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Buying lunch and dinner at the office. Related: keeping fridge stocked with drinks. BUT I'm a cheap bastard. I wouldn't pay much over my own price of these thi
by staunch 14y ago
Buying lunch and dinner at the office. Related: keeping fridge stocked with drinks.
BUT I'm a cheap bastard. I wouldn't pay much over my own price of these things for someone to take care of them for me. In an ideal world it wouldn't cost me anything additional.
How that could work is if you could make an affiliate-style deal with restaurants to take 5% (or whatever) of their money.
Same thing with drinks. I buy them at a supermarket. You could buy them from a wholesaler and get them to me for the same price I normally pay.
To make these really big I think they absolutely have to be low-margin busineses. It's easy to do these kinds of business if you charge a lot but I think they could be huge if you figured out how to do it on a very low margin.
- JoeCortopassi 14y agoUse these guys at our office, check them out: http://www.betterworks.com/ http://www.betterworks.com/
- staunch 14y agoFunny enough I'm 3 blocks away from them in Santa Monica and have met some of those guys. I've checked it out before but it didn't seem to be quite what I want -- going to sign up and give it a shot. Thanks for the reminder.
- relaunched 14y agoHurry up on that. They seem to be facing major layoffs.
- staunch 14y agoJust read that story. Guess they just built out sales/marketing way too fast. Says they've still got $5M in the bank though, so they'll be around a while.
- sparknlaunch12 14y ago> Use these guys at our office, check them out: http://www.betterworks.com/ http://www.betterworks.com/ . Interesting concept however it takes a while to work out what they actually do. Their landing page doesn't exactly demonstrate the USP: "Local perks and rewards for employees: Use BetterWorks for an engaged and more productive workforce." It is attractive as an enterprise solution. One way to incentivize your workforce in this current climate.