Re: [DIYbio] Re: IndieBB Campaign Survey; Help Appreciated

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:18 AM, SC <stacy734@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Some friendly suggestions:
> If your main goal is to make money by selling the kit, forget crowdsourcing
> and go straight for the payout.

But he's not got a product yet, the crowdfunding is for development.
Carolina's not gonna pre-pay for something that might not come to
existence.

> 1. Make your kit look presentable, with professional labels and printed
> boxes. And, really, you *do* have to hold yourself to a higher standard than
> your customers. I wouldn't buy a car from a manufacturer who had the same
> level of car building as I do, which is none. Same with pretty much
> everything else I buy.

Are you saying you're as experienced as Cathal, or rather that he's as
inexperienced as you? Maybe you could evaluate and be one of the
professional-endorsements Mike was looking for?

> 2. Advertise to the home school crowd, or if you can scale up, directly to
> high school science departments. See if larger distributers can carry your
> product, like Carolina Biological.
> 3. On general terms, you can't compare projects on indieBB with kickstarter,

Not sure if this has changed, but previously kickstarter was U.S.A. only.

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