All Business Ideas Archive
Thinking About Alternative Revenue Models for Web Startups
0 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya November 11th, 2008 in All Business Ideas, Blog, General Posts, Web/techIn this post I look at Google’s revenue model to see how alternative billion dollar revenue models can be derived on the same principles, using Facebook and Twitter as examples. I say alternative because advertising, which basically is Google’s prime product serves only one of many business needs – gaining exposure. There are several other [...]
Business Idea: Help Ex Colleagues Say Farewell and Keep in Touch
13 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya October 2nd, 2008 in All Business Ideas, Blog, Web/techUpdate: If you have arrived here looking for a way for you and your co-workers to jointly send a farewell card to a leaving colleague, you may want to try GroupCard – a website that let’s you do just that. Be sure to read this post to the end first though . This one is [...]
Business Idea: Ads as Callback Tones
0 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya August 29th, 2008 in All Business Ideas, Blog, mobileThere is a little known service available on mobile phones called a callback tone or ringback tone. It allows the customisation of what other people hear when they call you, instead of the normal ring ring tone. So people who use it tend to have their phones play selected music tracks to their callers until [...]
3 Quick App Ideas
0 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya July 31st, 2008 in All Business Ideas, Blog, mobile, Web/techAs I haven’t posted for a while, I thought I would write briefly about three ideas in this post. Suspend a Keyword in Google Reader: I would like to see a Google Reader plug-in that allows me to suspend keywords for a configurable number of days. So if I was sick of reading about the [...]
Two iPhone-Facebook App Ideas
2 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya July 15th, 2008 in All Business Ideas, Blog, mobile, Web/techThe first idea is for an app that might be named Crossed Paths. It would use the iPhone’s location capabilities to track each of its users’ movements. It would then report to each user which other users crossed paths with them each day – basically which users were in the same vicinity in any given [...]
Business Idea: Earn Cash for Green Points with Your Green Card
2 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya July 10th, 2008 in All Business Ideas, Blog, Social Entrepreneurship, Web/techThis idea was contributed by reader Cliff Bull. It is amazing what the mind can conjure up when you don’t make money your primary focus. Cliff has come up with an idea to boost the adoption of recycling, particularly amongst young people in the U.K and in fact anywhere else in the world. His idea [...]
Business Idea: See Who’s on Your Flight – a Travel Social Network
0 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya June 6th, 2008 in All Business Ideas, BlogI haven’t posted any travel related ideas since the excess baggage allowance exchange idea I posted a while back. As I travelled recently to and from Dubai recently though, two ideas occurred to me – one on the way there and the other on the way back. I am currently looking for a developer to [...]
You Have Reached Your Destination – Did You Know …
0 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya April 19th, 2008 in All Business Ideas, BlogWhy don’t GPS sat nav units serve ads? Why not give away sat nav units and sell advertising to businesses such that when a user arrives at their destination, the familiar “You have reached your destination” message is quickly followed by a couple of brief audio ads? For in-phone sat nav units, the user could [...]
Business Idea: Gauging the Public’s Mood About a Product
2 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya March 8th, 2008 in All Business Ideas, BlogIt appears that there is no free to use website for gauging the balance of public opinion – good to or bad – for a specified keyword or phrase. This keyword could be a product, brand, country, website, whatever. Now I did find that a company called SkyGrid does offer a similar service but it [...]
Product Idea: Photos of People Mentioned in this Post
0 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya February 13th, 2008 in All Business Ideas, BlogOne idea that has bounced in and out of my head for a couple of years now is to give website publishers and bloggers the ability to show in a widget, photos of people mentioned on a web page or blog post. In its simplest form, the widget could have an admin interface that would [...]