Better Than The Radio Ads
May 13, 2009 at 11:30 am
I heard the radio ad this week for Ben Dunne’s latest venture – tenderme.ie. Decided to give it a spin on Monday and was very pleasantly surprised!
Mr D’s age and voice doesn’t make him sound like he would really value good web design. In all honesty I was expecting a template joomla looking thing, so was happy to see a nice fresh and vibrant looking home page, and inside pages are even cleaner:
It’s so easy to use, I actually got confused! I was looking for a register button and couldn’t find one. That’s because you simply have to click the create a tender button, select your category, add your email address and you’re away! I like it.
A mild fail is the fact that the email it spits out with the validation link also has a password in it. I didn’t notice that, so keen was I to click the link and get going. When I later went to post a tender and needed to login using my password I was a stumped for a bit. My suggestion would be to simply bold up the password text in the email and add some text saying “YOU WILL NEED THIS LATER”. Or send the password back in a separate email once you’ve validated yourself.
There are a few annoying spelling mistakes, not just from the users of the site offering “electriction availebel”, but in the category listings:
I’m wondering how they plan to police it?
Do they have a community moderator whose job it is to remove cranks? At the moment there are a few abuses showing on the home page – Aussie Slayer required. Someone else is giving away a colour tv (wrong site go to Dublin Waste). And some dumb ass architect who managed to get through 100 years of architect school doesn’t realise that the tenders section isn’t where you advertise your services.
It’s easy to get the community to police itself by adding ‘report abuse’ links. Every time a member spots something that is blatantly wrong, they click the button and it alerts the administrators who can then either take it down or contact the offender and ask them to edit.
If those kind of annoyances persist, the site will fail. But if they are quickly removed, then I think this site could be a winner. I heard Ben Dunne on the radio yesterday and he mentioned that he set up the site to get business moving again and to bring together buyers and sellers. That is to be commended. I think it’s a great idea. And it is so of our time. It wasn’t so long ago that plumbers, carpenters, and electricians didn’t want to know you for less than €500 and even at that you had to wait 8 months! Now there’s a whole load of jobs on from people who are not prepared to be fleeced anymore. If you’re a skilled person and you want to pick up some work, you’d do well to get on there. There’s a small fee (€3) if you wish to respond to a tender, which I expect is there to stop the messers and ensure that responses are genuine. If a new piece of work is worth more than €3 to you, then get on over to tenderme.ie
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