Idea 164 of 500. Cluster 7: The infrastructure that makes the rest possible
Solar installation services for guesthouses and small businesses
The mechanism, from the book
The tiny business pathway. A rural woman with an exceptional product should not need photography, English copy, packaging design and a distributor before the world can find her.
Every idea in cluster 7 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Collect the last 6 electricity bills from three guesthouse owners, with their permission, and get a written quote from a solar supplier for each property. Work out how many months each system takes to pay for itself. Take the numbers back to the owners and ask whether they would sign if you arranged the installation. One signature starts the business.
- Who pays first
- A guesthouse owner whose electricity bill eats into every room night and who wants a system that pays for itself.
- What leaves today
- Electricity bills paid monthly depend on imported fuel; rooftop solar turns the island's own sunshine into money that stays.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
- Ch. SeventeenOne Building
The dozen small things that turn a product into money that stays
More from cluster 7
Idea 164 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.