business idea...

[thecoach]

I just thought of a great business idea, but I'm not sure if there would be a market for it. I know that it would provide a solution to a problem that effects 2 different industries, but I don't know if it's a big enough problem that there would actually be demand for the services that this business would provide. I know that the work this business would do would lower the PETA factor for both industries involved becuase I have heard several people from both sides complain about the other side on many occassions. My industry sometimes depends on this work to get down or they don't get paid, but the other industry involved doesn't get paid to do the work, so they often put it to the bottom of the pile. This business would provide a middle man type service where my current industry gets what they want and provide a faster turn around time to it's clientelle and the other industry wouldn't have to any of the work for it.

From my experience in my industry and the in brief discussions with a friends in the other industry that it would effect, this may be a business that could expand across Canada and possibly in other countries as well. While I'm not sure if this problem is a global thing, both industries are global industries and it's fairly safe to say that both industries will be around as long as people inhabit the earth (unless they find a way to make people immortal and no longer suseptible to most diseases, inwhich case both industries would cease to exist).

As far as I could see, this business would have next to nothing for over head expenses (There would be no actually product, just a service, so no inventories...becuase you or more or less a middle person, not many records would need to actually be kept aside from your own billing/accounting type stuff so you wouldn't need much more than a laptop and a method of transportation to run the business, unless it went global)

One potential obsticle in getting this business off the ground is the person and confidential information that this business would be privy to. This business would be privy to confidential information from both industries so I would assume there would be a few legal hoops to jump through to make this work.

I personally would have no interest doing personally providing the services that this business would provide becuase I've got my own things on the go and this work wouldn't interest me in anyway, so unless I could take a "B" position in it almost immediately, I wouldn't really even want to put much more thought into it.

My problem is:
1) Where do I start to get this idea off the ground and see if it's worth persuing? Should I start at the local level and talk to people on both industries? Start with patenting the idea if it isn't already (if you can even patent a potential service that has no actual product)?

2) how do I find out if there is actually enough demand for service that both or either party would pay for it to be done. Hire a marketing company to contact local businesses or go to higher levels like regional or national offices that might make the decisions.

Any thoughts or ideas? Anyone want to buy my idea for a million bucks?

 

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[fanocks2003]

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Et ges et O duamf tii, vjot catopitt xuamf jewi piyv vu puvjoph gus uwis jief iyqiptit (Vjisi xuamf ci pu edvaemmz qsufadv, katv e tiswodi, tu pu opwipvusoit...cidaeti zua us nusi us mitt e noffmi qistup, puv nepz sidusft xuamf piif vu edvaemmz ci liqv etofi gsun zuas uxp commoph/edduapvoph vzqi tvagg tu zua xuamfp'v piif nadj nusi vjep e meqvuq epf e nivjuf ug vseptqusvevoup vu sap vji catopitt, apmitt ov xipv hmucem)

Upi quvipvoem uctvodmi op hivvoph vjot catopitt ugg vji hsuapf ot vji qistup epf dupgofipvoem opgusnevoup vjev vjot catopitt xuamf ci qsowz vu. Vjot catopitt xuamf ci qsowz vu dupgofipvoem opgusnevoup gsun cuvj opfatvsoit tu O xuamf ettani vjisi xuamf ci e gix mihem juuqt vu kanq vjsuahj vu neli vjot xusl.

O qistupemmz xuamf jewi pu opvisitv fuoph qistupemmz qsuwofoph vji tiswodit vjev vjot catopitt xuamf qsuwofi cidaeti O'wi huv nz uxp vjopht up vji hu epf vjot xusl xuamfp'v opvisitv ni op epzxez, tu apmitt O duamf veli e "C" qutovoup op ov emnutv onnifoevimz, O xuamfp'v siemmz iwip xepv vu qav nadj nusi vjuahjv opvu ov.

Nz qsucmin ot:
1) Xjisi fu O tvesv vu hiv vjot ofie ugg vji hsuapf epf tii og ov't xusvj qistaoph? Tjuamf O tvesv ev vji mudem miwim epf veml vu qiuqmi up cuvj opfatvsoit? Tvesv xovj qevipvoph vji ofie og ov otp'v emsiefz (og zua dep iwip qevipv e quvipvoem tiswodi vjev jet pu edvaem qsufadv)?

2) jux fu O gopf uav og vjisi ot edvaemmz ipuahj finepf gus tiswodi vjev cuvj us iovjis qesvz xuamf qez gus ov vu ci fupi. Josi e neslivoph dunqepz vu dupvedv mudem catopittit us hu vu johjis miwimt moli sihoupem us pevoupem uggodit vjev nohjv neli vji fidotoupt.

Epz vjuahjvt us ofiet? Epzupi xepv vu caz nz ofie gus e nommoup cadlt?

O haitt zua piif vu vitv vjot ofie fosidvmz eheoptv dunqepoit op vji opfatvsz. Vjev niept dupvedvoph vji "coh tjuvt" fosidvmz epf tii og vjisi ot e finepf. Nz efwodi ot vu katv vimm vjin hipisem opgusnevoup xjip zua qsitipv vji ofie. Pu fiveomt xjevtuiwis. Og vjiz esi opvisitvif, vjiz dep tohp ep PFE ehsiinipv epf hiv vji fiveomt. Og vjiz vjip xuamf ci opvisitvif op tuni lopf ug catopitt essephinipv egvis vjev, vjip jewi vjin howi zua e xsovvip dunnovnipv (xovjuav vji xsovvip ehsiinipv zua fup'v jewi epzvjoph vu tjux gus ov epf pu fiem jet ciip nefi).

Xovj vji ehsiinipv zua tjuamf tvesv e dunqepz monovif cz tjesit. Zua tjuamf vjip josi e DIU et tuup et quttocmi (zua fofp'v xepv vu sap vji uqisevoupt zuastimg et zua nipvoupif). Vjip miv vji DIU sap vji dunqepz.

Xovj zuas DIU zua xomm tiv disveop qesenivist gus qsugov, uxpist temesz ivd. Xjip vjev ot nefi zua xomm gapdvoup nusi us mitt et vji Djeosnep epf nekusovz tjesijumfis ug vji dunqepz.

Vjot nelit ov quttocmi gus zua vu puv jewoph vu xusl op vji dunqepz et ep uqisevoupem qesvz.

Cav vitv vji finepf gostv. Tivaq tuni niivopht xovj vji "coh tjuvt". Piwis veml vu tuniupi mitt vjep vji DIU us Djeosnep ug vji dunqepz. Ov nez tiin onquttocmi, cav xovjuav vjev niivoph zuas ofie xomm piwis hiv gasvjis vjep vu vji fatvcop. Zua piif vu tii vji fidotoup nelist fosidvmz epf qsitipv vji aporai timmoph quopvt ug xjev vjiz xomm heop cz xusloph xovj zua.