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This is a really cool idea! How many restaurants do you have signed up? The proof is in the pudding, so the more restaurants that use this, the more likely it

This is a really cool idea! How many restaurants do you have signed up? The proof is in the pudding, so the more restaurants that use this, the more likely it is for your to work our any bugs/process issues etc and for your company and product to just take over a huge chunk of marketshare. I know a lot of people who are building or talking about building similar products, so congrats on being early to the party! Also, best of luck!

refulgentis 15y ago
x, where x is less than 10. To be honest, it looks like it's going to be a lot of hard work to get people signed up and interested. It's a tough marketing problem: how do you get to people who haven't already invested in another solution down this road, even if our solution is much cheaper we're still talking in the thousands to switch over from someone who already charged them tens of thousands. The answer is to find people who haven't, which means finding restaurants that have not opened yet. Not easy work.
- pbreit 15y ago
  There are tons of small restaurants and take-out places that don't use POS. Start with them. Don't try to get people to switch until your solution is rock-solid and high performance. If your system actually works, you will have no trouble selling it. What we've seen so far needs improvement.
- Killah911 15y ago
  Great! You have a base to refine your product till it's the cat's meow. There's nothing like word of mouth, better yet, references from businesses who've actually used your product and absolutely love it! You marketing effort should just be the product, but also real verifiable applications of your product. Put together a little marketing video where the existing businesses vouch for your product. <br> I agree with what #pbreit said as well. Once you have 30-40 mom and pop stores using your devices, not only will you be more confident about what your sell, your potential customers will be too. See if you can target small but high traffic businesses, even if it's lunch truck or a no name pizza joint at a Campus near you. </br> You've got a great idea, simple and potentially very effective. Iron out the kinks before other competitors get to market. Once again, best of luck!

refulgentis 15y ago

x, where x is less than 10. To be honest, it looks like it's going to be a lot of hard work to get people signed up and interested. It's a tough marketing problem: how do you get to people who haven't already invested in another solution down this road, even if our solution is much cheaper we're still talking in the thousands to switch over from someone who already charged them tens of thousands. The answer is to find people who haven't, which means finding restaurants that have not opened yet. Not easy work.

pbreit 15y ago
There are tons of small restaurants and take-out places that don't use POS. Start with them. Don't try to get people to switch until your solution is rock-solid and high performance. If your system actually works, you will have no trouble selling it. What we've seen so far needs improvement.
Killah911 15y ago
Great! You have a base to refine your product till it's the cat's meow. There's nothing like word of mouth, better yet, references from businesses who've actually used your product and absolutely love it! You marketing effort should just be the product, but also real verifiable applications of your product. Put together a little marketing video where the existing businesses vouch for your product. <br> I agree with what #pbreit said as well. Once you have 30-40 mom and pop stores using your devices, not only will you be more confident about what your sell, your potential customers will be too. See if you can target small but high traffic businesses, even if it's lunch truck or a no name pizza joint at a Campus near you. </br> You've got a great idea, simple and potentially very effective. Iron out the kinks before other competitors get to market. Once again, best of luck!