Hello fellow Rodinhooders,
I’ve been following TRHS for quite some time now and it’s a great feeling being a part of such huge community with like minded people.
Coming to the point, We have started with an online portal called ‘I am at Colaba’ (https://www.facebook.com/iamatcolaba), a small effort on bringing the Colaba experience online. It’s actually a Facebook store and for now we deal in fashion accessories and artificial jewelry but we intend to add more categories soon (suggestions welcome). We started around a month back and have a decent fan following on the Facebook page with around 1200 fans. The response is nice, people do like our products but in the end what matters is the sales, which haven’t really picked up yet. We asked a couple of people and they told us that Facebook is a place where people come to socialize and not to shop. We use Sellmojo for our store and have loved the experience. For now we have bank transfer and COD (only for Mumbai) as the payment options, We’l be soon adding other payment options like debit/credit card payment.
A couple of questions.
1. Do we need a website or the Facebook store should do just fine?
2. The total no. of reach of our posts have reduced drastically. Earlier where it was more than 500, now its mere 200. How do we improve that, organically?
3. We are kind of stuck where we are right now and really need a mentor who could guide us with different ways possible for us.
4. Finally, we need investors, people who believe in our concept and our work. Point being, where can we find investors?
Any kind of suggestions/help would be really appreciated.
Thank you all.