Comments on: For Twenty Quid or maybe fifty quid

By: Be a Good Daughter

Be a Good Daughter — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:13:01 +0000

Cool article.
I hope you’ll surf on my site..
Thank You Again

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infurious » Blog Archive » It’s a flippin’ bargain! — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:18:34 +0000

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By: manuel

manuel — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:29:39 +0000

Brilliant idea…

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:26:32 +0000

Sounds like a freelance jobs site (of which there are tons of out there already) – with the “usp” of one single price. Can’t see it working to be honest.

For a charity angle. There are plenty of opportunities for technical people to volunteer services at http://www.volunteeringireland.ie/

By: Jan Blanchard

Jan Blanchard — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:47:02 +0000

Not only it is a good idea but it will work and make money. We all like simple things and one price makes it easy.
In a previous life, I was doing hotel promotions. Hotels were loading their spare rooms in our system at a set price, â‚¬99. The concept was many hotels, many locations, one price. It worked so well that it was hard to believe, thousands of bookings every day for everywhere. People were just calling the line to get away because it was so simple.
My take is 50quids is better. Most developers, designers, writers, entrepreneurs etc.. could charge an hour of work and advice for 50quids. 20quids seem low unless it was only for charity.

By: Mr T

Mr T — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:30:28 +0000

sweet damien.
you need to sit on your hands awhile

By: Damien

Damien — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:36:47 +0000

So that’s what IBOOD stands for!

By: John B

John B — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:31:50 +0000

Good idea! Have you heard of the Internet Bargain of the day site? Its very popular in here. http://www.ibood.com/

By: Celtictigger

Celtictigger — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:51:22 +0000

Simon,

If I remember my Peter Cook and Dudley Moore correctly, a conversation with your sort goes:

“good morning (5 shillings), how are you? (10 shillings) how may we help you? (15 shilllings)…”

The idea of layering the offers so that you can aggregate your consulting needs in increments of â‚¬50 is good. It provides an incentive perhaps for two or more people to pool their expertise so you might get 1hr of input from 2 people for â‚¬90 if you take the ‘bundle’.

So if you wanted advice on the legal issues of data protection and the practical process-y and IT things you might do to ensure your data is protected you could buy a bundle of advice from two sages.

Or one sage and an onion.