The Cooks Community – It’s All About the Cook

Why?

Most cooking websites and apps center around the recipes. This one is different.

How?

Have a cooking community website that is organized around the user and not a particular recipe. When you look up a recipe, first you check the recipe publisher’s member profiles, and then their recipes. You can follow them to get updates, communicate with them, rate them and their recipes, etc. As a user, you can also publish your original recipes or your version of any recipe you think is THE recipe for that dish.

 

Name Your Price Experiment for Retailers

Why?

1. Find out what price is right (at least how your customers see it.)
2. Grab attention.

How?

Advertise that for today (or this week) this product can be bought by what the customer thinks is the fair price. The product should not have an MSRP printed on it (like a book), and an important part is, that they read (and maybe sign) explanation for why you are doing it. Most important, is including what is involved in pricing a single product in the shop (explaining the cogs, how long they stay on the shelf on average and how much that costs, shipping to the store, cost of money “sitting in it”. Basically, show them the real cost for the store of offering them the product.) Then they can buy it for what they think is fair.
An analysis should follow this experiment to find out if there are interesting patterns of behavior.

 

Get Them to Buy at Least Two and Also Help Spread the Word

Why?

1. Higher transaction size.
2. Help spread the word.

How?

Offer them the following: they can get the product they chose for the regular price, or they can buy another product (either the same or another) and get a nice discount for both, but only if the second one is going to be a gift for someone. If it’s a consumable, you might want to have a permanent sticker on it saying “A gift to X from Y – brought to you by YOUR BRAND NAME” so they are more likely to gift it. If it’s not and it’s the same product (like two copies of the same book), then that is optional.
In any case, even if they don’t gift it, it will still help grow your transaction size. If they do, it will also help you spread the word about you and the product.

 

First Day Book Dust Cover

Why?

Encourage people to buy on the first day of availability (or pre-order), and make these into a collector’s item.

How?

Print special dust covers that only those who buy the book on the first day get.
Can also be done with other products like games, playing cards, toys, etc.

 

The Center for Mechanical Puzzles

Why?

So people can find new interesting ones and also publish their inventions.

How?

A website that lists and shows classical mechanical puzzles, and allows anyone to publish their inventions. You can also get help solving these puzzles.