help required...

[yidisout]

Hi im a new poster.

Im a year 4 student at Bournemouth Uni and in need of some help from any bar owners or any other knowledgeable persons regarding Thai info etc... (seems to be alot of you)

I visited Thailand last September and like everyone else fell in love with the place especially phuket !!!

To cut a very long story short, we have a large and important assignment to introduce a service to a foreign market, for which I chose introducing a new bar in Phuket (another way i could think about it after I had come back)

Was wondering if anyone could help provide some information on costings, any competitors I would have (small / large chains), opening times, culture considerations, promotional and communication aspects, and other practices I could include in my marketing report.

E-mail information would be ideal, if you can help, please let me know via the forum and I will post my e-mail address.

Thanks a lot, im jetting back to Phuket in March so ill return the favor and buy you a beer!!!

Really struggling to find information out...

Matt

[LivinLOS]

Things like marketing reports dont really cut it in the real world of 3rd world nightlife establishments..

I mean are you going to break down your pimp percentage (opps sorry I mean bar fines) on a per girl basis or a per night basis.. Are police kick backs a security charge or service provision..

No offense but you would have a much better prospect dealing with a real business environment to do a study like this.. It is the very mystery costs and intangibles and unclassifyable things that make this a minefield..

[DREW]

Originally Posted by yidisout

Hi im a new poster.

Im a year 4 student at Bournemouth Uni and in need of some help from any bar owners or any other knowledgeable persons regarding Thai info etc... (seems to be alot of you)


To cut a very long story short, we have a large and important assignment to introduce a service to a foreign market, for which I chose introducing a new bar in Phuket

Matt

Matt

That is the last thing Phuket needs.

''To Introduce a Service to a Foreign Market''......Phuket

How about anyone of the following more deserving causes;

A shop on the beach road selling anything other, than Diesel trainers, T Shirts, Connect 4 games, wooden artefacts, DVD's CD Computer Games, lights watches etc etc (one shop looks just like the other and then u can't remember where u bought)

A walk in STD clinic, where u take a number a bit like Argos or the meat counter and get ure tests and then pop out in 1 hour with a clean bill of heath or a heavy heart

An Internet Cafe where the staff understand what a computer is, how to down load information, store it and transfer it to/from another device and who look remotely interested in their job

How about a travel agents that offer you something different and a different price from the 243 other travel agents in Patong

How about a really good Tailor, where u can just walk in try something on and feel no pressure to buy an ill fitting 1970's creation with ''2 trouser, 4 shirt, suit carrier and commission for me and my friends'' who all think you look Australian..gooday mate!

What about a taxi that u can get into and the driver says 'where can I take you to sir. I shall just start the meter and as u can see it is all above board, I'll have you there in the quickest safest possible time, in my fully licensed road worthy vehicle. The price will be displayed upon the meter during your journey and the total will be displayed when we reach our destination, avoiding the need to re-mortgage your house to pay for the return trip- have a nice day. I am very well off and earn lots of money, so I do not wish to make you feel guilty by referring to my unfortunate circumstances''.

How about a bar where the girls never get jealous called 'The Green Eyed Monster' were all the girls are happy for you to see them for one night and not get romantically linked because they assume that your desire to play Connect 4 does not infact constitute marriage and they openly encourage you to see someone else. Pop back the night after and the girls at the 'Green Eyed Monster' will be heard to say, ''No please don't try to chat me up again, there are so many more beautiful girls available, please try a few more, so many and so little time. You want dink now''.

How about buying a tiny Island in the pacific, nationalising it and then demanding diplomatic status for you and your 'student wife's' who live there. You can then buy up bits of land (end of Bangla) and open up 'Diplomatic Embassy Bars' (franchise rights across the globe) where licensing laws do not apply.so we are staying open 24/7...Sovereign Land and a free diplomatic bag

How about automatic toilet roll dispensing machines that contain an emergency roll to be dispatched when all other toilets have run out and you have just walked 150 yards from the beach like a duck, fearing that at any minute you will soil yourself because you have the 'cursed runs', and the normal toilets usually only contains enough paper to blow your nose......the food was nice last night though

endless possibilities if you put you mind to it.

Another bar? you must have spent a long time thinking about that one.....This time next year Rodney..we'll be Millionaires


Regards

Drew

[visa2003]

Drew. Where can I find this paradise you so perfectly described above?
( Hopefully not only in my dreams!)

[Crustasian]

I am glad to see that your life in Patong has not left you jaded and a bitter and twisted individual.

Perhaps we should move to that island.

[DREW]

I only get so when back in the Uk.

when in LOS I enjoy all of that stuff, makes it more fun, especially as you know its coming-

its all the ones that don't know the score that represent true 'Entertain Value.

Regards

Drew