The idea that I´m going to expose is not a crazy one, it is not even as original as you may expected to be, but I think it is a great idea taking on account that is a real need and that it is already rolling on with great results; but don´t worry, it is still being a new format that does not have competition in the internet.
So, to go directly to the point of what is my business idea, I must say that, having in mind this writerbay business as a successful freelance company in the English culture, I was thinking about a writerbay company for a Spanish market, where I´m pretty sure there is not such a service.
Then the nature of the business will be not other than to offer a service of writings to people who may need it, such as students, bloggers, enterprises, teachers e.t.c, but in Spanish language.
It is also good to say that in spanish spoken countries, there are also many people who like to write, and they do it in a great way, so they could help other people that is looking for others to help them with quality writings.
If you take a look to writerbay.com, you will see in a graphic that many people from Europe, U.S.A, Asia and South America, is working there; but I want to make emphasis that, most people in South America don´t speak English, even though there is a big percentage of people in this part of the graphic. So if the project goes on, it will have a lot of audience not only customers, but also writers.
The purpose will be then, to offer such a great service like writerbay does, but to Spanish spoken countries, so there will be a lot of people beneficiated, not only customers, but also freelancers. Just imagine that there are many countries where people speak just one language “Spanish”, they don´t speak English, so they can´t access to a web like writerbay, because they will not even understand what is it about, but there are people who need the service anyway, and there is nobody willing to help them. By the other way, in those countries, there are many people who are doing nothing, because finding a good job is not so easy nowadays, but I know they could do a great job by writing papers for others. So the purpose will be based on people helping people, and everybody will gain; some ones will get what they need, and some others will get paid for it.
In this order of ideas, and having in mind that the company will offer nothing more than writings, even if those writings are essays, books, articles etc., a nice name for this E-Company could be “E-scritos”, it is something like E-writing, but in Spanish; It is a nice name, and for sure it is an unforgettable and a good looking name, that will be in mind of every Spanish speaker who may need this kind of service.
That is why the Mission and the Vision of this new company is going to be something like this:
Mission
E-scritos has been created to help and save time to all people who need quality writings such a reports, investigations, books, articles etc, or may need something to be translated into a specific language, for an incredible price, paying just if they are confortable with the paper. E-scritos also gives job opportunities to people who needs to spend more time with their families, so there will be a better society in countries from the third world.
Vision
E-scritos is going to be a well known company of quality writings all over the Spanish culture, with more than a million of users monthly, and a great option for students and independent writers who want to share their abilities of writing, with more than a thousand of good jobs for them, with all the advantages to people who want to work there.
Advantage for Customers
Customers will get quality papers in time that they need it, because there are going to be a lot of writers that will be real glad to help people to do their writing papers. It is going to be a hit for Spanish spoken countries, because it will be like having many professional people helping with writing duties to other people that may not have enough time to do it by their selves.
An other advantage that I can see, is price for customers. Making a comparison of economic situation in English spoken countries with Spanish spoken countries, there is a lot of difference between them, (talking about money) for example, in Colombia, the Peso is much lower than the dollar. This could mean that the papers will be cheaper for customers, but taking on account the situation of each country, it will be a good payment for the writer.
Customers will also have the opportunity to choose who is going to help him or her with the paper, I mean, that he can choose an expert person, or a student, or a beginner etc., in this order of ideas, he can also choose how much money will pay for that paper, if the customer wants an expert to do his job, he will have to pay a little more than if he choose a beginner.
I believe also that a customer can choose the time for his o for her job to be done, being conscious that if he or she needs the paper in a few hours, he or she will have to pay more than if he or she needs the paper without urgency.
It is good to say that an advantage is not a cheat that a student can do at school or university, with a service of writings like E-scritos is going to offer; then the advantage is the help that E-scritos is going to offer to those students who need a start of what they can complete or put their ending or sign. So to be clear about it, this is not a offering of service of cheating, it is an offering of a service of help to people who need it.
There will be also advantages for writers, because in some places of Latin America and Spain, there is not so easy to find good jobs, so people who know how to write, could find a good way of earning money and help others at the same time. It is also an advantage for writers the fact that a freelance job is much better than a classic job, I mean they will not have to meet schedule, or to spend hours in a bus; this means also having more time to spend with their family or friends. They can also control how much money they will receive by the end of the month, if they want to receive good money, they will have to help more people, or they will have to be better on what they do, I mean they will have to be experts so they could earn more money by doing good paper writings.
There is a Blog of this nice girl Chitraparna Sinha from New Delhi, which is called SocialVani; she writes about business in her blog, and of course she has written something about writerbay as a freelance company, here I must say that she is also a freelance writer in this company writerbay; in her article she explain some advantages for writers like the payment method which is good and real; she also mentions some other negative aspects like that writerbay should post online more details about its owner, which will give more credibility to customers and to writers. This suggestions that Chitraparna Sinha makes in her blog, will be considerate in the new company E-scritos, so it will have more credibility since the beginning.
This means a better society for these countries, more opportunities for more people (It is an other way to help humanity).
Finally, it is inevitable to think about a future without internet between our lives, so everybody have to go thru their lives, living with internet as a useful tool to connect people and therefore to help each other. E-scritos will be a company inside this huge and amazing fact that is real and is actually happening in front our eyes, but that some people is leaving it, without taking some good experiences out of it.
