[ryan mca]

  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

[Carpet Dawg]

No, dont waste your money.

[derek west]

my advice
we're in a recession, spend more money on what works, good times are for experimenting.

[wynne jones]

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.

[Joe H]

Ryan - its a NO NO

The only one that will benefit is those that phoned you up.

[Mike Halliday]

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.

[Joe H]

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.

[ianharper]

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

[jasonl]

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

[ryan mca]

 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

[jasonl]

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

[derek west]

must be a link J, lets have a nosey.

[jasonl]

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..

[clinton]

i Have heard of that too jason,be good to have a nosey mind

[Ian Gourlay]

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

[derek west]

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,

[Ian Gourlay]

Guess I am not cheeky enough , 

[fitz2kleen]

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!