G’day All,
I’m back on air. Had a few issues to deal with over the last 48 hours. You know - life gets in the road of the important sometimes.
So here comes a flood of stuff that I’ve been thinking about and working on. Thanks for your patience.
Plan B
As well as the life stuff I have also been doing a heap of work on the auction / classified side of the site. All of the Rural / farming stuff is now under the Heading - “Farming, Livestock Rural”. Click here to see what I’m talking about.
I’ve moved to open the site up so that people other than farmers can list and sell items by auction or classifieds.
I’ve done this because the long term viability of Agmates depends on the success of the auctions / classifieds section as it funds the news site. The number of visitors to Agmates is continuing its strong growth with 10,200 unique visitors last month (that means if you visited the site everyday you only get counted once in that number) and we have already gone over that this month.
However we are not seeing a corresponding growth in Farmer listings. Its a pity as I had hoped we could keep the site a ‘farmer and rural only site’. So I am implementing the Plan B as I’m concerned that Agmates might perish while we wait for that side of the business to take on with the farming community.
So what you now see is that the farmer auction / classified side of Agmates is now a Site within a site if you like.
That is all of the features are still there but are now behind the “Farming Livestock Rural” Icon (the windmill) on the front page.
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To see the Properties for sale just click on the New Property icon pictured, the Green house.
In the next week or so we will be adding Houses and also commercial property.
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And Finally to See Businesses that are advertising on Agmates click on the globe icon (looking for a business) on the front page.
This too will be changing with all of the business that service rural & regional Australia to be moved. Some already have with more changes to come.
The ultimate goal is that when you’re looking for a Business, Professional Service or a Rural Contractor that you’ll be able to come to Agmates and at a click of a mouse find exactly what your looking for and be able to email or phone them straight away.
Thats no to say Agmates does not need your support.
We have 1,000’s of visitors looking for stuff as well as reading our news and your opinions - but we don’t have enough listing for those visitors to look at and buy.
If you value Agmates as your totally free and 100% independent rural and regional media than do what you can to support us by using it to market / advertise your goods and promoting the community to others.
If you don’t value the Agmates community, then don’t do anything. You are all adults and will only do what you want to do. It’s totally up to you.
Anyway - thats just an update for you all.
Cheers - Your Agmate - Steve
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