20.1 Dream Car Daily Driver

Description: Dream car daily driver lottery. If you win this lottery you get your dream car under $500,000 (or another amount), insurance for 5 years (or more) and a repair budget. You have to drive 10,000 kilometers a year or they take the car back because you aren’t using it as a daily driver.

There will be a follow up TV show or Youtube video channel showing what its like to drive a dream car everyday, the pros and cons of this and the funny situations that happen to the winners.

Pros: The intrigue of this idea will drive ticket sales, people will be curious about how this works out in real life.

Cons: For some cars this may turn into a huge headache and winners will complain about this lottery, lowering interest.

20.2 Vehicle Concierge

Description: Car service for people who don’t know anything about cars. The service buys or helps you buy a used car, gives a service package, 24 hour roadside service, repairs it etc. you trust them with your car to do all the stuff to keep it reliable, beaters as well.

This would be coupled with a family run mechanic shop. They would give advice on what kinds of vehicles and expected repair costs.

Pros: There are plenty of people with vehicles who don’t know much about them and also want no or few repair bills.

Cons: the margins for this may be too thin to have people work as concierges.

20.3 Diggers and Dozers

Description: : In coastal areas (British Columbia) heavy equipment is trucked and barged over to where its needed to improve the land. This can be personal use on private land or logging companies, gravel pits, etc. The equipment breaks down eventually and is usually left to rust in place as the cost of removing it isn’t worth it to the owner. The business would buy up all this old equipment, repair it and rent or sell it in the nearest significantly sized city.

The work of restoration could be done in some intermediate smaller town or city with the sales/rental lot near a large growing city. Smaller towns have more mechanics than cities usually, they get paid less as well.

Pros: The equipment can be bought for cheap as it’s likely seen as an eyesore. The value of working equipment is high in cities that are growing. New equipment is sold for 100,000s of dollars, this allows a margin for restoration budget.

Cons: Heavy equipment mechanics are not cheap, they are well paid and used to overtime. The buyers may not trust the repairs or want the equipment for much cheaper than you need to sell it for. Regulators may not sign off or insure these repaired vehicles. Transportation costs of such heavy vehicles could make this not worth the cost.

20.4 Could You Go Pro?

Description: An app and website that publishes tests real world professional scouts use to evaluate potential pro athletes. An example are the NFL combine drills. It gives you workouts and shows how they are done and recorded. Your stats will be compared to real professional athletes stats’ to show how you would compare.

The initial stages ask for all your dimensions, height, weight, hand size, reach, foot size so that the comparison is accurate.

Pros: People have illusions of how they could’ve “made it” in sports if only “x excuse” didn’t happen. This gives them a chance to see if there is validity here. Friends would compete with each other and drive more usage.

Cons: This could be easily copied and may not make enough money in advertising to justify the cost.

20.5 If You Paid Me

Description: This would be a reality show where friends challenge each other. One friend claims they could do something “if you paid me”. The show puts a dollar figure on the task and gets them to prove it. The friends can help train, tease and watch the big-mouthed friend do the task and/or train for it. The audience is entertained by choosing colourful people and their friend groups for this. Some examples can be;

· running a marathon

· eating challenges (ex. 100 McNuggets)

· cage fighting

· hiking a mountain

· tough mudder

· hard 75

Pros: : people will want to watch their “big talking” friends or people very much like them fail to do what they claimed they can. People can relate to this personality type.

Cons: If the challenges are detrimental to the health of the participants, their may be some push back and resistance to this.

20.6 Kitchen Mixer Concrete

Description: A tool that mixes concrete and mortar without an expensive drum or paddle mixer. It is a 50 gallon drum cut in half with metal handles bolted to the sides. The metal handles are spaced so that a forklift can lift and move these half barrels. There is a frame that attaches to most paddle mixers (Dewalt, Makita, major brands) and rotates the paddle mixer around like a kitchen mixer while the paddle mixer spins. The frame can be easily attached and detached between concrete/mortar mixes and runs off 110amp AC power. The frame can be adjusted for different width barrels.

