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Re: Ask HN: Simple little business - what should I call it?

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Post by spxdcz »

thirdstation wrote: post #14

clutterbin.com Think about what you're doing for people and maybe you'll get more ideas. You're helping people by making it easy to clean up their unwanted clutter and then magically, they get money and peace of mind because they're not surrounded by stuff they don't want :-)

This is the best suggestion so far, as other suggestions (like 'box') are neutral (emotionally), whereas 'clutter' lets the customer know that what you're doing is HELPING them remove things that are negative (emotionally speaking) in their house.

If you added in a positive effect to this (think along the lines of cash4gold), so clutter4cash or something (it has some rhyming to it too, which has been proven to improve recall of product names), then you're onto something. [EDIT: or is that 'cash4clutter'?? I never know which way around the before/after should be!] [EDIT 2: PPS - great idea for a service!]

Re: Ask HN: Simple little business - what should I call it?

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Post by spxdcz »

spxdcz wrote: post #21
thirdstation wrote: post #14

clutterbin.com Think about what you're doing for people and maybe you'll get more ideas. You're helping people by making it easy to clean up their unwanted clutter and then magically, they get money and peace of mind because they're not surrounded by stuff they don't want :-)

This is the best suggestion so far, as other suggestions (like 'box') are neutral (emotionally), whereas 'clutter' lets the customer know that what you're doing is HELPING them remove things that are negative (emotionally speaking) in their house. If you added in a positive effect to this (think along the lines of cash4gold), so clutter4cash or something (it has some rhyming to it too, which has been proven to improv…

This is not a serious suggestion, but you could do a play-on-words for "Put your junk in my trunk"...

Re: Ask HN: Simple little business - what should I call it?

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Post by bgraves »

I upvoted my favorite TLD on the page (clutterbin.com)

However, I'm curious about your business model.

1. How much revenue are you bringing in?

2. What is the commission structure like?

3. How many customers do you have?

4. Where is your business located (generally, of course)?

5. Does this business model scale well?

Thanks in advance, I know I'm prying but it seems very interesting. I've chatted with a friend of mine who tried the 'eBay drop-off center' business but it was difficult because people would drop off their junk and it took a lot of time to sort, research, post, and ship the items. If you've discovered a better way of making money from this process, I'd love to hear more about it.

Re: Ask HN: Simple little business - what should I call it?

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Post by AlexMuir »

edash wrote: post #22
dools wrote: post #11

www.packyes.com www.boxbyme.com www.packadoodle.com www.boxyboxing.com www.boxinthehand.com www.boxmule.com

Packadoodle is fun. You'd want to make sure to buy a few likely misspellings.

I really like this one - it's not really fun but I'm not sure it hugely relates to what I'm doing.
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