The broker/trading model is a familiar class of business methods. The broker advertises the availability of someone else’s inventory of assets but withholds information from the market as a means to control the transaction. The broker does whatever is needed to pay the supplier as little as possible while also charging the customer as much as possible. The Broker can then collect a fee for producing absolutely nothing of value except control over a transaction.
The Value Game introduces a new class of business methods that disaggregates the broker/advertising model by increasing information delivery to a community rather than withholding it.
The Value Game Revenue Model
For example; Private aircraft charters are held under the weight of a powerful Broker Industry that scrapes 30-40% of the value of created by thousands of hard working professionals who actually operate the airplanes. By deploying The Value Game, Social Flights was created as a new air transportation company that organizes four types of communities and enables them to interact with each other around a shared asset (an airplane). During this process of interaction, complete information is provided to each party, rather than being withheld, and everyone plays towards their convergent goals rather than divergent goals. As a result, the Social Flights application creates Social Currency, which is then readily converted to money.
Social Flights Revenue is derived from the interaction of four communities:
The Travelers
The Operators
The Partners
The True Value Data
Traveler:
Social Flights brings travelers of similar intentions together in Travel Tribes to share flights at wholesale market value. Air transportation is deployed to the social graph rather than the airline hub & spoke system. Communities that are underserved by commercial airlines are now empowered to interact in new ways.
Operator:
In the past, an aircraft operator would pay a listing service, a Broker, and a marketing department to sell charter services. Instead, an operator would simply reallocate some of their marketing budget to Social Flights in return for a high volume, reliable, and risk free marketing venue.
Partners:
The cornerstones of the value game are 3rd Party entrepreneurs who scour the community for inventory of hotels, entertainment, recreation, business opportunities, and anything else to support travelers playing the game. Not unlike Groupon, Social Flights facilitates the application of discount coupons that can be applied to the passenger’s itinerary corresponding to their normalized travel intentions.
True Value Data:
Social Flights creates a valuable and unique form of business intelligence defining how much value, in dollars, that people place on their time. This results in a conversion factor between social currency and financial currency – something that has never been achieved before. Such data will induce a huge amount of innovation as time/money currencies fuel new Value Games around many other shared assets.
Winners and losers
- The traveler wins with complete information, point-to-point time travel, and an empowered community.
- The operator wins with less overhead, less risk, and steady cash flow.
- Thousands of social entrepreneurs are empowered to deliver support inventory to a new community market.
- All communities win as such information about the time-value of money helps people reallocates their intentions in the emerging new economy.
- Social Flights earns their revenue by empowering communities in Social Currency.
OK, so what exactly does the Broker Produce?
