Hello, I've been told this is the place to be

[Gregaria]

Hi All,

I've been told this is the place to be when it comes to getting advice for your business, I hope it's true. Looking through the forums I recognize a few faces and there all good :) I have recently started a new web based project, which we have a business plan to get to the region of the millionth transaction by December. Could you please take a look and let me know you thoughts.

No need to sign up, although, If you want to, don't let me stop you.

The URL is http://www.discountproject.co.uk

It's going quite well, 40 new members so far today and 3 requests for sponsors/advertising.

Please be careful with me though, its been a long weekend.

Regards

Greg

[creospace]

Hi Greg and welcome,

Glad to see you made it over :)


Gary

[Gregaria]

I don't seem to be getting much help :(

Any advice as to how I can get a response.

Cheers

Greg

[Jayne]

Hi Greg,

Welcome to the forum :D

Jayne

[creospace]

Greg - patience!

[Jayne]

Hi,

I had a quick read, not sure I get it. Does it mean, if Mr A wants to but a toaster and he thinks it's too expensive, you all bully the retailer until they do it cheaper, like people power?

Jayne :D

[Gregaria]

Hi Jayne,

Not quite. The idea is as follows.

Say you and your friends all buy stuff from Amazon, and buy your friends we mean thousands of you. We go to Amazon and say "If you want our thousands of members to continue to buy products from you, you'll need to offer them an incentive, otherwise we will shop at another company that will, for example play". The company then needs to decide whether to gain the purchases from the entire group as our recommended supplier of say Books & DVD's or to potentialy loose all of our custom to another competitor.

Hope that makes sense ?

Greg

[Jayne]

It does now :D

You bully them for a discount for members who join your site! :lol:

Jayne

[Gregaria]

Not really "bully", more "give them a commercial pressure to maintain their client base"

So, bully, a little

[Coding Monkey]

I think it would only work if the company isn't fufilling its purpose in the first place. I don't believe in the BNI method of just referring people because you know them, but rather recommending them based on their own talents. If Amazon are doing something wrong, sure, yet I wouldn't use that company in the first place and I certainly wouldn't expect anything from them. What happens if your customers start doing the same to your business and decide to go elsewhere unless you change?

[Gregaria]

I think I understand where your coming from, but the broader idea is to try and promote better practise in business.

for example, utilities (I mention this as I've had a bucket load of emails requesting us look into this today)

If British Gas offer us 5% of total Gas and electricity bills.

and Powergen offer us 4% on Gas, 5% on Electricity and a dedicated call centre number and team.

We then offer the decision to the membership as to which package they would prefer. And then basically give one supplier lots of customers at the expense of the other supplier. Its basically pure supply, demand and the economics of scale.

It will also give small companies the ability to grow significantly. If they secure the supplier status for an area of purchasing, even if they have to sell at break even, they will increase thier turnover massively. From there, in my experience, its easier to make a little profit on 100,000 dispatches than a lot on a 1000

[freecybermag]

Greg

I think you have a fantastic idea. I buy from Amazon a lot and if it means paying full price on their site as I am only a single customer or buying from Amazon on your site with a discount coz there's thousands of us on there then the odds are I'd buy using you site. You need the big boys on there though.
I'm joining your site :D

[Coding Monkey]

I understand the basic idea of what you're offering in theory, and it sounds great. I have fantastic customer satisfaction, and therefore would benefit from it. Yet, if I did 1 thing the clients didn't like, what's to basically stop every single one attempting to effectively alter my entire system and business through basically 'bullying' me, as Jayne said? Also, if such large numbers of customers are changing, then no customer wins through anything but figures. The moment British Gas put their price down to 4%, do you all move back? At which point, if you have substantial numbers of members (millions) surely there would be no competition after a while, as companies go bankrupt the moment they do something wrong and are voted against? If everyone takes 1 idea to join 1 society, competition is also eliminated.

Yep, they're big leaps from your current ideology, but they're potential ideas. How does the small man compete if one company controls the masses?