Editor’s note: This article was first published in May 2010. The data it cites are from 2010, including the project timeline of 2007-2009 and the goal of 200 licensees before the end of 2010.
Another innovative new business idea has reached us, this time from Alicante (Spain). It’s a business idea that won’t just generate revenue in the car sector: it also gives people interested in taking part in the project the chance to earn an income. On our blog we support entrepreneurial ideas, because we hope they’ll motivate other entrepreneurs. If you’d rather not read on about this business, you can go straight to our other innovative business ideas.
The project was sketched out and reworked during 2007, at a time when a sharp drop in vehicle sales was expected as a result of the crisis that was looming. During 2008 we got the machinery going, testing and refining the business concept locally in Alicante. Finally, from the end of 2009 to date, having turned the original website into a web portal, developed the necessary management software and gradually built up its search ranking (especially for specific terms such as DEALER OFFERS, DEALER OPPORTUNITIES, PRIVATE SELLER MANAGEMENT, ETC.), we are entering the last and definitive phase: expanding the licences.
We are adding a new tool to the private-seller management application that will allow close collaboration with local councils interested in stamping out the illegal sale of vehicles on the street by pseudo-private sellers (unlicensed professionals), without harming private individuals who need to sell their vehicle.
We hope to have 200 licensees before the end of 2010. The profits licensees can generate vary depending on the individual agreements they reach with the different professional users they work with.
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Featured image: Yonkers Honda, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr.
