Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

michaels

Conrad wrote: »

I was wondering whether to set up an online ready meal service.


I have one main question left at the moment; Is it possible to get a good number of customers, quickly, without an online marketing campaign (I would think most online campaigns would unlikely reach target audience very quickly? Presumably the only way would be good old fashioned leaflets.


For this to be viable I would need some 100 orders per day, for something like a £40 box containing 10 home cooked, high quality dinners (no chemicals, additives etc).


Along these lines;


http://lovefoodreadymeals.com/collections/

Wasn't Mr G suggesting doing something similar in Aus - I wonder what his plan was to reach potential customers?

Pyxis

vivatifosi wrote: »

I feel the same way about awesome. Why is it that being full of awe is now such a day to day occurrence that you can experience it purely from television?

Some people set their awe bar terribly low.

:rotfl: That reminds me of the time, years ago, when 'awesome' first became the latest filler word, replacing 'right', 'that's good', 'that's great' etc. or even 'thank you'. However, I didn't realise that at the time.

I got a phone call from a young man about something or the other.....something legitimate, and he asked me for my first name, and when I told him, he replied 'that's awesome!'

I thought he meant that he really liked my name. I thought, what a very nice young man!

It was only sometime later that day,that it dawned on me that he was just using it as a filler word. :rotfl:

Oh well, for a couple of hours I had enjoyed thinking it was a compliment! :rotfl:

silvercar

Conrad wrote: »

I was wondering whether to set up an online ready meal service.


I have one main question left at the moment; Is it possible to get a good number of customers, quickly, without an online marketing campaign (I would think most online campaigns would unlikely reach target audience very quickly? Presumably the only way would be good old fashioned leaflets.


For this to be viable I would need some 100 orders per day, for something like a £40 box containing 10 home cooked, high quality dinners (no chemicals, additives etc).


Along these lines;


http://lovefoodreadymeals.com/collections/

Can you cook?

I would think there would be demand from the elderly who would love a home cooked meal but either are getting frail or can't be bothered cooking for one. Mind you the meals would then need to be freezable if you are supplying 10.

I thought you were a mortgage broker?

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

I feel the same way about awesome. Why is it that being full of awe is now such a day to day occurrence that you can experience it purely from television?

Some people set their awe bar terribly low.

My little niece was telling me how someone was going to be her BFF - best friend forever - for a week.

I questioned whether the 'forever' didn't mean longer than a week and she tutted - I should understand the difference between best friend forever and best friend forever-ever!

Pyxis

silvercar wrote: »

Can you cook?

I would think there would be demand from the elderly who would love a home cooked meal but either are getting frail or can't be bothered cooking for one. Mind you the meals would then need to be freezable if you are supplying 10.

I thought you were a mortgage broker?

Perhaps he's got more than one pie to his bow! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

GDB2222

Conrad wrote: »

I was wondering whether to set up an online ready meal service.


I have one main question left at the moment; Is it possible to get a good number of customers, quickly, without an online marketing campaign (I would think most online campaigns would unlikely reach target audience very quickly? Presumably the only way would be good old fashioned leaflets.


For this to be viable I would need some 100 orders per day, for something like a £40 box containing 10 home cooked, high quality dinners (no chemicals, additives etc).


Along these lines;


http://lovefoodreadymeals.com/collections/

Those guys are doing frozen meals. How do they deliver them next day? There's no suggestion it's local delivery only.

Do they have a network of local stockists who do the delivery?

If you are going to do a leaflet campaign, you must be thinking of a local market. You are looking to sell 1000 meals a day, though. Isn't that quite a lot?

silvercar

This gas/ electric switching is meant to be straightforward!

Really been messed around this time. I now have an account manager on the case, who is supposedly going to watch the switch to make sure it happens. Taken 5 weeks already and so far only electricity has moved over.

Don't think this money saving is always worth it.

GDB2222

Pastures, I read it as 1000 meals per day. 100 customers each ordering a box of 10 meals for £40. Sorry, £39.99.

bugslet

silvercar wrote: »

This gas/ electric switching is meant to be straightforward!

Really been messed around this time. I now have an account manager on the case, who is supposedly going to watch the switch to make sure it happens. Taken 5 weeks already and so far only electricity has moved over.

Don't think this money saving is always worth it.

I keep thinking I should switch - I have low gas and elec bills, around £500.00 p.a., so a saving would be small obviously. I think I might look around and then go to my current supplier and say that I can get it for so much less, but I don't really want to leave and see if there is any flex in their tarriffs that way.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Pastures, I read it as 1000 meals per day. 100 customers each ordering a box of 10 meals for £40. Sorry, £39.99.

Ah, I see that ....

I know one thing - I'd not want to be the person in charge of nutritional values, allergies, allergy sheets, batch control and ingredient source audits.

You only need one person shouting "Died.... peanut allergy" and you're doomed.