Since many know about our little cookbook software business due to my repeated spamming of it on this site, it seemed only right to once again spam our new business. So here it is: SaturdayBox.com. If you have kids/grand kids, I'm especially interested in hearing thoughts. The site is live right now, although we're still ironing out a few last bugs before we start to advertise it. (Label pages don't have downloadable PDF's yet.) Haven't had any orders since the entire internet (outside of this page) doesn't know about it yet. This business is based off boxes we gave our own kids last Christmas. Our kids loved them so much it seemed like a natural business. I see our target audience being grandparents who live far away from kids, divorced dads, people in the military....basically anyone who has a 3 or 7 year old in their life they don't see as much as they want to. The whole thing is kind of a crazy idea. Hope it catches on.
I know you want a candy bar, but it's not Saturday. In two days you get to open your Saturday Box, ok? Love it.
lol. So much stuff we wrote on this site was from actual conversations. That was definitely the first one that sprang from my mind. I fucking love standing there at the checkout line watching my boys just hanging out while the whiny kids belonging to the next family in front of me beg for candy. My sons don't even ask, haven't asked in six months, because they know the answer.
I was told "no" so many times when I was a kid so I stopped asking. When I was 7 I stole a ring pop from Thriftway (are those still around?) and when I got home I broke my tooth on it. Never stole anything again.
Cool idea mook. As a single guy I'm not allowed to give kids candy, but I do have a suggestion: make step #2 the kid's name on the box, rather than the candy. That's going to matter more to your customer (the grandparents etc) than the candy. And the plain box is a bit of a disappointment if you haven't read far enough to see that customization is possible. Maybe even say in step 1 "The next step offers customization of the box". barfo
Seriously, though, that's a really smart observation. I changed the order and it seems much more logical now.
