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MoorMe [SMART 100, 2016]

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1. THE BEGINNING

This innovation initially came to life when…

My family and I urgently needed an overnight marina berth for our boat a year or so ago. I had to call up several marinas and perform multiple web searches to enquire about rates, and found it to be a very antiquated process. I then completed a User Experience Design course last year where I was able to focus on a project of my own choosing. I knew this would be a great opportunity to bring an idea I had been mulling over for a little while to life. And as a result, MoorMe was born.

2. WHAT & HOW

The purpose of this innovation is to…

Take the hassle out of searching for and booking a marina berth by consolidating pricing, availability, amenities and contact information in an easily accessible online solution.

It does this by…

Allowing boaties to enter their desired location, check-in/out dates, required amenities and services, and vessel specifications to search for tailored pricing and availability information. Users can then favourite preferred marinas to compare offerings and take advantage of deals available only through the site. Once a desired marina has been selected, users can quickly and easily make a booking online.

3. PURPOSE & BENEFITS

This innovation improves on what came before because…

MoorMe provides boaties with an intuitive online platform for comparing prices and a more efficient way to book a berth. Currently there is no solution that aggregates overnight pricing information, provides the ability to filter marinas via services/amenities or shows marina berth availability for the 350 marinas in Australia so this would be a first here.

Its various benefits to the customer/end-user include…

+ Saving time and effort by aggregating pricing information and streamlining the booking process
+ Rewarding boaties for their patronage by offering personalized specials
+ Easily capturing customer data so marina operators can gather further insights into buyer behavior.

In the past, this problem was solved by…

Making several phone calls to familiar marinas; filling out an online form; or performing a lengthy web search to eventually unearth a rates PDF. This process is made even more difficult when a mariner may not be familiar with an area, with the process often being repeated if the offered price is too expensive or if a berth isn’t available.

Its predecessors/competitors include…

Phoning a marina or using a portal like Berthsuite.com which has limited functionality. There is no other solution in Australia that enables mariners to comprehensively compare multiple offerings, see berth availability and filter results via the specific amenities they require.

5. TARGET MARKET

It is made for…

Passionate Australian recreational boat owners and marina operators. In terms of the Australian economy, the boating industry contributes $8 billion annually, with the 350 marinas supplying just over 70,000 boat storage spaces nationally, ranging from wet berths to dry stack storage. There are over 850,000 registered boats in Australia with nearly 5 million people partaking in boating activities annually, making it one of the most popular forms of recreation in the country. MoorMe is an invaluable tool that is not only ideal for the passionate Australian boating market, but can be scaled to the thousands of marinas worldwide.

It is available for sale through…

Moorme.com.au. The solution will be an intuitive website accessible on any device, free for boat owners to use. Marina operators can choose from a range of affordable membership packages offering a variety of options for promoting their services.

Our marketing strategy is to…

Drive traffic to the website through online and offline promotion including targeted social media campaigns; advertising in marine publications and on popular online boating forums; exhibiting at boat shows; leveraging BIA and MIA membership base through exclusive affiliate offers; and of course word of mouth through the boating community.

FINE PRINT: This SMART 100 profile and the information it contains is a duplication of content submitted by the applicant during the entry process. As a function of entry, applicants were required to declare that all details are factually correct, do not infringe on another’s intellectual property and are not unlawful, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, obscene, or otherwise objectionable. Some profiles have been edited for reasons of space and clarity.