This is a lower cost solution to smaller concrete pours and mason’s mortar mixes. Or pours and builds in tight spaces.

Pros: Lower cost than a gas or electric concrete mixer. Even lower costs if the owner makes their own half barrels. It also fits in tighter spaces than a traditional mixer. The owner likely already has a paddle mixer they can use for this.

Cons: could be copied somewhat easily. Without proper explanation only bricklayers and concrete workers would understand how good this design is compared to the alternatives.

20.7 Work Hard, Play Last Minute

Description: An app and website that allows you to enjoy events at the last minute because you work too much during the week and can’t plan for this.

When you are close to finishing your work for the day, turn it on. The app will play samples of bands playing live that night in your area, trailers for movies showing at the local theatre and promos for a local event. You hit a button if you hear something you like and it shows how to get tickets to the event. You can pre-program the radius you’re willing to drive that day (or regularly) and the types of events you are interested in.

Pros: This allows overworked people to still have good times without putting in the work of finding events. It sells unused tickets and promotes local events and music.

Cons: This could be copied and added to already existing music-based apps. This app needs to make money off advertising; entertainment may not have the budget to kick money back to an app for promotion. Overworked people could be too tired or forget to use this.

20.8 Trucks For The People

Description: a truck designed for military and civilian use. Both versions can be easily modified to be military or civilian use. The gun mounts, armour, technology and other military tools can be easily bolted on. The road legal parts can also be easily removed or bolted on. The engines would be a diesel/electric hybrid for use across remote lands. The first model would be a smaller durable truck. The success of this first model would dictate larger trucks, SUVs and cars. Also later gasoline/hybrid or full electric engines could be offered.

The goal would be to secure military contracts and personal vehicle sales from the same base model. These need to lean on patriotism, designed and built in a specific country to be used by their military as well as truck users (farmers, construction, etc).

Pros: Dual markets, if sales slump in civilian use, military contracts could help fund the firm during these times. This hasn’t been done well, yet. Hummer H1s are barely modified and expensive to buy and run. H2s and H3s are not military vehicles. Afghanistan (and other countries) have shown the effectiveness of using civilian trucks (Toyota pickups) in warfare.

Cons: The initial costs of starting a vehicle company, sourcing engines and parts. Years of R&D and there’s no guarantee that the national government can or will buy these. Pricing a military durable vehicle will be difficult against existing civilian pickup trucks. Resistance from existing truck and military vehicle manufacturers. This may require government subsidies to be viable.

20.9 Journeyman Trades

Description: For a small or isolated community that needs housing but doesn’t have the money or jobs to support much of a local construction industry. The idea is a skills program the builds and renovates existing housing and mobile housing (RVs, Skoolies) and uses mock-ups in a warehouse when an existing project isn’t ready yet.

Part one is to teach trades skills to as many interested young people as possible. Get them as skilled as you can while still in community. This would require red seal trades visiting for a period of time to train their specific skills. A general trades teacher would have to be in the community full time coordinating the builds and skills training.

Part two is renovating/building their own RV, skoolie, camper to live in when they’re working out of town. This way the young people have a skill and a way to live where the work is for a time, then return to the community if they wish.

This would require government funding as the areas this would be done don’t currently have the local economy to support it. If they did, there would be a vibrant construction industry to train folks. Another way to fund this is to subcontract out these tradespeople to companies that need them in different places. By taking a small percentage off their cheques the training program could get some support.

Pros: This provides a way out of poverty for young people in economically depressed communities. Expensive cities often have tradespeople shortages for their large construction projects, this helps get labour temporarily to these projects. Other projects are built in remote areas (mines, gas plants) and need temporary workers as well.

Cons: This requires government subsidies; these aren’t always reliable long term. This program could be abused by teachers and/or participants.