If this limo company was local to you, would you use this company?

Question

Basically I am in the process of starting up a limo hire business with my partner in my local area. We are building up our business plan at the moment, and basically we need some feedback on what you, the public think. If you needed to hire a car and we where local, would you use our services? If not why? What else do you expect in our service? Constructive feedback only please. This is the website, check out the prices and cars available and let us know what you think.

http://www.samurai-limos.co.uk/

Thanks so much for your time!


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Answer 1

Looks good professional website clear price plans nice pics i would phone you to discuss my needs if I wanted a limo and lived locally

Answer 2

Looks good. Maybe a bit too much on the homepage about the drivers' histories. When you hire a car you're looking for a nice car for a good price, you don't really care if the driver is a member of a guild or not - you might want to reflect that on your site.

Also, you expose yourself as being new to the business. Why? This might spell out a lack of experience and no financial security. If you do wish to advertise that you are a new firm then consider an on-entry aggressive pricing strategy i.e. undercut the competitors on price for the first few months. A lot of business will be repeat business and a lot will be from word of mouth. Remember that nearly all businesses expect a loss in the first year, so low price strategy is not a bad thing and building your customer base before incremental rate rises is a good option.

Also remember that marketing and advertising are not necessarily an expensive thing. Pub and centre notice boards, newspaper ads, parking the car outside nightclubs etc.

Having not seen the competition (fleet and price) it's hard to say how competitive you will be but everything looks pretty good so far.

Good luck (and sorry for the monologue!)

Answer 3

I'd be up for it, if I lived in the states.

If I did travel to the states and I was in the local area, my friends and I would ask for your services on a special night out. You've set quite a reasonable price. (although I've never hired a limo before).

The website looks professional and you've included some pics of your cars. The personal touch of the signature on the end makes you guys look friendly too.

Good luck for the future!

Answer 4

I think your chances are good if you target the right market.
Weddings, Company functions, Special events, Funerals, but I think for the general public there would not be such a great demand. OK, I do not live in the US and cannot really identify a reason other than the above-mentioned to use your services.

I would suggest you write to a few big companies, get a few contracts..then you have references and it will go mouth-to-mouth anyway if your service is good.

Good Luck, and if you need a driver and you can fly me and my wife and kids over there, maybe I will be part of it!!!

cheers

Answer 5

Looks good i would do away with the newest limo company in Durham it shows amateurish tendencies try much sought after professional drivers of the highest quality's and the price that is the boggy corporate hire is different to hen nights don't mix the two professional status must not be mixed with hen nights do away with advertising hen and stag nights don't go to them they will come to you i feel you are over selling a little it is a good web sight but so are lots more people love specials but looks good just a few points i think is important good luck in your new venture Dave

Answer 6

I worked for an extremely successful limo company for a long time. We started out as a two-car operation working out of a local gas station, and wound up with a fleet of over 100 cars. I can tell you what worked to make them successful. Get yourself some good salespeople, and get out there to the corporate people. Big companies. Offer them incentives to use your company for their needs. Big companies need cars to bring people to and from airports, and to meetings in other cities. We would sometimes do 30 runs a day for just ONE company. They also use them when they have big board meetings. Other types of jobs, like weddings, and nights out, etc. will be the least of the work you wind up doing. Our company made MILLIONS just doing corporate work.
The things that kept people coming to us were:
1. The cars were guaranteed to always be on time. The rule for our chauffeurs was they were to be waiting outside the door 15 min before pickup time.
2. Cars were always updated, and CLEAN.
3. We kept ice, fresh bottled water, and a few choices of soda in the cars at all times. When booking a reservation, we would find out if the client wanted anything like coffee, and would have it available if they did.
Best of luck to you!

Answer 7

A smart looking web site with a nice colour scheme. You seem to have taken all the right steps to comply with local and national regulations and if I was in need of such a service Iand lived in the north) I would certainly consider using your company. Good luck with your venture.

Answer 8

If the business enterprise isn't mendacity and there particularly is a mechanical problem with the bus you have been going to apply, then you ought to be sensible. confident, this has placed you in a bind, yet issues ensue. Mechanical areas break, issues placed on out - and there is not something every person can do to alter it. What you're able to do, in spite of the fact that, is touch the business enterprise and tell them you like a reimbursement. do this first. the probabilities of them with the ability to provide you yet another bus are narrow, using fact occasion buses like that don't strengthen on timber. For them to have 2 in the 1st place is stable, yet to assume them to materialize yet another one is unreasonable. Why are they even bringing up the extra $350, whilst it is booked besides? this is a sprint fishy, yet you at the instant are not obliged to pay it, and this is a non-difficulty using fact it is already booked. I actually have a practise: Have considered one of your friends who hasn't mentioned as this business enterprise ... have them call the business enterprise and ask to e book the bus you're saying is broken down, and spot what occurs. Have them ask for it in the process a similar time you have have been given it booked for, and spot in the event that they provide it on your buddy. additionally, and this is fundamental ... have your buddy lead as much as the bus, by making use of asserting that they are unsure what they want and have them see if the guy on the telephone tries to get them into the bus formerly your buddy brings it up. you ought to seize them at it, and it would additionally help in case you have been a block removed from the limo business enterprise whilst this call occurs. That way, you are able to stroll stunning into their place of work and tell them that they are nailed. do not enable them to tug this crap on you. You DO have recommendations, yet whilst the bus particularly is broken, the unique problem remains there and you will ought to locate yet differently to get your travellers from A to B. superb of success to you.

Answer 9

Yes I would - and I dont agree that the drivers history is not important - I would want to know that info - but maybe thats because I am a woman annd a mother. Makes me feel happier and more likely to use you for myself or kids

Answer 10

Yes, I would use it because any good/bad criticisms would become local knowledge.