Datemymate.net progress
I’ve been looking at online marketing strategies, and they seem to be almost exclusively versions of pyramid selling where one site gets a cut for directing a customer to any other site. Surely there should be more to it than that? Like having a good product, clear communications with customers and brand values that are reflected throughout the work of the organisation? I’ve also been looking at the ‘competition’, though I use this word loosely as there is no other site doing what datemymate.net is up to. The USP is the secrecy - and aiming only at matchmakers. I wonder if it would help if people knew that the profits were going to support an environmental project?
Bog business - I need help! I have a good product concept and a clear marketing strategy. I think I need a business partner who can help me take this forward. I’m meeting up with a family friend who is a mathematician tonight. Maybe that’s a good opportunity to check the maths that goes into the process instrumentation diagram.
Also, I’m very aware that I owe a lot of money to my family at present. What do I do? get a ‘propper’ job - meaning I’ll be able to pay back the college fund I’ve borrowed, or continue to spend time on my environmental mission? If I could get datemymate.net profitable, then I could use this to support my ecological business, as well as paying back my family, but it’s such a gamble, especially now I’ve lost the 10 days a month work I’d had at a professional rate. That really was ideal - enough time to get on with bog & pay back my family. Now everything is so much more precarious.
We have really developed a low expenditure lifestyle: we house share so that the rent is split, as well as the bills. Clothing is almost exclusively from Primark or TKMaxx. Holidays are only in Eastern Europe. We are ‘a’ level bargain food shoppers - I could direct you to the ‘drastically reduced & nearly out of date’ food chiller in any major supermarket! - and when I go out it’s normally to places where a bottle of wine is a fiver (the jug of ale, the sack & the sub lounge). So there’s not really any savings I can make. My granny would be proud - she is fantastically thrifty.