Chat feels like you're on the phone... and the forum is like texting.
People hate the phone!
I feel so defeated
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Chat feels like you're on the phone... and the forum is like texting.
People hate the phone!
hm. thats for true, also incoming new banner
The Hot Pepper said:
Chat feels like you're on the phone... and the forum is like texting.
People hate the phone!
Fuct synchronous communication unless it's someone in my innermost circle ...
New banner up, I added 10 days as a bonus (it's been up 10 so you get the full time with the CTA), good luck!
Pretty much. Even if it rings....... voicemail!!!!!!!!!! LOL.
grantmichaels said:
Pretty much. Even if it rings....... voicemail!!!!!!!!!! LOL.
The Hot Pepper said:
So much love and positivity lately ...
The Hot Pepper said:
Yuuuup ...
them dead silences in chat. hours at a time. well whatevs. new products coming in like 2-3 weeks too.
PexPeppers said:
Guest products ... Find someone else who sells sauce and swap the single most popular sauce for yours, and each make one item available where folks can buy your sauce w/ the guest sauce ...
I really need to build out my idea one of these days ...
I had this shit way figured out a few years ago before I became disenchanted ...
Have a contest for recipes to brew someone's recipe and get it packaged and sell THAT ...
oh snap. thats a good idea!
Cross-promote.
Send a case of sauce to a saucemaker, they send you a case (even trade). Create bundles with their product so members here can try 2 different manufacturers for one ship price. The other manufacturer creates his/her own bundle with your sauce, so if a member chooses them, you still get promoted. Win win.
Send a case of sauce to a saucemaker, they send you a case (even trade). Create bundles with their product so members here can try 2 different manufacturers for one ship price. The other manufacturer creates his/her own bundle with your sauce, so if a member chooses them, you still get promoted. Win win.
Ha! I swear I didn't read Grant's but we had a similar idea.
I just bought a Taco Fuego and two bottles of the new Flyin' Lion a few days ago. I highly recommend both!
You can benefit doubly for having percentage donations to charities ...
Some percentage of customers will tack on charity to charged to round number when they are paying w/ non-cash ...
Let's say I am going to buy something that's $36 online ... if the website asks me before I check out if I'm willing to be charged $40 and $6.00 will be donated to X charity - I'm likely to do it, maybe 50-66% of the time or so ...
It only works if the math is immediate for the person, though ... what makes it work is that I instantly realize there's an extra 50% in turning $4 of my money into $6 for the charity and I feel like I'm being asked to split the burden of doing something karmic w/ the merchant ...
Also, you have the ability to do A/B testing and heat-map verification of your UI/UX that competitors won't be able to afford to do ... Do that, for sure, because sheeple. I dabbled in Internet Marketing just long enough to realize that good Ad Copy converts because it's effectively constructed. You can literally A/B test your way to Ad Copy that Just Works™ ...
Google can deliver more traffic than your box can handle in 1 second if you want and they have the volume (for the keyword) ...
That's the interesting thing about the net, right? ... You have a site like Gilte Group, where all of the traffic happens right close to noon, when the daily auctions are up on everything ... that allows them to be able to use the cloud and scale the number of machines up drastically for like 2 hrs each day - effectively saying them 22 hrs/day of server costs - so they can operate on that margin ...
Anyways, back on track ... you can drive traffic to your store to sell to it, buy purchasing Google Ads ... when you've A/B tested your Ad Copy to where it's converting predictably (1.5% of people who see it, click it type shit), then you pay Google to send you the traffic ...
It's pretty f**king amazing when you figure this out, because you realize that you don't need to spend 2 weeks running a sale ... you can run a sale in 1 minute =) ... you scale up your servers to handle a bunch of load for a little while, and you tell Google to not space your traffic throughout the month, but just Send It as they get it ... it turns out that for popular stuff, the firehouse is IMMENSE ... they can send eerily more than you would imagine ...
Imagine one minute sales, not one month sales =)
Some percentage of customers will tack on charity to charged to round number when they are paying w/ non-cash ...
Let's say I am going to buy something that's $36 online ... if the website asks me before I check out if I'm willing to be charged $40 and $6.00 will be donated to X charity - I'm likely to do it, maybe 50-66% of the time or so ...
It only works if the math is immediate for the person, though ... what makes it work is that I instantly realize there's an extra 50% in turning $4 of my money into $6 for the charity and I feel like I'm being asked to split the burden of doing something karmic w/ the merchant ...
