Hi guys, we have a family owned business, a taxi booking office, for over 30 year. We poured all our knowledge and experience into a taxi app called vToms (targeted at authorised taxi and private hire only, not the general public with flimsy or no insurance). We are offering it right now to drivers for free while we are on out last stages of beta testing and hopefully build a user base while we added features. Once beta is over, we will charge a small fixed fee for the drivers using vToms, never a percentage of their earnings, vToms passenger app will always be free to use, the passenger pays the driver directly at the end of the hire. I have been promoting through facebook, twitter and linkedIn, among others social networks without much success. We have the android version running now for a year and the iOS version has just been submitted for preview. I was hoping that someone might kindly offer some marketing tips or suggestions in order to capture peoples interest that does not require a lot of money investment as we are doing all this on our own without taking on any investors, we want to be able to offer a good product at a very low price. In the UK we will be charging £2.50 per 24 hs use and only the days the driver logs on the app (credit based system, 1 credit = 24 hours). vToms Driver is desinged so that drivers can have their own vitrual booking office without the need to be associated with or pay the high prices involved with physical booking offices. The drivers that are interested and have used vToms, have been threated by the booking office they work with as it is not in their interests for a driver to use a tool such as vToms as they can become independent from that booking office resulting in a loss of income for they.
So looking forward to hearing your thoughts and I thank you for your time in reading this.
Best regards, Jared.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=vToms+App+Team
http://facebook.com/vtomsapp