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Day 1 - Come up with business idea
Coming up of the business idea, it product and why its helpful to people. Storm buddy, its product is the solar power conversion unit. To power appliances within ones household or while out camping. -
Day 2- register business name and idea
A business name is the name your business operates under. it also an offence to carry on business under an unregistered business name. also to protect the business name apply for a trade mark, which would give you exclusive trading, branding or ownership rights over your business name. -
Day 3- Market research
Facebook pool,Survey monkey,social media and online interviews. The purpose is to gather information about the target market and analysis of secondary data. -
Day 4- Focus groups
a focus group is a marketing research tool in small groups of people. to see what people think about the product and if they would buy such a product. overall used for feedback. -
Day 5- location of store
The location is very important, the few reasons are foot traffic so where people are mostly to be. Accessibility and parking is one of the main reasons, it needs to be somewhere for customers, employees, and suppliers to easy access. another is the location would also be need other business so like in a shopping area. the reason for it because it can benefit from other business by costumers traffic they generate. -
Day 6- Design of prototype
a prototype will help the final product, help achieve it, testing can be done and can gain inputs and insights about how real users would actually use the product. also can tell the makers what needs to be improved. -
Day 7- Making phones calls potential sponsors
calling to company for resources or to become business partner. this would benefit the business in the long run -
Day 8 - building the prototype
construction of the prototype for testing and feedback -
Day 9 - Focus groups of potential buyers
Presentation of company product, solar panel conversion unit
-how to operate it
-benefits
-get feedback -
Day 10- Design official logo
-GO and work with professional logo designer. the logo can have significant impact on a company's public perception. it will let buyers know of the business. -
Day 11 - Advertise of the product
advertising will help to raise awareness of a product or service and will eventually increase the numbers of sales of the product. some form that will be used would be TV, print ads, billboards, online ads, social media, radio, and direct mail. -
Day 12- set up of website and social Accounts
This will help people see what the product is about, what are its uses, why it will be benefit and rise awareness of the product -
Day 13- advertise jobs/ hiring people
the business will need to hire people such as such engineers, business workers, electricians. People that will be very important for the business. we will spread the job opportunities on our website, social, TV ads, newspaper etc... -
Day 14- finalise final product
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Day 15 - contact sponsors about production
-calling our sponsors about the materials that the business will need to start to produce the product. -
Day 16- calls to potentials investors or partners
phones to anyone that is willing to invest in our product or willing to partner up with us. The contributes money will help the business run and help it grow. -
Day 17- Pop-up store
- to let potential buyers to see and buy the product with discount before official store opens
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Day 18 - Start-up capital
set up pages like crowdfunding or the business will apply for a loan. this will ensure the business will have money to run. -
Day 19 - Production of the product
the beginning of the product being constructed and getting really to be sold. -
Day 20- official Opening of Storm-Buddy
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Day 21- focus group of buyers
the will ask some of our buyers to come in and talk about the product, to see if the is too hard too use, if its a waste of money, what improves they would recommend and overall getting their feedback and thoughts on the product. -
Day 22- technical improves of the product
after getting the feedback the engineering team will start to make improves solar unit, remaking the unit and following the feedback that was collected from the buyer . -
Day 23- Launch model two of the product
after the improves it will be a new product and we will launch it as the model 2. which would be more advanced then the original and everything that the feedback want the product to improve on. -
Day 24- Offer promotions/deals for new Model 2
the promotion will make the new model will become cheaper and these deal small or large to create awareness and persuade the customers to buy the product. -
Day 25- More market research
we would do more market research will keep track of our target market, and what is happening around the market. -
Day 26- analyzing market research
we will analyze the research to see what the customers want from our product, what they would make them buy the product and what could be improved about our product etc.., -
Day 27- online stores
the business will create a website online store so our customers can go online, read about the product and buy it. Saving them time from travelling all the way to our store and be convenient for customers that have no time, are elderly or live too far away -
Day 28- modification of the product
After doing some more of market research, we will get that feedback and see what our customers or potential buyers want from our product -
Day 29- Store special Demonstration
This would help bring in more customers, as it would be like a event. this event would show our customers what our product does, teach them how to use it and tell them what the benefits of getting would be. -
Day 30- design model 3 of product
As our product gets more and more feedback. We will begin to work on our newest model which as follow will have most of what our customer and market want.