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You're busy and focused on the primary needs of your business, butyou need various services to get things done: Your website designedor upgraded; brochures created for your business; an improvement toyour premises. Such projects will take you considerable effort toeither do yourself or find someone competent who can do the work foryou.When you look for someone to do a particular job, you probably willgo through a Google or similar search, and hope to come up with alist of useful suppliers. Then you browse them and their websites andpick one. Or you might go to a service lister such asServiceMagic.com, and enter a requirement on their site, with theintent that they should suggest a few potential suppliers.In either case you tend to fly rather blind. In the first one, whereyou review a few suppliers from the Google search and contact one,you know little about the supplier and have only your own estimate ofwhat the job should cost. In the second case, you have a rating fromthe website recommending the suppliers, and you hope that it isuseful. You still don't know what the price range should be.Next we get into scenarios of, Yes, I do website design. I'mquick, reliable and reasonably priced. I can do it for you within aweek. Just send me a description of what you need done, and I'll dothe job for you for $30 per hour. Or - I'll need to come out tolook at the site so I can provide a proper estimate of the job. Whenwill you be available to meet with me?The supplier's prime motivation is to close the deal with you. Theydon't want you talking to other people, because the person who hasthe last word has the best opportunity to convince the customer.Their job is to make it difficult for you to turn them away. You comeunder pressure to sign up immediately.There's an alternative to these approaches: Service auctions orreverse auctions.First, register with a website and post your project in enough detailfor someone to bid on without contacting you. The website then mayinform registered suppliers in the category and location you'vespecified that a project has been posted. Frequently the websiteadministrators will also assist in the process of getting bids onyour project, sending invitations out to further suppliers.Suppliers review your posting, may ask clarifying questions, andsubmit a bid. Generally, these bids are visible to other suppliers,and they compete with each other for your business, asserting theirqualifications, emphasizing their licensed status, their ratings onthe site, and so on. At the end of the bid time, or earlier ifappropriate, you review the bids and select one to contract with.When the job is completed, you return to the website to rate thesupplier, and they return to rate you as a customer (was yourdescription accurate? Were you easy to work with? Did you pay ontime? Etc.)This saves you time in searching for suppliers, gets you enough bidsto know what the market is charging for the job you have in mind, andallows you to make a choice without having to face pressure fromindividual suppliers. Since bids will be public, suppliers can seewhat they have to meet or beat to be competitive, or what they haveto emphasize to differentiate themselves from the competition basedon quality, lead time, etc.Many sites will charge a fee for this service: A membership fee,listing fee, completion fee or a combination.Take a look at reverse auctions to see how you can save yourselftime, money and stress.
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