It is not often that you encounter a truly innovative idea, particularly one that is essentially so simple in function and effective in execution that you are forced to think why it is yet to be in popular use.
Serviced based industries, such as teaching, plumbing and photography, are still as difficult to procure today as they were prior to the prevalence and power of the internet, and therefore stand in counter-intuitive contrast to the online product buying experience offered by retailers such as Amazon and Ebay.
Why hasn’t the web been able to host a medium that gives power to consumers and service providers in a similar manner as it has for the products industry?
Offering a service and looking for a service are equally inefficient in that contact between the two entities is wholly reliant on traditional methods of searching, communicating and contracting. The current process is archaic, and generally follows the cycle of search via business directories or search engines, individual communication via phone, repeated explanations (arguments), hesitation and eventual uncompetitive quotations.
Once the work is carried out, there is subsequently no effective means through which a consumer may record his or her experience, such as in the guise of TripAdvisor. This implies that future consumers are not provided with true accounts of the professionalism of businesses and freelancers, but rather only reputational guidance that is self-proclaimed.
Again, why is this the case?
A new online venture, vying to revolutionize the way we offer and procure service based jobs is soon to be launched in Malta and Gozo and lead, once and for all, the transition of service procurement from a process of lackluster effectiveness to online simplicity.
At Kwotani.com.mt, there is a full directory of freshly signed up freelancers and businesses in the fields of home improvement, events and lessons, all waiting to receive consumer led requests, automatically and in an instant.
Kwotani asks consumers pertinent, industry researched questions about the job that needs completing, and responds with further modified questions depending on how a consumer answered the previous question about their job request.
In need of a Biology teacher? Users can log on to Kwotani, identify the category of work required (Biology lessons), and allow the system to ask between seven and fifteen related questions. Once completed, the totality of the answers will form a request that is instantly sent out to all teachers on the Kwotani database that are registered under the Biology Lessons category. If the user’s request interests them, the teachers can opt to respond by offering a quote, broken down by an hourly rate within a standard quotation format.
Each professional’s quote that the request maker receives will be supported by a full profile page detailing their experience and portfolio of work. The user will receive a maximum of seven quotations in response to the request that was sent out.
If a quote is considered to be attractive to the consumer from a price and reputation perspective, the user may choose that business or freelancer to fulfil the job requirements.
Kwotani therefore gives power to both consumers and professionals alike in that consumers are able to source quotes without hassle and in a perfectly competitive environment, whilst professionals do not pay for any marketing and subsequent interest but are only charged a small fee on success.
Kwotani aims to revolutionize the service procurement industry in Malta and Gozo over the coming months.
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