Four Click Freedom

So here is my plan.  The customer when finished eating or shopping at a store will send a text message with the stores name to Clickboards.net phone number.  The website will then transmit data to the store computer and its personalized software that this user is waiting to connect via bluetooth along with the coupons available for that store that the user has acquired.  The website will also send back a passcode via text message back to the customer to connect to the store bluetooth device.  The computer will then send a bluetooth message to connect to the phone and acquire pass code  and then display the coupons that the customer has to choose from.  The customer will select the coupons and bluetooth back to the store computer their selection.  The store computer will then catalog the information for the store and the discount will be applied.

I need to do more research but sounds like a plan to go after.

In the end I am selling ad space for coupons.  Yes this actually makes money.  Clients actually buy space in newspapers and websites to put money saving discounts which actually lower the costs of their products to attract customers.

But when I start talking to local restaurants and stores and say you need to pay me to make you a Clickboard and pay for the space on the websites it will be posted, and make some sort of discount for the customer (and rent the portable receipt printing machine); well that begins to sound like a long shot.

The machines I will probably have to give to them, or like in the conversation I had last night, find a way to get rid of them and use something else.  Not only that try to find a way to get rid of the card.  Yes I want to do this, but the fact remains that although most stores already have their static discount cards for themselves, their cards don’t do what mine do; connect ads on the Internet to the users purchase.

So my model is probably not going to make money, at least not enough to pay for the machines.  And that is a big thing to think about.  How much online advertising can I give to a store that purchases the machine.  $400 dollars is quite a lot of advertising and also quite a big sale to sell to a small restaurant or store.  Although the machines are an easy way to prove my model works.  I need a simpler method.  Without the machine I’m afraid my idea is still long in advance.

Next option: create apps for phones that could bluetooth information to store computers and give the stores the software to run in the background.  Paperless transactions would be nice, but small shop owners may be wary of this type of coupon redemption.

So now, do I prove the model works, or do I proceed to the next step?

Well I have talked about this before, but now I have an extenuation of my idea.  To encourage people to click, every click can be valued at a certain number of points.  So for every click on a Clickboard, users acquire points either on my website or across the Internet.  These points can then be used to purchase special promotions from my website.