Motomedia: Breathes Life Back to Empty Retail Units with Innovative Use of Technology

Those guys at Motomedia, based in UK, surely know how to use (existing) technology to develop new kind of advertising media. The target empty retail units at highly visible area, with plenty of people passing by. The tech use is so great, that the advert using Motomedia's tech will stop people on their track, curious and be fascinated on the advert. Meaning? To advertisers, it means their ads will be more exposed to potential customers. To Motomedia, it means $$$ (or GBP GBP GBP, to be precise :D)... advertisers will kick each other feet just to be placed in one (or more) spot in more than 70 prime location in UK alone - primarily in London area, and in high streets of UK main cities, such as Birmingham). And, oh, it's also good for the shop unit's owners, since Motomedia will share ads revenue with them... niiiceee...

Their concept? Empty unit's shop front is being transformed into huge ads - with printed vinyl, projected videos & images, and sounds with no speakers in sight (they use the shop front windows to transfer voices - neat-o!). Furthermore, they can customise the tech into many unimaginable ways - to bluetooth ads and promos to people standing in front of the shop windows, to 'see' who views the ads, to identify whether it is he/she who view the windows, so that the system sets the ads to be displayed on screen according to the viewer's gender, etc. - sick-o!

Currently they are looking for investors to bring their concepts overseas. I think this kinda biz could be 'it'. How much to invest, I would learn about it myself. Please visit their website for more info. Cheers!

i-tutor.net: Better Education For All

I've come across a franchise (license, I think), than run rampant in ASEAN countries, particularly Indonesia. Why run rampant? This fact: 500 licensees in 1,5 years - in Indonesia alone. But it's only happen in Indonesia. Others seems 'normal'... Indonesia's i-tutor.net is so 'un-normal' that investors from other countries buy the license from i-tutor.net Country Rep. in Indonesia! sicko!

The reason is that Mr. Sofian, the i-tutor.net Indonesia Country Rep. re-develop i-tutor.net original system, in such a way that it accomodates Indonesia's limited Internet access. For info, i-tutor.net original system is for students to access study materials through the Internet. In Indonesia, i-tutor.net uses offline software that looks and feels like the online version. Genius!

From educational perspective, i-tutor.net introduce cinema edutainment concept - students learn in an environment that uses audio-visual learning system through a 'movie' projected to screens - just like watching movie in cinemas. In this way, students learn 5 times more effective than conventional learning methods (proven) in an intergrated environment that promotes affective, cognitive, psycho-motoric, and EQ of the students. Moreover, i-tutor.net is relatively low in tuition fee - great value for money, considering the i-tutor.net education is endorsed by e-ASEAN Initiatives, developed by 60 professors (including 10 child psychologists), and developed according to Singapore curriculum standard.

From biz perspective, i-tutor.net is, perhaps, only one of few franchise (license) that offer investment model - with license value that tends to grow, with license term that is for a life-time and transferable (this will end soon, so join i-tutor.net now!), and with multiple source of income - not only from the increased value of the license and from the operating profit of the courses, but also from sponsorship program - through referring new licensees, promoting i-tutor.net system to education institutions and local gov't office, and through becoming a distributor - managing licensees and retaining a percentage of the managed licensees license fee, royalty fee, and merchadise sales. Sounds like a networking system? It IS a networking system, but not a pyramid system (not all can become a distributor - distributorship is only assigned to one entity per region) - so it's legit.

Interested? Please contact me for more information. Cheers!

ARN Business Opportunity

ARN (Ananda Rambah Nusantara) is a local biz ideas consultant where its biz evolves around setting small-scale shop, its standard ops procedure, management system, admin & accounting system, including hiring staffs, initial stocks, and shop decor & furniture. ARN also provides consultative service on bizzes need boost, while keeps options open to buy the "dying" bizzes, re-managed and re-packaged, to be sold or simply to be owned by the franchisee. ARN focuses on small bizzes/shops, with capital requirement less than Rp. 100 million (mostly, ARN develop shops for as little as Rp. 15-20 million in cap requirement).

Sounds complicated? Wait, it's actually simple: First, should we buy the franchise, we are entitled to help others establish new shops or developing existing ones for a fee in exchange (hard cash coming in!). Second, the shop owners may trust the shop's management to ARN franchisee, for a percentage of net profit in return (cashflow coming in!). Third, ARN franchisees are entitled to build such shops ourselves and may sell them to potential investors later (cashflow coming in + potential hard cash coming in!). Fourth, ARN franchisees are entitled to receive from many more income sources, such as ARN Biz Book sales, additional services - staff hiring, back office system, etc, commission on opening new ARN offices, etc, etc, etc (more hard cash coming in!)

I also interested in this client-based biz (+ with multiple stream of income$$) simply because it's what early entrepreneurs have been thinking about - limited in cash, want to start biz, don't know where & how to start - more guts than experience (even ability). ARN tries to accomodate such entrepreneurs.

From the proposal I receive, the total investment is approximately Rp. 200 million - Rp. 75 million in license fee (take note, license fee is not franchise fee, although it's treated as one), Rp. 50 million in working capital (to establish 2 or 3 shops for potential clients), and others for renovation, fixtures, equipment, etc.

In my opinion, this business opportunity can be good in the future, because of its uniqueness in Indonesia biz arena. However, I'm still unsure what potential it will bring for the investor. And oh, investors aren't required to be active-owner: managements are set up by ARN HQ and run by themselves with minimum involvement of the investor. Possible? I can't say, unless I buy one and prove it myself. Any investors interested to work with me? :)

Anyway, I'll update soon should any information uncover! ;)

JSI Luarrrbiasa Pro Franchise

JSI Luarrrbiasa Pro Franchise, in my opinion, is one of the biz to watch in Indonesia. It's a software, accounting and registered tax consultant franchise. It reminds me with Jackson Hewitt, US' leading tax preparation service franchise.

They do tax consulting, financial report preparation and consulting, IT & Accounting sytem developer, work outsourcing and accounting software developer & retailer. In the near future, they will complement their line of services with law & legal services. Kewl stuff!

At the time this post is written, in one year of franchising, they already have 11 offices in Jakarta and Tangerang area, which 5 of them are own units. In regard to experience in the business, the founders, Jan, Jemmy, and Irwan - all former college mates in Universitas Tarumanagara, Jakarta are officialy started the consulting biz in 1994. I have met them not long ago, and I think they are the right people in the right business - "bad ass", ambitious, experienced, friendly and teamwork-infested way of thinking - something that you and I should look for in frachisor's character set.

Regarding investment, there are 3 type of franchising:
1. Software sales & implementation only (franchise fee: Rp. 30 million)
2. Full accounting, tax & IT service (franchise fee: Rp. 350 milion)
3. Full service plus training center (franchise fee: Rp. 450 million)

For total investment, add Rp. 50-70 million in equipments, renovation and fixtures (excl. office rent fees, if any).

I'm thinking to buy one, but I don't know if they consider me to be the right candidate in their long waiting list. Let's wait and see. I'll get back at you for updates.