Thursday, March 03, 2005

Service side websites

This blog is bumpin!!!! Nice Robot idea. Very futuristic. The forward thinking is good.

I've got a couple of ideas to add to the thunderdome. They are both websites.
1) Okay, so there are a lot of idiots out there. Well maybe not idiots, but people that do not want to take the time learn how to do something. Like say, sell something on eBay, or start a blog for example. Well here is what they do, they go to our website and they can enlist a support agent to help them do that. Maybe call it JoinTheHighway.com or something.
For example, someone says to themselves, how do I get an email account? They go to our website and they can either call us by phone, or we send someone to their house to show them personally on their computer how to set up an email account.
How do I???? install my printer...we'll send an agent.
How do I???? hook up my VCR...we'll send an agent.
... you get the point.
The reason I thought of this is because of this "information gap" where older people that do not know how to do certain things like this but wish to. My father for example can rewire his entire house, explain to me how a thermostat works, but still has trouble checking his email.
Other possible names for the sites askthegeeks.com, throwoutthemanual.com.
Also geeks around the country can join our website a get paid by going to these people's houses and stuff.

2) Another is called regifter.com. Okay for some strange reason (probably the marketing machine) people are guilted in to buying people gifts for Christmas. So what happens, every year you get crappy gifts for crap you do not want. I have a few gifts this year that I am like, "what? why would you think I would want this?" So what happens is people go to regifter.com and they can donate these gifts to the site. These gifts would then be donated to charities or sold for profit (with profits going to charity). I got this idea b/c people would go online and send crap to soldiers in Iraq, but soldiers in Iraq arent the only people that need crap. I am not sure about the whole charity side thing or how it would really work (also its a glorified eBay), but its an idea in early seed stage. Keep bloggin!!

1 Comments:

Blogger Gus said...

Regifter is a hell of an idea, as is the elderly technical helper.

The only thing that concerns me about the geeksquad deal is that Best Buy is doing something sort of similar, but hey that means they would wanna buy us out for 10 million dollars...

Regifter.com is cool, we would only have to run right after and during major holidays. This is what the business people call a cash fucken cow.

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