Answering Q's on LinkedIn

nvanprooyen

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What a waste of time....

Original question:

Regarding how to market E-Commerce site's ?

Hi everybody;

Am building a website which allow the user to post his or her advertise in the site with out any sign up, fees or commission , this site will have a lot of categories like cars, apartments, houses and ect..

The web site will be ready shortly, but what am looking for,

" IS HOW TO MARKET THE SITE TO THE PUBLIC " ?

I need some good ideas, points or anythings from you all.

Thanks to all;

Mohd Zain

My initial response:


Sorry, but I'm going to answer your question with more questions:

Who are your users?
What do they want?
What pain do you solve?
How are you planning to monetize this pain?
What differentiates your site from the competition?
Can this model provide sustainable growth?
Do you provide real value a user can't get somewhere else?

The concept you are proposing sounds an awful lot like Craigslist. I don't ask these questions to shoot you down, but rather to get you pointed in the right direction. Trust me, it's critical.

Sun Tzu said it best - Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy, is the noise before defeat.

Get these wrong, any tactical channel advice is completely meaningless. Get these right and the world is your oyster.

Best,

Nate
What arrived in my inbox:

dear nathan ;

first let me tell u of the way u wrote is not good no matter who ur. second am going to answer u question because am not going to build a site only after i think of it many times;
Who are your users?
- my users will be all no specific for who will be.

What do they want?
- they want their products to sell fast and want to buy things easier.

What pain do you solve? How are you planning to monetize this pain?!!!
- for the pain i didnt get what u mean!!

What differentiates your site from the competition?
- the different from my site and other site that my site wil be very user friendly compare to other smilier sites, for ex: 1) no need for registertion, 2) no commision 3) no google ads 4) the design will be perfect. 5) the categories will be more and what user want in the market.

Can this model provide sustainable growth?
- well for sure it will, first u know why cuz i belive in allah and the most important thing the feeling inside u regarding any work u plan, second of my work and what i will proivde, theird i have already many ideas but not now only for future going to use it and i cant tel u .

Do you provide real value a user can't get somewhere else?
- yes i can, the good work, the friendly design, services, and ect..

and about this tactical channel advice is completely meaningless, am with u ur right, i already have many ideas in my mind and i wont share it but u have to know who ever we are their are smart and hard worker then us and that why i want to know how people will reply and i just wait for new thing which is in my mind too but still havent get yet.

many thanks;

zain
I won't bore you with my response to that, but now I know why I usually say "GTFO" or post a dick roll to these clowns. I'm the idiot for actually trying to help.


dullspace, dullspace, dulllllllllllllspace.
 


+rep for attempting to help this guy.

His response to you, even moreso than his initial question, clearly shows he's gonna fail hard.