January 31st, 2009
Long time since I last wrote to this blog. It is time to keep you up to date with what I am doing presently. I will post some of my comments from a press release that was released to public just a few days ago:
”We have big plans for 2009:
* we will launch regional real estate websites (Mondinion.com partner sites) where we will focus our efforts to sell properties in these regions, our short term plans are to launch region specific websites in Europe, Middle East, Caribbean and Australia
* we plan to translate Mondinion.com and all partner sites and make the content available in several langauges
* we will continue our advertising campaigns to keep and even increase the growth rate we currently have
* we plan to release monthly stats about what real estate and in what regions are our visitors searching
* and, we will launch a new feature that is not available in a large scale anywhere else in the international real estate market, let this be a surprise…”
The good news is that one of the above mentioned regional real estate listing websites has just been launched. It is RealEstatePropertyListings.eu and it is targetting European Real Estate owners and agents as well as overseas investors who are interested in European Properties. More regional partner sites will be launched in the near future.
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October 20th, 2008
I remember in 2000-2001 when I started my first projects, I posted some Press Releases but the impact was disappointing. In the last 3 weeks I tried press releases again with my new project, Mondinion.com International Real Estate. I have to say that although the traffic received directly through the source is minimal, this kind of advertising can be a greay branding. My 2 press releases are syndicated on many real estate related websites and I already received some interview requests from onlie publications.
Mondinion on Google News
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October 9th, 2008
Have you ever wanted to live in a luxury house, castle or mansion? I am sure of it…
Today, I just checked some luxury properties on www.mondinion.com international property listings website and would like to share with you some of my findings:
Want to see more? Just check Luxury Real Estate @ Mondinion.com.
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October 2nd, 2008
I just found this post on Fabrice Grinda’s blog. I usually don’t like to comment on my blog about other blogs, but I found this post extremely funny and in the same time very sad….
I hope he doesn’t mind if I republish it in my blog:
“If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago, you would have $49 left.
With Fannie Mae, you would have $2.50 left of the original $1,000.
With AIG, you would have less than $15 left.
But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drunk all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have $214 cash.
Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.”
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September 8th, 2008
TradeHolding.com B2B Network is in Alexa Top 100k since 2004, in fact we have many sites on TradeHolding.com B2B Network with a Top 50k Alexa ranking, or even Top 20k Alexa ranking.
Last month, in August 2008, 2 more websites we launched recently reached the Top 100k Alexa ranking:
Also, Mondinion.com International Property Listings Portal, covering a more specific niche reached 300-500 uniques every day and more and more real estate for sale and real estate for rent listings are posted day after day.
Overall, this summer was very good in terms of traffic for all our websites, our Quantcast measured websites are close to 1 million uniques / month, a traffic that place our network to a ranking of 6658 among all Internet destinations: “Premier World Sites is a top 10,000 destination that reaches over 976K monthly people, of which 226K (23%) are in the U.S.”
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June 19th, 2008
I just launched our newest project: Mondinion.com real estate listings portal. Why this name Mondinion? Because:
1. I could not find any available domain name containing the terms “realestate” or “property”.
2. Instead of someverylongrealestateorpropertydomainname.com I preferred to use a name that we think is more brandable like Mondinion.com. I also registered Ragla.com at the same time, but finally decided that Mondinion.com is a better name for a real estate portal.
What is Mondinion.com? Based on our first page definition: “If you are looking for properties, real estate or other housing related ads and propery listings you came to the right place. is a real estate platform, an international real estate for sale or real estate for rent listings directory. Our free real estate for sale or rent directory and classifieds service can help you to sell your house, apartment, land, villa, castle or property and to find cheap US and International properties for sale.” Frankly, I can not explain it better. It will be basically a place where developers, owners and real estate agents will post their housing related listings while investors and home buyers will search and browse among the listings and if offer and demand is matched a deal will be closed. Simple as 1+1.
I tried to build an easy to browse & nice looking website… well, it is not nice looking yet… I am very bad in design, but I already work with a designer to make it more professional.
Mondinion.com Property Listings Website is affiliated with our other Classified Ads Website Kugli.com and whatever real estate ad you post on Kugli.com will also show up on Mondinion.com and vice versa.
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May 6th, 2008
Some quick stats for April:
- TradeHolding.com B2B Network had its best month so far in its 5.5 year of existence, in terms of membership revenue, number of visits was also high
- OneLoveNet.com free dating service generated the biggest growth: number of new accounts, number of visitors, number of logins, revenue were all on top
- Launched Kugli.com Free Classifieds Site, growing very fast in terms of visitors, just check our Alexa ranking…
- Working hard to launch the Global Real Estate Listings Portal Mondinion.com, I prefer not to estimate the launch date, I don’t like to “guesstimate”…
- The number of servers we manage currently has grown to 7 in April… quite a lot, but I prefer to have fast loading pages.
On the other hand, the biggest challenge on all these UGC (user generated content) sites is fighting with scam and spam. It is fortunate that we already have embedded techniques and manual verification to fight scam and spam, however, as I wrote on earlier posts nothing can be perfect.
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April 23rd, 2008
Yes, we are online but still in beta… Kugli.com, the free global and local classifieds website opened last week and we are now officially accepting classified ads for local communities.
There are already plenty of classified ads posted by visitors, what I like a lot is the extremely easy ad posting form, thanks to Ajax. There is no need for users to register, they can simply use a form to publish their ads. The biggest challenge so far is convincing users to post their ads, until the site looks empty very few persons will actually spend time to post an ad. But I am confident that in a few months my biggest challenge will be spam and scam fighting… although I already embedded some techniques to detect and eliminitate scam and spam, however nothing can be perfect.
What other features am I going to integrate? Just to mention the 2 most important things:
- member registration, login and ad tracking
- multilingual support.
Also, I have some other plans for marketing, but I will write about this sometime later.
Do you like Kugli.com? We welcome your links from your website and any suggestion.
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April 12th, 2008
Yes, I am close to launch www.kugli.com - Free Classified Ads website. I am still working on the scripting part but hopefully it will not take more than a few days to launch it. This is the first project where I use a lot of Ajax.
For the beginning Kugli.com will have 6 main categories:
I am eager to start it and compete with the big guys… So, kijiji and craigslist, be prepared, I am going to compete with you soon.
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March 14th, 2008
A new big internet sale:
“In an unexpected move, AOL has acquired social-networking site Bebo. The price tag: $850 million in cash…. AOL has made it clear that buying Bebo is a move geared toward international growth, as the youth-oriented social network is wildly popular in the U.K., Ireland, and New Zealand. AOL reported that it has launched “17 international web sites over the last year and has plans to expand to 30 countries outside the U.S. by the end of 2008,” as well as international versions of its home page and some services. Bebo, meanwhile, plans to launch five localized versions of its service this year (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands), and AOL will make it a major part of the company’s international expansion strategy.”
Bebo is the 3rd largest social network in the US. and the number 1 in the UK.
The entire article about this deal on news.com.
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