Splize matches offers and needs to create valuable connections
Target Audience: People interested in marketing, buying, selling, and connecting online.
Website URL: https://www.splize.com
Feedback sought:
- Go to https://www.splize.com
- Create your free profile. How was the signup process?
- How convenient do you find posting your offers and needs.
- Look at your matches and start connecting. What are your thoughts?
- Please share any other comment you may have.
About Splize:
Splize combines marketplace and social networking features. Users can create a free account and use offers and needs to promote their products, services, skills, look for new employees, freelancers, suppliers, etc. Offers and needs are matched by the intelligent Splize engine to reveal interesting, valuable, and sometimes surprising business opportunities, business leads, and connections.
Go to https://www.splize.com. Create your free profile. How was the signup process?
To begin with, I recommend adding a “register” or “sign up” link right next to “login” on top right since that is the first place most people are likely to look. I finally managed to enter my email address to begin the sign up process. However, I did not like the fact that now I am required to go back to my email account and confirm the message in  order to continue any further. If I were not providing feedback for this site, I would have quit at this point.
After I clicked on the confirmation email link, the process was pretty straightforward.
How convenient do you find posting your offers and needs.
To be honest with you, I am kind of lost. I still haven’t figured out how your site works and was hoping to find some sort of “How It Works” video or a tour. Some examples would be of great help.
After I login, I am presented this page that says “What do you want to offer?” which seems straightforward enough – but I have no idea about what kind of offers gets posted, how is the culture built around the site, what is a good price range, etc. I strongly suggest including a walkthrough guide and having a “help” or a “faq” section at each step.
Look at your matches and start connecting. What are your thoughts?
Your matches are ok to a certain extent but most of them seem completely off. Very random. I posted a need ” Help me promote a music video” and none of the matches shown have anything to do with music videos. Here is one of the matches shown “Â I can help you coach 100 people by allowing me to coach you!” – how is that relevant to me in any way.Â
That being said, I do understand that your site might be in its preliminary stage where the matching algorithm is not refined yet. I do suggest training it to show , though fewer, but more relevant matches.Â
Please share any other comment you may have.
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You have an interesting concept. But in order to let it really take off, I think you should make the sign up process very easy, or even remove it, and make everything public so anyone can see what is going on within the site, what is being offered and what kinds of needs are being posted, publicly, without having to log in or create an account.