Now it’s time for Google Ads to do its thing. Facebook did well enough but it certainly doesn’t have the reach that Google has.
I have people signing up, but it doesn’t go beyond that. I need them to post a listing on the marketplace. Right now, I only have two external listings (plus another two of my own) so the site is ridiculously empty.
I’m still trying to reach out to people, but that’s hard and not really yielding results. I know it’s early days yet but I need some traction. I’ve even employed the competition method to encourage people to post listings. Posting a listing to be in for a chance to win x amount of vouchers for bla bla bla. My head hurts!
Also at work; drama!
I was sexually harassed. So there’s one Dutch man who went out of his way a few weeks ago to talk to me. He told me that I was attractive and made comments about my body. He said I could be a model and other nonsense, nothing new, just usual man stuff.
Today, we were walking into work from the car park and were talking about disabled spots, the conversation eventually came to a point where I said to him, “but you’re not disabled” to which he replied, “walking behind you, I will be.” What?!!
That was too far. I can take mild comments here and there but that was crude and also very creepy! I went straight to my boss. Haha! Now I have to speak with HR. My boss asked if I wanted for the man to have an informal warning or whether I wanted to go down the formal procedure. I think I’ll keep it informal for now. They were just words. Inappropriate for sure and I felt hella uncomfortable, but just words.
I need to give my marketplace business a name because it’s annoying referring to it as the marketplace, the website, the this, the that. It is now called:
*Googles random word generator*
The randomly generated words sucked, therefore, it shall henceforth be known as:
Marketplace.com!!
I really hope Marketplace picks up and I get more listings.