Free Business Idea For The Taking
Heres a cool business idea someone could take a stab at: sell gas mileage bumper stickers.
Everyone is in such a big huff about gas prices these days, why not throw some fuel on the fire.
Come up with some symbol that is simple and easily recognizable. (Sort of like the Jesus fish people put on their cars.)
It could be a gas gauge with a little needle, or a symbol of the earth on fire, or a polar bear on a melting iceberg, or a gas pump or whatever.
Simpler would be better probably. Then people could come to your website and get a custom one made for their car. So for example if you had a Prius you could order one like this:
It would be totally honor system and people could put any number they want. I think it could become a matter of pride to see who could get the highest number. You gotta have over 50 to be cool, and lying about your mileage number is way uncool.
What would be really fun is if there was a backlash movement. Sort of like the Darwin fishes that came out with the little feet on them as a backlash to the Jesus fishes.
If you had a big ole truck or gas guzzler, then you could get one like this:
Or one that said “liberal wheenies” or whatever you wanted. Of course this battle would all be good for business on your website.
I’d say you could probably start this business and test out the idea for less than $100. Throw up a wordpress website, use paypal or google checkout to create a “buy now” button, do a little bit of SEO or pay per click to bring in customers, and find some company to produce and drop ship the product for you so that you have zero inventory.
Remember, great business ideas are all around you and are there for the taking. Its people who take ACTION on those ideas that are the real rarity.
Until next time, keep breaking free!
Brian Armstrong
P.S. Extra credit if you find a way to put your URL in the bumper sticker somewhere for free advertising. This could help it go viral. You’d have to make it really small or unobtrusive though so it doesn’t distract from the main purpose….or make it free to get one with your url in it and pay for one without? Not sure, but it has some potential.
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Adam Holland said,
Wrote on July 12, 2008 @ 8:23 pm
HA! I was just talking about something like this w/ a friend of mine… We both work from home so we wanted to do something similar w/ -> who cares? i commute to my living room.. or something along those lines…
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Brian Armstrong said,
Wrote on July 15, 2008 @ 2:46 am
Haha, yep there are lots of good bumper sticker ideas that could go viral I suppose. Plenty of hot/controversial issues out there.
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Lucky said,
Wrote on July 15, 2008 @ 11:26 am
I like the idea of giving out free ideas for the taking. I think it should become a regular part of this blog where you and your readers can post ideas for businesses to help others out.
Even if people don’t use the ideas, they might get new ideas of what is possible just from seeing them. After all, that is what this blog is about, helping people break free.
My contribution for now is to find a very specific niche of your choice, take pictures of everything in that niche and start a stock photo website. You won’t target the entire world but you will be providing a tremendous amount of value to that niche community.
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Brian Armstrong reply on July 16th, 2008 6:53 pm:
Hi Lucky, I think thats a great idea, I’ll be posting more business ideas in the future for sure!
Brian
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Dan Gebura said,
Wrote on July 16, 2008 @ 9:16 pm
The idea with stickers and labels is great. It gets people’s attention. I personally outfitted my car with stickers promoting my business and every week I come across a few people who ask for more information.
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