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Title: nhs staff discounts
Post by: ryan mca on November 26, 2010, 11:24:36 pm
  Got a call offering a place on the nhs staff discount website has anybody
tried this type of advertising and was it worth the money £340+vat
per year

    cheers Ryan
Title: Re: nhs staff discounts
Post by: Carpet Dawg on November 26, 2010, 11:44:17 pm
No, dont waste your money.
Title: Re: nhs staff discounts
Post by: derek west on November 26, 2010, 11:54:41 pm
my advice
we're in a recession, spend more money on what works, good times are for experimenting.
Title: Re: nhs staff discounts
Post by: wynne jones on November 27, 2010, 12:08:03 am
When you do a job and you find out where they work, if it's a place like NHS say you will knock 10% of their bill. Just as you going give them a flyer and ask if they would put it up in their dept notice board offering 10% off. Some will some won't but over time you will be glad you did this.
Title: Re: nhs staff discounts
Post by: Joe H on November 27, 2010, 07:18:07 am
Ryan - its a NO NO

The only one that will benefit is those that phoned you up.
Title: Re: nhs staff discounts
Post by: Mike Halliday on November 27, 2010, 07:26:57 am
do any of you actually know the NHS dis'c website he's on about?   or are the replies just the normal knee-jerk reaction to any post about sales calls?


I agree with you all but I would advice Ryan to look further into the details, My wife is part of the NHS and gets 1-2 emails a week from their discount scheme which we always read as we see it as a trusted source

this is the one we received yesterday


http://recp.mkt41.net/servlet/MailView?m=36027647&r=NjI4Nzc4OTYxMwS2&j=ODgxNDMxOTUS1&mt=1

if they are sending a link to your website in these emails then it might be worth looking at.
Title: Re: nhs staff discounts
Post by: Joe H on November 27, 2010, 07:33:42 am
Its a knee jerk reaction with me Mike.
Get so many selling discounts via diaries or whatever to police/fire/nhs/doctors surgeries/tesco supermarkets and some more, that you get fed up - and certainly aint got time to check out the credentials of them all, so they all get treated the same way.

Someone put the idea forward that if you find the person is employed by a service that appeals to your good nature - give a 10% discount. Thats an easier solution.
Title: Re: nhs staff discounts
Post by: ianharper on November 27, 2010, 08:02:08 am
phone someone that's using the media and find out if its working. its not always bad media just bad message to market match, or no offer
Title: Re: nhs staff discounts
Post by: jasonl on November 27, 2010, 08:15:34 am
If you know someone who works for the NHS they can advertise for free on the intranet , I get at least a job a week from this method
Title: Re: nhs staff discounts
Post by: ryan mca on November 27, 2010, 09:28:06 am
 Cheers guys goggled and found 3 sites offering staff discounts to nhs employees
looks like all they are doing is selling web space so will probally pass on it

Jason how can you advertise for free wife works for nhs

Ryan
Title: Re: nhs staff discounts
Post by: jasonl on November 27, 2010, 12:21:49 pm
All trusts have a buy/sell/ services section , my wife just goes on it and advertises, when I get a job off it I tell them they can have a discount if they too put me on the intranet
Title: Re: nhs staff discounts
Post by: derek west on November 27, 2010, 12:43:12 pm
must be a link J, lets have a nosey.
Title: Re: nhs staff discounts
Post by: jasonl on November 27, 2010, 02:17:25 pm
It is an INTRANET , meaning internal use only on the NHS system , most large organisations have them.
It is thier own private world. What fun it would be if anyone had access to the NHS intranet , you could see all your neighbours health records, every peronal detail of everyone in the country..
Title: Re: nhs staff discounts
Post by: clinton on November 27, 2010, 04:08:04 pm
i Have heard of that too jason,be good to have a nosey mind ;D
Title: Re: nhs staff discounts
Post by: Ian Gourlay on November 27, 2010, 04:21:37 pm
I have agreed to give a discount to a NHS scheme did not cost me a penny

I think its a benefit for staff or something  else. I cannot remember what it was called

Has it worked

No

Obviously no such thing as a Free lunch
Title: Re: nhs staff discounts
Post by: derek west on November 27, 2010, 04:32:08 pm
I have agreed to give a discount to a NHS scheme did not cost me a penny

I think its a benefit for staff or something  else. I cannot remember what it was called

Has it worked

No

Obviously no such thing as a Free lunch


have you never seen wedding crashers ian, ;D

Title: Re: nhs staff discounts
Post by: Ian Gourlay on November 27, 2010, 08:58:18 pm
Guess I am not cheeky enough ,  ;D
Title: Re: nhs staff discounts
Post by: fitz2kleen on November 28, 2010, 11:21:02 am
We are on the NHS staff dicount website.
Apparently a satisfied customer put a reccommendation on there and we have had a fair amount of work from it.
Never cost us anything in time nor money though!