Furniture search engine is something interior designers have been looking for a long time. Since the commercial furniture industry is a billion dollar industry it only makes sense to have a commercial furniture search engine.
One day I get an email from one of our friends who is an Interior designer telling me she is tired of looking for commercial furniture online. “It takes a long time to go from website to website looking at different contract furniture company’s website or going to Google images and searching for commercial furniture and instead finding Mickey Mouse chairs.” She told me if I could build something simple that would make it easy for designers to find contract furniture, it would become very popular amongst all designers.
So I did some research and after six months of research I built mybusca. My main focus was going to be commercial furniture and I was going to help interior designers save time on their furniture research.
I would not charge the interior designers a fee and I will not charge the furniture companies a fee (At least not for now). I will give the interior designers what they want, endless contract furniture to look at. I will give the commercial furniture companies what they need, 1,000’s of interior designers looking at their furniture.
I needed feedback, so I went to family, friends and I hired a telemarketer to get feedback from hundreds of interior designers. The feedback I got was very positive.
I started using social media; it was free and just cost me my time. In the first six months I got over 90 new non paying members. After the first six months I was still not making any money. Social media got the word out, but mybusca was not getting enough traffic. I knew that to take mybusca to a national or international level I would need to focus more time on SEO.
Mybusca has been a part time project and I am hoping after my efforts with SEO, mybusca.com will gain top page ranking on Google and other top search engines. Interior designers will see the time saving benefit mybusca brings to a designer’s project. I am hoping in that we can save the designers hours, days or even weeks in their furniture research time.
Top search engine placement for mybusca is key for the commercial furniture industry to invest their time and resources in listing their furniture with mybusca. Even though mybusca is free, it must generate lots of traffic in order to attract larger contract furniture companies.
Improving mybusca will be an ongoing process, which we will continue to listen to the needs of the designers. We are focus on growing our content and providing tools that makes designers more efficient with their time.
Feedback really helps mybusca become better. Getting into the mind of the interior designers is never easy. We have gotten great feedback and this is going to help us move forward and develop new features that will help interior designers.
Both industry are tight niches and if a commercial furniture search engine benefits both sides, we should see the larger commercial furniture companies becoming big players in this new search engine.
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categories: commercial furniture, interior design, real estate, hospitality, furniture
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