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i agree fella.
we have many freephones in supermarkets. it costs fortunes but pays my bills.
many of the ph lads live on this sort of work.
in a way the free phone numbers as opposeed to the phones are just as good.
yes it costs the price of the call and the number.
but thats what drivers pay subs for.

Hi
There is no point in having a load of these phones and each company outbidding each other. Only Transport Inoviation are the winners (old Medigen).

There are limits and if its going cost you 10k a year for a phone then on top of that you still have to pay the call charges then you will have to make dam sure your going get that 10k plus call charges back.

regards

You only have to outbid another company if there is one to bid against. There is a Tesco which is just outside our area which has been begging us to put a phone in as at the minute they are having lots of problems with the very small company which is running in that area. Also I know for a fact we don't pay that much for our phones in the supermarkets in our area due to the fact the other firms are not interested.

I know this kind of work aint everyones cup of tea also like you say its not worth it if you got to pay alot to the supermarket but worth checking out before you dismiss it.

Another thing you could try is freephone in your local hospital we got this contract by offering the hospital 25% off there contract work they even pay the call charges on the phone not us. This way you are getting business both ways.

You are over reaching the preaching here RM.

As much as I loathe Medigen, to many companies the worksource is critical. I know someone paying 25K a year for one phone. He gets 3,500-4,000 calls a week.

That is work for nearly 25 cars alone. At £110 per week that is 143k a year in radio fees. So that phone probably clears him over 2K per week.

Tell him it isn't worth it.

However I agree it serves nobody but Medigen if companies start cutting each others throats for less profitable phone.

Medigen once asked me to bid for a 'goldmine' phone, telling me 1k would seal it. I spent a Friday morning watching this 'goldmine' and it was used by 5 customers in two hours. I bid £100 and got it.

Neuby says he isn't focussed on local shoppers for his business, so he can forget them.

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A member of the Hire or Reward Industry

I may be wrong but I would like to attract a good, clean (ish) regular customer base. Wouldn't a freephone in a shop just pickup the wafes and strays? I mean, would you really get any repeat work from anyone who uses this kind of facility?

Maybe I'll live to regret it but I think I'll steer clear at the moment ... Plus I wouldn't know where to begin in getting one!

Well you would get the repeat business in the fact they would use you every time they go shopping but they might never use you for anything else. Also you are right that you get some scrubbers but you will always have this problem whenever you take a booking you never know whats at the other ned of the phone.

Also if you do want to build up a decent size business ( we have around 200 cars) you have to take any business you can get apart from the violent and bad payers.

Good point. I'll look into it. How did you get your freephones?

I think the problem is that, at the beggining, you couldn't cover the work generated from supermarkets.

As for the customers, I would rather pick them up than the p*** heads. And from my experience, regular shop punters become regular regular punters.

TBH, I love them.

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Well you need to work out were you want them first maybe sit outside the supermarkets and see how much business they are creating so you have an idea how much it would be worth paying. Then just approach the store manager making it clear you can offer a good service to the stores customers etc. Also they might be after something for themself something you will have to work out from speaking to them . If you can get him or her on side then the contract should be yours.

Well said that man.

I know of a firm that poached/out-bid another for a massive supermarket contract. I believe they paid nye on thirty grand.

But with that contract came at least 10 cars from the firm that lost it. Each of them pay around five grand a year.

So the bold boss is twenty grand better off.

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Neuby, best bet is walk into your busiest supermarkets and see if they have a freephone.If they do ring it and bokk a taxi, then stand round the crner and see who turns up.

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Hi
I am talking about someone who is starting up a new company. They cant do all fo these things til they have the drivers etc etc. You know the score.

I know of a lot of companies getting a lot of good hires out of shops etc. But I also know a lot of companies cuttng back on some of the phones, actually checking the amount of calls they are getting and seeing if its actually worth having so many freephones in the stores.

Lets look at what the guy wants to do and thats basically start up a new business.

regards

Lets talk about hairdressers! I know this is a sore subject for many in the PH and Hack trade (as they don't have much of their own ). Do you think that strong business links can be made with these sort of comanies?

I was specifically thinking of the city centre ones where a trim can take a couple of hours ... better to pay for a cab than a parking ticket?

Also ... does anyone pay for uniforms for their fleet? If so where do you get them from?

Why not?

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IDFIMH

I would look towards the Chamber of Commerce, the Fed of Small Businesses, Hotel Associations, Licensed Vitulars Association and the funny hand-shake gang.

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