Trinidad businesses missing the online boat- BIGTIME!

Following my move back to Trinidad, after ten years in New York, I’ve made a disturbing discovery: there is a woeful lack of Trinidad & Tobago companies online. What’s more disturbing is that average Trini shopper is actually LOOKING for them on the internet and they are just not there. Which leads me to conclude that Trini businesses are just not getting it, i.e. the absolute necessity of an internet presence.

On the plus side, I’ve had calls daily from individuals asking about sites to generate money, either as directories or to sell products or as affiliate sites to earn referral income. This leads me to conclude that the businesses that DO GET IT are poised for runaway success by virtue of being among the firsts out the gate while leaving the tortoises in the dust (and I’m working on several sites like these right now).

By the time these local businesses wake up the others will be firmly entrenched in the search engines while they scramble to lift their search rankings. All it takes is less than three thousand dollars ($3,000 TT) for a professional looking website- that’s including domain, hosting and website design folks!

Don’t miss the boat!

February 3, 2011 / Articles, Online Marketing

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I am Zaf Rahaman, owner of Forward Multimedia Ltd, a Trinidad based digital agency now in our 13th year. Through my experience acquired on the ground since 2011, I’ve become known as one of the foremost authorities in E-Commerce, especially as it pertains to Trinidad & Tobago.

I began writing blog articles on various topics after observing the lack of online information about local E-Commerce. These articles quickly propelled the Forward Multimedia to the number one position on Google for all major industry keywords, a position consistently held since without challenge.

In 2018 I was an invited panelist in the annual Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum. Also in 2018 I was an invited speaker for the launch of the Virtual Caribbean DNS Entrepreneurship Center (VDECC) an initiative of ICANN- the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the international body that that coordinates the Domain Name System (DNS) worldwide.

I was also a stakeholder consultant for the Ministry of Trade & Industry’s National E-Commerce Policy which was passed in December 2018, with many of my recommendations making it to the final policy.

Most of all, I love to write AND love to write on everything website and E-Commerce related to help business owners in Trinidad & Tobago get the most out of their online presence.

ALL articles and pages on my site are written by me, in my voice, from the ground up, and for you, from a Trini perspective, using local examples and applications.

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Imran – February 3, 2011 - 4:06 pm:

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That is so true. I get frustrated myself looking for local companies online, most of them just have email addresses but no website. It amazes me that TnT businesses are so far behind.