Starting a business is exciting but difficult.
We are currently trying to put prototypes together of what we want to sell but getting the items isn't easy.
Getting honest feedback from family and friends on something you think is great, only to be told that the items are wrong or the packaging is wrong is a little disheartening. However this made me feel, we have to take these comments on board to get the right product and for our business to work.
The next day I did a rehash of the prototype taking the comments on board and this time got some great feedback! Just a couple of tweaks needed which hopefully some of our outstanding samples will solve and it will be a beautiful product.
We have bought our website domain name and have uploaded a 'coming soon' landing page with our logo. Now we need to get our head around web hosting. I'm a bit reluctant to pay a monthly fee for a company to host our site until we have done a few test runs at Fayres in our local community and selling through Facebook. I want to know our product will sell before spending time and money creating an amazing website. For now I'd like an 'about us' page and a 'contact us' page directing potential customers to our Facebook page, where hopefully we will pick up sales to fund our webpage.
This weekend we are going to work on our business plan, now that we have a better idea of costings, with the hope of applying for a start up loan to help us get funds to launch our product to the masses.
The journey continues...
Any advice regarding starting up a business is most defiitely welcome!
We are currently trying to put prototypes together of what we want to sell but getting the items isn't easy.
Getting honest feedback from family and friends on something you think is great, only to be told that the items are wrong or the packaging is wrong is a little disheartening. However this made me feel, we have to take these comments on board to get the right product and for our business to work.
The next day I did a rehash of the prototype taking the comments on board and this time got some great feedback! Just a couple of tweaks needed which hopefully some of our outstanding samples will solve and it will be a beautiful product.
We have bought our website domain name and have uploaded a 'coming soon' landing page with our logo. Now we need to get our head around web hosting. I'm a bit reluctant to pay a monthly fee for a company to host our site until we have done a few test runs at Fayres in our local community and selling through Facebook. I want to know our product will sell before spending time and money creating an amazing website. For now I'd like an 'about us' page and a 'contact us' page directing potential customers to our Facebook page, where hopefully we will pick up sales to fund our webpage.
This weekend we are going to work on our business plan, now that we have a better idea of costings, with the hope of applying for a start up loan to help us get funds to launch our product to the masses.
The journey continues...
Any advice regarding starting up a business is most defiitely welcome!