Merry new year!
Well, 2009 is here, wheres my hover car?
A bit of a getstaffed 2008 recap…
2008 was our first more or less mostly full time on getstaffed time, and we started off pretty slow, me (Greg) doing some site improvements and Andrew rustling up business while juggling other balls. Our numbers of contractors started shooting up, and our signed up businesses started going up more slowly.
We even started placing a few people, and giving everyone getstaffed points, which later gave some of our contractors free trips to places like… Auckland, Rarotonga and Europe. Yay!
But…. on the downside, businesses are still reluctant to use us. Initially, we started off with a “build the website, take off to tahiti” mentality, but ended with a “We’ll help you with that” slant, as we worked out most of our big businesses were not really motivated too much by the thought of saving thousands a week (for some, tens of thousands). So we moved more into a full service, low cost model, but still struggled with trying to change the way businesses have been doing things. We are getting known around town, and mixing up the status quo with things like www.ratemyagency.co.nz. That one was only a few days work, but it really … um… educated… some people out there!
We still havent found the ideal mixing point for getstaffed, as you can see by the lack of jobs! So we will be trying some new initiatives this year to try and cement getstaffed as the place to hire IT contractors. Thanks for all of your excellent support and comments and suggestions, hope you all had a great christmas and new year!
cheers
Greg and Andrew
