Showing posts with label online. Show all posts
Showing posts with label online. Show all posts

Sunday, July 5, 2015

Idea for Google as a content publisher, agitator, advertise and analyser

For a while now i have kept this blog hidden as there are some ideas that i feel have a lot of scope for future development.

Who is this for?;
- Facebook is creating a eco system where without fresh content users cannot get great value out of their accounts. Worse they ask users to now pay for advisability as a small business or brand.
- While users may have the capacity to pay, they might not always have the capacity to create original content.  
- While Google hasn't succeeded in launching G+ i feel it forgets that Google search is a much more valuable digital ecosystem that it has created. Where the user is always logged in and not sharing but searching for the correct content. hmm..i wonder what the obsession with a 'social media' account really is? 
- Ok maybe i have this point wrong. But everyone wants to serve content similar to serving correct ads to their various audience sets. Only difference being, while message can be customized and pre fed, content needs to be refreshed and often. (even daily)

Below is a skeleton to a content aggregating tool that Google can quickly make given it already has independent parts that exist today; 

How tool will work?;
- User feeds in their website URL
- As output gets the keywords based on site scan / crawl
- Basis crawl out put keywords gets TG definition for media (audience break up)
- Asks to input negative keywords that the brand doesn't want to be associated with.
- Asks for validation by liking to Google analytic for audience profiling and tracking for revalidation/re-targeting.
- Asks to input genre’s preferred by user.
- Throws latest content from around the web relevant to different TG’s for social media posting as per defined genres.

Revenue?;
- Each link thrown up as result has a cost of 10 – 50 rupees per identifies link.
- Advantage is that the user can be a layman and still sever content that his/her audience would like to engage with on social media accounts.
- Second advantage being shortened link doesn't expire as it has been paid for.
- Fixed retainer account version lets the user also sees GDN ads in this content which can be the users brand / company ads. 
- These ads are easily customizable with branding specs which can be uploaded from back end using another Google ad words tool/ ad sense tools etc.
- Anyone viewing this link through a certain social media account / medium it’s posted through will see the brand ads.
- PV from the article go to the actual website article basis which they are allowed to get access to a special dashboard that lets the publisher see which brands are using what content and better equip its sales force for inventory selling. 

TBD basis interest... I wish I have the money to make this…or the tech capabilities.. While all I have is an idea. 

Disclaimer: If Google chose to explore it further, I'd simply ask to be part of the project. 

Friday, December 20, 2013

Busines Idea 1: Traveller cafe and not just namesake!

This concept is Delhi, IN centirc. 

1. For whom: Travel company / independent hospitality industry person looking for a new venture / cafe concept. 
1.1 Will need three key people - a travel partner, a cafe partern, a marketing / digital partner. 

2. Catering to whom: anyone keen on traveling to India / various parts of india 
2.1 Primary audience - foreigners 
2.2 Secondary audience - local travel / photography / food junkies. 

3. Name: Traveller's Cafe 
3.1 Ironically this name is vacant, at least in Delhi NCR scenario!? Checked Zomato / googled 

4. Business model: to create an secondary opportunity/market to organize and cater to forgein clients and travelers for a travel company but thought a more legitimate approach while simultaneously also earning revenue from a cafe business. 

5. Cafe positioning: Location! location! location!: Pahardganj
5.1 To catch the market where they feel most comfortable.  
5.2 Also giving them a feeling of being self initiated rather than being duped by being dragged directly from airports and railway stations by traver agency 'cutters'.

6. Why: most travelers coming to Delhi read the lonely planet guide which specifically tells them about the places to stay (Pahardganj) and what to expect for cheap travel (cost) and how to bargain etc. 
6.1 Hence opportunity of creating a non hostile environment for capturing travel leads as the positioning is of a cafe. 
6.2 Agent can take them there rather than bring them to the travel shop from airports / railway stations to 'freshen-up'.
6.3 Also travelers who go stay there are otherwise smart / difficult to cater to or capture. 
6.4 As large traveling groups the over all cost of the trip also goes down which can again be shown as a 'USP' of the cafe.

7. Cafe concept: to cater to:
7.1 basic finger food from all over india i.e.: chats and snacks - conversation starters. 
7.2 Secondary menu to be world cuisine based (pricing according to Paharganj market pricing). 
7.3 Cheap alcohol. 

8. Back up model: even if the cafe fails as a travel company, it is an independent business model which can sustain itself to the catered market in that area.

9. Marketing model: For testimonial based reinforcement - that others have done this and come back alive!
9.1 Interiors to have walls on contributions from group travels of visitors + comments.
9.2 Polaroid photo shots for all paying customers with comments on how their visit to India has been so far. 
9.3 To hold small relics from all the visits with dates of visit / journey. 

10. Social page: Can work on 'powered by' model. 
10.1 Front end to be called: Traveller's Cafe on Facebook, Tumbler, Pinterest, Blogger and Zomato. 
10.2 In details / about section of the pages the same can be called 'powered by _ _ _ _ travel company. 
10.3 All articles and photos to be back linked to the travel partner site pages. Help with site traffic flow / building. 

11. Trip models: 
11.1 To host group travels for locals as well as forging groups. 
11.2 To make customized journey's - crowd sources destinations. 
11.3 Invite photo walk groups, adventure sports enthusiasts and related audiance for monthly, quarterly, half yearly trips.

12. Major marketing spend: 
12.1 Online: Zomato / bookmyshow / FB ads / google ad words / seo / mailer's /social media intern / depending on chosen rout/partners. Can use step by step or in phases expansion model. 
12.2 On ground: newspaper brochures and mats with updated upcoming travel plans to be put under class of the table or as mats. (to act as news letter's.)

13. Business model suited for: Travel company, someone enthusiastic about food and beverage industry.

14. Challenges :
14.1 Finding rent-able real estate in Pahardganj on long term lease. 
14.2 Ways of not letting other travel agents and brokers enter the cafe or breaking away client. 
14.3 Licensing - would it need only food and beverage or also travel company permits? 
14.4 Cracking MyBar concept for cheap booze and liquor!?  
14.5 Other unforeseen challenge from investors point of view. 
(i.e.: - will he be comfortable disclosing it as his own business to partners? (If any) 
- Will new partners be chosen for this venture? 
- Tie ups for further business to near by hotels and guest houses will he earn or travel company?) 

I guess i'm just a enthusiastic traveler? This should work! Comments / Suggestions anyone? :)