I'm very excited to report that we are making some great headway on the development of Scannibal! We are currently building our initial platform and planning to be able to start testing with live transactions within a month or two! If you have checked out our site or talked with me around town (Denver) and think what we are doing in interesting, we would love to have you as a tester!
We are looking for two categories of testers: Users and Businesses
Users
We are hoping to get 100ish users for our initial pilot. This is really exciting because we are going to be asking for tons of feedback from these first users. It is a great opportunity to have a real impact on the design and function of the product. How cool will it be in a couple year to be able to tell people you were user #1 for Scannibal? For this group we are looking locally since our business testers will also be local. We will make sure to let you know which businesses we are testing with and we will ask that you make at least a few qualifying transactions just for testing.
What makes a good User (for now)?
The only real requirement is that you have to be local or at least in the Denver area. Ideally you will also buy goods or services in the industries with whom we are testing (we are narrowing this down but starting with coffee shops and liquor stores). Since we are looking for local businesses as testers, having test users elsewhere won't be much help yet. However, if you are not local and are interested, send me an email and we will get you in the beta!
What we need from a good test user
Feedback is the name of the game! If you want to send me 10 emails a day telling me every single thought you had about why it sucks or why its awesome, I would love that! Seriously, we are looking for people who like trying new tech, like to save money, want to try new businesses, and want to be part of a cool project where you can make a difference.
Businesses
For those of you out there who are local business owners here in Denver, I have a couple questions for you. Do you need more traffic? Are you having a hard time competing with a major direct competitor (especially a huge corporate one)? If so, read on...
Scannibal will be the simplest and most direct way for you to run your loyalty program and your customer acquisition program (odds are you didn't have one. Not anymore!). We are offering you a way to market directly to your competitors customers on a transaction per transaction basis. This means maximum efficiency in terms of who sees your marketing.
What's in it for my business?
Let me start by saying that if your business qualifies, we meet with you and it feels like a good fit, you will get access to the Scannibal platform for free, forever(for the most part. If you are interested, lets chat). This can be a huge long term competitive advantage for your business. This could mean you have access to a marketing tool your competition will be paying for.
What we need from a good test business
Feedback and participation are key for a good test business. We are looking for businesses that are interested in a new way to interact with customers and want to be on the leading edge with their marketing strategy. Since we are building a completely new model, It will be important to have active participation from the business as well as regular communications about how things are going. In addition, we need businesses that will help promote to their customers. We will provide a window sticker, a counter sign, and information sessions for employees on how to educate customers. That might sound like a lot of involvement, but think of it like having your business be a co-founder in our start up. We are offering a tremendously valuable deal with the free access.
How to reach out
If any of this sounds interesting or if none of this sounds interesting, get in touch via email at (chris@scannibal.com) or tweet me at@scannibalapp . I'd love to get thoughts, opinions, and any feedback on the blog, testing, or our project in general. Heck, even if you are just nerd who likes to talk about coupons and bargain shopping as much as I do, bring it on! For more info, check out http://scannibal.com.
Thanks for reading!
Chris@scannibal
