Post #441633 by Tipsy McStagger on Sat, Mar 21, 2009 3:10 PM

..no worries.....i just hate waiting all the time!!! :)

...but why not put them on your website?? or start a new website just for this part of your business?? why wait till the big stores have them before they become accessible to everyone ......isn't it true that before products hit the mainstream markets, the trendy and hip are usually the ones that find and purchase the product first, making having it a cool thing to own in the first place and then as it catches on and other folks see it and say "hey, that's cool-I want one" momentum builds and then next thing you know the big box stores are carrying the product, it goes mainstream and then slowly dies out since it's not cool to have something cool anymore if everyone has it.....

get them out there via whatever smaller channels you have..there are tons of small stores willing to carry them....eventually they will take on mass appeal, hopefully.

start with the company 8-ball.....seems it would be right up their alley and i know sven would be willing to help you since he is close to them.....

..and you don't need a warehouse to keep them on hand...know what i did with my martini lamps when i first started having them manufactured overseas and selling them??...i lived in a small apartment so i rented a small storage locker for less than $100 a month a few blocks from my apartment......i stored all my inventory there except for a few cases at the apartment to fill orders......when i needed more i went and got them from the storage unit...

the point is...don't let the fact that you don't have room to store inventory be a determining factor that is keeping you from reaching smaller markets both abroad and online.....there are plenty of ways to make it work.

now go have a maitai....:)

" In a perfect world...Elvis would still be alive ....and all the elvis impersonators would be dead!!"

[ Edited by: Tipsy McStagger 2009-03-21 15:31 ]

[ Edited by: Tipsy McStagger 2009-03-21 15:31 ]