Comments on: Twitter idea for Car Park Operators http://www.markshaw.biz/twitter-idea-for-car-park-operators/ Helping Businesses get down to business one Tweet at a time Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:51:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Philippa http://www.markshaw.biz/twitter-idea-for-car-park-operators/comment-page-1/#comment-2596 Philippa Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:17:34 +0000 http://www.markshaw.biz/?p=1710#comment-2596 Think the biggest problem would be that it is illegal to use your phone while driving, so any information gathered before setting out would be useless by the time you arrived at the car park. Agree it would be useful, but anything using the phone answer isn't the right solution. Think the biggest problem would be that it is illegal to use your phone while driving, so any information gathered before setting out would be useless by the time you arrived at the car park. Agree it would be useful, but anything using the phone answer isn’t the right solution.

]]> By: rob http://www.markshaw.biz/twitter-idea-for-car-park-operators/comment-page-1/#comment-1555 rob Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:37:57 +0000 http://www.markshaw.biz/?p=1710#comment-1555 Agree with first reply - you need to understand the business They still want you to head there if full as.barrier could open any second Also when driving to a car park I intend not to be using a mobile device. Additionally If I knew once I was in a queue that a near by car park had spaces, as driving to that carpark is not instant. Quite possible when get there that will be full. Agree with first reply – you need to understand the business

They still want you to head there if full as.barrier could open any second

Also when driving to a car park I intend not to be using a mobile device.
Additionally If I knew once I was in a queue that a near by car park had spaces, as driving to that carpark is not instant. Quite possible when get there that will be full.

]]> By: Hamlesh http://www.markshaw.biz/twitter-idea-for-car-park-operators/comment-page-1/#comment-1553 Hamlesh Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:06:31 +0000 http://www.markshaw.biz/?p=1710#comment-1553 Spoke with the guys who run Vinci Park about this idea - its a case of understanding their business, which is fundamentally capacity planning and management. The industry doesn't want to tell the world that it has a car park that is regularly full. Also, most people will just sit in the queue waiting for a space rather than go look for another car park, so they'd loose out on that business catchment. Personally I think that they should have a traffic light type system on their websites for each car park, easy enough to feed that out of a database and into twitter. But alas... crazy thinking that... making your customers experience better... :) Spoke with the guys who run Vinci Park about this idea – its a case of understanding their business, which is fundamentally capacity planning and management. The industry doesn’t want to tell the world that it has a car park that is regularly full. Also, most people will just sit in the queue waiting for a space rather than go look for another car park, so they’d loose out on that business catchment.

Personally I think that they should have a traffic light type system on their websites for each car park, easy enough to feed that out of a database and into twitter.

But alas… crazy thinking that… making your customers experience better… :)

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