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Free Caltex Fuel Voucher - Rate 20 Small Service Businesses

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Free Caltex Fuel Voucher - Rate 20 Small Service Businesses
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Store RepLWOMO on 17/11/2008 - 21:17 womow.com.au (926 clicks)

Everyone knows that word-of-mouth is the best way to find great businesses.

Which is why we've introduced WOMOW - it's Word Of Mouth On the Web. WOMOW is a website where real people share their experiences as customers on all types of businesses - restaurants, tradespeople, hairdressers, health professionals, mechanics, accountants, and lots more. To encourage new users to get the hang of WOMOW, we're offering a big incentive!

For a limited time, simply rate 20 small Australian service businesses you've used recently, and we'll send you a $20 Caltex Fuel Voucher.

Read the conditions in the link - this is very important as not all ratings are eligible for this offer.

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  • bohn on 17/11/2008 - 22:54

    Each rating must be something like 200 words. Kinda pointless unless you have a lot of businesses which you want to write about.. also.. some must be 'unrated' businesses. These aren't that easy to find - period. :p

    • randoom on 17/11/2008 - 23:30

      If it's 200 words x 20 reviews = 4,000 words minimum then how worthwhile is it just for $20. Seems like a good few hours work and presumably someone's going to be checking everything to make sure you're not just being random.

      Seems like a fair hoop to jump through. Useful if you're going to do it anyway (?) but I'd rather spend the time working (or gardening?) instead.

  • cyssero on 17/11/2008 - 23:56

    Reminiscent of the True Local deal. That was 30 words minimum * 30 reviews for an iPod shuffle. Heaps of people on OzBargain got one and the website got a fair bit of promotion. An iPod shuffle worth $65 for 900 words is reasonable.

    Unfortunately this deal is not as reasonable. Won't -ve it because it's no scam and it's pretty obvious what you have to do, but I can't see why anyone would spend so much time for the 'chance' to get $20. If it were $100 then I'm sure a few more ears would be listening.

  • [Deactivated] on 18/11/2008 - 07:56

    Excuse me but am I stupid or what?? The site quotes two people who have already got $20 caltex vouchers, so they must be true, and fast - especially since the promotion started yesterday.

    Yep 4000 total words, assessment by the site managers, and express delivery, then writing a thank you in reply in 24 hours and Michelle and Helen haven't had the decency to rate how much better Caltex goes in her car!! Boy that's ingratitude.

    Thats not forgetting that they were lucky enough to know and deal with 20 businesses who are already listed on the site.

    And if I was intending dealing with one of those businesses how much could I trust one of those reviews….

    Maybe the site managers can buy a dose of credibility from one of the many cheap degrees being offered by the spam emails i get. I'd gladly forward 20 to them if they will give me a Caltex voucher

  • elcheapo on 18/11/2008 - 08:04

    Neg- vote.. because.. it's simply not bargain.. it's work !! and it's HARD WORK !! no… not for me

    again .. three people already voted pos+ .. I wonder why..

    • [Deactivated] on 18/11/2008 - 08:06

      Votes? Maybe its Helen Michelle and Magda

  • bctransit on 18/11/2008 - 09:01

    not a bargain, and not a free FREEBIE at all

  • Store RepWOMO @ WOMOW - Word of Mouth on the Web on 18/11/2008 - 09:30

    Hi guys, Fiona from WOMOW here. Just thought I'd clarify some points. Firstly, yes, there is some "work" involved so it's definitely not for everyone but plenty of people are rating businesses and we are sending out several fuel vouchers every day. We do have a minimum word limit because we need the ratings to provide people with enough information to be useful - ie to help them find a great business you've come accross, or avoid a terrible business. Most people find it pretty easy to do though - basically like telling a friend about the businesses you've used lately. In fact we get a lot of people telling us that they really enjoy rating businesses. (You can see the ratings for WOMOW itself here - http://www.womow.com.au/biz/WOMOW).

    Also, you don't need to rate businesses that are already listed on WOMOW, you just go to the "Rate" tab and add the details of the business you wish to rate. In fact for this promotion, at least 10 of your ratings must be for businesses that are new to WOMOW (not hard to do as most businesses are not yet rated).

    Although this promotion just started, we have previously run similar promotions and quite a few people from OzBargain have received vouchers. It's up to you to decide whether a $20 fuel voucher is worth the effort of rating some businesses.

    • elcheapo on 18/11/2008 - 09:47

      No offence Fiona, but this 'work' should be posted somewhere else, not OzBargain, perhaps to few survey/rewards centre as there are an army of netizens that willing to dedicate their time to fill in surveys, reviews, etc..

      cheers,
      Elcheapo

  • Victorious on 18/11/2008 - 09:46

    Not woth it imo.

  • Car-la-la on 18/11/2008 - 10:35

    lets keep this cheap advertising for WOMOW off our site
    — as mentiond by everyone, not a freebie or a bargain, actually it's underpayment for that muc
    h work and effort

  • tomclancy on 18/11/2008 - 12:16

    not worth the effort. Not a bargain.

  • ssmith3104 on 18/11/2008 - 15:30

    this is a bad joke

    heaps of work, for little return

  • Natt on 19/11/2008 - 10:13

    I took up this offer & I got a fuel card too.

    But it took a good deal of time - about 3 hours.

    In hindsight I might not have bothered. Even though I really like the idea of sharing my local knowledge.

    I used to write professionally - lost a lot of skills but can still string some sentences together on a good day :) I was getting a good deal more that that.

    I would make it clearer you are after reviews for a)small business (less than 5 stores etc), b) at least 10 new businesses in the reviews and (c)some categories count as 2 points - not one.

    What I also suggest is that if you get some submissions that look good - tell the authors (rather than just a pro-forma acknowledgement). And encourage them with some sort of ongoing incentive.

    The more reviews you have the greater traffic to the site. Also the first review is the hardest as you have to link all the contact information, directions etc

    While its a great concept (just look how big trip advisor is) - you need to get people reviewing and get the good reviewers doing even more.

    It could also help people if you gave them some examples of good reviews, so they know what you are after. It can be very hard to write something if you are not sure what it should look like

    I do wonder the quality of the reviews you will get. Some looked great. Others should be removed - all in caps, say very little, all 5 star etc.

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