hyster
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- Apr 30, 2019
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Hello folks,
I have been working on a side business with colleagues for almost 2 years now. It's a very long time and we have gone online only last month. The service is a marketplace connecting parents with tour operators selling summer/winter camps for youth and children. Our business model is to collect commission fee from a sale through our site. We have convinced a couple of tour operators, one of which is a medium-sized operator. All of them put their offers on our site. We are doing small marketing campaigns on FB as well as Google Adwords targeting parents. Since our start, we have had 0 sales. The traffic on our site is dropping according to Google Analytics.
I have some ideas what we could do about it, although most of them require cash. Also, I have no idea about marketing and this kind of stuff (I'm doing mostly the technical stuff, even though we make all decisions together). One of us is a professional marketer and he drives the marketing campaigns, and I must say he works a lot on that, although apparently without results. I would like to focus on increasing (or having any at all) sales at all cost, but my colleagues prefer to add new features for tour operators to convince them to join us for the next season. Honestly, I don't know what's the best approach.
I'm feeling totally burned out. I don't think I believe in this idea anymore and any thought of writing code gives me chills. I have been feeling this for a several months now, and despite that I was working through it. I don't want to quit, because I know every one has doubts, but it's hard anyway.
I have been working on a side business with colleagues for almost 2 years now. It's a very long time and we have gone online only last month. The service is a marketplace connecting parents with tour operators selling summer/winter camps for youth and children. Our business model is to collect commission fee from a sale through our site. We have convinced a couple of tour operators, one of which is a medium-sized operator. All of them put their offers on our site. We are doing small marketing campaigns on FB as well as Google Adwords targeting parents. Since our start, we have had 0 sales. The traffic on our site is dropping according to Google Analytics.
I have some ideas what we could do about it, although most of them require cash. Also, I have no idea about marketing and this kind of stuff (I'm doing mostly the technical stuff, even though we make all decisions together). One of us is a professional marketer and he drives the marketing campaigns, and I must say he works a lot on that, although apparently without results. I would like to focus on increasing (or having any at all) sales at all cost, but my colleagues prefer to add new features for tour operators to convince them to join us for the next season. Honestly, I don't know what's the best approach.
I'm feeling totally burned out. I don't think I believe in this idea anymore and any thought of writing code gives me chills. I have been feeling this for a several months now, and despite that I was working through it. I don't want to quit, because I know every one has doubts, but it's hard anyway.
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