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Congrats on your success!

Hi Tom,

Congrats on your success! Loved your overview of your experiences!

We have so much to learn. Inspired by you, we will also start a thread on this forum, which seems to be great.

Thanks for all the free advice! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/16 ... e-the-best

Regards,

-Bert

Well, we are coming to the end here. There are just 36 hours left in our campaign. Here is how has gone so far.

Marketing dollars spent: $870 (The prior total was $788 but since my last update we have spend $82 on Facebook ads that sent people directly to the Kickstarter page)
Time spent: Lots, probably 150 hours. It will probably be 250 hours by the time we ship everything in November.
Funds raised $3,537.00

Overall, I think the project is only a minor success.
1. Bad: It never received any media excitement. I think the product is just too obvious/everyday. It wasn't sexy enough to write about and that didn't help us.
2. Good: It sold well. Of the 600 people that viewed our video, 63 ordered the thing. I think that shows that the product makes sense and our project page did its job even though we didn't spend big bucks on it.
3. Bad: We didn't get enough visitors to sell a bunch of them and pay a fair wage for all of the time it will take to launch the product.
4. Good: I launched a new consumer product without any real risk, just my own sweat equity. After I ship these pre-orders I will be able to build the brand and hopefully get it into retail stores, yoga studios, and direct to consumers via Amazon and other online marketplaces.

The project is located here by the way: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Ca ... -who-are-n

Hey Tom,

I appreciate you sharing your experiments and including the data! With your conclusion, overall, it sounds like you learned a ton despite some of the fruitless marketing spend. Congrats on funding, and learning!

Thanks,
Tom

Wow what a great advertising breakdown! thank you Tomnardone206!

Thought your project was really good and we have member's who would really be interested in this actually.

Maybe take a look at us and we could potentially team up in someway!?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/al ... n=71b57ad4

Does it still available to watch? I want to learn how to practice yoga and was wondering if I could find these videos somewhere.

I practice yoga for a year and I have my favorite yoga poses. I started to practice yoga because I wanted to lose weight and lead a healthy lifestyle. Yoga helped me a lot to become a balanced and patient person. It helped me to keep my mind and body beautiful and healthy. Last month I had back pain because of a sedentary lifestyle and yoga helped me to get rid of the pain. The most beautiful part of practicing yoga is meditation. Thanks to yoga I've become a self-confident person, it helped me to reduce stress and anxiety.