Hi Ladies, I think that I might actually have to define a category for ONS shop talk since I seem to be doing so much of it. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
I have determined that Dragon Floss<\/a> is going to be one of the first products that I am going to carry. Jo is an easy person to deal with and someone with whom I have previous connections through a model stitching board, plus her restrictions for starting up a wholesale account are a little less stringent. The main deciding factor for me, though, was the seeming lack of representation of her products in the US. Not many US shops seem to carry her products (which are lovely!) and that is one of the areas on which I would like to focus my initial efforts.<\/p>\n My question to you, loyal readers and hopefully future customers, is would you be interested in joining a Dragon Floss Club that would automatically ship a small number of her fibers to you every month? Similar to the Monthly Bits and other automatic shipment programs established by other retailers. <\/p>\n Would you be interested in signing up? Would you be willing to sign up ahead of time (I would not charge anything until I ship)? <\/p>\n I’m looking to see how much interest I might have to help determine how much I should purchase in my first order of Dragon Floss. My price per skein of Dragon Floss will be $2.00 (USD). I would probably make the monthly shipments bundles of 5 skeins of floss, at a cost of $10.00 (USD). I may consider reducing the shipment prices, though I intend to be very fair with my S&H prices and stick to actual shipping prices plus a low handling cost to cover supplies.<\/p>\n [Edited to add: Nicole brought up a good point about discounting the total price for each shipment. I will have to do some calculations to see what price would be enticing to you, but still fair to me. I will definitely look at discounting from $10.00 USD to something a little bit lower. How much discount would be an incentive? If it was $1.00 ($9.00 USD), would that be enough? Or maybe keep it at $10.00, but make the shipping free? What would it take for you to want to sign up?]<\/p>\n What do you think?<\/p>\n I want to limit this post to one question, for now. Maybe I will create a poll that you can answer. I have ideas of how I am going to set my ONS apart from others, or at least a set of business ideals and ethics by which I will operate the business. I would like to run these past you in another post in the near future, as you will be my initial customer base, with hopefully some added word of mouth. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi Ladies, I think that I might actually have to define a category for ONS shop talk since I seem to be doing so much of it. \ud83d\ude09 I have determined that Dragon Floss is going to be one of … Continue reading