Nothing to do with technology, but still an idea: advertising agency that connects car owners that are willing to lease their cars’ outer space for ads, and advertisers. Ad-placement on buses is very popular, so why not on cars? Continue reading “Got car? Make money driving it”

Here’s the elevator pitch I have chosen to do for my MBA class. I wrote about the requirements for the pitch, and some initial ideas that I had here. Continue reading “Auctioning off your purchasing”

We have to prepare an ‘elevator pitch’ for MBA class. Let’s say you have an idea, and you need an investor to make it happen. So you go and prepare a small paper which sums up the idea, and explores its business potential.
So, in order to do that, first of all I have to find some idea to base it upon. Which reminded me, that the whole idea of this blog in the first place, was as a ‘meeting place’ for all the lousy ideas I have (should I call it a ‘burial ground’?). So I thought I would list the ideas I still care to remember. Maybe someday I will want to explore further some of them (but wouldn’t it then be grave digging?)
So, here is one such list: Continue reading “Ideas soup 1”

Thought about an interesting marketing gimmick for gyms: promise partial refund to your subscribers (or whatever called those people that go to gym on a regular basis) if they complete a training program.
For example, those who show up at least twice a week for a period of 4 months and train according to a program that was compiled for them by gym’s coach, get a 30% discount off their fee. Or maybe get some complementary service for free (pool, sauna, etc.).

Sometimes, fantasizing about girls gazing at your muscular body at the local beach is just not a strong enough incentive. And everyone likes getting his money back.
I wonder whether this kind of scheme is already implemented somewhere…