Quote: (10-07-2014 06:55 AM)d0p3 Wrote:
Hi, i am an old reader on this Forum but i haven't post anything yet. I love youngmobileglobal threads. I found many useful and interesting information's thanks to him!
So i decided to create a product that can help me earn some money or make a company out of it. I created a Wooden Bong that actually works and it's natural.That means it contains no chemical ingredients and it's water resistant and it's easy to clean.
So long story short, i need help with legal issues and with finding the right partner to sell these Bongs...
If someone can point me to the right directions to get all the information's that i need, i will be very grateful! This is the prototype:http://imgur.com/7B95Wte What do you think? I want your feedback
At the risk of sounding stupid, is there any danger of a wooden bong actually going up in flames somehow? Just some liability stuff. I dunno.
My first reaction is that if it is well designed you can definitely use kickstarter to get this off the ground.
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Can you find online forums and facebook groups that are specifically for bong users where you can recruit early users to test out prototypes of your wooden bong and give you feedback, as well as spreading the word?
Are there bong enthusiast bloggers you can get in touch with, send them a free wooden bong prototype, and ask them to give you feedback and maybe review it?
If you're interested in this, I'd say get a dozen made and either sell them individually or mail them to people (asking them first) who control traffic somehow (blogs, social media, etc) among people who would be your early adopters/customers.
Individually emailing bong bloggers and people who own 100,000 person weed facebook groups might be a lot of legwork, but
sometimes you have to do things that don't scale.
Then if they like it, you can ask them to keep enjoying it while you throw up a landing page and a kickstarter campaign.
You can get a bunch of people pre-ordering your stuff on kickstarter and use that up front capital to make the first batch of stuff.
Maybe try to get on High Times somehow, I don't know.
Are there B list celebrities who are known potheads who you can somehow get to endorse the bong?
At the end of the day, I think it's important in the very short term (next 2 weeks) to build some prototypes yourself and then put them in the hands of people who would use it constantly and tell their friends to buy one.
The theme/feeling I get for this brand is artisan/craftsman
Kind of like these guys:
http://mastbrothers.com/
Imagine the lineup:
-Oak
-Maple
-Bamboo
-Mahogany
-Walnut
-Teak
Could be a hit!
Could also crash and burn.
You're going to have to manually recruit a small number of people who are nuts about it in the short term, IMHO.
You can use
http://www.instapage.com to create a landing page that you can track.
You can use
http://www.mailchimp.com to collect emails from the various links that send you leads, if you can get some prominent or semi prominent bong/weed sites to talk about you in some capacity.
Just throwing out ideas.
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