Anyone founders out there feels overwhelmed by a new startup? From the struggles of getting partnerships, finances, executing, coding, chicken and egg problem and all of the above? How did you go about it?
Hi, I am looking for skincare brands who does affiliate programs. I am not a creator, but I would like to talk about partnership. Please direct me to a more suitable subreddit for skincare business if you know any.
Hi, I plan to promote/advertise my skincare marketplace in multiple phases soon. I am seeking brands to partnership/collaborate with. Please DM me your website for me to see your catalog if interested, and I will send you more information
Hello, I own a skincare SAAS marketplace. I really want it to kickoff!. I was wondering if anyone has had any luck raising money from Kickstarter for a tech company. I thought why not give it a shot, since I am passed the MVP stage. The funds that I would be raising would be for marketing and advertisement to gain traction before seeking investors.
Hi, I have implemented an affiliate program into my skincare marketplace. The platform is still new and the affiliate program is help to combat the chicken and egg problem. But as you know there is a fee on any transaction when working with any payment management platforms. I don't know if this is standard, but I distributed the cost percentage-wise between the brand and the affiliate.
For example a referred product of $100. If the brand set to pay %15 commission,
Brand receives -> 85
Affiliate receives -> 15
But to cover the payment management fee, I further take a percentage of the two. I am doing 5% for now each side (assuming the free two month trial on the platform is done). The only benefit from this is the exposure it can potentially bring and not the commission. What do you y'all think about this?
I've spent a year building a two sided skincare marketplace (it's passed the MVP stage, brands) based on a surveyed consumer consensus and what I also agree on. A mistake a made was that I should had gathered the individuals contact information as it could had lead to some initial shoppers that anticipates brands. Now I am trying to solve the chicken and egg problem by informing skincare brands that I am willing to do consumer purchasing. I would essentially pay for a few shoppers first purchases to get things rolling then after raising funds from investors I would do a few more consumer purchasing as well then transition towards a different marketing strategy. However I find that there is not really a good medium to contact skincare brands with this offer, despite the platform being solid according to the 2 brands that onboarded. I've sent many emails and it doesn't really work either. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I am posting this because it's painful starting from scratch again. I didn't do anything wrong on the platform but I have the tendency to run any text in an LLM, then modify it before I post it. I do this for proper text structure. Could this be the reason my other account got banned?
I had also created a subreddit to form a community around my platform as well. But I doubt that's the problem, as other people do it as well. Please let me know where I went wrong and hopefully someone else can learn from this too.