Business ThinkTank No.43- Night Deliveries

Night seems less activities, less traffic. And less opportunity to do business? If you think so, it is- however nothing is wasteful in the business world.

UseLuna - Moonlight Deliveries - is a start-up company to offer sending things to customers during night period. What is beneficial? Yes, no traffic jam, well-weather, and romantic.

Day or night. New or old. Black or white.  The difference doesn't matter but when you see the opportunity at one side. Definitely, there is a great big chance at another opposite side waiting you catch the golds.

Good luck and Happy new year 2014.

Business ThinkTank No.42- iQueue

I'm very irritated to restaurants where their customers have to do long queues for many minutes. While waiting, if good management, there will be someone who are responsible to jot down your queue and announce when your turn is there. The time gap is going waste if restaurants don't offer any value, like order food beforehand. And here is our opportunity to solve it.

For popular food restaurants, iQueue app is the right mate to place into their work process. The app can provide many benefits to waiting customers to not get bored and leave before their turn by allowing them to play games or do some activities relating to restaurants' food or brands. Fairer, the longer they wait, the more they gain points and use points to exchange valued-items when reach some amount designated.

Great idea? Need someone initiate and act. Please.

Business ThinkTank No.41- Time-Related Advertisement

Nowadays, Ad agenaycy has many methods to pl with audience. The social marketing/ viral communication is pervasive among all ages. While things mentioned exist digitally, another physical view is also rather more interesting when we borrow the power of time.

Time can deal with Sun and Moon. Both yield lightness and darkness as well as limitation in terms of day and night span. During days, we're hit by sunshine and sky. On another flip, we face moonlight and nightfall. If we consider time's characteristics clearly and have insights on it, we're capable to exhibit advertising media sounding distinctive.

Like in Korea, a company employes sunlight to form a QR code shadow. The crafted object must be touched the light with the right time and angle so as to produce particular shadow according the shape of the object. When the time comes, e.g. about 14.00 PM when the sun is diagonally on heads of us, the QR code appears perfectly. People will scan the code to get discount coupons and keep them into their mobile phones or using immediately.

In Chicago, the ad billboard, among sun dominance, doesn't display anytime. But when the sky goes dark, the picture is attractively revealed to the hangouts within that art frame. 

There are many applications to deal with time-engaging communications however it still depends on how well you pick up contexts to express messages.

Sharp Idea 2

I like collecting the good statements quoted in the books. And the sharp ideas below derive from:
 Source: ราคาคือของจริง, วรากรณ์ สามโกเศศ

Here they are:

Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation: Milton Friedman
We make ourselves rich by making our wants few: Henry David Thoreau
Debt is the worst poverty - M.G. Lichtwer
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared - Jane Porter
Not to know is bad. Not to want to know is worst - African Proverb

Business ThinkTank No.40- Books and Toys

When you were a child and read the fantasy book, had you ever imagined that magical objects or fairy-tale character could be touchable. GoldieBlox is the initiator upon this thought.

The company provides a book that instructs girls many ways in constructing toys. This toy is designed to promote favor in engineering to girls. Together with a book, toy can encourage girls to play it with fun and passion to pursue engineering-education path. Of course, the book is not a normal one. It's written as a story telling about a girl who loves invent things. In this way, girls can enjoy reading and playing as well as ingraining their engineering-oriented mindset.

So, I believe we can copy and develop this excellent concept from this case to other areas. We may offer painting kit to let children draw high-profiled artist paintings in correspondence of storytelling in the book. To wrap it shortly, build passion, let it drive action. ;)

Business ThinkTank No.39- Bundle Sells

Selling each may cost you more than offering in bundles. And people sometimes don't want to waste time to buy a single item in a particular purpose.

I found the medicare website sets the product for cancer patients who face difficulty to keep their life in safe by using the aiding equipment. New patients usually have no awful experience what they are coping with, thereby lacking of necessary things to ail pains occurred.

The point of this business is to go for niche markets and provide groups of things to customers who hardly use them but become very essential when bad situation comes or special events approach.

Sets could be: medical box, adventurous tools, survival equipment, flood-fighter package, etc.

Yet not easy, you have to study lots to collect right items and encapsulate them into one chuck.
    

Business ThinkTank No.38- Up-To-You Donation

On our ways towards somewhere, we often meet street musicians conducting themselves amongst flowing stream of crowd. If content to performance, we just admire in mind and give a little money to them.

In the era of web2.0, audiences are centrally attentive to service offers. Thus, business changes and donations either.

From now on, we can choose one of the music we would like to listen to by putting pennies into one of the bottles which are labelled in front of it about genre of music. Like a jukebox ;)

Voila, the example is this.

Remember, let users create their own product. They will be happy and you too ;D 

Design Library

This post is dedicated to displaying design examples and manners across the globe.

1. Road Tripper -  Plan and manage your trip
Design subject: Patterns and Interface for map application

2. Stanley Piano - Play songs according to Twitter
Design subject: Page transition, and graphical menu

Frint in Japanese

When I experienced the Japan internship, I wrote the Japanese blog at http://ameblo.jp/piyawits/. Here I expressed and shared my what's-going-on matters to AIESEC members and those who were interested in.

Throughout the blog, you could see my vision upon Japanese society and notions of comparison between my original stereotype and the contrast. I pointed out difference and similarity I faced on culture, norms, language, and attitude.

I've got Japanese name from AIESEC help and feel warmer because of inner heart touching family-like care. Finally I decide to stay in my own country, even if I love this fresh-air and blue-sky country. Because I was ingrained the patriot soul someday I can do gratitude to my country.

Well, find me more via the blog as mentioned above,

And call me Furinto, if you see me in Japan.

;)

Ja mata ne.

Business ThinkTank No.37- Money Credit

Money doesn't only exist in formats of coins and banknotes, but also it's available in virtuality-money credit.

To receive money credits, user may have to invest upon somethings like hard exercise, long-distance running, in turn, get the points. The business should establish a platform to let users spend their credits earned. Auction stages, discounting stores, premium shops are the examples in this regard.

In summary, let users exchange their efforts with virtual money and an enterprise provide places to allow them to spend money credits. Victory. Both!