MORE IDEAS FOR ENTREPRENEURS

Here are some more ideas for entrepreneurs:

 

1. Gift Certificates – I just wanted to buy gift certificates for some of my relatives for a trip to Goa. Can you imagine that none of the Airlines nor hotels or resorts offer gift certs in India?

Gift Certs are big business in other countries particularly in the US. During Christmas time, these are in big demand. From malls, to hotels to Airlines to any kind of services, you can buy and gift it using a gift cert. No so in India. Why hasn’t any one thought of it?

2. Toilet Deodorant dispensers -  Been a restaurant/Hotel/Airport/Office loo. Ah…the familiar odor in the Urinal. Those which don’t smell like a disaster, don’t smell good, to say the least. You will however, see the familiar toiler phenyl balls or tablets either in the Urinal or hung from the wall. The world has moved to sophisticated self dispensed toilet deodorants with timers, which make a loo smell atleast as good as your temple….if not better. Remember, “…Your Bathroom is a room too.” advertisement? Someone wake up the Janitorial products providers in India. Kimberly-Clark?  

 

3. Taxi bill printers – So your boss has just accused you of padding up your conveyance bills on your last travel, ha? No need to worry. Show him a printed auto or taxi bill next time. Ah.. but for that you’d have to be in Singapore. Better still, you could be paying your taxi bill using your credit card. How convenient. So how come, with 70,000 autos in Bangalore alone, nobody thought of installing an auto bill printer. It is not that expensive.
4. Buko Pies  & Philippine Cigars  -  This one is for the bakers and the chefs. ‘Buko’ is Coconut in Malay/Filipino. The tender coconut with its abundant milk-cream is the raw material. Rest is all like it is in any pie. And the Cigars- few people know that when the Spaniards came to discover the Philippine islands, they planted tobacco leaves they got from the South American countries/ Mexico, perhaps Cuba as well. The Philippine cigars are good quality, they just don’t have the resources to market them to the world. This is an opportunity waiting to be tapped.