So as you can see there are a lot of advantages about using the service that this company is going to offer, starting from a personal goal, like a terminated paper is for a person who need it and paid for it; and ending in collective goals like having good jobs with good salaries, while worker (writer) can enjoy life with their relatives and friends, having good results from technology and internet; but I want to make emphasis that this tool is almost everywhere on earth, so a writer can be anywhere while he or she is actually working on a paper for a customer, and by the other way, a customer can also be in any place, but he or she can be secure that his paper will be on his desk whenever he or she need it.
Competition
If you take a look to internet, by using the best engine searcher in the world wide web, “Google”, you will not find a web dedicated to offer a service like writerbay does, but in Spanish, with some few exceptions that I am going to expose.
I was checking this issue by consulting in Google search engine, and in adwords keyword tool, and I found that there are a lot of searches of “writerbay”, this is because many people knows that this company exists and that they can find good help there. By the other way, searches in Spanish for something similar to writerbay are not so common, I think this is because people don´t look for it, because they don´t even know something like that could exist, I don´t think that it is not necessary in a Spanish culture, I just think people don´t even think about it, but I´m sure that if a service like that, does exist in these countries, it will have lots of customers.
That is why I searched in internet about the need of this service for people in Spanish spoken countries. There are sites like:
- www.escribimos .com: It is a site that offers a service of writings and investigation for people in more than 5 countries. They offer the service in English and in Spanish languages. That Company is working since 2000. It is good to say that the web page they have is a nice good looking one.
- www.tesisacademicas.com.ar: It a site that offers the service of writings to students of universities and professional people; there are working professional people in different areas since 2002. They starts offering the service in Argentina, but right now are offering to different Spanish speaking countries.
- www.bestessays.com: It is a very nice web page, which offers writing service in English, just like writerbay.
- www.tesis-mx.com: this is a very simple site which offers writing service in a local way.
These sites are offering services of writing in Spanish, but in a soft way, I mean like retail market of writings, where the major service is to write essays for university; including two web pages that offer the same service but in a local way, like tesisacademicas.com.ar for Argentina, and Tesis-mx.com for México. As you can see these are sites good enough for few people interested in the service, but it is not enough for a huge market that in screaming for help. Besides, these sites don’t offer job opportunities to those who may be great writers and are wasting their talent.
Other sites that I have to mention are sites like:
- www.olx.com
- www.alamaula.com
- www.mercadolibre.com
- www.laguiaclasificados.com
and many others, which are plataforms that let people to advertise their products or services to people who may need what there are offering, so even though these sites are actually offering something similar to professional writings, it is undeniable that these sites are not specialized about the issue, they are just a palataform to others.
Finally the last competition that I was considering was writerbay.com, but definitely, it is not a competition to this project, because it is completely in English, so it offers a service of English writings for people who may need it, and it hires people with the ability to write in English, not Spanish.
Potential Target
Everybody can use this kind of service, even people who need just to write a letter to somebody, but people who may be very interested in use the service that this company is going to offer, is people that may use writings for their daily use, just like students, bloggers, teachers, journalists; because they are people who are writing things very often.
As it was explained before, our target is not going to be those who may want to cheat at school, it is going to be those who may need help about a writing at school, or university, or with a blog, or anything that needs an article, or a boor, or an essay etc. I make emphasis about it, because there was a polemic issue about this kind of service, some people consider it as a service of cheating for students, but some others like Sinha, thinks that is just a help to those students that may know what to write, but could not know how to do it, so here is when companies like E-scritos is coming into scene, to help people, to give an start to those who need it.
Also people who may have an idea of a book, or a story to tell, or some instructions on “how to do it”, but that is not so good at the writing moment, when he or she has in his or her hand a pen, but just don´t know how to start (I believe most people have had an idea of a book once in life. So if you think about it, even a housewife, or a non student, or any person, can use this service.
Potential Risks
Considering that in Latin America there is a huge difference of their needs comparing to needs in countries like United States or countries in Europe, we could think that everybody actually needs a service of writings, it doesn’t matter if it is in English, Spanish or any other language, so the unique potential risk that I see, is that the Spanish spoken countries could not use the service, because of their culture, I mean, maybe they are not that kind of people that will pay an amount of money for a writing, or by the other hand, that in those countries there could not exist the culture of writers, like in Europe.
But I´m sure that is not the case, because I believe that in Spanish culture is just like in Europe and United States.
References
- Basic search in a search engine. www.google.com
- Searching of keywords at adwords.google.com/keywordtool
- Consulting at investigation and writing / escribimos .com (n.p) 2.000
- Consulting at investigation and writing / tesisacademicas.com.ar (n.p) 2002
- Consulting at investigation and writing bestessays.com (n.p) (n.d)
- Consulting at investigation and writing tesis-mx.com (n.p) (n.d)
- E-Commerce platform olx.com (n.p) (n.d)
- E-Commerce platform alamaula.com (n.p) (n.d)
- E-Commerce platform mercadolibre.com (n.p) (n.d)
- E-Commerce platform laguiaclasificados.com (n.p) (n.d)
