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We just started sales for our product. Distributed about 30 flyers to restaurants and hair salons yesterday. Because it was the first time for us, it was quit

We just started sales for our product. Distributed about 30 flyers to restaurants and hair salons yesterday. Because it was the first time for us, it was quite a learning experience. Sales requires a much thicker skin and open ears. Also, because I am an American living in China, I had to learn some new technical words. Our product lets your wifi guests land directly on your web pages. Its a captive portal plus a local web server. http://www.100-xyz.com http://www.100-xyz.com Looking for ideas on how to get customers/users. Suggestions, comments appreciated.

wingerlang 8y ago
The name is quite strange. Does it mean anything?
- 100-xyz 8y ago
  We are creating a platform called 100. So, if the user sees a Wifi with 100-something, they know its our platform and can access it by entering 100.here in the url. So Johns bar would call it 100-JohnsBar, a salon would call it 100-TopSalon...
  - wingerlang 8y ago
    Okay, I suppose that makes more sense. But maybe the-100-network.com or network-100 or even hundrednetwork.com would be more clear. I think the current one looks like a spam domain that an ad network would have for some ad serving. Then again I am not the target audience so it might be irrelevant. Anyway good luck.
    - 100-xyz 8y ago
      Thanks for the response. We are located in China - so our target are Chinese as well as the Western audience. Any english word in the url will cause the Chinese audience to just zone out. Chinese are used to numbers such as 360.com 136.com and so on.
      - wingerlang 8y ago
        Oh right, that makes sense.
Rjevski 8y ago
> Our product lets your wifi guests land directly on your web pages Aka the thing nobody ever asked for and why I don't even bother with public Wi-Fi anymore. Your users are just looking for Wi-Fi and are already in your venue; your best interest is to not piss them off by wasting their time and instead offer a good, seamless Wi-Fi experience so they can move on and enjoy whatever they planned to do at your venue.
- 100-xyz 8y ago
  Our product is designed for people who ARE LOOKING for local info. For those who arent, the business can set it up so that it works seamlessly - the way you stated it. But in some instances, such as restaurant ordering system - it may be more convenient to order from your smartphone directly. In that case its useful. Another use case that we are already having is - event translation. The attendees WANT the live streaming - so they join the wifi, go to the local webserver and get the streaming. If the local server is not there, the sound quality is sometimes poor because the same signal is coming in parallel to all the users from a remote server. In short, its designed for people who ARE LOOKING for local information.
100-xyz 8y ago
Thanks to those who responded. Its nice to get feedback - being so neck deep in the technical stuff, sometimes I cant see the forest for the trees :-)

wingerlang 8y ago

The name is quite strange. Does it mean anything?

100-xyz 8y ago
We are creating a platform called 100. So, if the user sees a Wifi with 100-something, they know its our platform and can access it by entering 100.here in the url. So Johns bar would call it 100-JohnsBar, a salon would call it 100-TopSalon...
- wingerlang 8y ago
  Okay, I suppose that makes more sense. But maybe the-100-network.com or network-100 or even hundrednetwork.com would be more clear. I think the current one looks like a spam domain that an ad network would have for some ad serving. Then again I am not the target audience so it might be irrelevant. Anyway good luck.
  - 100-xyz 8y ago
    Thanks for the response. We are located in China - so our target are Chinese as well as the Western audience. Any english word in the url will cause the Chinese audience to just zone out. Chinese are used to numbers such as 360.com 136.com and so on.
    - wingerlang 8y ago
      Oh right, that makes sense.

Rjevski 8y ago

> Our product lets your wifi guests land directly on your web pages Aka the thing nobody ever asked for and why I don't even bother with public Wi-Fi anymore. Your users are just looking for Wi-Fi and are already in your venue; your best interest is to not piss them off by wasting their time and instead offer a good, seamless Wi-Fi experience so they can move on and enjoy whatever they planned to do at your venue.

100-xyz 8y ago
Our product is designed for people who ARE LOOKING for local info. For those who arent, the business can set it up so that it works seamlessly - the way you stated it. But in some instances, such as restaurant ordering system - it may be more convenient to order from your smartphone directly. In that case its useful. Another use case that we are already having is - event translation. The attendees WANT the live streaming - so they join the wifi, go to the local webserver and get the streaming. If the local server is not there, the sound quality is sometimes poor because the same signal is coming in parallel to all the users from a remote server. In short, its designed for people who ARE LOOKING for local information.

100-xyz 8y ago

Thanks to those who responded. Its nice to get feedback - being so neck deep in the technical stuff, sometimes I cant see the forest for the trees :-)