CaribClix featured on Shoemoney.com one of the most influential blog media sites online

We made it. CaribClix.com – the Caribbean’s first online ad network was featured on Jeremy Schoemaker’s ShoeMoney.com one of the most influential and heavily trafficked blog media sites online. His site focuses on showing people how to make money online and has  25,000+ unique visitors per day that are very focused on making money online/internet marketing, a monthly readership by email of just under 40,000 people, 21,000 followers on Twitter, his blog as also made Technorati.com’s top 100 most read blogs two years running and he’s a regular speaker on the major conference circuits. CaribClix sent him a tshirt with the logo and slogan hoping he’d wear it on one of his Free-Shirt Fridays promotions. So after about 3 months, BAM! It happened today. Yeah Check it out

So what does it really mean?

In a sentence- great brand awareness and exposure for CaribClix- a Jamaica-based online ad network startup that targets Caribbean Audiences worldwide. It’s a one stop online advertising service for companies who want to target locally in their own country’s market e.g Jamaican companies targeting Jamaicans or for a Trinidadian company wanting to reach Trinidadians in the United States, United Kingdom or Canada or a US, Canadian or British company wanting to target  Caribbean audiences in their own countries or in the Caribbean region. 

Why does CaribClix see an online ad network as a viable business?

While the Caribbean market globally cannot compare to say India, China or even the States in term of vast numbers, never discount that we are a very lucrative and largely untapped niche online. Think of the Caribbean in these real terms.

-There are just under 40 million people living in the English, Spanish and French Caribbean.

– Add to that the many millions more living in what we call the Caribbean Diapsora in United States, U.K and Canada. 

-The Caribbean Diaspora in the United States alone has money and send back over US$5billion to their homelands in 2007 alone. 

-The Caribbean Diaspora in the United States alone has an annual disposable income in excess of US$60 billion are among the most educated and progressive immigrants living there. 

-Add to that, according to the US Department of Commerce, there was US$19billion in two-way trade between the Caribbean and United States along and in a single year.

So while a few who maybe a little unknowing about things Caribbean, may see us only as  bunch of islands that have fantastic beaches, amazing sunsets, the best rum on the planet and a region that gave birth to Jamaican Reggae Music Icon Bob Marley – never forget we are thriving nations with very successful business and conglomerates and a Caribbean Diaspora based in the US, UK and Canada that represents a very hot and untapped market.

Disclosure- I am a director and shareholder in CaribClix