Comments on: Funda.ie to cease operations! http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/fundaie-to-cease-operations/ David Behan's Blog on web design, the Internet, business and company news Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:20:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: David http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/fundaie-to-cease-operations/comment-page-1/#comment-3291 David Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:48:47 +0000 http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/?p=39#comment-3291 Sorry for delay in response... @Errol: Would you be available for a chat later in the week or next week? Drop me a quick mail with a contact number if you get a chance and time that suits! @Job: It's going to take something special for a property website rise to rise above the small competitors out there. There are too many of these small sites out there, all trying for a piece of the market. A new concept and new approach is needed to really give daft a run for their money! Sorry for delay in response…

@Errol: Would you be available for a chat later in the week or next week? Drop me a quick mail with a contact number if you get a chance and time that suits!

@Job: It’s going to take something special for a property website rise to rise above the small competitors out there. There are too many of these small sites out there, all trying for a piece of the market. A new concept and new approach is needed to really give daft a run for their money!

]]> By: Job http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/fundaie-to-cease-operations/comment-page-1/#comment-3013 Job Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:43:36 +0000 http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/?p=39#comment-3013 Funda had a wrong business plan. There is no site in the Irish market that have ever succeeded in establishing itself with the crawling technology. We have a long list of sites that have failed in almost every industry. Cars, jobs, and Funda is the best example of the property site failure. Are we too small market for the crawlers? Are we more ‘Personal’ oriented? Funda had a wrong business plan. There is no site in the Irish market that have ever succeeded in establishing itself with the crawling technology. We have a long list of sites that have failed in almost every industry. Cars, jobs, and Funda is the best example of the property site failure.

Are we too small market for the crawlers? Are we more ‘Personal’ oriented?

]]> By: Errol Maxwell http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/fundaie-to-cease-operations/comment-page-1/#comment-2507 Errol Maxwell Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:17:50 +0000 http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/?p=39#comment-2507 Thanks Dave, I only noticed your reply and look forward to the review. We plan to make it a lot better in the near future so all comments and requests would be really appreciated. Regards, Errol. Thanks Dave,

I only noticed your reply and look forward to the review. We plan to make it a lot better in the near future so all comments and requests would be really appreciated.

Regards,

Errol.

]]> By: David http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/fundaie-to-cease-operations/comment-page-1/#comment-2122 David Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:20:30 +0000 http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/?p=39#comment-2122 Hi Errol, I had a play with your new site recently and I was impressed. I plan to do a full review of it in the next week or so, once things quite down a little here. I'll couple my review of your site with a few more sites I found that I quite liked. If you can mimic the features and get the properties on board, you might be on to a winner. Anyway, keep an eye out for traffic from here once I get an hour or so to do the review, and pop back over and post a comment! Rgds, Dave ;) Hi Errol,

I had a play with your new site recently and I was impressed. I plan to do a full review of it in the next week or so, once things quite down a little here. I’ll couple my review of your site with a few more sites I found that I quite liked. If you can mimic the features and get the properties on board, you might be on to a winner. Anyway, keep an eye out for traffic from here once I get an hour or so to do the review, and pop back over and post a comment!

Rgds, Dave ;)

]]> By: Errol Maxwell http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/fundaie-to-cease-operations/comment-page-1/#comment-2110 Errol Maxwell Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:20:59 +0000 http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/?p=39#comment-2110 We just launched estatemate.com on the 20th of June 2007. At the moment we are concentrating on Northern Ireland until we improve the extra features that we have in the pipeline. It will be a tough job but we want to make a go at doing a property portal for Ireland that is actually good. We are a long way off Daft and Property News at the moment but we feel we are heading in the right direction. I would really value any comments you have to make about our site. We just launched estatemate.com on the 20th of June 2007. At the moment we are concentrating on Northern Ireland until we improve the extra features that we have in the pipeline.

It will be a tough job but we want to make a go at doing a property portal for Ireland that is actually good. We are a long way off Daft and Property News at the moment but we feel we are heading in the right direction.

I would really value any comments you have to make about our site.

