All tag results for ‘word of mouth’

Walamu and Randal Pinkett

Just a small update on how things are going. I haven’t talked about Walamu’s status in a bit, but the site’s actually doing pretty well. As I’m meeting more people here at Rutgers, more people are hearing about Walamu and the word-of-mouth effect keeps multiplying. It’s not at a level where it’s self sustainable yet, but most of the visitors that come to Walamu are via word-of-mouth only second to Facebook. It’s turning out to be pretty hard to shift the focus from the marketplace to the classifieds aspect of the website. Read the more »

The latest wave of boutique hotels: providing nothing less than “star” treatment

Everyone expects a great experience while on holiday: after all, holidays afford the opportunity to relax, see some spectacular sights and take part in exciting activities that you wouldn’t normally get to engage in during your day-to-day routine at home. Yet alongside such expectations, there’s nothing better than when you’re pleasantly surprised with something a little bit more on your holiday.

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