From Trash to Cash: the Dribble continues

MummyandPaige

wow, you lot have been busy while I have been eating!

Munchki - he phoned at lunchtime with some credit for my mobile and returned at 3 with a new phone socket and cables, and he squeezed intot the tiniest of holes to fix the phone, then he said "am I forgiven now?" it will do, think he just doesn't understand the way things work on here.

ok, my 2 pennies worth. I think it is a fab idea, but not to push people to the side, Mambury, I see it this way, it would be like a proper high street, anything and everything, and the more different types of things we have in it, the more customers we are going to attract from all different walks of life, what I would contribute would not be anything crafty or homemade, but just because someone is buying a stuffed sock, doesn't mean they won't also buy a penis ring (hoping that word isn't !!!). I have a truck load of underwear upstairs, along with an entire bookshop so I am different too!

Also, like the tower block idea, so it is not just goods that are sold, but services too, like Munchki, Amber, Nixi and even Dilli's web designing and other technical stuff that she does which go over my head! I think with just the crafty bits, it will be good, but just a homemade Folksy, whereas if everyone and everything is included, then it is like a true high street, a bit of everything to please everyone. Oh, you could even have you local councillor drop in centre (aka Jo) guarenteed to make oyu feel good about yourself in 5 minutes!

Coffee shop as the forum, excellent, where people can come if they need help and also, maybe one of the threads locked for members only where we can laugh and dribble about merkins and smelly socks without anyone seeing?

Oh, and what about all the links and adword things to pay for it and whoever is going to design the thing?

2cats1kid

well I've managed to totally miss what Cagne's idea is anyway, but I assume it is a sort of virtual village type idea. The dark end of the street sounds like a sort of Knockturn Alley to the more mainstream Diagon Alley!

Amber_Sunshine

paulabear wrote: »

I was going to say earlier, it's all getting a bit cliquey and it would be nice to have new people feel they can join in. I think there should be some sort of meeting hall in the middle of the 'village', which would be a forum of some kind; but what I think would be better than allowing anybody or nobody to start up a 'shop' would be if we had something you could join, which would be pretty much like this thread but more personalised, where we could help people to start their own businesses, or whatever; give help but not actually do anything for them, as the point of it would be for them to do it themselves, learn through this, and then maybe we could have some sort of committee to decide who can have a 'shop' on our site? Love the idea of the street getting darker and think it would make it more interesting and entertaining!

I think Paula and Money both have good points, and I rather like the idea of a virtual village. What concerns me is trying to minimise the risk of people just waltzing in and taking the benefits of our hard work without contributing in return. This is, after all, what the Dribblers are about - helping each other - and how we came into being, so I wouldn't say we're a clique at all. Fact is, we're all trying to better our financial situation and build something for the future. We're not paid to help everyone! So taking this all into consideration, if someone does want to build a virtual village I would say keep shops for the Dribblers for now, and have a village 'tea room' for chat. I think I need to focus more and not be here, there and everywhere though, but that wouldn't stop anyone else chatting and helping if they want to.

moneymabel

The Duck pond could have a link to the duck blog!!

cagneuk

Evening all,

I've been reading the posts since my last and here's my two pence worth.
From a personal point of view, I'll help anyone I can. I tend not to ask for too much help myself asI like to find things out for myself (although I have gained an awful lot on here thanks to everyone who posts)
From a thread point of view, I feel at times completely at ease on here and can be myself and share my thoughts and feelings regardless of who lurks/reads/cares but there are other times when I feel completely isolated on here, especially when it's girls chat, sometimes I think it would probably best to just leave and get on with things myself.
From a business point of view, of course my main objective is to provide for my family and allow my wife to reduce her hours at work becasue that's what she wants to do. I could quite easily just stick to my 9to5 but I'm not content to do that, I like to work for myself and reap my rewards. The ideas that are going around about working together are, at the moment, just that, ideas. One of the reasons I joined this thread was because of the ideas and to bounce ideas off each other.
If people don't want to, or see nothing in it for them, or don't have the time to commit, that's totally fine with me, some things work for some and not for others, I certainly wouldn't and don't hold anything against anyone for not wanting to be a part of anything they're not happy about. I'm not in any clique, I don't intend to be. When I was 21, while still living in london, I was told to stop being a sheep and be a shepard and that's something I've done ever since, stood for what I believed.
ok that's my two pence worth...back to the dribble.....

