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You know its truly astounding that more people have not signed up for Repairs@, everyone in here has by the way I think.
I mean, just think, if Service Power or someone came along and said they’d pass out 500+ fully chargeable calls a month they’d have people clambering over one another to get a piece of it, yet we have more holes than a Gouda.
The lacklustre response actually pisses me right off after the work that was out into it and the amazing success of it after only almost two months in operation. So much so I’m very tempted to sell the calls to someone for a moderate fee, it’d pay a wage at a fiver a call. 👿
Anyways, I have a plan there that I’ll get on with over the next few weeks.
In the meantime, since I really don’t want to sell the calls can we all make a little effort to highlight the importance of Repairs@ for now and the future? Yes, I do have other things in mind for it in time.
But I will, after I get the kids to bed, have a one-off downloadable form so it’s easier for people to handle. I also think that a little promotion wouldn’t go amiss with it either. I’ll report back when all is in place.
I had no idea that there had been that much traffic on the module, nearly 1500 missed calls in under two months from launch is astounding quite frankly, I never expected anything like that amount. Even allowing for testing and people fucking about with it, which we can see, it still is easily over 1200 calls!
K.
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Is it possible to look at the 1200 dead calls and work out the top 3 postcode areas that have no cover. If so it could be published in the trade forum so readers could see the potential amount of money that have missed out on and we might get a rush of applications.
I don’t know offhand how many jobs I have had from E-JOBS but it must be 5 or 6 at least so I will check tomorrow and post rough £ note takings for these jobs in the UKW forum if that is OK
John
Yep that’s fine John, feel free.
Kev has the list and he’s going o analyise it and see where we need cover the most, but with that sort of volume going through it it’s going to be a mammoth task to put right. TBH I was shocked when Trevor told me the figures.
K.
kwatt wrote:Kev has the list and he’s going o analyise it and see where we need cover the most
If he needs help gimme a shout
John
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Thanks John, it may come to that, but I hope not. 😕
What you could all do is review the trade article that I’ve just written in Articles/Site Help titled “Repairs@ For The Trade”. Assuming that’s okay, or we fix it on review, then I intend to do a front page article on the module soon. I’d do it tonight but I need more information first of all.
Dave, fancy doing the FAQ entries for Repairs@, I totally forgot about that. John, you could maybe help Dave with that.
Jason, Mark, Phil can we encourage DASA members to sign up, after all it is free chargeable work and I dare say a benefit if they’re told about it! I didn’t want to promote it on the DASA forums due to the politics as I’m a twat that way, eh Jason. 😉
Ay other ideas for promoting this to the trade in the short term? It’s just with traffic on that scale not two months from launch just think where it could be in a year from now!
And, I have plans… 😈
K.
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Short term solution for say the next three months. Separate forum in the trade section open to all trade members headed Repairs @ Ukwhitegoods.com. Import relevant threads, Sticky intro as the header. People will read it because it’s “new” (to them). Seemingly a lot of readers cherry pick what they read, or don’t keep up with the forums if they don’t come on regularly, but will spot something new, especially if it’s up near the top of the forum list.
Let’s face it, I read just about everything ‘cos I’m incurably nosey, but plenty of people will be using the site just to cover their own areas of interest.
Cheers,
Chris.Re: Repairs@
Ken, with what we plan , which will happen in the next four weeks, why are you asking so many to encourage people to join.
We have it taken care of, why don’t you let our plan unfold and then concentrate on the holes. It is most likely that the vast majority of holes will dissapear if we get the article on the site “right” when people start to browse.Mr P’s idea is ok, but we have that covered too. We will have a huge admin problem if it all works though!
KevinRe: Repairs@
Ken,
Patience my boy :lesson:
I know you’re straining against the leash a bit on this one but as John says, once the holes in the coverage areas are filled it will be a totally different story 😉
We are promoting it like crazy right now as you know, and Joe Public is reacting very well indeed and possibly beyond what you ever imagined at this moment in time. If those trade members out there that don’t sign up then sod ’em!
But having said that, if you do know of any specific Postcode area that does have a trade member and yet he hasn’t signed up it might be an idea to post in the “Repairs@” thread a headline something like “Work in BM goes begging!” to see if you get a response?
Martin
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Thing is, even without heavily promoting it, other than what you guys are posting in the forums, the volumes are staggering given that…
1 It’s just been launched really
2 There’s been no advertising outside of UKW
3 The advertising on the site for it isn’t silly even within the forums
There’s no bad in any of that, the more subtley we use it the better IMHO.
The biggest problem is that there isn’t really any specific areas as such, there’s fooking loads of them! Quite surprising in some ways, not at all in many others.
For now, without unleashing me on it, probably the best course of action is to quitely promote it to the trade within the trade forums. When, as Kevin says, a couple of other things click into place, it should take care of itself but those that miss the boat will have missed the boat in many ways.
I still think it’s crazy though, it’s like me telling people to roll up and collect their free money and then they just walk on by, Crazy!
K.
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kwatt wrote:I still think it’s crazy though, it’s like me telling people to roll up and collect their free money and then they just walk on by, Crazy!
Martin
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you need to have it flashin on the front page and news items on it too.
I have no doubt that when the penny finally drops, that they are missing out on fully chargeable work it will grow exactly the same as the daily traffic on UKW as a whole has grown.
You have to realise that most people cant believe it’s true ‘free chargable work’ 😯 their too busy lookin’ for the catch, to take advantage of it. 😉
Del
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