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Looking back at 2009 by Mocality Team
Well hello there!
We can hardly believe how fast time has flown by since our first blog post back in March. It has been a busy and exciting year for Mocality filled with great challenges and great achievements.
Looking back at 2009, there are a few special highlights we would like to share with you:
April 2009
- Mocality launches its innovative business directory in Nairobi, Kenya. Designed specially for mobile phones it offers business owners practical tools to communicate with their customers and suppliers for free!
- A dynamic team of Mocality Ambassadors hits the streets of Nairobi to spread the word about Mocality’s exciting features to local business owners.
June 2009
- Mocality launches a super quick search box enabling businesses to be found by potential customers.
July 2009
- Mocality introduces the ability to reply to messages from a business for free via Mocality.com.
August 2009
- Business owners are now able to add a detailed list of products and services to their business profile on Mocality. Products and services are fully searchable – an effective way of attracting new customers.
October 2009
- Mocality stands out from the crowd at the Nairobi International Trade Fair with our awesome stand and friendly ambassadors.
- Mocality Blog gets a design makeover offering an enhanced browsing experience for both mobile phones and desktop computers.
November 2009
- Mocality introduces the Specials Board where businesses can promote current specials.
December 2009
- The Mocality J2ME handset application enters the beta testing phase. Once it is ready, you will be able to install Mocality on your mobile phone making the business tools even easier to use and communication cheaper.
Mocality would like to thank YOU for you’re your enthusiasm, support and encouragement throughout this amazing journey. We look forward to a safe and enjoyable festive season and many exciting things in 2010.
The Mocality Team
Team Mocality at our headquarters
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Congrats on going beta on the J2ME product.
Also nice shirts glad to see the mocofish finally made an appearance.
Hey thanks David. As you know, the J2ME client has been a long time coming, and yes, we finally got our t-shirts made!
Hi Guys
I am a young business owner with clients in Nakuru and Nairobi. I have just started and all I have and all I need at this stage is a Laptop and Internet connection to be able to service my clients. From what have seen, you do not have a place for someone like me. I have no office and do not need one, at least for now. So how do I register my company with you? And I can assure that this is a large demography.
One of the services I offer in my business is helping companies get found online. Mocality is the only Local Business Directory I know off and ensure they are registered on. It is a pity for me to direct clients to get registered with you yet I cannot do the same for my business.
Kind Regards
Hi Marvin
You can use your residential address to sign up on Mocality. You will notice that you are only required to provide a suburb and street name during the sign up process, a detailed address is not required.
At the moment Mocality’s main offering is targeted at businesses that have a defined location. This is mainly because, as a directory, consumers prefer to search for businesses whose location they can find.
From the description of your business, you sound like one of the many budding professionals who seek to offer services, but as yet don’t rent out space. We are well aware of the need to accommodate business persons such as yourself, however, it would mean that we would have to develop a feature that alerts the consumer that the business he is looking for may not have a ‘defined’ location, although, it may operate from a ‘defined’ general area.
We are already working on the modalities of this, and we will keep you updated on the progress, as we near completion.
Please feel free to send us any further suggestions and comments to info@mocality.com.
I will do just that. Thank you for the prompt reply. I will be watching out for such changes. And since I am recomending and registering clients myself to Mocality, I willbe contacting you frequently with any queries they may have or any bugs I come across.
Thanks again.
Regards
I didn’t know mocality was such a great tool until I met Neil i’m sure Nigeria needs stuff like this. And hey nice CSS for the blog. And yeah lovely J2ME who coded the menu transition? You Rock!