Comments on: Aiming at an African Classifieds Marketplace

By: ndeh

ndeh — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:18:58 +0000

pls i’m in cameroon and i need u to give me a brief history on how kerawa works, and the advantages. ndehgerald@yahoo.com

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By: mambenanje (mambenanje)

mambenanje (mambenanje) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:45:30 +0000

RT Nice write-up on @kerawa by @whiteafrican http://is.gd/bVvB time to 'Kerawize your stuff' as Fee says =)

By: billzimmerman (billzimmerman)

billzimmerman (billzimmerman) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:10:30 +0000

Nice write-up on @kerawa by @whiteafrican http://is.gd/bVvB time to 'Kerawize your stuff' as Fee says =)

By: africa2point0.com - Alain Jules dans Vendredi et Kerawa chez WhiteAfrican

africa2point0.com - Alain Jules dans Vendredi et Kerawa chez WhiteAfrican — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:44:26 +0000

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By: Kerawa.com, profiled by WhiteAfrican «

Kerawa.com, profiled by WhiteAfrican « — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:19:47 +0000

[…] Kerawa.com, profiled by WhiteAfrican Another profile of Kerawa.com on the blogosphere. This time from WhiteAfrican @ http://whiteafrican.com/2008/12/13/aiming-at-an-african-classifieds-marketplace/ […]

By: Patrick Meier

Patrick Meier — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:56:01 +0000

ooops:

http://www.souktel.org/JobMatch.htm

By: Patrick Meier

Patrick Meier — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:54:54 +0000

Thanks for the post, Erik. The best use of mobile phones that I've seen for job ads/matches is a simple platform developed by my colleagues over at in Palestine. The group was also at Mobile Active '08 so perhaps you already know about them.

By: fee

fee — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:00:10 +0000

In the same light as Miquel, it is a pure chicken and egg problem.

You can’t have “paying” mobile users without sufficient inventory of commodity (similar users, information, ads…), and you can’t have enough inventory without users.

Solving this problem usually involves offering something for free, which is rather unfortunate as free mobile apps (particularly those run by sms) can be very costly to operate.

With limited means, it might be more cost efficient to gain potential users of your mobile app via a free web app.

By: Miquel

Miquel — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:16:21 +0000

I’m assuming that they might be waiting to build the mobile app until they reach a certain growth point, since if it were for pay (and you really wouldn’t want to start free and then charge) you’d need a good deal of information there for people to view. If you didn’t and someone popped in and saw very little in the area that they’re interested in, chances are that you’d have a hard time getting them back. That or maybe it’s just like what we’re doing in that you’ve got a long laundry list of items and you really, really want to have the mobile component, but it just has to wait until everything else is rock solid before deploying it.