Nextdoor.com Hyper Local word of mouth

[bdeustis]

For those living in countries that follow, Nextdoor is a viral word of mouth social network. I borrow the term Hyper Local from advertising. It describes a target audience that extremely (hyper) relevant (local).

My economic radius is approx 7 miles

Be very professional, bad word of mouth travels faster.

Is Nextdoor available outside of the U.S.?
Nextdoor is currently available in the United States, The Netherlands, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. While we don't have a timeline for launching in other countries just yet, we do hope to bring Nextdoor to neighborhoods around the world in the future.

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[GTP]

Not available in AUS yet.

 

[Karl00]

Apparently I just have two recommendations there. Not sure what else I can do to improve that. I see very little in regard to user interface on my end, unless there's something I'm missing. One person found me there, so I guess that's something so far.

 

[carmen617]

I do about 90% residential work, and get a reasonable amount of mention on NextDoor, which is pretty active in my area. Like any other social network, it's tricky ground to navigate. I have a personal and a business account, and I don't feel comfortable "recommending" myself, so I tend to stay out of the "who do you use for tech support" discussions. I would guess I get half a dozen new clients a quarter from NextDoor, which is pretty good based on 0 effort on my part.

 

[Diggs]

Nextdoor is poison in my area. Reviews are overwhelmingly terrible.

 

[Mr. Ingram's Computer Repair & Shoppe]

Nextdoor is going to be the new CraigsList. The people in my area that use nextdoor are people I don't want as customers. They are looking for a free fix because "it's a small problem, and it's an easy fix for a professional like you."

I used to advertise there and as a nextdoor account holder, people on nextdoor.com are trash people.

here is the #1 recommended person for computer repair for my nextdoor.com
https://www.facebook.com/neighborhoodcomputerlady/
A stay-at-home mom who will go pickup the computer, "clean" it, and deliver for under $35. and she can do it under 2 hours....

 

[carmen617]

Nextdoor is going to be the new CraigsList. The people in my area that use nextdoor are people I don't want as customers. They are looking for a free fix because "it's a small problem, and it's an easy fix for a professional like you."

I used to advertise there and as a nextdoor account holder, people on nextdoor.com are trash people.

here is the #1 recommended person for computer repair for my nextdoor.com
https://www.facebook.com/neighborhoodcomputerlady/
A stay-at-home mom who will go pickup the computer, "clean" it, and deliver for under $35. and she can do it under 2 hours....

I think it really depends on your location. I'm lucky enough to live in an affluent suburban area, and people are perfectly willing to pay market rates for my services. However, as I said, I don't do any prospecting or promoting of myself on NextDoor - it's just something that has naturally evolved though being in business here for a very long time with a very good reputation. I also get a respectable amount of business from local Facebook groups. None of that stops me from advertising or doing other forms of marketing.

BTW it looks like your cheapy computerlady is moving on, so hopefully she's not competing with you any longer!

 

[Karl00]

Nextdoor is going to be the new CraigsList. The people in my area that use nextdoor are people I don't want as customers. They are looking for a free fix because "it's a small problem, and it's an easy fix for a professional like you."

I used to advertise there and as a nextdoor account holder, people on nextdoor.com are trash people.

here is the #1 recommended person for computer repair for my nextdoor.com
https://www.facebook.com/neighborhoodcomputerlady/
A stay-at-home mom who will go pickup the computer, "clean" it, and deliver for under $35. and she can do it under 2 hours....

I would crown OfferUp the new Craigslist. In fact, I would consider OfferUp shadier and worse than Craigslist. Regularly I get calls about people bringing in stuff that was bought broken or going broken and calling about getting ripped off there. I tried the dumb app, and nobody replies back, so I gave up on it. You can't even use it on a computer anymore. Has to be used on some phone or tablet. Since then I stopped using it.

 

[cypress]

I use Nextdoor mostly to keep up to date on the stuff happening in my neighborhood and gettting in contact with some neighbors. I did get a couple jobs out of there for people that were looking. Once a guy got on advertising repairs for $50 per computer I never even bothered to even look. I knew I could never nor would I ever compete with that.

 

[RoboMikey]

Dunno. I used it few month ago but i don't like it, so maybe alternatives?