Facebook started in 2004 and today it is one of the biggest technology companies in the world with over 1 billion users. Nairaland started in 2005 and today it is one of the biggest technology companies in Nigeria with less than 1 million members.

Facebook is ranked 2nd in the world by Alexa while Nairaland is ranked 1st in Nigeria. Facebook made a revenue if $3.71 billion in 2011 while nairaland made....(fill in the gap).

I have some suggestions on how to increase membership and revenue for nairaland:

1) Nairaland must widen its scope; the website must have a global perspective by creating more boards to cater for a world-wide audience. Nairaland must not be complacent;

2) There is the need for more awareness by advertising Nairaland on Facebook, Google, and other major websites. This will draw new members and advertisers from all over the world thereby increasing membership and revenue;

3) Nairaland app should be created;

4) A board purely for business transaction should be created where business transactions can be conducted with Nairaland charging a commision for every deal successfully carried out. A classic example is www.alibaba.com;

5) Yearly charges may be introduced to members who wish to become platinum, gold or silver members.

6) Nairaland must increase the capacity of its server(s) in order to stop being overwhelmed all the time because that could be frustrating for some users;

7) Nairaland may want to consider an IPO just like facebook did. Being listed on the exchange brings in huge capital and increases awareness/visibility;

FXKing2012 should be made the Nairaland business consultant for more ideas on raising revenue and membership.

You may want to drop more ideas on how to move Nairaland forward in order to be able to compete with Facebook et al.

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nice idea,but one tin i av notice about u is that u always want to draw attention to urself...u're an attention seeker....good idea

udemzy_udex: nice idea,but one tin i av notice about u is that u always want to draw attention to urself...u're an attention seeker....good idea

maybe itz becos I'm the very best at wat I do.