DEB Teater is a mobile application and website that aims to address the student debt crisis. It provides a cash back rewards system for consumers and integrates with evolving media platforms. The target market is the over 37 million Americans with student loans, between the ages of 30 and under to 60+, who have median incomes of $22,500 to $45,000. DEB Teater allows users to link their student loan accounts, track their loans, get financial education, and earn cash back rewards from local retailers on purchases. The goals are to incentivize responsible debt repayment and spending habits through gamification while also benefiting merchants and DEB Teater itself through the revenue model. Risks will be mitigated by starting
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2. Table of Contents
Problem?
Solution!
Target Market & Opportunity
Who is DEB Teater?
What does DEB do?
Educational Features
Mobile Application
Digital Media Integration
Benefits & Incentives
Risk Mitigation & Exit Strategy
3. Problem?
Student loans
1st quarter 2012
30 &under 14 million
30-39 10.6 million
40-49 5.7 million
50-59 4.6 million
60+ 2.2 million
Total 37.1 million
Total Cash $902 billion - $1 trillion
Outstanding federal student loan $864 billion
Federal Reserve Bank of NYConsumer Finance Protection Bureau
4. Solution!
DEB
Teater
Mobile Application & Website
Provides cash back rewards system
Integrates with evolving media platforms
Utilizes GPS technology
Establishes a community forum
Demonstrates financial concepts (TVM)
Encourages financial responsibility
5. Target Market & Opportunity
Target Market?
Median Incomes:
High School Graduates $22,500
College Graduates $45,000
Market Driven Opportunity?
Disposable Income Retailers Target
6. Link your Loan Account to
Deb Teater and Download
the App
Invite friends to share
your account and
download the mobile
application
Use Deb Teater to track your
student loans, get educated and
watch your responsibility pay off
Live your life
Who is Deb?
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2
3
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7. What does DEB do?
Cornell University, May
2012
Portland, Oregon
760
Participating DEB Teater
merchant!
5%
DEB Teater
$38
$36.10
5%
8. Educational Features
Deb Chart Save
Remaining Months:
Interest Rate:
DEB Teater Reward:
Calculate!
Deb Teater saved you
over the lifetime of your
loan!
103
6.75
%
$36.10
$64.33
Simple and clean design
Simplifying an abstract financial
concept to young college students
Demonstrating the significant impact of
responsible debt servicing
11. Benefits & Incentives
Consumer
Convenient offers from
local retailers via GPS
Forum to educate
members on student
loan debt
Way to spend
responsibly
Merchant
Social exposure
Email campaigns
More with Mobile
Customized rewards
Increased consumer data
Revenue management
tool
Access to desirable, highly
targeted segment with
discretionary incomes
Advertising via social
media integration
DEB Teater
Recognition as a
socially responsible
company
Competitive
advantage over credit
card benefits
Sustainable revenue
model driven by 5%
cash back bonus prior
to paying down the
loan principal
12. Risk Mitigation & Exit Strategy
Risk Mitigation
Start with college campuses
Bookstores = highly competitive market
Test Deb Teater integration effects on year over
year sales
Exit Strategy?
Next Steps?
Our solution? Deb Teater
its a mobile application and website that
Provides a cash back rewards system that is similar to upromise or EXAMPLE
Integrates with social media platforms such as facebook, twitter, etc etc EXAMPLE
Utilizes GPS which we will further discuss
Provides a community forum to discuss paying off student loans with fellow students
Demonstrations abstract concepts that many of us didnt understand until financial account puts into laymen terms (visuals)
Social responsbility the debt crisis is not sustainable what are we going to do?
Bob Bob Graduates from Cornell University with $X college debt. He moves out to Portland, Oregon with some buddies in a huge house in the mountains
- To furnish their HUGE house (cheaply) they go to Ikea
103 months = 8 years 7 months, 2021
Interest rate is given LIBOR + bank rate