Also, you have the ability to do A/B testing and heat-map verification of your UI/UX that competitors won't be able to afford to do ... Do that, for sure, because sheeple. I dabbled in Internet Marketing just long enough to realize that good Ad Copy converts because it's effectively constructed. You can literally A/B test your way to Ad Copy that Just Works™ ...
Google can deliver more traffic than your box can handle in 1 second if you want and they have the volume (for the keyword) ...
That's the interesting thing about the net, right? ... You have a site like Gilte Group, where all of the traffic happens right close to noon, when the daily auctions are up on everything ... that allows them to be able to use the cloud and scale the number of machines up drastically for like 2 hrs each day - effectively saying them 22 hrs/day of server costs - so they can operate on that margin ...
Anyways, back on track ... you can drive traffic to your store to sell to it, buy purchasing Google Ads ... when you've A/B tested your Ad Copy to where it's converting predictably (1.5% of people who see it, click it type shit), then you pay Google to send you the traffic ...
It's pretty f**king amazing when you figure this out, because you realize that you don't need to spend 2 weeks running a sale ... you can run a sale in 1 minute =) ... you scale up your servers to handle a bunch of load for a little while, and you tell Google to not space your traffic throughout the month, but just Send It as they get it ... it turns out that for popular stuff, the firehouse is IMMENSE ... they can send eerily more than you would imagine ...
Imagine one minute sales, not one month sales =)
Another idea.
Create a thread about being defeated and watch the members rally around you and sales rise...
Nahhh that'll never work.
Create a thread about being defeated and watch the members rally around you and sales rise...
Nahhh that'll never work.
PS - "the point" of the charity option is leveraging their reach and advertising ... they can make it possible to take cases off your hands in one move, so you are getting to work in volume - with better margins (assuming you can procure the raw ingredients, that is) ...
What do I care, I'm still getting karma points, right?
The Hot Pepper said:Another idea.
Create a thread about being defeated and watch the members rally around you and sales rise...
Nahhh that'll never work.
What do I care, I'm still getting karma points, right?
Kidding but he is getting support which is awesome.
Everyone has things that make them feel secure in a crazy world ...
For me, it's knowing that at any given moment, I can throw together a half-dozen porn and/or Internet Marketing sites, and do so every few days - to play the numbers ...
PS - I've never run a porn site, but I've always known where to buy the content (just in case) ...
For me, it's knowing that at any given moment, I can throw together a half-dozen porn and/or Internet Marketing sites, and do so every few days - to play the numbers ...
PS - I've never run a porn site, but I've always known where to buy the content (just in case) ...
Get outta yer gttdamm cumputer chair and do some farmer markets, festavuls, fairs, carshows, etc, in the fresh air, it would do ya some good. Get that gottdamm frree vitleamin D.
Sorry im gittin'drizunkafied. But I've sat and watched Scott get his hutsle on at the FM. And I can Honestly say he has a good time out there. And sells the shit out of his sauce more than I would have thought (i thought he was just a interwebs sensation). Hope you don't take this the wrong way. I'm just saying whats working for one of your brothers in arms could work for you as well. And what these guys said is dead on Right, figure out how to get people talking about yer sauce.
C'mon ,my fellow zipper belly. Don't get down. There are only solutions, no problems.
Sorry im gittin'drizunkafied. But I've sat and watched Scott get his hutsle on at the FM. And I can Honestly say he has a good time out there. And sells the shit out of his sauce more than I would have thought (i thought he was just a interwebs sensation). Hope you don't take this the wrong way. I'm just saying whats working for one of your brothers in arms could work for you as well. And what these guys said is dead on Right, figure out how to get people talking about yer sauce.
C'mon ,my fellow zipper belly. Don't get down. There are only solutions, no problems.
I was reading a thread somewhere on here about a business plan ? Maybe something else. But in it, it said, that only like 2% of the sales came from the website.
Which means a lot of grinding.
I like the idea of trading with someone and doing a cross promotion. You could even do a complimentary thing with someone else's sauce as well. Like this sauce of mine compliments this sauce of theirs in this dish. Like Guiness and black and tan.
I like watching the Pex videos.
Get out there bro!! Make yourself more available and open.
Which means a lot of grinding.
I like the idea of trading with someone and doing a cross promotion. You could even do a complimentary thing with someone else's sauce as well. Like this sauce of mine compliments this sauce of theirs in this dish. Like Guiness and black and tan.
I like watching the Pex videos.
Get out there bro!! Make yourself more available and open.