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Hello, do you have any advice on how to go about setting up a subscription box business and making it successful? I’m particularly interested in how to source items to go in the box, contracts/agreements that would need to be in place and ensuring the packing & delivery process is smooth. Thanks for your help!
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Morena. Imitation can be the best form of flattery. When an idea is a nuance on something pre-existing, I figure what you can do is get other subscription boxes and see what you can find out about their supplies and suppliers. The impact of Covid-19 meant that many food service suppliers struggled for volume and accordingly became super open to supplying people putting these types of boxes together e.g. Food Box out of West Auckland, Harvest Box out of Hawkes Bay, Container Door etc – and the supermarkets did their own too.
Sourcing items – it is really just google is your friend, lots of hunting requiring and/or go into supermarkets or go into Gilmour’s bulk warehouse and understand who the volume suppliers are.
Contracts/agreements – these are just standard items, most providers will more likely have a price list that will be subject to volume and you just need to ask for their terms of trade in the early days, before you can claim more leverage to ask for differential pricing on volume.
Good luck!
In case helpful from a website and payments front:
https://themeforest.net/search/subscription%20box
https://www.cratejoy.com/sell/subscription-website-templates/
https://www.subbly.co/subscription-website-templates
https://themes.shopify.com/websites/subscriptionsAn impeccable free website template for all the subscription box websites out here!
https://subscriptionboxer.com/
https://themeforest.net/item/subscription-box-a-landing-page-template-for-your-subcom-business-responsive-bootstrap-4/22550751https://stripe.com/au/partners/apps-and-extensions/website-builder
Even if you don’t feel confident using these templates to build a site yourself (assuming you don’t have a site already), browsing the templates and deciding what you like and don’t like will make it easier to brief an agency clearly and efficiently and save you money and time on a build.
All the best,
Sarah
PS Echoing Andy’s advice, take a look at some other businesses and borrow/repurpose what you like. You can also put the URLs through tools like https://moz.com/link-explorer and https://sparktoro.com/ to review who’s linking to them and how they promote themselves (borrow all the things that work for your tactical marketing plan).
I’m a subscription box addict so here are some you could take a look at (if you haven’t found them already):
https://iamco.co.nz/iamco-shop/
https://www.whitestonecheese.com/
https://iamco.co.nz/iamco-shop/
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