Selin Sonmez's guest appearances

Selin Sonmez

Travel Is Your Business

Making an Advocate: Hosted by Josh Jackson

Insumo Habit Talks

Tim Ryan

Matt Plummer

Michael McDowell

Evelyn Badia

Justa Lujwangana

Tony Stubblebine

Richard Harris

Josh Jackson

Stuart Butler

Daniel Flynn

Matt Lerner

Chris Farrell

Mark Struczewski

John Matson

Sheryl Connelly

OwlTail

We welcome the co-founders of One Roof, recently named among Forbes 30 under 30! Tune in now for our chat on finding a startup and maintaining a proper work-life balance.

We welcome the co-founders of One Roof, recently named among Forbes 30 under 30! Tune in now for our chat on finding a startup and maintaining a proper work-life balance.

Habit Talks with Selin Sonmez & Nikos Georgantas 

Carry Less

Daily bag and luggage storage as part of the sharing economy… Every year, millions of travelers have the same experience when they check out of their AirBnB: what do they do with their luggage when trying to take in the sights on their last day of the trip? This is the story of someone who had to leave a street-wide amount of luggage under a staircase while traveling, and how they turned that into a business venture — “an AirBnB for luggage.” Selin Sonmez, Co-founder of Knock Knock City, a storage network connecting travelers, commuters and urbanites to nearby local shops that brings the sharing economy to short-term storage of luggage and personal Items, joins hosts John Matson (VoyagerHQ), Nick Vivion (tnooz), and Brandon McKenzie (MetroButler) in the MouthMedia Network studios in New York, powered by Sennheiser. In this episode:  Why AirBnBs for luggage are bubbling up suddenly, including because of how established AirBnB has become, the shared economy mindset, and how it is becoming an instinct to shareHow the fact that Knock Knock City is working with local shops enlists trust, and the shops want to make use of extra space How businesses are reacting to the business model, Retail shops are losing business to platforms like Amazon, looking for additional revenue, users enter the store twice, expanding exposure to, and traffic in, the shop, and how $2/bag per hour can actually add up How AirBnB hosts react and handle advising guests on this service The goal of digital verification system, which for now collects basic info through social media sign up, then the host is notified, and zip ties are fastened on the luggage or items with custom numbers for extra security The fact that Knock Knock City hasn’t interacted with AirBnB Corporate yet, but is a supportive part of the community and on the list of AirBnB supportive services What is driving more demand — AirBnB? Shopping? Business travels? The kinds of shops most likely to partner, considerations of foot traffic, breakable items, available space Why dry cleaners might be great partners Looking at and learning from the patterns of users changing their storage plan as their travel and activity plans change Future-pacing third-party pickup and drop off services Makes use of existing unused space, how the use doesn’t take away from a marketing budget or interfere with operations Knock Knock City’s oal to grow into more cities, reach as many people as possible, why it is easy to grow into other cities, given the absence of high infrastructure costs since primarily it is signing people up digitally How empty space is shown available via the app, and managing location business hour limitations and any contingencies Packing styles, roll or fold? That time Sonmez was in Philadelphia, with trade show materials in huge suitcases, and needed to leave them unattended under the staircase at the AirBnB brownstone, and how this inspired a business The goal of helping people to do what they want to and go where they want to: moving freely See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daily bag and luggage storage as part of the sharing economy… Every year, millions of travelers have the same experience when they check out of their AirBnB: what do they do with their luggage when trying to take in the sights on their last day of the trip? This is the story of someone who had to leave a street-wide amount of luggage under a staircase while traveling, and how they turned that into a business venture — “an AirBnB for luggage.” <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/selinsonmez/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Selin Sonmez</a>, Co-founder of <a href="https://knockknock.city" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Knock Knock City</a>, a storage network connecting travelers, commuters and urbanites to nearby local shops that brings the sharing economy to short-term storage of luggage and personal Items, joins hosts John Matson (VoyagerHQ), Nick Vivion (tnooz), and Brandon McKenzie (MetroButler) in the <a href="http://mouthmedianetwork.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">MouthMedia Network</a> studios in New York, powered by <a href="http://sennheiser.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Sennheiser</a>. In this episode: <ul> <li>Why AirBnBs for luggage are bubbling up suddenly, including because of how established AirBnB has become, the shared economy mindset, and how it is becoming an instinct to shareHow the fact that Knock Knock City is working with local shops enlists trust, and the shops want to make use of extra space</li> <li>How businesses are reacting to the business model,</li> <li>Retail shops are losing business to platforms like Amazon, looking for additional revenue, users enter the store twice, expanding exposure to, and traffic in, the shop, and how $2/bag per hour can actually add up</li> <li>How AirBnB hosts react and handle advising guests on this service</li> <li>The goal of digital verification system, which for now collects basic info through social media sign up, then the host is notified, and zip ties are fastened on the luggage or items with custom numbers for extra security</li> <li>The fact that Knock Knock City hasn’t interacted with AirBnB Corporate yet, but is a supportive part of the community and on the list of AirBnB supportive services</li> <li>What is driving more demand — AirBnB? Shopping? Business travels?</li> <li>The kinds of shops most likely to partner, considerations of foot traffic, breakable items, available space</li> <li>Why dry cleaners might be great partners</li> <li>Looking at and learning from the patterns of users changing their storage plan as their travel and activity plans change</li> <li>Future-pacing third-party pickup and drop off services</li> <li>Makes use of existing unused space, how the use doesn’t take away from a marketing budget or interfere with operations</li> <li>Knock Knock City’s oal to grow into more cities, reach as many people as possible, why it is easy to grow into other cities, given the absence of high infrastructure costs since primarily it is signing people up digitally</li> <li>How empty space is shown available via the app, and managing location business hour limitations and any contingencies</li> <li>Packing styles, roll or fold?</li> <li>That time Sonmez was in Philadelphia, with trade show materials in huge suitcases, and needed to leave them unattended under the staircase at the AirBnB brownstone, and how this inspired a business</li> <li>The goal of helping people to do what they want to and go where they want to: moving freely</li> </ul>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

033 – Selin Sonmez of Knock Knock City – Carry Less, Move Freely

Selin Sonmez is an entrepreneur, cofounder of Knock Knock City, and a changemaker. Being a designer by training, she implements human-centric design thinking to create new businesses that solve real-life and interesting problems. She has presented design thinking and how to start a business in schools, at events, and through podcasts. We are lucky to have Selin join us an talk about a new way of design thinking.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.  https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/unlearnings/support

Selin Sonmez is an entrepreneur, cofounder of Knock Knock City, and a changemaker. Being a designer by training, she implements human-centric design thinking to create new businesses that solve real-life and interesting problems. She has presented design thinking and how to start a business in schools, at events, and through podcasts. We are lucky to have Selin join us an talk about a new way of design thinking. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/app" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/app</a> Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/unlearnings/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/unlearnings/support</a>

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