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Jim PR was well connected with lots of restaurant errors and lots of media. She thought well made I'll, be the one to create it. It's a great story. You should check I just want to mention a couple of additional details. She typically works with fifty five to six, different restaurants in the area each year and the cost for them Register to be part of restaurant week is trainer and fifty dollars. She says most restaurant weeks time five hundred and ninety two dollars, so she thinks it to steal mental. Covers advertising, collateral posters, etc, should also work, attend answers for the weak and there are two different tears: twenty five hundred dollars and five thousand dollars the higher targets. There I go on the billboards and also just more prominent coverage in general. She also accepts what she calls in kind options for sponsors they can donates and products in order to offset the costs of the buying. Just now those details yesterday story for anyone who is curious about outward. Today story is about to college students who team up to create care packages for students. They call it study box. And it's been a lesson in learning, in addition to a profitable site hustle. That stories coming right up support for

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It was around when you went to college what, if you could ever see, everything you needed to study in a box you lay for some of us. What Craig, Lamb and Logan Foster set out to do for their generation as college and with demanding majors Kragan Logan as there it was too easy to get distracted during study sessions not having there stationary feeling, hungry and being, partly exhausted by the rigours of student life for our common reason. Being unable to focus on the task at hand and they knew they were alone. Study Box was Craig slogans answer to the needs of the and they started by writing down items that would be beneficial to have nearby during study sessions that list included snacks. Energy in sports drinks highlight hers, pins pencils, post its flashcards until now, but inevitable, late night, headache or for the morning after they took a number of trips down convenience stores to get an idea of the costs of each item. After that was it the matter of testing the market which they did by offering prototypes to students on their campus, based on the feedback.

Receive from their first customers. They decided to stop each box with two snacks: a choice of beverage, energy or sports. An assortment of study supplies peppermints that tunnel. In a monthly motivational quote, they began price, Fourteen ninety nine in so many other students came I can tell them at the product was effective. They Craig and look leave. There was a market for study box. They also figure that it had. It chance for success if it can just figure out what to do next, they count to the local retail warehouse in order the items they needed for the Study Box Hymn book which lower their costs significantly. These costs amounted to two hundred dollars: the first batch of inventorying, Craig alone when assemble the boxes and then deliver them in person to those who ordered, via their facebook, page the first sight also for either Craig or Logan Craig at previous, launch an online wine store which dropped ships wine directly from the vineyards Logan a design and sold phone accessories using fulfilment by Amazon. That's neither of them had ever had to handle the production process from product creation to sales. So, even with a bit of experience,. King Study Box was a challenge. The profit margin was about

five percent, which means that they- to generate sales with a tight budget and to be profitable Long term they'd have to sell a lot of study boxes they I discovered another big problem. Sales for study box were highly cyclical, wants to study during semester break. For example, So far, they received a ton of positive feedback from customers. They sold me a hundred and thirty boxes in their initial watch. They're gone from the beginning has been to help students create a more productive college experience and in turn, achieve greater economic success, even though their products we ve been up and running for a short time. Craig Logan says it feels really great another already making a positive impact on other warning part of this venture has been going through the process of building something from scratch it. Both of them an opportunity to test out different ideas. The next step is to grow there. Customer base their reach to various universities in their area, trying to expand, and they have to increase margins as well. The US We looking to reach out to local great schools on the theory that it's not just students who need help was studying. Maybe this doesn't end up being

they pursue long term, but the lessons are learning still be applicable in lots of situations is never a bad idea to try something new. So this site hustle has some pretty clear strengths and weaknesses. The strength is that these guys are called students themselves, they understand the market put together, something its relevant. It seems they know how to reach people at least some of the people who might benefit from it. There not a great, always success, selling more than a hundred very boxes in their launch. The challenge here: gonna be profit margins and scale because not to sell a lotta study boxes to really make a sustainable in the long term, not everything has to be sustainable their water projects. We feature that just money for a time and then it stops and the person goes on to do something else. That's it What part of the side us away? I think the issue here is that enough donations. You want to make a substantial amount of money before you go into something else and with a product that just cause fifteen dollars. I think it's

cases there actually discussing two ten dollars then have to purchase those supplies even buying book. It's gonna be a challenge unless they somehow end up selling a lot more boxes. The other issue here is that there is no recurring income at least ass. I entered and it is what I can tell them actually doing this as a subscription model that just doing it is a one off sale maybe the one major thing. It would make a huge difference in improving this concept If you know you had a hundred thirty customers every month, for example, you be able to build on that. You be able to count income coming in and your entire focused beyond growing that subscriber base, so that you make more but also that you'd know how much money is coming in each month, though, just the observations, as I said, to fund project a good experiment and you never know what will happen. Maybe the actual goin to taking over universities and great schools everywhere we'll find out, but I said it's never about idea to try something new. As always, inspiration is good, but inspiration combined with action is better today,

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