FAQs
General
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2. Why Needish?
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1. I have questions, comments or suggestions - who can I talk to?
Hello! We love hearing from you about your experience in Needish. Please send an e-mail to feedback[at]needish.com.
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2. Why Needish?
When we began this journey, we looked for a name for our company that could easily adapt to English and that was related with what people needed. After several ideas – some good, some not so good – we ended up with Needish, and it stuck.
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3. Who can use Needish?
Everyone who needs something, whether it’s a service, product or just good advice. People can also use Needish to help out by offering their recommendations and opinions.
Companies and vendors can use Needish to offer their products and services, improve their reputation and name recognition among potential clients and to satisfy their own Needs.
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4. Who is Needish?
We are a team of international entrepreneurs with offices in Santiago, Chile and Palo Alto, CA. Find out more about our team here and read our story here.
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5. How much does all this cost?
Nothing. It’s free for people to post Needs, Helps and Sales Ads. To promote your business, sign up here!
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6. What is Needish?
Needish is a free marketplace powered by your friends. You can post Needs and receive Helps and Professional Helps from friends, businesses and other community members. You can also post Sales Ads for the things you need to sell. And of course, you can help out your friends and other users with your own tips and recommendations.
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7. What is a Marketplace?
A marketplace is a space where the members of a large organization can interact. To have a marketplace in Needish, a business should have at least 100 employees and a private e-mail domain (in our case, it's @needish.com). The idea is to connect people who share a geographical location, like a campus or office, making it easier for them to buy from and sell to each other.
People
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1. What can I post in Needish?
Almost anything unless it has to do with spam, pornography, racism, abuse, drugs or anything else that's illegal. We’ve specified further in our Community Guidelines – please take a second to read them as we will hold you to them.
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2. How can I invite friends to Needish?
In your account, click on “Friends” then “Invite friends.” Here you can invite friends one by one or invite your e-mail contacts using the friend finder on the right. This tool will allow you to see which of your contacts are already using Needish so you can add them as friends and invite the ones who aren’t here yet.
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3. How do I know if a friend is already in Needish?
In the Search bar at the top, choose "Users", write your friend's nickname, first and/or last name and you’ll be able to see if he or she is already using Needish. If you can’t find who you’re looking for, invite your friends.
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4. What is a Need?
A Need is a post sharing what a member of the community needs, be it a service, product, information or something else.
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5. What is a Help?
A Help is a post that responds to a Need. It can take the form of recommendation, advice, professional offer or request for more information, among others, but the point is that it is one user trying to help and support another.
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6. What is a Sales Ad?
A Sales Ad is a post sharing what a member of the community wants to offer for sale or rent. Each Sales Ad should be for one tangible item (i.e. a car, an apartment) rather than general publicity. To advertise your business and offer your products and services on a more permanent
basis, please register your business.
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7. What is a comment?
A comment is a post that responds to a Sales Ad. Before buying, you might want to know more. If you have all the information you need, your comment could be an offer to buy. The important part is that a comment is the way for you to get in touch with the owner of a Sales Ad.
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8. Who can see my Needs, Sales Ads, Helps and comments?
What you post in Needish is visible to everyone who visits Needish, whether or not they are registered users. Needs often show up in Google searches, which increases your probabilities of receiving Help. Please keep this in mind when you post in Needish, and avoid sharing personal information that you do not want on the internet.
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9. Can I delete what I post in Needish?
No. Looking at the information posted in others’ Needs and Helps can be a useful way to find information, so we keep them in the site even after they’re closed. You can make a Need anonymous, which will mean it doesn’t show up as something you posted. Other information will always bear your nickname, however, so please don’t post anything you might regret later.
Businesses
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1. What is an Alert?
An Alert is a profile that includes keywords and geographic area and filters all Needs to subscribe to the Needs you might be interested in.
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2. Why should I add my business to Needish?
Needish offers you a new way to connect with clients. Rather than just traditional advertising, we provide the opportunity to get in touch with people who are actively looking for your products and services. Needish is a great way to improve your reputation and name recognition among potential clients.
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3. How can I offer professional services in Needish?
You can use Needish for free as a person. Just get started. Or you can register your business for better usage of Needish!
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4. What is a Professional Help?
Businesses that have chosen to be in Needish can post Professional Helps. These are similar to Helps but allow for a public part, made up of the business’ general description and any other information the business wants to share with the whole community, and a private part, which contains the details of the specific offer. If your business would like to be able to make Professional Helps, please get in touch with us at sales@needish.com.
