Idea 47 of 500. Cluster 3: Souvenirs that are actually from here
Salt and pepper sets in the shape of the rock
The mechanism, from the book
The Zermatt water bottle. Sigiriya has not got a stone with its own name on it.
Every idea in cluster 3 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Sketch a salt and pepper set in the shape of the rock and ask a local potter or woodturner to make five prototypes at a fixed price. Take a pair to three hotel gift shops in the area, ask what they would pay wholesale, and ask for a trial order. One order, with a price per set, is your proof.
- Who pays first
- Hotel gift shops near the rock, and visitors who want a useful, witty object that will sit on their table for years.
- What leaves today
- Sigiriya has no object in its own shape to sell; every visitor leaves with photographs and nothing made here.
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. FiveThe Most Photographed Rock in the World
The Matterhorn water bottle and the souvenir that is from there
More from cluster 3
Idea 47 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.