Messaging is how customers actually reach a trader
A customer would rather send a photograph of what they want than explain it down a bad line. They can ask a price, agree a quantity, and scroll back to the answer tomorrow. Your listing carries a button that opens that chat on the number you already use all day, so somebody who finds your page is one tap from talking to you.
- A WhatsApp button that opens a chat with you
- Your own page with its own web address
A page of your own, without owning a website
Websites cost money, need renewing, and need somebody to look after them, which is why most traders on the Island have nothing online at all. A listing is the smaller thing that still does the job: your name, what you sell, where you are, your photographs, and a way to reach you. One short form, filled once.
- Free to list, with nothing to pay later
- Your own page with its own web address
- Photos of your goods, your shop or your work
- No account and no password, just one short form
Visitors are coming, and most cannot call a Nigerian number
From Black Friday through December, Lagos fills up. Nigerians abroad come home, visitors arrive for the season, and a lot of them are carrying a foreign SIM. Calling a Nigerian number from that phone means roaming charges and a number format they are unsure about, so many simply will not do it. WhatsApp costs them nothing extra and works the moment they have wifi. That is the practical reason to be listed before the season rather than during it. Black Friday in Nigeria now runs across most of November rather than a single day, so the window is longer than it used to be, and so is the time you spend not being found.
Checked before it goes live, which is the point
Every submission is read before it appears. That is why your page is not up the second you press send, and it is also why a customer can take what they find here seriously. A directory nobody moderates is a directory nobody trusts.
- Every listing is checked before it goes live
- Customers can leave a rating and a review
Put your Lagos Island business somewhere it can be found
One short form. No account, no card, and every customer who messages you stays yours.
Questions
Is it genuinely free, with nothing to pay later?
Yes. No listing fee, no monthly charge, no commission, and no card. We have no way to take payment at all.
Do I need a website before I can list?
No, and most businesses here do not have one. The listing is the thing customers find.
How does a customer abroad reach me?
Through the message button, using the number you put on the form. It works from any country without them calling a Nigerian line.
How soon does my page appear?
Not instantly. Submissions are checked first, so listing ahead of a busy season is how you are already up when people start searching.