Interactive help features & Marketplace Ideas
As with any website in its infancy, the direction it started out in may be alternated or redirected as new ideas and technologies are introduced to our world of technology. The website is largely just text at this point. I have ideas of expanding it to include more interactive forms of help that would be more appropriate for the digital age and interactive era we live in. These interactive and more realistic forms of communication could be applied to small engine help as well. E.g Youtube could provide a means of showing you diagnostic processes that would be far easier to comprehend and follow along with then reading written word style blogs like this. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, imagine what a video is worth! Perhaps a video we could say is worth a million words! If a Youtube channel was created for assisting with small engine help and diagnostics, it could include videos showing small engine diagnostics, videos of small engines being repaired, videos of testing repaired equipment to ensure its ready to be put back in service. It could include videos showing the tools used, suggestions of better versions of tools available and videos of small engine equipment on the market today. Those are just some of the ideas I’m aware of currently. Others may be added as we embark on the journey of building it.
Is there a need for a section on this website where small engine supplies and parts could be sold? If so, then one would have to decide on what category of parts and supplies to offer. For example, you could offer parts that are largely universal to all small engine brands as you would not want to compete with small engine repair dealers. That would be beyond the scope of what the website smallenginehelp.com is trying to accomplish. Being that we are into diagnostics and helping people with small engine repair, for certain we would offer the diagnostic tools that we use ourselves and would provide them from reliable and quality sources. Help you avoid buying cheap, troublesome brands and products. We could offer supplies that we have approved and tested for our own use, that are universal to all small engine repair work.
What about offering merch in the small engine repair space? Whether its universal repair tags, printed stickers, labels, perhaps even clothing.
With this being the age of smartphones and highspeed data being readily available for video chat, what about the possibility of introducing a tier of service where we help people with small engine diagnosis and repairs over video chat? This could be done at no cost to the user but at some point you’d have to consider “what your time is worth” as well and if you can even continue to provide such a service for no cost. Perhaps you’d have an agreement wherein you start the process of giving 10mins of free diagnostic advice and help but once the 10mins are up, you’d end the call or video chat until the potential client decides if it would be worth paying you for further assistance with their problem.