'For Zimbabwe News, Culture and all my daily ramblings Interview'

For Zimbabwe News, Culture and all my daily ramblings Interview

By Interviewer at 05/09/07 06:25

Name of your website?

Dzimba.com - For Zimbabwe News, Culture and all my daily ramblings

Your name?

Sharon

Your Location (city, etc)

Harare

When did you start your website and why?

I started this website last year and have actively started blogging about a month ago. The website is meant for other Zimbabweans expats who like to know what happening back home in Zimbabwe

Please give us a short summary of your website, business model, etc

Dzimba is a blog about anything and everything exciting from a Zimbabwean’s perspective. Topics commonly featured on this blog include news from

Zimbabwe, Expat Talk, Property, Making Money, Car, Gadgets and Gizmos with a dose of humor. I hope to inspire, and make people laugh. More than anything, I hope to create dialogue here. Exposing anything Zimbabwean, Dzimba aspires to be the largest online community for Zimbabweans. Dzimba’s objective is to encourage all readers to share all things related to

Zimbabwe. Most of the content you’ll read on this blog is directed towards this end. At the end of each post you are free to post comments on the subject.

What has been the most difficult part of creating and running your website?

Its a wordpress blog and i have created some other ones before so it wasnt very much challenging even though i still have things i am working at

What has been the easist past of operating your website?

I think its writting my daily ramblings of living abroad

What was your biggest mistake?

I wouldnt say i have made any biggest mistake so far but i hope to get more people to visit the website

Who maintains your website and why?

I do maintain the website because its a blog where i need to share my thoughts so i have to keep cost to a minimal

Tell us how your business has benefitted from your website?

Well its hard to say at the moment as i dont make much money from it. however once i get more traffic i hope to start seeing the financial returns

What are your views on ecommerce and the future of the internet?

i just see ecommerce as the future. I have some other ecommerce websites and i see no reason of it slowing down. Consumers are also having much power with the internet as they can review products and services online first

What are your views on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

I have some basic knowledge on it but i think if done properly it works. Just last week i experimented by with the kewords zimbabwe culture where i wote a post about it and also an article. Now i am on page 3 or 4 of that term

What is your website address?

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