I do actually like the idea of the village, but can only picture emmerdale in my head, we could easily have a B&B for people to come and stay for a while before deciding if it's right for them.

paulabear

We could have bus stops and hoardings with ads for people to pay us to advertise on?

Amber_Sunshine

moneymakestheworldgoround wrote: »

As I thought, I have got the wrong end of the stick.

I thought plans were to centralise all our businesses, so when press releases were done, or people were promoting businesses and blogs, this one central place could be refered to so everyone benefitted. Sort of like a home for all our business faces to live

However, I seemed to have missed that this will be done on a commerical level, designed to make money and generate profit from various avenues. As a proper business venture.

Of course, this is a different thing to what I was talking about !

That will serve me right for not reading cagne and amber's plans ! I will try and read up on these as I dont understand how this will work at all !

Yes, my site is a place to link everyone's ideas together - whether goods or services - so it can be referred to in press releases. Fairly basic and straightforward. The Village idea strikes me as something complementary to this, making it a bit more fun.

jo70mo

I really don't want this to be cliquey at all but I have no problem with some people getting together and setting up their own business as a result of meeting up here. I think it would be a problem to do something that suits everyone and individually we have to take the things that suit us and leave the things that don't.
My version of the ideas boils down to this.
Having an e-magazine which is subscription based. you can pay monthly or yearly.
We have attached to that a website with the village, forums, shops, blogs, articles etc.
The website has 2 levels of access eg free access where you can visist the shops etc and read a selection of articles etc
and subscription access where you can have access to the whole site.
Then if people also want a shop/ blog etc They can apply to upgrade to a seller subscription.
The revenue for the overall business would be divided between the people who set it up and run it.
Rather than individuals selling hard copies of the magazine we promote it.
People running it may be involved in may ways including contributing to the magazine, moderating forums, proof reading articles for others, contributing to the forums and keeping a buzz going so people want to continue subscribing.
People who are involved in running it get free shop space blogs etc and there is the magazine for self promotion too.
People could announce online workshops etc such as creative writing or writing your PR or SEO or maodelling with sculpey. so we could have a college etc. you could choose whether to offer your workshop for free or a small paypal fee.
I see it as seperate to this thread and just a business idea taken up by some or lots of people from here.
Jo x

babymoo

O my there is so much catching up to do, think it will have to wait till tomorrow. I have just gotten back from my afternoon at the spa and I have literally never been so relaxed it was wonderful. I am off for a long soak in the bath now to try out the rest of some new products.

How is everyone?

Paula, DP loved the sulkie so thanks so much

nixinixi

paulabear wrote: »

No wait scrap my idea, I like evenstar's better! Much less complicated. I also like the idea of having little characters wandering about the streets but that's just me and my overactive imagination...
ooh and there could be daytime and nighttime as appropriate and there could be christmas stuff up at christmas and ducks swimming about on a pond and lights flickering...and the houses could all look appropriate to the items or services...

Love it Paula!!

moneymakestheworldgoround wrote: »

As I thought, I have got the wrong end of the stick.

I thought plans were to centralise all our businesses, so when press releases were done, or people were promoting businesses and blogs, this one central place could be refered to so everyone benefitted. Sort of like a home for all our business faces to live

However, I seemed to have missed that this will be done on a commerical level, designed to make money and generate profit from various avenues. As a proper business venture.

Of course, this is a different thing to what I was talking about !

That will serve me right for not reading cagne and amber's plans ! I will try and read up on these as I dont understand how this will work at all !

MMTWGR - I think I have amalgamated both ideas and also taken on other thoughts from this thread and so my thoughts may not actually match their ideas (just to complicate it further!) and I think Cagnes idea should turn into a village newspaper!!!! (After all I need somethwere to send press releases!!!:rotfl:)


I actualluy think that somehow we now have a better idea - a virtual high street, with shops for rent, not quite sure about how it all actually works and I think it actualluywould take investment from everybody so the idea of free shop rental for originators might not quite be a reality!!!

We even have our own charity shop - who was it that was raising money? I am hopeless with names!:eek: