Man from Mars and women from Venus

I thought about this book last week when I called Gilles.

We are preparing the competition now for our launch in September for which Gilles is going to test a hotel first. We made the agreement with a hotel before we left but they didn't remember. At another hotel, our contact resigned...

Anyway, as I have the contacts with the hotel I felt so frustrated, I needed to talk about it with someone. Obviously just wanting to TELL someone about it, not expecting anyting else than someone LISTENING to me. The only person I could think of was Gilles, him being involved as well. So I called and talked and talked and told him how frustrating it is etc. And then Gilles came up with his comments and tried to find a solution.

I was listening to his suggestions when I saw how funny this situation was. Not only between husband and wife there is this kind of miscommunication, also between business partners if they are male and female...

Reviews

Talking about vinivi and explaining the concept is one of the things I've been doing a lot. And it is then interesting to hear the comments of people who go visit the site.

On vinivi several countries are referenced and we will continue adding other countries. This is our database which our visitors can use when looking for accomodation.

However, it doesn't seem to be obvious for many of the people I have spoken to, that you can write reviews for ANY HOTEL in ANY COUNTRY in the world.

So for those who are reading this: how would you suggest we change our site to make that clear? That ANY HOTEL, ANYWHERE in the world can be reviewed on vinivi?

Back in Mauritius

8 weeks in Holland. Nothing much to report. I stayed with my parents and while my son played with his cousins, I was sitting behind my laptop (outside because what a great wheather we had), doing some work for vinivi. That's basically what my summer looked like and allthough it sounds boring, I had a great time, just being in Europe, being able to go shopping now and again, a movie, nice dinners, go places... things we never do in Mauritius.

About vinivi:
Initially we wanted to reference the Indian Ocean first and then continue with the Mediterranean. However, I started looking for information on Zanzibar and it wasn't very well documented on the web. I tried Madagascar instead which proved to be even more challenging! It shouldn't be too big of a place; i.e. not too many hotels, it should be possible to do it in one month. Sri Lanka was the next choice but coincidentally I received an email from a former colleague who is working in Sri Lanka at the moment and she told me about the starting riots so it didn't seem a good choice either!

As our first target group is going to be the French population, we decided that people would consult our site more easily if we'd reference one of the countries of the French top 10 for holiday places. That's how we got to Morocco. And that's what I've been busy with. Hopefully we'll get plenty reviews of people who have been to Morocco.