First time I heard of Taafoo, I was in my third year in the university. It seemed like a pretty good deal way back then, and all my classmates got their girlfriends gifts from there. I checked the site out, seemed nice, but back then, luckily enough, I had no girlfriends so I didn’t see the need to use their services just yet. Time passed and so did the idea of Taafoo as an ecommerce site, I had found Amazon.
Then came the other sites, 3stiches (which was later added to Konga Fashion), then Dealdey, I loved it so much because of the restaurant deals, almost all my orders on that site are still food related, Jumia and Konga came in later and they officially changed the playing field.
If three years back, someone had told me so many Nigerians would be shopping online, I would probably have just laughed about it and not even bothered to argue my case. But like I said in my last post “And then we found eCommerce”, the tides have changed in favor of the tech savvy Nigerian, and all things eCommerce are blooming
I remember a time when ecommerce was a strange word. And only very few online stores existed. Those were hard times.
I would go though sites like Amazon and Tigerdirect, wishing I could get my hands on everything I could afford. And those were hard times. Somewhere along the line, I found Circuit Atlantic, it was a compromise
I had never really thought about it, not until I read the Walmart book by one of its former VP’s, can’t remember its name now. But then, about a month later and I step into Shoprite Ikeja and I’m taken by surprise at the similarities in open view.
From the promotion of friendly in-store staff, to the checkout management, to the lowest price inventory approach… it’s a long list, but all things considered, I believe what we have here is an attempt to incorporate a successful business model.
First time I really recognized mobile Monday was when I stumbled on the 2012 mobile ecommerce event. I had heard that important players in the field like Sabunta’s Onyeka and Kasuwa management (now Jumia)would be there, someone from Taafoo was also to be there although I cannot remember who exactly right now.
Trust me, for a young lad in his final year, dreaming of moving into the ecommerce industry, this was a dream I did not realize I had before now. I really wanted to be there and meet face to face with some of the biggest players at the time that had come to disrupt the otherwise stable ecommerce sector in Nigeria.
[Editors Note]
Hi there everyone, this is the first guest post on my blog, and I’m glad to introduce to you Funto, a blogger with a nice readership base. He’d be talking today on how he uses Twitter to market his blog post.
Without further ado, here’s Funto.
Hey everyone, first off I would like to apologize for the long break I seem to have taken from writing. It was really not anticipated, keeping up with publishing content while working your ass off at a job isn’t really something we plan for. That said, I promise to do my best to make sure I have relevant and rich content published here every week. So help me God 🙂
Alright, now that that is out of the way, let’s dig into today’s topic: Email optimization.
For every marketer, this topic might well be an old one, but I’m sure there are a few people out there who are just beginning this journey to email optimization. So this post is to help out that particular set, and frankly everyone, to gain a better standing from the start of that journey.