Hi bemmu.
We met at a meetup just before Startup School last year. I remember you telling me about your Japanese candy selling business. Glad to see you post an update about it. Best of luck!
Shipping $36000 worth of Japanese candy
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#22maybe if you made it not just japanese candy but candy from all over the world, it just seems like a service that could work.
I would appreciate a service that sent me the same thing over and over every two weeks, say Mini Dickmann's from Germany, they are the best.
This way people could get their favorite thing, or a selection which is tailored to them.
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#23Candy, coffee, cigars, women's shoes/accessories... There seems like a ton of subscription businesses around and I almost feel there might be room to create a white/gray-label platform that can handle the website, subscription management, payment and shipping labels to potential operators of these kinds of services. Wondering how big the addressable market is. UPDATE: http://member.ly already does this according the…
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! Perhaps other countries could be added and there could also be an overall subscription to get from any country, it's a good idea. I do feel I should get this working well for Japan before expanding.
Also, the price is a bit high for candy... have you tried a one envelope a month subscription?
I could try that, but am hesitating a bit to introduce more complexity to this, since then I would have multiple tiers of subscribers.
Re: Shipping $36000 worth of Japanese candy
#25Candy, coffee, cigars, women's shoes/accessories... There seems like a ton of subscription businesses around and I almost feel there might be room to create a white/gray-label platform that can handle the website, subscription management, payment and shipping labels to potential operators of these kinds of services. Wondering how big the addressable market is. UPDATE: http://member.ly already does this according the…
http://member.ly/ (no affiliation)
Looks great, signing up to see if this could make running Candy Japan easier or provide more payment options.
Re: Shipping $36000 worth of Japanese candy
#26Candy, coffee, cigars, women's shoes/accessories... There seems like a ton of subscription businesses around and I almost feel there might be room to create a white/gray-label platform that can handle the website, subscription management, payment and shipping labels to potential operators of these kinds of services. Wondering how big the addressable market is. UPDATE: http://member.ly already does this according the…
How would you streamline the shipping process?
It would seem that the next wave of movement to web services will be SAAS services that address larger business side services like shipping and piece-meal manufacturing, but I'm not sure how that is going to be done.
/thread-highjacking.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
~300 subscribers without much labor from you anymore isn't working well? Edit: Checking out the website, from a sales funnel / marketing perspective, there are many things you could do to increase the sales just from the current traffic you're receiving - and would likely reduce the new customer acquisition cost from $60. Edit2: Other things can be done to reduce churn rate as well.
Yes, it would be great if it could continue like that, but extrapolating a bit from that chart it seems this service could experience a slow death unless I can figure out a way to market it (and reduce churn).
Have you thought about adding a candy "rewards" program?
If someone starts a subscription from a referral maybe they and the referrer can each get a bonus candy package when they start? That would probably be much cheaper than trying to do advertising with only a marginal increase in packaging complexity.
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#28Do you have to pay customs/duty?
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#29Hi bemmu. We met at a meetup just before Startup School last year. I remember you telling me about your Japanese candy selling business. Glad to see you post an update about it. Best of luck!
Yeah, I recall you also have a Japanese wife. Startup School was a lot of fun, hoping to get a chance to visit SF again too.
Re: Shipping $36000 worth of Japanese candy
#30Candy, coffee, cigars, women's shoes/accessories... There seems like a ton of subscription businesses around and I almost feel there might be room to create a white/gray-label platform that can handle the website, subscription management, payment and shipping labels to potential operators of these kinds of services. Wondering how big the addressable market is. UPDATE: http://member.ly already does this according the…
How would you streamline the shipping process? It would seem that the next wave of movement to web services will be SAAS services that address larger business side services like shipping and piece-meal manufacturing, but I'm not sure how that is going to be done. /thread-highjacking.
Amazon does this. It works well from what I've heard.
http://www.amazonservices.com/content/fulfillment-by-amazon....
There's a full API:
https://developer.amazonservices.com/gp/mws/index.html/177-6...