2009 June |

Jun242009

Travel Social Networking

I had looked around a fair bit at other social networking sites related to travel and there was nothing really that striked me, apart from Wayn and Travel Pod.

So it wasn’t before long I was able to get into the list on Wikipedia (Impressive for a site that is only over 1 month old) as you can see because of our name Exploroo we are directly above Facebook , this has happened just as a matter of coincidence, the odds are really about 1 in a million.

So after searching in google for the keywords “Travel Social Networking” I decided to buy the domain TravelSocialNetworking.com, to my surprise this was available! This keyphrase has around 90,400,000 websites competing . It was shortly after I also secured even my own Facebook url aswell . This is big for us, particularly Frank who wants to rival Facebook, you can see he had also taken on his personalised URL in Facebook.

You can never knock someone like this with big ambition. Already on first page of google for the keywords “Travel Australia” and soon to be for “Global Travel“, going up each few days by around 40,000 in Alexa is also very promising.

Jun142009

Mohsin Hamza – Exploroo

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Recently we have brought Moss (Mohsin Hamza) onboard. I must say Moss being a close friend and serious business man, He will fit well into Exploroo.

Mohsin attended a boarding school in Dublin from the age of 7. He began his professional life as a trainee accountant working for a practice of Chartered Accountants in Dublin. After a 2 year stint he left for the UK to study Computer Science. Mohsin graduated in 1986 with an honours degree from the University of Hertforshire. Upon graduating his career as a computer professional began in the City of London. He worked in the City for seven years. His final three years were as a consultant specializing in back office investments settlement systems. As a consultant his customers included Shaw & Co, Bank Mees & Hope and Bankers Trust. In 1994 Mohsin moved to Thailand. Soon he discovered the value of ecommerce and was one of the first pioneers to open a full ecommerce site selling silver jewellery. This business grew very fast and in 1998 he started his own factory to manufacture the online orders. The business continues to grow. Mohsin has a wealth of ecommerce business knowledge having built up a good size business solely on the internet.

Today he lives in the countryside a short drive from Bangkok with his wife, 2 daughters and one son.