₦airaland Forum

lekjons:
your post showed you know nothing about yoruba other than things you see/heard online..

I speak yoruba fluently. What does that tell you?

lekjons:
that means you're allergic to good foods, pls stay with your akpu..

lol. Yoruba no get food abeg. If we are to talk about food, yoruba no join.

Aside gbegiri and ewedu and amala, which food una get?

The East has them in various forms and sizes.

blym4real:
WhatsApp me on this no 08101525574

okay bro.

EnterPRO:
agreed. they can start competing when he has sold his first batch and recovered his expenses.


not people that will browse the thread, discover the name of a product selling 30 copies per hour, then start selling same products themselves with the skills op his asking for rather than teach him (after he has told them the hot selling product).


let's just assume he's selling car tyres then use that as a case study to teach him FB marketing.

my 2 kobo.

God bless you for your matured response. This is something I am not willing to risk divulging at the moment.

Anyway, actually, traffic isn't our problem cos we got as much as 2000 visits on first day. The thing is something is repelling them when they visit our site and we have narrowed our observation to picture of our product when compared to the one imported.

EnterPRO:
he's worried about competition too.


most people here are more likely to compete with him than to buy from him.

You have a good head on your shoulder. The market is a money spinner, we have done all the background work. Even those friends who record better results than us said our sales page is kick aSs... but why are we having lesser sales than they? they themselves say they can't answer cos they don't know.

So we narrowed our observation to how we packaged the product in the picture. My friend has decided to test with the imported version cos the manufacturers took awesome images of their own product, which is the only area we seem to be lacking.

Then I recalled at one time, I bought a wristwatch from China because of just the picture quality. The seller had over 1k feedback and I used same picture to sell same watch and also recorded good sales both here on nairaland, kaymu, olx. Truly, a picture says a thousand words.

Business, marketing is all about trial and error. We have decided to replace the product on our website with the image of the imported one to see the difference. By tomorrow, we shall know.

blym4real:
yes.

I just sent you a whatsapp message now with my friend's phone cos mine is down.

blym4real:
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just want to take a look at the website before I offer my advice. A number of factors can be responsible for Facebook ads not converting to sales. e.g your choosing location, targeted audience, ur website not convincing enough, time you are displaying ur ads and many more.

you are following me right, bro? Make I send you PM.

suyamasta:
Why are you not revealing your site name/url? are you selling drugs?

yeah... even cocaine, hemp, igbo, marijuana, kush, bud, mary J, bong, spliff, vapor...
call ICPC and EFCC on my azz.

DExplorer1:
If you don't have skill(s) in Nigeria, you're a gone.

I swear. Some skills are just so amazing.

However, having the skills isn't enough but being proficient in them is highly recommended.

blym4real:
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just want to take a look at the website before I offer my advice. A number of factors can be responsible for Facebook ads not converting to sales. e.g your choosing location, targeted audience, ur website not convincing enough, time you are displaying ur ads and many more.

okay bro. Actually, traffic isn't our problem but I think the product itself.

Some guys imported their from China with good images of the product etc. Sadly, it does not work. We decided to look for a local maker for one that worked. The local maker's own actually works but the packaging isn't good or as stellar as the imported one.

So when people visit our site, there seem to be something repelling them. Remember Nigerians don't like anything made in Nigeria, as in majority of them and our packaging, both image and all appeared so.

We had as much as 2000 visitors on first day bro but could only record just 5 sales, whereas those with even lesser traffic get as much as 23-30 orders per day.

My friend has decided to test with the imported one and by end of today we shall know.

Lordtrillion:
Except you're not targeting the right audience, then you should have made at least one sale.
Hope your checkout process is easy to understand?
Also, your ad is still new. Just less than a week. Your competitors ad would have been around for a while so therefore, they must have tweaked it to get the right audience & thereby reducing their cost. Facebook ad is more of trial & error when launching it for the first time.
Also install a Facebook pixel on your website in order to track people who visited your website from the Facebook ad. With this, you can setup a new ad to target only them & their look alike audience. Since they visited your website after seeing the ad, 60-70% they must have been interested in the product. Targeting only them & their look alike will make better sense & will convert more than the first ad

man thanks. I have copied this and sent to my partner.

rawswag:
what could b wrong is what u sell may differ to b different. from what the other dude sells

Nope, it is same niche, same ads platform

Lordtrillion:
It depends on so many factors.
As you said, you just launched your site newly. Most customers are been careful on websites they buy from online & make payments on. Knowing the Nigerian factor of high scamming rate online, its only few people who would take such risk by paying for goods or services on a new & not too popular website.
Also, your price might be higher than that of your competitors.
My little advice for you are
1) Try registering as a merchant & listing the products on any of the Popular Ecommerce website like Konga, Jumia, Dealdey, Kaymu. Your Facebook advert should redirect to any of them for checkout. This is because they are more popular & your prospective customer might have used them before
2) If SSL certificate is not installed on your website, try buying one & installing it. That green address bar & certificate image (e.g. this website is 256 bit SSL secured) which your customers see each time they visit your website creates a little trust in them.
3) If your ad is less than a 5 days old, you can still give it sometime. Most times, Facebook conversion doesn't come immediately. If you're getting enough likes & shares on the ad or sign ups on your website, still give it sometime.

Lol bros, It's not a full blown ecommerce site actually but same model. We are selling just one product and we offer pay on delivery. Therefore, the issue of trust and scamming shouldn't arise.

blym4real:
what your website URL?

are you good with something like this?

