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Mar 15, 2007 9:53 AM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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In my life, I have founded and run 12 different companies. So I have some business experience... But every time, before I started new business, it was not to easy for me to make the right choice and to decide what business is better. Exactly this choice determined my future success or failure. Due to my own experience, I came to some conclusions, that help me to avoid empty actions and mistakes, wasting my time and losing money. Now, when choosing new business opportunity, I always take in count following positions:

  1. Do people really need my product!? What the value of this product? Is this product able to help people to solve their actual problems they may have and how many people may need it?

  1. Is that business old or new, what is the level of development of this business and how many competitors on the market? Have I potential opportunity to be #1 dealer at my region?

  2. How many efforts and money do I need to invest to get started and how fast I will get returns?

My next analysis I did 10 months ago, when routine work of my Badge Master company was stabilized and I appointed the executive director and I got some spare time to look for new business opportunity. Here I want to share with you what I got in result of looking for «new product».

So I started searching from the point  #1of my analysis. Say, please, what people use most of all in their life? It’s simple, - air! To be more detailed, it is 45-55 lbs daily. I wish I sell air! Don`t you? It would bring me an exploding line of clients, as all people do need air. But, sure, there is no air deficit on the market. At that point I decided to discard this idea and forget it. But ... Stop, people also consume water, and there are tones of water in the nature, but someone doing huge money selling water! So I had to look for opportunity. What I knew about air? I knew it is very polluted and of very bad quality at the most cities. And I knew that major long-livers live in a mountain areas and breeze fresh air. That`s all. So I have searched for information on subject and what I found is what I could never suppose to be true:

- Air of modern indoors is 4-6 times more polluted and toxic than outdoor air!!!

- Different popular building and decorating materials, such as linoleum, wallpapers, plastic, carpeting, paints, other synthetic materials, and also chemical cleaners fill the indoor air with poisoned evaporations, and concentration of these poisons many times exceeds outdoor pollution.

- Every indoor is filled with dust which is proven source of infection, because germs use dust parts for moving and contacting. Indoor dust is #1 allergen.

- The average 1.500 sq. ft indoor area produces about 40 lbs of dust each year, where inhabit approximately 15 kinds of dust mites. Above 42.000 dust mites live in just 1 oz of dust!

90% of all infection and catarrhs diseases we get through the indoor air!

- Ionic balance of indoors is destroyed due to lots of electrical wires, that literally wind our homes and offices.

- Home dirt is not dead; it is very alive and constantly reproducing mould, fungi and germs. Why? Because the environment is very auspicious. Homes and offices are filled with sources of energy, warms, food and there is no fresh air circulation.

And more...

City inhabitants spend 90% of their time inside of homes and offices. So you can imagine how much energy lose our bodies to fight all this filth. Usual results are: allergy, drowse, headache, tiredness, irritabilities, eye irritation, regular colds and infection diseases, low energy and insomnia.

Well, I thought, if this problem is actual for all people, maybe it is worth to sell fresh air for indoors? Good idea! But how? What it could look like? I recalled, that in Tokyo they have street air machines, and for coin you can have some fresh air. But you can`t put such appliance to your home. And it is stupid idea to sell air cylinders along with an oxygen mask – sure, people will not understand and value this way. So I started market exploration. What we have there? In fact, nothing to consider. Lots of different filters and ionic cleaners. Although effect is too low, and they are not able to solve whole air problem, they are in demand! Well, let`s look for appliance that actually able to solve all indoor air pollution problems, in effective way, with no debt. It could be proven success – consumption is huge and market is near empty, competition is zero and you may achieve #1 position at any area. But where to find this wander-purifier and does it exists at all? Sure, exists! It is newest technology, and company spent 20 more years to make it perfect, but there are a few people who are familiar with this unique technology. Let`s put aside long story how I found it, it is better to say about my experiments I did with, when got my first unit.

I set it home by the evening, turned on and played with it`s remote control. All worked correctly. It was a winter, and it was very cold outside, so my windows where closed tightly and heater worked at all it`s power. It was warm in my room, but air was too close. Well, very good conditions for experiment. Although I was not sure in good results, but... I was very excited about this experiment and put many efforts to fall asleep. I woke up and found that air was much fresher, and my head wasn`t so heavy as usually. Ok, it is not a time to be too happy yet, so let`s continue experiment. I put it to my bathroom. Have to say, I have a pet at my home – young Stafford terrier, which can sometimes make a puddle in non-appropriate place. My son takes care of puppy, and he can leave wet dirty mob in the bathroom. So you can imagine this non-jasmine smell. So I put the unit there and left it in away mode (for fast air cleaning, when unit works on 120% of normal power). In 2 hours I did not believe to my nose – smell disappeared! Later I got proven information from Kansas University, that unit kills 99% of all germs ant fungi in the air and even on all surfaces of inside areas .

Then it had got even better. I asked my friend to have some cigarettes in my office. He smoked and I was sitting in 4 ft from him and there where no smell, no smoke around me. Fantastic! So I let my emotions to flow. Then I put my son`s shoes near unit, did clothe and linen cleaning, and even gave unit for tests to different laboratories and to my friends who had allergies, and to those who just finished room repair. Lots of tests. And I was very satisfied with results. Epidemiologists said they finally have actual air problem solution for people who ask them for help.

Nine months gone, and I`m seriously doing this business now. As I supposed, people like this product, and, in spite of the cost of units, they are in high demand. Well, this is a story of my idea to “sell air” and I`m ready to share this idea with every person who are interested to sell air.