]]> By: Paul http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/fundaie-to-cease-operations/comment-page-1/#comment-2046 Paul Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:19:43 +0000 http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/?p=39#comment-2046 Hi, I think there is room for more than one player in the market in Ireland. Look at the amount of newspapers that are out there. I think they will all find their own niches. It is a pity to see any business going out of business but I don't think Funda connected with the Irish people and I thought their tv ads were terrible. I disagree with you about SherlockHomes I think that is a great brand name and I really like the website, I think you are right, I think it might be backed by the Indo group, they may merge the two sites into one one day. Hi, I think there is room for more than one player in the market in Ireland. Look at the amount of newspapers that are out there. I think they will all find their own niches. It is a pity to see any business going out of business but I don’t think Funda connected with the Irish people and I thought their tv ads were terrible. I disagree with you about SherlockHomes I think that is a great brand name and I really like the website, I think you are right, I think it might be backed by the Indo group, they may merge the two sites into one one day.

]]> By: David http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/fundaie-to-cease-operations/comment-page-1/#comment-1860 David Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:31:43 +0000 http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/?p=39#comment-1860 Hi, Good points you have made there. I have to say that I think there is room for only 1 big player in the market and that's daft.ie at the moment, but I don't think they will be there for ever. I think there are concepts and ideas that have not been brought to the table yet and with the right timing, someone could take that top spot. Someone needs to challenge the proven track record and try something different. Funda did a nice job of viral marketing but they didn't follow up with a decent site in my opinion. Some nice features not on the others but just not up to scratch to pull the masses away from myhome and daft. One day, someone will have a unique concept when it comes to property portal websites that is too unique for the traditional sites to try and by doing so, they'll lose out. Ya never know, I might set up my own portal one of these days! :D Thanks for your comment. Rgds, Dave! :D Hi,

Good points you have made there. I have to say that I think there is room for only 1 big player in the market and that’s daft.ie at the moment, but I don’t think they will be there for ever. I think there are concepts and ideas that have not been brought to the table yet and with the right timing, someone could take that top spot. Someone needs to challenge the proven track record and try something different. Funda did a nice job of viral marketing but they didn’t follow up with a decent site in my opinion. Some nice features not on the others but just not up to scratch to pull the masses away from myhome and daft.
One day, someone will have a unique concept when it comes to property portal websites that is too unique for the traditional sites to try and by doing so, they’ll lose out.
Ya never know, I might set up my own portal one of these days! :D
Thanks for your comment. Rgds, Dave! :D

]]> By: MT Fields http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/fundaie-to-cease-operations/comment-page-1/#comment-1859 MT Fields Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:47:46 +0000 http://www.davidbehan.com/blog/?p=39#comment-1859 Hmm- I just saw your blog-interesting about the closure of Funda.ie alright. Its never good to hear web companies failing. However I really don't think funda left any gap in the market.They'd no market share to speak of at all.I understand they had just 30 or 40 customers which is tiny in comparison with the 2 majors. At 5m people Ireland is just not big enough to sustain more than 2 portals in an online classifieds/listing sector.Imho, daft.ie is by far the most useful property site at the moment and it seems to be used a lot more these days than myhome.ie or that new indo one. In fact the indo one (propertynews.com) is seriously rubbish-i can't understand why do they call it propertynews. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone ever using it to find a place yet they claim to be the biggest website in ireland which is plainly false. I've heard the indo are also behind that other (new houses only)property website thats advertising on the radio - sherlockholmes.com - but thats really awful too. Anyway-I think in the future myhome.ie will continue to compete with Daft.ie whilst trying not to lose all those big newspaper property ads in the Times property supplement. Hence I won't notice Funda's absence personally - but at least they tried to be different with their adverts whilst they were in business. Hmm- I just saw your blog-interesting about the closure of Funda.ie alright. Its never good to hear web companies failing. However I really don’t think funda left any gap in the market.They’d no market share to speak of at all.I understand they had just 30 or 40 customers which is tiny in comparison with the 2 majors.
At 5m people Ireland is just not big enough to sustain more than 2 portals in an online classifieds/listing sector.Imho, daft.ie is by far the most useful property site at the moment and it seems to be used a lot more these days than myhome.ie or that new indo one. In fact the indo one (propertynews.com) is seriously rubbish-i can’t understand why do they call it propertynews. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone ever using it to find a place yet they claim to be the biggest website in ireland which is plainly false.
I’ve heard the indo are also behind that other (new houses only)property website thats advertising on the radio – sherlockholmes.com – but thats really awful too.

Anyway-I think in the future myhome.ie will continue to compete with Daft.ie whilst trying not to lose all those big newspaper property ads in the Times property supplement.

Hence I won’t notice Funda’s absence personally – but at least they tried to be different with their adverts whilst they were in business.

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