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We are up and going for a month now and have got a lot of press. The website has evolved and the message become clearer. I have to say, I am delighted with the first months feedback. Our beta users are now coming back and telling us how they could not work without YouBookIn. We have been compared against other solutions and chosen due to the ease of use, flexibility and our customer support. Thanks to all who have made this a great first month!
Conor
Dear Friends!
"YouBookIn is ready to launch in the US". We look
forward to informing you through this newsletter as we go to market.
Check us out: www.youbookin.com. Businesses can sign-up for our Free-Trial. YouBookIn support representatives will help you setup your business with no obligation. Once you've experienced the YouBookIn's benefits, we're confident you will choose to stay with YouBookIn.
We believe in sharing our success so prospective Affiliate, Reseller and Referral partners can sign-up for our exciting revenue-sharing plans. YouBookIn business managers will support you as you go-to-market with us.
Introducing YouBookIn.
Just because a business closes its doors every night - why should their appointment book?
Appointments
represent money in the door to businesses - YouBookIn makes appointment books work
harder, non-stop!
Today, consumers are empowered by the web. From Airlines to hotels, golf tee times to restaurants - all now have online booking systems that are connected to the broader consumer base. But service businesses are left standing still. No such web technology has connected Healthcare (doctors, dentists, specialists) or Beauty (Spa, Salon etc) and other appointment-based service businesses to the online community. Why shouldn't these businesses gain with appointments books that are always open for business and in front of the mass online consumer base?
YouBookIn believes its time such effective web technology was made available and affordable for small-to-medium service businesses everywhere!
YouBookIn
is designed specifically for service businesses unlike other passive scheduling
tools. Making it a priority to get your appointment book filled and reduces
no-shows (money in the door). YouBookIn goes beyond your office, connecting
your appointment book to a far broader online community at www.youbookin.com. Enabling businesses to pull
in more bookings as well as market their brand and services to customers.
At www.youbookin.com - customers can book,
move or cancel appointments with businesses anytime (24/7) and anywhere (web
or phone text message) in a matter of seconds. Complete with PayPal credit-card
payment or pre-payment processing. Customers receive automated confirmation and
reminders of their appointments via e-mail or text messages.
Businesses get a simple-to-use appointment book delivered online, called YouBookIn-Business Edition. No software to download or IT infrastructure to maintain. Businesses pay on-demand with monthly subscription pricing. YouBookIn pays for itself as it costs only a fraction of the extra bookings achieved with such a 24/7 and customer facing, online appointment system.
Thank you for taking the time to learn about YouBookIn - Help us 'spread the word' and stay tuned!
Sincerely,
Puneet Sharma
YouBookIn
YouBookIn has decided to release source code under a public license, the YouBookIn Public License (YBL). This is after discussions with over many different software vendors in the US, UK and Ireland. There is a strong requirement for our technology but many companies need to control their own destiny. This is due to the deep fragmentation of the market with each geographic region having groups of very competitive companies. There are some open source solutions, but none seem to be of commercial quality, so most niche specific software vendors develop their own home grown solutions. These solutions do not gain any traction in the wider community. The YBL is more business friendly than an open source license as it does not force the licensee to share their own developments , where they would have to give it back to the community.
YouBookIn recognizes the requirement for on line booking in each of those vertical niches and we would like to partner rather than compete with providers of niche specific solutions. Our goal is to build a consumer facing brand. Our YBL is designed so that the licensee can own their own product and customer base while providing that customer base with a trusted solution.
What are the advantages for you? You get to build your solution on a tested enterprise solution at no cost. We will of course continue to fix bugs and add more features that will also be released as part of this program.
Who should take advantage of this? The obvious are those that develop deeper functional software solutions for each of these service niches such as practice management suppliers, salon management suppliers or integrators. Large franchises may want to integrate the booking system with their own ERP systems.
What other services can we offer? We will release the software as is, and will provide technical support, hosting , project development advice and other professional services to you on a pay for service basis, to make your project a success.
YouBookIn will sponsor the community and will provide a portal to enable a forum, downloading and documentation. We invite you to contact us if interested in participating and getting to market with an on line product ahead of the posse. Please feel free to add your own comments on this discussion.To read the YouBookIn Public License click here.
We got out of the office again and did another show and tell this week, to accountants, VC's and journalists. Again the perception is that this is something people need and want to use. We got a great write up from my name sake at http://ie.blognation.com/. What we need now is partners to help us spread the good word! So click here and sign up as a partner now.
"Wow so easy!" This was the general feedback from all those Irish beauty therapists that took the YouBookIn test in Dublin this weekend. To be able to book an appointment in less than 30 seconds. Why would their clients not use it. Some were passing us by and when asked they claimed that they probably could not afford it. When shown the prices they were blown away. Starting at 35 euros a month and a free trial for 30 days, why would you not try it. We are now confident that they will return over the next month to take YouBookIn for a test drive. Roll on the next show!
