Business proposal

As the owner of www.CapeVillas.com  and www.ExperienceAfrica.com I have met many people, property owners, developers and important clients.

I have been working on a business plan for about 3 years. Since January I have been working on it full time. It currently has about 60 interconnected business plans & 30 or so branding and PR exercises.

 I first approached Virgin as I also had a strong proposal for VIRGIN HOLIDAYS and VIRGIN MONEY. Their South Africa office has only one staff member of staff, his first words to be were “It’s not long is it?” Well I had hoped they would rather a well thought out business plan than a proposal that lacked substance, so I was a little taken a back, then it was explained that he gets 30 new proposals a week and he had a backlog of hundreds. So I gave them the basics of the VIRGIN HOLIDAYS proposal and within 4 weeks they had assess my plan including the detailed financials, approved it and forwarded it to the London Committee. Unfortunately it went to my head a bit and I was far too insistent on personally talking top Richard Branson so they shelved the proposal.

Well their loss is our gain, especially as the VIRGIN HOLIDAYS proposal would much better fit BULGARI and AMEX Centurion. (Please read the attached document “Dear Bulgari”)

With Bulgari as a sponsor (and remember they came to us) we will be able to easily approach other advertisers allowing a huge print run. We will then plan 15 further editions in other locations and then, we will offer half of the “Experience Brand” to Amex Centurion plus other rights including sports franchises and land options. Amex will become one of a consortium of 16 huge brands we are attempting to pull together.

First we will set up a company and foundation, co owned by the initial partners. Partner’s dividends will be limited so that partners groups receive no more than $10M, a salary, plus stock options. The rest of the profit will go back into the company for technical development, land purchases, sponsorship and good causes.

Besides the Bulgari Books and Films, we currently are working on a number of other proposals for other big brands. 

There are over 60 business plans and 30 promotional concepts, which are to numerous to list I will however give you the 2 examples we are working hardest on.

1. We have detailed specifications for financial and customer relations software, to completely run SME travel companies removing, administration and financial staff, and improving sales persons organization and performance. When created we first tailor it to other industries, then to large corporations & governmental systems. This was a part of the package Virgin assessed.
   
2. Asking, Google, Face Book and Twitter, to co-develop “S World”, an Avatar populated Virtual World, Shopping and Business Network. $200M has already been pumped into creating the Virtual World, but there funding has run out and they don’t know how to market it, we can either buy it for at most $10M or we invite them as a partner.

Kind Regards
Nick Raymond Ball
N.Ray@capevillas.com
+ 27 83 414 5922