A Patriots Call...For Help

[sdczen]

My 2 cents

After perusing your website & product offering, I came to the conclusion that I would love to try some of your product. However, I was not familiar with the different soaps and the some of the scents were unusual. I also didn't see what the size of the soaps were (2oz, 4oz, etc...)

From a marketing perspective, may I offer a suggestion that may get you significantly more business.

Create a "Sampler" product where the soap bars are reduced in size(around 2oz.) so that people can try each flavor and decide which is the best for them. I see you have 16 different soaps. Maybe you can break this down into 2 separate 8-Pack samplers.

Samplers do three things, they expose more of your product to customers and they make it easier for the potential customer to make their buying decision based on so many different flavors. It's an easy pick. They also make great gifts. A gift basket might be a good idea to incorporate as well. Including the bath salts & various other products.

It looks great and I'm excited for your new business and wish you the best of luck. I will be forwarding your website onto friends & family.

 

[JamesButabi]

I'll place my order as soon as the valentine basket is available for sale on the website

x 2. We need to stick together and im always glad to help a liberty minded friend.

 

[jenmckin]

After perusing your website & product offering, I came to the conclusion that I would love to try some of your product. However, I was not familiar with the different soaps and the some of the scents were unusual. I also didn't see what the size of the soaps were (2oz, 4oz, etc...)

From a marketing perspective, may I offer a suggestion that may get you significantly more business.

Create a "Sampler" product where the soap bars are reduced in size(around 2oz.) so that people can try each flavor and decide which is the best for them. I see you have 16 different soaps. Maybe you can break this down into 2 separate 8-Pack samplers.

Samplers do three things, they expose more of your product to customers and they make it easier for the potential customer to make their buying decision based on so many different flavors. It's an easy pick. They also make great gifts. A gift basket might be a good idea to incorporate as well. Including the bath salts & various other products.

It looks great and I'm excited for your new business and wish you the best of luck. I will be forwarding your website onto friends & family.

Thank you for the idea of sampler packs! I think that would be a fantastic addition. Our webmaster is working on updating our site as we speak with several things that I wanted to do to change it. I will be emailing her to add this to the site.

I will look back, but I could have sworn that I had her put on the site that all bars are about 4.5 oz. If she did not, then I will have her correct that as well.

We will definitely be doing gift baskets for Valentine's Day.

Thanks again!

 

[Cowlesy]

Got mine today too.

Good packaging. Quick Delivery. A+++++++

(for those who use ebay every so often will understand the message above)

 

[the biss]

Ditto here. Wife loves the soaps. They smell delicious!

 

[jenmckin]

I'm so glad that you guys are happy with your purchases.

 

[RP4EVER]

placed an order dear.....hope these soaps will help my dry skin..nothing else does

 

[jenmckin]

placed an order dear.....hope these soaps will help my dry skin..nothing else does

It has helped everyone I know with dry skin.

I will give you a little testimonial from my father. When he found out that I was learning to make a good natural therapeutic soap, he sort of scoffed and said, "Well it can't be that much better than everything else. I use lotion. I use moisturizer. Nothing helps." We went up to their place in the mountains over Halloween this year and they had already had a few cold spells in Florida where they live.

His hands had started to do like they do every year and crack. Some years they crack so badly, they will bleed. They worsened when we got to the mountains. I handed him a bar of soap and said, "Just try it."

*24* hours later he came out of the bathroom looking at his hands and then he looked up at me and said, "Okay. You have me convinced." I sort of smiled at him and he continued, "I've never gone into COLDER weather and had my hands begin to heal."

By the end of our 4 day trip to the mountains...in colder weather mind you...his hands were completely healed.

I hope it helps you too. But I have heard nothing from any of our customers that would suggest otherwise.

 

[brooklyn]

We received our order this weekend and love the products! My wife couldn't be more pleased, we will be re-ordering again! The pay process was smooth, delivery quick, packaging unique and tasteful, and the product really nice.

Please let everyone know how you are faring. Good luck.

