The business side of web-worlds
Speculation on possible markets for several kinds of web-worlds.
Web-world for nonprofits
and public service organizations
May offer several different products
- Turn-key: Custom built and serviced, possibly hosted.
- Full user-built: Start place is empty. User builds everything.
- User-customized: Start place is partly built, user can add things.
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Marketing the turn-key model (targets)
- Retail businesses are most likely to want this.
- They already have their web developers on staff or on contract.
- Web-developer companies are the most promising market in this case.
- They would want a software package on lease, with a support contract.
- From their standpoint it would be added value for their product.
- Top E-Commerce Web Design Agencies
- commercial web developers
Use Cases for the turn-key model
- Virtual showroom for large products:
- Cars, mobile homes, houses, gardens, malls, offices, ships.
- Sales agent can meet with visitors:
- show them around, answer questions,give them a sales pitch.
- Teacher's assistant for elementary grades:
- learning games, social games, videos
- live teaching assistant can be available to help children.
- Information/social games for public service web-worlds
- Teach a concept with a game. A use case for web-worlds
- Established museums can reproduce displays
- Automated and live docent can be available for visiting classes
Marketing the user-customized model (targets)
- Customization is likely to focus on templates that fit a specific community.
- 3DWebWorldz has examples such as art and teaching.
- Members of the community probably know best what the community needs.
- Community members are in the best position to offer customization.
- The software might be licensed out to members of the community.
- Or this might be a case where community-based management works.
- Scholarly articles for community based management
Use cases for the user-customized model
- Middle and high school teacher's assistants
- Workshops, maker-places
- Galleries by art colonies
- Museums.
- Small business web site
- Producers of digital content
- Entertainers
- Libraries online
- Tutors, counselors, life coaches
- Public service organizations outreach
- Information/social games for public service web-worlds
- Hobby groups (place customized to fit hobby)
- Wholesale Hotels Group.
- Wholesale Hotels Group (G+)
Marketing the full user-built model (targets)
- Virtual worlders: Import part of their build from installed virtual worlds.
- Note: Web-worlds is able to import an OAR file.
- Maker spaces (advanced)
- Tech courses: Practice and share working in a tech environment.
- Hobbyests.
- Tech high school and college teacher's assistant.
Use cases for the full user-built model
- Showroom for community places in installed virtual worlds.
- Workshop for model builders.
- See: Railroad X on Steam.
- See: Avatars on the web. Ruth 2.0. DragNDrop. Paper dolls
- Commercial animators.
- Advanced maker places
- The Maker Movement and the potential of virtual worlds
- Advanced tech courses
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