Neighbourhood E-Markets

 cleaning ladyNeighbourhood E-Markets (NEMs) bring new resources into the economy.  They rely on a new type of online marketplace. It’s specifically designed for anyone who wants to sell their services or something they own for small periods of time. The markets ensure safety, low overheads, transaction completion and new opportunities in ways that barely exist at the moment.

 

The market sectors are in three broad categories:

  • Personal time slots: selling your services, for example as a car mechanic
  • Hire of possessions: renting out something you own but don’t need right now, a barbecue set for instance
  • Business services: a small business may have an office they’re not going to be using tomorrow afternoon, they can rent it out

Purchasing in any of these markets takes seconds. Anyone can sell anything: the costs of market entry are nil. (The system is funded from a small mark-up built into each transaction.) You can go in and out of any market as much as you like. And, of course, you can enter as many markets as you want. NEMs makes it simple to manage your time, income, trading record and customers across dozens of sectors. It will even show you which sectors are currently going to be most profitable for you personally.

Market intelligence

 These markets do many things that are new. Here’s a few:

  • car breakdownMarket data: need to know what the patterns of supply/demand/pricing for car mechanics were in your area over the last 3 months? The information is a few clicks away.
  • Joined-up transactions: want to hire a barbecue set but don’t want to collect it? NEMs will seamlessly price a local person willing to deliver into all the options it offers you.
  • Transaction supervision: perhaps your spare office should be in the market on Saturdays when no-one is around? Would you let it out if the booking included a vetted, bonded, individual who had the keys and remained on site throughout the hire.