 

[jenmckin]

We received our order this weekend and love the products! My wife couldn't be more pleased, we will be re-ordering again! The pay process was smooth, delivery quick, packaging unique and tasteful, and the product really nice.

Please let everyone know how you are faring. Good luck.

We are doing alright...we did lose the cell phones which is not good for business, but there was nothing I could do about it. They haven't turned anything else off yet, but I have dates that they will be. The orders I have received has let us go to the grocery, put gas in the cars, paid the utility (water/sewer/garbage) & buy more materials to make more product.

The lights I think will be fine. We got an extension until the 16th.

My main concerns are the gas bill and the main phone. Because if those go we will be cold and without internet to run even the web business.

BUT full speed ahead. Everything will work out one way or the other.

 

[wizardwatson]

We are an asphalt maintenance company and as the economy has faltered, so has our business. We had in excess of $100,000 in business cancel their contracts on us at the end of the year. We are about to lose our home, the lights will only be on for a few more days, as will the gas.

Between the two of us, my husband and I have put out between 200-300
job applications. Even with decent education, good training, & loads
of experience, we cannot find work here in the Memphis area. No one in
my family has the space to house us and our 5 children (sons ages 10,
7, 5, & 3 and a 1 year old daughter). We cannot get an apartment
because there is no income right now and the apartments that we have
contacted will not house us because our family would cause a fire code
violation with 7 of us in a 3 bedroom apartment.

To avert total devastation and try to keep the lights on until we are
forced to leave our home sometime in February, I have done copious
amounts of research and learned to make beneficial, therapeutic,
natural soap and other products.

I'm not asking anyone for money. I'm not asking anyone to "give" me
anything. All I am asking is that you go and take a look at our
website and order if you feel that our soaps would be of use to you
consider placing an order. If you do not, then please pass on the
website to everyone you know and maybe, just maybe we will make it
through until one of us can find a job.

Thanks in advance.

Jennifer
www.urbannaturals.net

United Way.

Burger King, Denny's, ManPower.

I doubt your internet sales of soap are going to keep the power on and feed your kids.

 

[jenmckin]

United Way.

Burger King, Denny's, ManPower.

I doubt your internet sales of soap are going to keep the power on and feed your kids.

We've applied at McDonald's, Burger King, Dollar General, Hobby Lobby, etc....and even bagging groceries at the grocery store. Do you know what they tell us? "You are over qualified...sorry..."

We have given our resumes to every employment agency in the area.

I don't know about United Way...

No one is hiring here. No one.

Thank you for the advice though.

 

[wizardwatson]

We've applied at McDonald's, Burger King, Dollar General, Hobby Lobby, etc....and even bagging groceries at the grocery store. Do you know what they tell us? "You are over qualified...sorry..."

So lie on the application.

 

[pappy]

We are trying to get our soaps into WholeFoods but we need UPC codes
which are $90 each and for the 10 products that they would like to
carry, that would be $900. They are interested I just do not have the
funds to purchase the UPC's.

Hey. Speaking of whole foods... their website lists this job:

http://jobs10-wholefoods.icims.com/jobs/33961/job

Must be fate.

Maybe you could work a deal with them.

They give you: a job(for you or hubby-- even if just for short term), money for your UPC codes, and a slot for your products.

You give them: a new product to sell, a knowledgeable employee, a single asphalt
repair/maintenance session thing-a-majiggy.

Now I don't know if this is even an even trade (got no idea what the asphalt job costs your company). just trying to think of creative ideas.

No intent to offend just googled whole foods and saw the job in memphis. Maybe you could work out some kind of creative win-win with Whole foods that doesn't require upfront money from you.

Best of luck

pappy

 

[aravoth]

We are doing alright...we did lose the cell phones which is not good for business, but there was nothing I could do about it. They haven't turned anything else off yet, but I have dates that they will be. The orders I have received has let us go to the grocery, put gas in the cars, paid the utility (water/sewer/garbage) & buy more materials to make more product.

