What's next
Existing Market:
The next step for my business would be to create it and find a shelter or rescue willing to implement it.
1.) Bob Fisher, who works along side animal planet told me to add breed specification to my final product in regrds to behavior and temperment. He think my current venture is good, but suggest I take my mission on a bigger online scale like animal planet or petfinder.com, due to our current situation.
2.) Gladyis Weinberg was happy to hear from me again after our fist interview. She is so supportive of my idea starting from shelter to shelter but says that if I wanted to help more raise the price and make my payment an annule fee. She also said to try for donations in places like local businesses rather than corporations to enhance that family feel of my system. The more money i make the more I can help with shelters and take a cut for myslef.
3.) Dustin Boule is the older veteran that i asked about his dog food in an earlier post. He siad that my idea has slidified since I last spoke to him but he thinks I should start from big to small or try to gain media attention since evryone is one their phones now. That's my next step...Gaining enough attention to my my product valid.
Reflection: The feedback I got from my past interviewers was both surprising and helpful. I was not expecting Gladyis to have as much business input as she did since she never owned one herself, but life teaches you better than school. I agree that aiming for media attention and starting online are a good way to make my business boom or stand out. I don't knwo if i quite agree with Gladyis on raising the price only because it is so exerimental at the moment, but maybe in the future of this product.
What I plan on doing for my future endevore would still be to create my product and maybe start online or at my local county shelter. I am now debating because both Bob and Dustin make good points that in our current state, everything is online now and anything in person is reduced or completly gone. I think I will start with a local county shelter and see if my product says what I market it to do and then if I see enough progress then go to a nation wide platform to hopefully gain media attention with sucess. I have family and friends all over the country that coukld give me a shoutout and make an instagram page, snapchat and faceboom page to gain a following.
New market:
Create system and make it an app to sell it for individual use
1.) Pam wahington is is middle age women with no kids or pets. She was thinking about adopting but is not sure so i approahed with my idea and she did not lik ethe idea of an app. She said that it would serve no purpose and would be better used if at teh shelter or owned by an organisation. When I revealed my actual idea she liked it a lot better. She said if I stuck with the app to find some way to incorporate it into a big company.
2.) Katelynn Car is an elderly woman who has no interst in adopting any pets, children or free loaders. I told her about my app and she automatically hated the idea but was convinced that younger people would because they love technology. i told her my original idea and though she was still not fond of it liked it more than the app because it didnt require much tevhnical interaction from her part. She told me to do it on paper rather than a computer becasue thren you could recyle the paer and use it again for another time. I pointed out that paper is how it is currently and said " don't fix something that ain't broken".
The next step for my business would be to create it and find a shelter or rescue willing to implement it.
1.) Bob Fisher, who works along side animal planet told me to add breed specification to my final product in regrds to behavior and temperment. He think my current venture is good, but suggest I take my mission on a bigger online scale like animal planet or petfinder.com, due to our current situation.
2.) Gladyis Weinberg was happy to hear from me again after our fist interview. She is so supportive of my idea starting from shelter to shelter but says that if I wanted to help more raise the price and make my payment an annule fee. She also said to try for donations in places like local businesses rather than corporations to enhance that family feel of my system. The more money i make the more I can help with shelters and take a cut for myslef.
3.) Dustin Boule is the older veteran that i asked about his dog food in an earlier post. He siad that my idea has slidified since I last spoke to him but he thinks I should start from big to small or try to gain media attention since evryone is one their phones now. That's my next step...Gaining enough attention to my my product valid.
Reflection: The feedback I got from my past interviewers was both surprising and helpful. I was not expecting Gladyis to have as much business input as she did since she never owned one herself, but life teaches you better than school. I agree that aiming for media attention and starting online are a good way to make my business boom or stand out. I don't knwo if i quite agree with Gladyis on raising the price only because it is so exerimental at the moment, but maybe in the future of this product.
What I plan on doing for my future endevore would still be to create my product and maybe start online or at my local county shelter. I am now debating because both Bob and Dustin make good points that in our current state, everything is online now and anything in person is reduced or completly gone. I think I will start with a local county shelter and see if my product says what I market it to do and then if I see enough progress then go to a nation wide platform to hopefully gain media attention with sucess. I have family and friends all over the country that coukld give me a shoutout and make an instagram page, snapchat and faceboom page to gain a following.
New market:
Create system and make it an app to sell it for individual use
1.) Pam wahington is is middle age women with no kids or pets. She was thinking about adopting but is not sure so i approahed with my idea and she did not lik ethe idea of an app. She said that it would serve no purpose and would be better used if at teh shelter or owned by an organisation. When I revealed my actual idea she liked it a lot better. She said if I stuck with the app to find some way to incorporate it into a big company.
2.) Katelynn Car is an elderly woman who has no interst in adopting any pets, children or free loaders. I told her about my app and she automatically hated the idea but was convinced that younger people would because they love technology. i told her my original idea and though she was still not fond of it liked it more than the app because it didnt require much tevhnical interaction from her part. She told me to do it on paper rather than a computer becasue thren you could recyle the paer and use it again for another time. I pointed out that paper is how it is currently and said " don't fix something that ain't broken".
Refelction: I can honestly say that these two interviews hurt me lol not because they were with my unidealistic audience but because half of my interviews gave me usable feebcak on my product. It did help solidify my target audience and the format of my idea to be as considerate of others as possible. I know how hard it is to work technology sometimes which is why I am requesting assistance in makeing the actual system rather than attempting to do it myself. I did expect them to stray away from the app only because it has no market value to me.
My path remains the same from the existing market. Testing small and then working into national attention, hopefully gaining a following to one day go world wide. i am in no rush though since Corona has national headlines every where you look and shelters are doing just fine, in fact betterthan before now that isolation is being taken more sseriously now.
I decided to check out different blogs for this week's peer reviews. I find the responses from the not-market are from what I call "Debbie Downers". Don't mind people who look down on technology: there is a saying "Anything invented after you're 35 goes against nature." I found the comment that paper is recyclable to be very interesting seeing as technology exists whether or not the product is on it. Just because paper can be recycled doesn't make it entirely environmentally friendly. Paper mills can be smelled from a mile away and I can't imagine they are good for the environment. Plus, from what I have seen, few people make the effort to recycle. Also, ink is super expensive - so I can see why my credit card company is always suggesting I have "paperless" statements. Anyway, shelters do a similar thing sometimes where they put a paper on the cage that is like "Hello my name is: _______ and I like ___ and ___" but it isn't as great as a whole personality test type of thing. Good job and keep your head up!
ReplyDeleteHi Jacelynn,
ReplyDeleteGreat work on your “What’s Next” blog post. It is so important to look far into the future of our ideas and be sure that there will be ample opportunity for growth (even when we are just starting out). I know that it can be challenging to talk to people about your idea that you know have no interest and are not in the market but it can be a great learning experience.