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Recent content by df1992

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    Building a subscription box business

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    Thank you for this thoughtful post, what you've said has really made me do some serious reflection on your points made. It does feel wasteful to me just giving it up considering the foundations laid, but like you said I need to have big hard think to see which way I might be able to pivot to...
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    Building a subscription box business

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    Update 23rd June 2021 Been a while since I've last posted. I've now made £3k in revenue and had around 180 orders in total. I'm still yet to make a profit and being honest I'm starting to fall out of love with it. I've been working on this for a very long time, put a lot of hours in but I feel...
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    Building a subscription box business

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    Thank you! Early actions and expenses that were most valuable: JUST F*ckING DO IT - I've spent most my life talking about "what if I....." and this time I've just done it. It's going slower than I'd like, but I'm learning a heap and having fun with it. At the moment I'm probably down £1k of my...
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    Building a subscription box business

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    I haven't heard of that... is it a podcast? Would you recommend it?
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    Building a subscription box business

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    Update 26.02.2021 It's been a couple of months since I've posted so thought it was time for an update. I've now reached a £1k revenue milestone with around 45 customer which has taken me around 10 weeks to get to (half of the revenue has come in the last 2 weeks) s. All these sales have been...
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    Holy $H!T, I'm launching my new kickstarter project tomorrow!

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    Everything about this is awesome. Congrats and I hope you reach your $45k target... a very strong start!!
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    Building a subscription box business

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    Update 14.12.2020 Sales are now just over £400 in the 2 weeks since launch. It's been slower than expected and I haven't been able to work out why, so I posted out to my Instagram that I wanted to speak to people to chat to them in return for free product which got a great response and last...
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    Producing a Board Game 0-100 (Product dev, Crowd sourcing, Ecommerce, Ads)

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    I've found it hard battling with this self-doubt too, the voice in your head can get very loud. Two things that helped me: Tony Robbins - awaken the giant within audiobook Seth Godin - the dip
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    Building a subscription box business

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    I think that first screenshot is a little confusing. I sold 10 units at wholesale on launch day for £8.50 per unit (not included in the shopify screenshot) Selling a more "upgraded version" on my Shopify at £20 per unit (plus with an upsell product of £12). P&P is included in the price. I'm...
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    Building a subscription box business

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    lol such a simple but really good point, need to think of it as real people visiting the store. Soley Instagram at the moment. Really the highest performing posts are ones whereby we're posting about our journey of building the business, it's like everyone is rooting for us. We've been very...
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    Building a subscription box business

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    Thank you all for your kind comments! First week is complete with £220 through Shopify + £85 through the small subscription box I sold product to, so in total £305. This has all been from organic traffic from social + friends etc. To be honest what I've been pretty surprised about is how...
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    Tony Robbins a cult leader?

    I think that's the key right... you might not like/agree with everything a person does or stands for, but it doesn't mean that you can't learn valuable lessons from them. Love this!
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    Building a subscription box business

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    Update 29/11/2020 LAUNCH DAY! It's been a lot of late nights getting it all fined tuned but today I finally launched my store after months of work. It was quite a relief but also quite daunting knowing the real work has just begun. In the end, I had 105 email subscribers and 932 followers...
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    Building a subscription box business

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    Update 21/011/2020 The biggest lesson I've learnt over the last month is that building a business whilst moving into your first ever home is an awful idea LOL! My and the girlfriend got the keys to a flat we bought just under a month ago and it's been all systems go for decorating, painting...
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    Execution: Building a Novelty toy business

    Today I reached a nice milestone on my Etsy store... I reached over £1k revenue over the last 30 days. The holiday season is where my product really comes into it's own as people are buying it as a stocking filler and I've managed to reach the first page on Etsy for stocking fillers in the UK...
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