Horus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLQI6zgdemE

[size=14pt]CBN Floats The Naira[/size]

bros, you like videos. Chai

Hello,

We launched our new site to sell physical products on Monday but the result has been dismally discouraging.

What makes it even sadder and worrying is that we are doing what others are doing, in same niche, same ads platform, same model but different brand BUT BUT little to no conversion, wherein others claim to be getting far better results and lesser spending.

My mind has been wandering about and thinking so many things like: maybe those with better results are not telling the truth, they may be doing something differently that they are not telling us. How come they get as much as 10-15 orders per day and we not?

According to my friend, we had as much as 2000 visit to our site on first day with poor conversion BUT a guy with lesser visit got higher orders than us. So what could be wrong?


Please if you are good with facebook ads, kindly help us out.

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BabaAlabi:
You are not hearing about PDP because greed and accumulated wickedness has killed the party. This is a party that has constantly and systematically robbed every state it manages to successfully rig an election to win. The party is in disarray because Igbinedion (the former governor) raped and pillaged Edo state without mercy thereby plunging the state into new depths of poverty. It is difficult for people to forget. Also, since ACN/APC came into power, PDP members decamped like rats in a sinking ship.
Oshiomole worked for one term and used his second term to steal all the money he couldn't take the first time. He shrewdly rigged the State House of Assembly elections, jacked up taxes, abandoned projects and brought foreign investment in the form of a foreign wife.
However now that APC need to go, PDP is nowhere to be found because the party has already been ruined by greed.
Summary-PDP and APC are both demonic parties sucking the people dry. The current inept party cannot be evicted because the former party is unable to recover from the cancer of its greed. It is a continous malignant circle of suffering and backwardness for the people.
Does my comment sufficiently answer your question?

you said my mind

I was at a bank one day to use ATM when I started hearing noise not too far away.

Well, it was a case of someone trailing a man.

He noticed it and parked. The fools trailing him parked as well which was their greatest undoing.

The man called his friends and asked them to back behind the car that has been trailing him. And that was how they were caught. There was mopol at the bank so they quickly use them to get the guys out.

How it ended is what I do not know but before I left, those guys were already receiving beating and interrogations.

LordIsaac:
Did anyone observe that non of our so called economists and accountants could break the simple theory down to a lay man.....Yet, if you asked them, they'd say they graduated from Covenant with a first class!!

no b lie ooo.

jpphilips:
What has this got to do with the subject? you see why Buhari is justified to call you anything anywhere because your brain is still on hire purchase, NONSENSE!!

so can you break it down for people to understand?

repogirl:
CBN will not fix the price at N197 but will allow the demand for the forex determine what the exchange rate will be.

So what with the market determinants be? where will the price land?

Nuahall2k14:
How much Will banks then be charging wen one is withdrawing from ATM abroad. Which xchange rate Will they be using?

find out by Monday.

designking:
Nice move!

This government is really focused and plans deeply. You don't make forex policies by using sample data from very long past time frame. The best way to build a true forex system is to put out a strategy(demo) and test it against the current market fundamentals over a period of time; then re-access your system, adjust or approve it for full scale(live) use.

What this government has done is opening the Naira for real trading, creating more investors confidence, better volatility and liquidity. This will surely place the Nigeria economy ahead of most Africa economies.

please can you explain what confidence this regime has instilled in investors? I don't see any with virtually all of them leaving Nigeria.

blackfase:
Fvc.k off my mention u uncouth son of a pig. If u cant put up a reasonable rebuttal to an opinion, then u hav no business on an enlightened forum. Im sure u another toddler that just got undue access to d internet. Not really surprised.
Btw na ur papa b mumu....

when someone thinks they are mad, not knowing some people are machine gun on steroids. Don't start what you can't finish.

MightyPee:
well bro, I will listen to it. I don't love a woman for her body. am just a guy who loves freely without expecting anything in return.

you need to learn the code man. All this your mister nice guy NEVER move women.

henryobinna:
currently its 340+(depending on bank) when this change comes I don't know what it'll be.

no b small thing ooo.

blackfase:
Why would anyone need to verify an account b4 sending money to it? If i have to pay some cash into ur account, woe betide u if u send me a nonsense account. Its gonna b d recipient's loss not mine. Im i missing anything here? Somebody should wise me up....

u b mumu... do you know that this kind of app (though have not tried it) can help save scam victims wherein people use fake names?

henryobinna:
Actually, this won't reduce the price of dollar rather it'll increase the amount of naira per dollar businesses who recieve dollar payment are paid. for example if you recieve 100$ to your account you'd be paid 19,900 at least at the moment where as you'd be charged 340+ to a dollar when paying for the same 100$ bringing it to 3400+ for a dollar.

But when this policy is implemented you'd no more be paid 19900 for 100$ rather 28000 if the new rate is 280

and when you want to pay for something online? What rate would it be?

sanusidabo:
CBN should never attempt to devalue our Naira being a consumer economy devaluation never the solution. But just ban Bureau De Change and that way tackle unnecessary demand of forex since only banks can give & buy at a given price.

you think they are ignorant of what you are saying? They are gaining from it bro and thus, you demand will never become a reality.

berrystunn:
Buhari stylishly devalue naira since.. 285N. CBN want to announce it officially. for foreign investors not for us.. Those of us using your bank card abroad notice the rate 319N with bank charge.

exactly!

Easy3oy:
you wouldn't want to imagine what a poor man would if exposed to such amounts, would you?

Something must be wrong with you. Is that your stupid reasoning of defending nepotism? Do you mean all poor are thieves? This is why I can't hold back my anger when I read nonsense like this,