The lights I think will be fine. We got an extension until the 16th.

My main concerns are the gas bill and the main phone. Because if those go we will be cold and without internet to run even the web business.

BUT full speed ahead. Everything will work out one way or the other.

http://skype.com/welcomeback/

Go there and download that program, for about 60 dollars a year you can have a phone on your computer, with a local number, and the ability to make unlimited long distance calls in the us and canada with no "minute limits" or anything like that.

I think month to month it comes to about 3 dollars a month for unlimited calls in the us and canada, anytime. I think you have to get a subscription to get the actual number, but if you pay out for a year its about 60 dollars, for a whole of of unlimited calls, in and out. All you have to do is keep the lights on and pay your internet bill, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than a cell phone in a pinch.

 

[tremendoustie]

We've applied at McDonald's, Burger King, Dollar General, Hobby Lobby, etc....and even bagging groceries at the grocery store. Do you know what they tell us? "You are over qualified...sorry..."

We have given our resumes to every employment agency in the area.

I don't know about United Way...

No one is hiring here. No one.

Thank you for the advice though.

I hope you are successful with the soap business - they certainly look great to me!

That said, I don't think it would be dishonest to leave things off your resume. You're not required to report every job you've had. If I were applying for a job at McDonalds, for example, I'd probably put down that I worked at Kmart, but leave out most everything since then.

It's not lying -- you put the information you wish to put down on your resume. Just a tip, if you're really looking to get a basic job.

 

[canadian4ronpaul]

im going to get all emotional for a second here guys, and just tell you that all of you guys helping her out like this has been truly inspiring to me. This just kind of goes to show how much people are capable of helping one another when it comes down to it, and sort of proof that we dont need the government to do it for us. we are all full of ideas and are willing to help our fellow man when the going gets tough.

good stuff.

 

[jenmckin]

I hope you are successful with the soap business - they certainly look great to me!

That said, I don't think it would be dishonest to leave things off your resume. You're not required to report every job you've had. If I were applying for a job at McDonalds, for example, I'd probably put down that I worked at Kmart, but leave out most everything since then.

It's not lying -- you put the information you wish to put down on your resume. Just a tip, if you're really looking to get a basic job.

Well...I know how to make myself look better on a resume, but I've never had to make myself look "lesser" on a resume before. So that's a "new skill" that I have to work on. lol

Actually the soap business is doing quite well. If I could just manage around 4 $20 orders a day, that would go a long way to help pay bills. Besides, it will have to be my husband to get the job, not me because child care alone if we both went would null and void any income from one of us.

He actually has an interview today. So keep your fingers crossed. I just have to keep everything on until he starts to get some checks if he gets the job (repairing laptops).

The local little shop that carries our soap is having a commercial shot this morning and our products will be the first thing featured on the commercial. We hope that it gets a great response!

Secondly, a blogger wants to review our products and then we are going to do a giveaway and ask people to name their favorite product which will get people to look at the entire site. She has a following on Twitter of about 300 and is going to offer extra entries if people "Twitter" the contest to their friends as well.

So we are hoping for some exposure from these.

You guys have been really wonderful and the orders have helped so much. I know that it is hard to believe that someone could make a living selling hand made soap, but I have really thrown myself into this business and think that it can and will do well, I just need exposure and to develop a web presence.

Will keep you updated.

 

[jenmckin]

http://skype.com/welcomeback/

Go there and download that program, for about 60 dollars a year you can have a phone on your computer, with a local number, and the ability to make unlimited long distance calls in the us and canada with no "minute limits" or anything like that.

I think month to month it comes to about 3 dollars a month for unlimited calls in the us and canada, anytime. I think you have to get a subscription to get the actual number, but if you pay out for a year its about 60 dollars, for a whole of of unlimited calls, in and out. All you have to do is keep the lights on and pay your internet bill, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than a cell phone in a pinch.

I will definitely look into this. Thank you!

 

[mediahasyou]

list your business here: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=153542&highlight=agorism

http://www.freemarketforliberty.com/