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Find Your Ideas Outside Your Own Country

By on November 23, 2012 in Featured

My Family Australia

International vacations can be a great way to come up with new business ideas. When you’re outside of your normal environment, and even more so, when outside of your cultural comfort zone, you’ll be exposed to many interesting and innovative ideas and opportunities that with a just a little localization might be just right for your domestic audience.

An example of this phenomenon involves the Australian couple Monica Liebenow and her husband Phil Barham. While in California, Barham noticed a cartoon family displayed on the back windshield of a car. Upon returning to Australia, he explained the idea to Liebenow, a graphic artist, and My Family Stickers were born.

The stickers are similar to the ones you see in the US, but they have an Australian flavor. In keeping with the Australian love of eating and cooking outdoors, the most popular “father” sticker is one they called “Barbecue Dad”. In fact, three of four most popular father stickers depict the father doing something outdoorsy.

According to the company, in the last two years, more than two million My Family Stickers have been sold.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.

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  • http://www.johnvarghese.com John Varghese

    Thats a great idea. How do they market it and sell it profitably. Perhaps that can be an article for my Simple Solutions blog, eh?

  • http://velocitylocal.com/news Search Marketer

    This is a worthy advice. Exposure to other countries is one great way to pick out of the box business ideas, but how about if the business idea is patented?

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