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Have a nice day, Andrew tav@bmaster.com.ua http://www.squidoo.com/bmaster
Innovator7

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Mar 15, 2007 11:16 AM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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No amount of overhyped air filtering will match the free fresh air.

To me, it`s crazy that in California at least, there`re regulation on mandatory recirculation of office air by AC units.  Only 5% or so of fresh air is pulled into a building.  Indoor air pollution is very serious in USA. 
people like California for its weather.  Yet 99% of office buildings and even factories and retail places have glass windows that are air-tight for security reasons, also because of regulation of AC systems.

I simply only my window (and door) of my small office for fresh air.




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Mar 16, 2007 9:56 AM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Market anything effectively enough, and you`ll sell it. The market venue for water was people who wanted something to drink on the go, which is why a gallon of water costs .99 and a 20oz bottle costs 1.29. Find the people who perceive value in what you have, and you can sell air. Hell, those damn Ionic Breeze people actually convince people to shell out $400 bucks for what is, in effect, a dust magnet. Oh, they happened to arrange it in such a way that the ions move the air, and made that a gimmic, but it`s really just a costs savings for them.



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Dan Afonso Business computing made simple -- Enfold IT
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Mar 16, 2007 10:35 AM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Right, indoor air pollution is the problem and sure, it is 100% true - no amount of filtering could much fresh outdoor air. The Nature use no filtering systems to clean air, but it`s own natural processes and components. The same technologies used in the appliances I wrote about. With NO filters.

And those 99% of office buildings and even factories and retail places, that have air-tight glass windows are potential buyers for air purifying systems. Could be there another bigger market? Maybe no, and my practice prove this fact daily.

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bmaster

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Mar 16, 2007 10:55 AM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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99% of people bought these air purifying appliances after free trial, when they actually  made sure the technology works well for them. I do not consider too many people to be so silly to buy useless things that do not work.

I`m sure, it is the best indoor air problem solution on the market today, not only due to number of testimonials of my satisfied clients, -  I`m using these units too in my home and office.

Btw, I did not mentioned Ionic Breeze, there is newest technologies used in other units.


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Innovator7

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Mar 16, 2007 11:14 AM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Yeah right, the little $99 gizmo (I`d bet it`s much more) has the capability of changing carbon dioxide back to oxygen and carbon.  No wonder the wall next to it gets darken.

`Nough said.


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bmaster

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Mar 16, 2007 11:31 AM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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I use my unit 9 months at home and my wall next is clear. What is the technology you have mentioned?

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enfoldit

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Mar 16, 2007 2:17 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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I belive Innovator7 was showing some skeptesism to your idea, and he has a point. Nature purifies by converting the pollutants in the air into either sediment or chemically transforms pollutants into food and waste (through a very, very long chain of checmical reactions). Nature is pretty complicated, and to claim to capture nature in a device with no explanation is a bit... out there.

"99% of people bought these air purifying appliances after free trial, when they actually  made sure the technology works well for them. I do not consider too many people to be so silly to buy useless things that do not work."

I`m afraid I have a bust of Lenin sitting in my kitchen that proves otherwise. People buy, and I kid you not, Ionic bracelets based on health claims. Magnets aparently also cure a host of diseases.

I`m not saying you haven`t found a catalytic way of disposing of a few indoor pollutants, or that this isn`t a real product, only that it`s hard to understand the concept of "device that cleans air without filtration". The snakeoil meter is dinging pretty high.

My original point, and I point back to the magnet and ionic jewelry things, is that you can, in fact, sell anything to people with good application of marketing and sincere conviction.



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Dan Afonso Business computing made simple -- Enfold IT
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Mar 16, 2007 2:52 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Just in case some viewers didn`t get it, IMHO bmaster was doing a promotion plug disguised as a success story, just like most MLM marketers.  In that thread I pointed out that Amway distributors work their behind off for little real income but externally they ONLY talk about how great Amway is - see "Merchants of Deception" on the Web.  Not that I`m accusing bmaster of MLM promotion.  I just want to beam a scientific light onto hearsay or otherwise snake-oil claims on a wonder-product.

Air pollution is a subject dear to me, because it affects me a great deal, more than it does to people around me.  I`ve looked and tried many different ionic filters or HEPA filter system for my environment, even devised the ultimate system for myself.  Call me a air quality guru if you wish but I did approach the quality problem scientifically.

Barnum & Bailey (?) said "there`s a sucker born every minute, and two to take advantage of him".  People are free to do whatever legal, but "caveat emptor."

I wish bmaster sell a zillion of the gizmo.  But I`m not gonna be his customer, my own system works very well.
Innovator72007-3-16 17:48:58


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Mar 16, 2007 4:35 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Ok you, guys,  are 100% right. Ionic technology can`t solve air pollution problem even for 1/10 of whole one... But why you did conclusion that it is simple ionic technology I mentioned about? Maybe it is better to get to know before you can appraise it? Btw, I personally, do not try to sell you something. I just tried to give an idea. Sorry, I`m not native English-speaking, and maybe my article not so perfect to expose my idea, but... be so honest. I just want to share my business idea. I think, that first water treatment systems were not so perfect as they are now, and excuse that there is no perfect system to treat air today. But, I think, you do not drink tap water, so maybe in some time the same will happen with air. Who knows? It is just up to you - treat the air you breeze, or not. Like other things in you life - health food, water, etc.

Pleased to meet you here agian.


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Have a nice day, Andrew tav@bmaster.com.ua http://www.squidoo.com/bmaster
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