.com, uzanunuahapa.com, sokokubwa.com etc
second, how do you intend to monetenize your site?
Never heard of them. Monetize through Adsense.
am saying you change your domain name.
Change the name? Oh that’s what you mean’t. I thought about this but that’s just me. I felt everything business related has to be slapped with a swahili word and that’s just ain’t me. A searchable name should be unique. If you search “typemium” nothing pops up other than the website and its social media pages.
Type in soko (something) and bruh, a whole list of soko-related domains will pop up. Thanks for the advice tho’
Are you a 75yrs old Guka?
:eek::eek::eek:
typemium oh my god, sounds like a cryptocurrency, the domain name should relate to what your site is all about
If it does sound like cryptocurrency then my friend that is a good compliment. What’s the first thing people know about that word is that you can make money in return. So if you’re the first to say then am sticking with that name.
Name aside. The domain and what the website all offer will build its on relationship someday and people will grow to it just like face+book (which books?), insta+gram(instant what?) typemium (type+premium what?!) get my drift 
ok
I like your initiative, but I’ll be frank with you. I highly suspect you’ve just completed high school of joined college.
What is the site supposed to be? It looks and feels like you’re trying to be an OLX. Let me just inform you this from the start, it will flop badly.
Today, any 15 year old can buy a theme and create a website. You can even have a more good looking site than Facebook or Youtube.
But you miss the point.
Websites are businesses. OLX has invested hundreds of millions to publicize and operate their site, and now everyone knows it and most Kenyans use it on a regular basis.
To more bad news, you’ve entered online ‘business’ at the worst possible time. A few years ago, having and growing your Facebook page to tens or hundreds of thousands of likes was enough to guarantee traffic.
This year, Facebook removed the ‘free lunch’. You can have a page with 1 million likes but you can only reach like 0.01% of them, unless you spend money.
So, how are you planning to grow Typemium.com?
I’ve also read your ‘about’ page. You explain how you want to remove classified ads from print to online. “Why would anyone still want to advertise on print?” you ask.
That line of introducing your product would probably have worked in 2008. Indeed, everyone who launched anything online 10 years ago wondered the same thing, and 99.99% failed.
Finally, there is no way you could have chosen a worse name.
Typemium sounds like an element on the periodic table. Would be appropriate for a cryptocurrency, as @MANKY stated, or a science magazine or maybe a web font… And please, please, please… this is not a compliment.
Constructive critism. I’ll take all that into consideration. Now that this floppy online website is up and running, as the title of this thread, what marketing strategies could you suggest?
Again I’ll be frank. I have a lot of experience in this online sector, and the best advice I can give you is to shut it down. Here are my reasons.
- Facebook has been the biggest source of free traffic. Now that’s gone.
- You already have OLX and other better funded classified sites.
- OLX and most (if not all) of these classified sites make loses.
- You’ll not get people to pay for a classified ad when they can put it on more established sites for free.
- You will struggle to pay for the site hosting with adsense, leave along support the business.
- You’ll hardly come across a classified site that makes a profit world over.
Here’s my final advice. The best way to make money online today is to sell an actual product. Anything from women’s shoes to kitchen appliances.
But in light with Facebook move to relegate pages on the newsfeed, you’ll have to pay for advertising.
Just ensure your costs (buying, marketing, delivering) don’t exceed your revenue.
I’ll not lie, but if this was easy, everyone would be doing it.
As you start your journey, just know that the website is not the business. The business is the logistics and what you do behind the scenes. The site itself should take the least of your effort.
change domain name to backpage.co.ke and let escorts list there. …what?you asked.
Fanya hivi brathe…take ksh.30,000, enda town, get cell phone numbers za mapoko kama wote ukiwapatia ksh.150 each ya kahawa…enda estates… Kama zimma …dandora…embakasi…chukua number zao pia…create profiles for them…enda xvideos…chukua pics of ratchet looking chics and post on your page as the real Chic (kenya raha style)…then enda telegram na kilimani moms and dad pale mukuru and advertise …
Boy child will flock your site kutafuta pussy …(remember, don’t charge any subscription… Not in the begining atleast)
What you’ll have created is convince of getting laid…
Ikishika…charge ksh.50 as monthly subscription fees…
Then start collection of data ukiuzia porn sites…
In 5years utakua na toyota auris…
mimi nimekua hapo. Kwa ufupi, unataka kubishana na OLX hii ni MUNYAMBO WA PUNDA. next idea please?