Today we’d like to introduce you to Doni Schwartz.
Being a business owner can be stressful, especially in the time of COVID-19. After friends Daniel Kramer and Doni Schwartz found success in creating a space at Passover Listings (www.passoverlistings.com) for Passover vacationers to more easily find Passover programs and Passover program reviews, they saw a space in the market to do more. They created a new website called My Jewish Listings is the one stop shop for all your Jewish business needs.
My Jewish Listings was created in order to help both businesses and consumers. They offer information in three major categories; Jewish business, kosher restaurants and kosher travel. Our goal is to foster the growth of Jewish businesses through transparent reviews from real people. My Jewish Listings accomplishes this goal by allowing customers to look through all the available options with honest and reliable reviews, much like a complete Jewish version of “Yelp” or “Trip Advisor”. They make it easier to find prices, reviews and amenities across all Jewish business categories, travel and kosher restaurants.
My Jewish Listings makes it effortless to find a new sushi restaurant, chiropractor, accountant or new summer vacation destination. On the business side, My Jewish Listings gives businesses the opportunity to advertise directly to the Jewish community to obtain leads while giving customers a place to leave reviews about their business. They offer everything to their clientele from social media and email marketing to a business listing, podcast interviews and blog posts.
Aside from Jewish businesses and Jewish travel, they have partnered with Kosher GPS, the largest kosher restaurant app in the world with over 50,000 monthly active users. The app functions in order to show where the nearest kosher restaurant is. In September 2021, Kosher GPS will be the only place where you can place an order directly from your favorite Kosher restaurant, leave a review and find a daily or weekly discount or promotion.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Definitely not a smooth road. Creating a start-up is work and constant pivoting until you find out what works. Some struggles involved resourcing needs and getting the right folks in the right place, investment needs (looking for a few new investors) and making sure the product we built meets all the needs of the consumers as well as the Business owners. We have to meet needs on both sides.
As you know, we’re big fans of Passover Listings. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
Daniel Kramer and Doni Schwartz have independently been attending Passover programs at hotels for many years. We were seriously considering creating their own program based on their considerable experiences and individual areas of professional expertise. Instead, they decided to put their efforts into helping the industry as a whole by creating a one-stop-shop for consumers looking for their perfect Passover vacation. Our mission is to be the “Yelp” of Pesach programs. We have an easy method to browse and sort programs exactly to your preferences. It’s a lot of money to spend on a vacation, with too much risk and unknowns. It was nearly impossible to find unbiased feedback when considering a different location. One of the company’s major goals is to “provide transparency and honest reviews for the vacationer, as well as a place for program owners to post information, deals and manage their leads. Program Owners and Operators now have a direct easy way to manage and track a customer all the way to a purchase, which really couldn’t be managed seamlessly in the past. After becoming the largest Pesach Program Travel Website in the World and working with the majority of Jewish travel companies, we wanted to do more and that’s where MY Jewish Listings, the first-ever Jewish Yelp and Jewish Business Directory came into play.
What we’re most proud of is the honesty and reliability that we have with our consumer base and our Program Operators we work with. The fact that consumers can trust the reviews and send inquiries and quote requests through our websites directly to the Program Operator or Business Owner is something we are extremely proud of and fortunate.
We’d love readers who haven’t used this platform to take a look at websites and Kosher GPS apps and see how easy it is to find what they are looking for. For existing users, we are always improving ways to make things easier for finding travel programs, businesses or even restaurants directly in your area!
What was your favorite childhood memory?
By far, shoveling snow back in New Jersey. It was my favorite since I’m a people’s person in heart and I loved helping people along with hearing their stories. They had the time since they couldn’t go anywhere and at a really young age, we learnt the value of a dollar while meeting some really amazing and funny people.
Pricing:
- Listing your business is only $99/month
- Listing your restaurant is only $1,000/year
- Listing you’re travel company is only $200/month
Contact Info:
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://www.passoverlistings.com/ & https://www.passoverlistings.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/myjewishlistings
