2) I am offering a self-docking boat with a few extra bells and whistles that come with it. After a long day out on the ocean you will not have to go through the hassle of docking the boat. It will extend the rope and attach to the hook on the dock by a magnet. and the fenders that block the boat from hitting the wall pop out by a button as well so all you have to do is gather your stuff and hope out of the boat.
3) I think the most frequent customers would be hard working fishermen and divers who are exhuasted and still have to go through the hassle of filleting the fish and cleaning out the boat. All they want to do at the end of the day is get out of the boat.
4) They will actually pay the money for it because the extra 30min to an hour they use to dock the boat will be spent on catching more fish and then in return get more for there money.
5) I think what sets me apart from most people that sell stuff for boats is that I actually have been in this situation and I know people that have said one to many times that they hate docking the boat.
I think that these elements actually flow really well together. The one thing that I think I need to work on is the cost of the product. I need to come up with a way to make it cheap and worth the money. If takes a lot of money to actually produce this product then were going to have to charge a lot. I have to think about a way maybe to not already have it made into the boat but parts that can attach to it.
Gabriella,
ReplyDeleteThis is a really interesting idea with endless possibilities. If there is indeed a market for fishing vessels, that would be a good enough proof of concept to move onto bigger fish, like the US Navy and cruise lines. Every time my aircraft carrier pulled into port, there was a need for hundreds of personnel to be on hand the assist to mooring such a large vessel. If you could build one that big, you would be freeing up a shocking amount of tax dollars spent on this very situation.
Gabriella,
ReplyDeleteI noticed John's comment and was blown away by the implications of your product working in the military! This class is awesome in the way it lets us give each other ideas and experiences that we wouldn't have received if we weren't in ENT 3003. The cost is a good point, but I also think that this product and its long-term money-saving capabilities would warrant an expensive product. Say the whole gig is $5000 - I'd hazard a guess that a commercial fisherman would be willing to drop that much on a tested and true product that would allow his/her boa to dock itself. If you do run into high costs, maybe the average boat-owner wouldn't pay for this product but I believe that people who make money on their boats would.