Become a Smart Home or Office Consultant

 What are smart homes? We keep hearing these fancy words in different areas, especially phrases like AI powered apartments. 

Sri Dhanya apartment is currently highlighting their new USP as Kerala's first artificially intelligent smart home project in Trivandrum. So, it's a big thing that AI is getting popular in all domains - be it health care, or home and office. 

What are the AI factors that can be build into a home

1. Clean the home
2. Open blinds
3. Turn lights, AC
4. House security
5. Smoke detection

Start a Natural product Interior Designer

 What's unique about Kerala? How can a interior designers specialize in interior design which incorporates or brings Kerala building elements inside the house?

If you're running an Interior Design service centre, then you can carve a name in this specialized area. So, are the ways in which you can design your home which makes it like a homely Kerala home feel.

1.Flooring with red or black oxide 
2. Mosaic floors
3. Using tiles for room 
4. Ventilation 


Well, I've run short of ideas on this. Probably, I'll update it as I acquire new ideas. 

Start Pubs like Blend in Technopark Area

 

BLND Near Technopark at Trivandrum

Augmented Reality Treking Route to Agarstyar Mala

 I remember trekking to Agarstayar hills during my 20's. Now in my 50's, I can only dream and think of the little snapshots of that long gone  treks. However, I can still relish the immersive experience of going through the trail, seeing the flora and faua of that tropical landscape. 

So, what about creating a visual walkthrough of this trek which users can see using Google Glass or AR Viewing devices. 

Does it sound cool to you? Are you a tech geek with sound interest in creating such an experience? If yes, you can try it out. Also, in Kerala, we have many such spots where you can let customers have a virtual experience.

1. Athirapally water fall
2. Munnar tea estate ( see how the process is done from start to finish)
3. Ride through back water and see the inside outside of a toddy shop
4. See the uncut path of making khadhi weaving centre
5. Ayurveda massage
6. Recipes
7. Garden trip 

Home Solar Power Installment and Maintenance Business in Sunny Kerala

 Solar business as well know is just at the tipoff point. With the next technology innovation, the price of solar cells or the capacity of the cells will make it easy for households to install solar cells. 

While we don't have to wait so long, people already are installing solar water heater ( Anu brand) and many other local brands has sprung up. 

So, what's the big idea? If you have the interest, knowledge in this segment, then you can think of creating a production or service centre. 

Think about it. 

Catering Only Steamed Goodies

 Food catering business owners had a heavy fall during Covid time. Now, many are building their site, finding new clients and dusting old customers to get back to the groove. 

How about finding a niche  in Steamed foods!

We have mostly oil based snacks in the market. What about selling momos or kozhukattas or puttu type of items. So, just as a fancy idea a shop can make

1. Kada infused puttu
2. Ragi puttu
3. Jackfruit puttu
4. Fish and puttu 
5. Prawns puttu
6. Corn puttu
7. Puttu and mussels ( might be my fav)
8. Diabetic friendly puttu

What do you say about this plan? I guess there are many momo stores in Trivandrum and they can put a banner outside their store saying that they will undertake party orders and also set up a mom counter for large weddings. 

Cheers to this steamy idea

Back to My Fav Blogging Topic - Small Biz

 After countless starts, restarts and pauses, I'm back with a new blog for sharing small business ideas that are mostly suitable in kerala. 

In this time gap, I had encountered many a idea about business, and most was forgotten as I was too lazy to write it down. Well, most ideas are just some ideas about innovation in a business or about creating a better customer service. 

Attracting Customers to your Retail Shop

During Covid peak phase and around that time, provision shops make quick steady business from people who felt scarcity. There was fear about how to procure things, not knowing when the lockdown will be announced. And this uncertainty was a blessing for many shops owners. People who had money bought more stuffs than what was required. |

Post Covid sales 

In and around the junction where I stay, many shops has sprouted. Most of them are vegetable shops and provision shops. These shops enjoyed good biz during Covid. We were one of the customer of a shop who had fantastic delivery set-up. But now, we are buying from a larger margin free shop which has home delivery system. And they have started vegetable counter too. So, it makes us easy to buy from this shop, rather than buying vegetable alone from one shop. 

Addons to Margin Free Shop

This is one idea which I pitched to three Margin Free shops in our locality. Here's the simple plan that I had proposed. 

1. Give option for customers to buy coconut and get them grated before they finish rest of the shopping. 

Reason I think that this will work is that people find grating coconut has a time consuming biz and people like us are used to storing grated coconut in the freezer for later use. 

Thinking that there's a good market, I told around three shops, but they all gave some sloppy excuse for not taking up. Another reason that it was no adopted was that I had shared these ideas to the employees not the stake holder. And, as we typically know, most employees are just robots who can only pick stuff from the aisel and keep it as the cash counter or just collect money from the customer. 

Pathetic! I wonder why the ideas as discarded by all these shop fellas. Also, I was imagining if one shop owner starts to implement this biz idea and if theres customer demand, then every  other bugger will adopt it with out anyone peaching about the viability of the plan. 

So, what do you think or rate this idea? Will it work in an urban place? I have a gut feel that customers are time starved and they are looking for reliable and better way to save their time. 

Net, net, try to incorporate ideas in your provision shop that makes things easy for the consumer. 

Amen to this idea!