A Certain Blog

Ever wondered how the Swedish company Tonaton makes money? Typical of most classifieds they make or intend making money from premium promotions and advertisements. With extra paid options, posters who want to stand out and reach more interested buyers quickly and easily can have their ad At the top of every ad listing page, where they have up to 2 spots reserved for Top Ads. They currently provide two options for promotions via Airtel, Tigo Cash and Vouchers; 1. Top Ad   This promotion gives your ad a chance to be displayed as a Top Ad over the course of 7 days. 2.  Daily Bump .   This promotion will move your ad up to the top of the listings once every day for 7 days. Meaning your Ad will be on top of the listings 7 times!

Enjoy some of the highlights of what happened in 2012 in the Ghana technology space.

In Election 2012, Ghana's EC introduces a new process to verify voters before they are allowed to cast their vote. This was in the form of biometric verification, a good idea but poorly not so well implemented.

Getfeatured.biz  is the new kid on the Ghana classified block and its already kicking ass with its sleek interface and easy to use features. The MapMode which is still in beta mode currently allows viewers to see locations of listings on a rather well designed Google Map. Getfeatured currently accepts listings on  Jobs  |  Autos  |  Real Estate   Users of this service cannot only list ads, but they can also add their own locations to the  places  mode of Getfeatured

One main challenge facing some of Africa's mobile developers is how to make money from their solutions. Mobile Apps and solutions are quite new here (because smart phones until recently were not easy to come by) and there is no clear way of making monies from it yet.