Idea 66 of 500. Cluster 3: Souvenirs that are actually from here
Elephant-dung paper, which exists, branded properly and sold at every park gate
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
Buy a sample batch of elephant-dung paper from a producer and have it made into notebooks and cards with a clear, well-designed label. Take them to the shop at one park gate and ask to sell them on commission for a month. Weekly sales are the proof, and the gate's reorder settles it.
- Who pays first
- Families and visitors leaving a national park who want a light, surprising souvenir that tells the park's own story.
- What leaves today
- The paper already exists but sells as an unbranded curiosity; proper branding at every gate captures the price it deserves.
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 66 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.