[Kevin_D]

Hi there I'm Kevin, I'm an A2 business studies student and part of my course involves me creating a feasibilty study for any business i choose. Anyway, i noticed there isnt too many carpet cleaning companies in my area, so thought that was a good basis for the project. I was just wondering if maybe any of you would mind being interviewed via msn or anything else like that to help me with my primary research, if you could that would be absolutely great and thanks in advance if anyone can. If not i wondered if maybe you could give me some tips on what to include, i have read loads on this forum already and it has helped me a great deal. Thanks very much.

[Mike Halliday]

how do we know that you really are a business student, you might be a spy out to steal our highly valuble business ideas and sell them on Ebay for £10

which area do you live that does'nt have may carpet cleaners, i think I'll move their

Mike

[Scott Martin]

Hi Mike,

race is on! think i could get to that area from GLasgow by the morning!! Ha ha

cheers

[Kevin_D]

lol im not honestly, im not sure how i could prove it to be honest, but if u know a way i will do it. i live in grays in essex, i've checked the ncca site for members and there is quite a few in brentwood which is around 30 mins or so, but very few of em come to grays, the local paper also has only the one advert, which doesnt loko to exciting, sorry if its a member on here. My plan is to initially start in the chafford hundred area cos there are lots of wealthy people there tht work in london. look i have told u my whole plan lol, im clearly a student and not a businessman lol.

[Ian Gourlay]

What do you want to know.

Machines search Web for Alltec,, Prochem. Extracta.

You will also gain some Marheting info.


Marketing

Loads of info on recent posts,

Prices again loads of info.

I wish I had a site like this when I was writing my pLAN

[Kevin_D]

yea i have loads of info about what van im going to buy, what machine, marketing plan etc. but to fulfil the requirements on the project i need primary research which has to be in the form of questionnaires, interviews, something that actually involved me getting information off someone or people. It all has to be printed off and that, i was purely just asking, i understand if no-one wants to disclose their info, just thought it was worth a bash.

[Scott Martin]

whats youremail and i will pm my bus plan.

[Kevin_D]

ok thanks very much, it's kingkevin1811@hotmail.com

[Ian Gourlay]

Im a bit lost I thought you were ment to ask the questions

Conduct Interviews etc


So if you said what you needed to know I would try to answer the question

[Kevin_D]

Yea Ian that's exactly what i need, ideally i would conduct an interview over msn or something like that with predetermined questions so i don't ask you anything you don't want to answer, and then i will be able to print off our conversation and include it in my research saying i have spoken to someone in the trade.

It would be things such as, what do you think is the most successful marketing method, the quality route or price route, which you prefer and why u think it works better, things like that.

[Ian Rochester]

Kevin,

When I did my DMS we had to do a similar business feasibility study which involved creating a questionnaire which was relevant to the business areas you wished to investigate.  I would suggest if you are to be successful in your course then the emphasis should be on YOU to develop the type of questionnaire YOU think will give you the answers you are looking for, then come back to this forum with your prepared questions and if people want to participate, they will in exactly the same way they do on the polls we currently have.

Put your brain in gear and start "looking outside the box", have a "blue sky moment" or whatever other cliche is being used at the moment to mean "think for your money!"

Best of luck, I will participate when you are ready to ask.

Ian

[Kevin_D]

ok lionheart i appreciate ur reply, but i don't think u understand what im trying to achieve here. i have a questionnaire written up by im not going to ask people in the trade those type of questions, im going to ask my target audience those, ie. the customers. By "looking outside the box" i thought it might achieve sumthign to conduct an interview with sum1 in the trade and ask completely different questions to that of the questionnaire. this way i can analyse what the person has told me and use this to back up my argument of taking a certain path, or performing certain actions