Abdullah Interviews Yousef Al-Roumi

Its friday, a blessing indeed on so many levels for sure.

Many of you asked me where on earth are the interviews? Well, everything is here, I have everything archived and I have many guests that are about to strangle me for not publishing their stories yet, some im about to contact, lots of exciting stuff to come, BUT here’s the thing:

Most of you were out of the country, school started like 2-3 weeks back so I was waiting for everything to go back to normal for one reason and one reason only. GIVE THE BEST EXPOSURE POSSIBLE TO MY GUESTS. Thats what I do incase you didn’t figure that out by now.

*Fast Forward/Tape Sound*

Today, I have Mr.Yousef Al-Roumi, Co-Owner of Venyooo.com . A website offering multiple sections and categories to choose from i.e; Electronics, clothes, accessories and food too. I personally love the color layout and how clean everything’s presented. As a blogger, I understand how hard it is to come up with clean layouts. Here’s how you should see it “The cleaner it looks, the harder it takes to create”, trust me.

Honestly im so happy and pleased by how the youth of this country are moving ahead with whats new and hip even on Electro/technical levels. I mean pushing up the E-Commerce envelop ahead by young brains is always refreshing to me and challenging for a society that was used to always choose cash, use the internet just to chat or *ahem* wasting electronic abilities on some electro trash non-sense. Trust me, im not pointing my fingers at the society, im including myself in that, simply because I did not know what else to do. I used the internet way back in 95, started a semi blog by 2003, im not getting into that right now, unpleasant productive stories for sure, HAH!

Seriously though, change is always hard but wonderful, vibrant and simply exciting on the long run, and to have that change revamped by fellow citizens that young is a blessing itself.

Many things came to mind like what is the meaning of Venyooo, how they did it, what boundaries came ahead and so forth, Yousef was kind enough to answer all my questions and some more.

Go ahead, get to know Yousef a bit more and check out his successful story.

Alright Yousef, Floor’s all yours
I’m Yousef Salman AL Roumi, 27 years old, graduated in 2005 from The University of Toledo – USA – majoring in Management Information Systems and minor in Business Law.

I currently work in Coast Investment and Development Company as an investment analyst and portfolio manager. Besides that I’m a managing partner of Senyar Innovative Media.

My interests are music, Oud playing, reading, politics, architecture, dewaniya chilling, and trying out new stuff.

What inspired you to tap into who you are now?
Other than building up my career in the investment sector, I and my partners always had the time, energy, and passion to have some other contributions along the side. Starting off with student organizations during college and moving on to achieving new goals on the business level in Senyar Innovative Media.

Please explain what Venyooo means ? What kind of services do you offer ?
“Venyooo” is spelled as the pronunciation of “Venue”, meaning “A place combining an organized gathering” – Dictionary.com. In that sense, Venyooo is a website that offers a selling platform for vendors/merchants to display their logo and items in a comprehensive layout to be viewed by customers, allowing them to place orders online. By that, we are creating a “venue” that combines many vendors under one website.

As a selling platform, Venyooo offers many services and features such as market exposure, marketing, delivery, customer care, PR, online payment (soon), one shopping cart for different items from different categories and more.

What differs you from the rest of the competition out there?
Given that the online shopping market is in its growth stage, I think that in this early stage competition is a solid proof that such market is highly active and demanded by customers. Whether the competition is direct or indirect, and regardless of who are the competitors, we think that Venyooo possesses some competencies that make it a standout within the market.

As a feedback from customers, such competencies are the user friendly layout, design matches with any type of business, comprehensive illustration of the items, easy order processing flow, professional back office management to guarantee quality control, offering vendors to clearly present their identity, and specially our unique participating vendors with their unique items.

What were the difficulties you faced and how did you overcome them ?
Well the main challenge was to implement the concept at the utmost user friendliness for customers, and customized to meet online shopping standards and for all types of vendors. That took us many intensive brainstorming sessions.

Where do you see yourself 5 years from now ?
Expand Venyooo to be the largest online retail community in the Middle East.

Throw something for p0ach readers!
Never be hesitant to do what you believe in no matter how small it is, and don’t fear failures as they are only obstacles towards our ultimate goals.

Thank you P0ach for the interview.

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