Hello from Raza at VenZen

[H.Raza]

Hello Everyone,

For over a year now I have been involved in setting up a new online resource for UK growth businesses and entrepreneurs. The main purpose of VenZen (our new online community) is to resolve four key pains of running a business, such as; finding the right service providers, finding the right advice, recruiting the right people and getting funding for a business. We are currently in beta therefore if members of this community can test the service and give me any feedback that would help us improve our service, it would be highly appreciated.

Let me know what you all think.

Best wishes,

Raza

PS: Simply google VenZen and follow the first link to my website.

 

[Cornish Steve]

Hi there, Raza, and welcome to the forums. What was the driver for starting your online community?

 

[H.Raza]

Hi there, Raza, and welcome to the forums. What was the driver for starting your online community?

Early last year, two entrepreneurs approached a strategy consulting firm (with major venturing division) and proposed the Idea of getting all the resources at one place. These two entrepreneurs had previouly set up three businesses and successfully sold them, however every time they were to set up a company they would come across same old four problems (mentioned in my last post). The consultancy really liked the idea and decided to do a bit of market research, appoint interim management and with bit of a funding set the whole thing up. Now we are essentially incubated at their offices.

Our main aim is to make all business resources available at one place.

I hope that answers the question?

Did you have a chance to look at it? Let me know what you think.

Regards,

Raza

 

[Jawsdare]

Welcome to the forum! Pleased to meet you.

 

[Printing&Postage]

Hi Raza,

I couldn't see anything in the Industry Sector or Service Type drop-downs that covers our service (essentially it lets you send a real letter/letters from your PC).

Any chance of getting a "Postal Services" section; I noticed at least one other postage related business that seems a bit oddly placed:

"Easy Post UK" (a parcel delivery service) is filed under Equipment...
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It would help for businesses like ours to have an appropriate category.

Cheers.
Will

 

[BusinessIdeas]

Hiya Raza - Gina

 

[H.Raza]

Hi Will,

Glad to meet you and thanks a lot for your suggestion. You are right, I have noticed parcelmonkey.com is also oddly placed under equipment category. I will have the new category set up asap i.e. 'Postal Services & Courier'

In the meanwhile you are welcome to create your profiles and you can be assured that we will be reviewing all services against their categories once we have the final set of categories ready.

And lastly industries are bit tricky as they link to funding and job spaces, but I am sure we will have a comprehensive list of those soon.

Best,

Raza

Hi Raza,

I couldn't see anything in the Industry Sector or Service Type drop-downs that covers our service (essentially it lets you send a real letter/letters from your PC).

Any chance of getting a "Postal Services" section; I noticed at least one other postage related business that seems a bit oddly placed:

"Easy Post UK" (a parcel delivery service) is filed under Equipment...
​

It would help for businesses like ours to have an appropriate category.

Cheers.
Will

 

[H.Raza]

Hey Gina,

Glad to meet you.

Cheers

 

[H.Raza]

Hi Raza,

I couldn't see anything in the Industry Sector or Service Type drop-downs that covers our service (essentially it lets you send a real letter/letters from your PC).

Any chance of getting a "Postal Services" section; I noticed at least one other postage related business that seems a bit oddly placed:

"Easy Post UK" (a parcel delivery service) is filed under Equipment...
​

It would help for businesses like ours to have an appropriate category.

Cheers.
Will

Will, I have just noticed you have created a service profile for CFH Docmail, I must say your service looks greats, particularly the video on the main page is very very helpful.

Regarding the categories on VenZen, I will move your listing to 'Postal Service' asa we have that category live.

Cheers

 

[boblee]

hi raza thanz for all u have done

 

[H.Raza]

Thanks Bob, I hope you find it useful.

 

[Printing&Postage]

Will, I have just noticed you have created a service profile for CFH Docmail, I must say your service looks greats, particularly the video on the main page is very very helpful.

Regarding the categories on VenZen, I will move your listing to 'Postal Service' asa we have that category live.

Cheers

Thanks Raza.

Having set up our profile on VenZen, I've got to say your site is more intuitive than a lot of similar startups that I've seen, & the linking of the Advice, Recruitment and Funding listings makes it stand out a mile.

Great idea, hope it takes off in a big way.

Will

 

[H.Raza]

Thanks Raza.

Having set up our profile on VenZen, I've got to say your site is more intuitive than a lot of similar startups that I've seen, & the linking of the Advice, Recruitment and Funding listings makes it stand out a mile.

Great idea, hope it takes off in a big way.

Will

Will, thanks for your encouraging remarks, we are doing our best to make it the number one SME/Entrepreneur resource in the UK.

Have you tried our recommendations feature? The concept behind this is that of peer review, you can invite your clients (who in turn are businesses) to recommend your services. Most recommended or commented upon service is pushed to the top.

We have got some companies doing that but it is really going to be a U.S.P. for the services space, something that really distinguishes us from other directories.

Best wishes,

Raza