055: Building a Profitable, Sustainable Business with Susan Bradley
Launch Your Box Podcast with Sarah Williams | Start, Launch, and Grow Your Subscription Box
Release Date: 02/02/2022
076: From 0 to 200 Subscribers in 8 Days
Launch Your Box Podcast with Sarah Williams | Start, Launch, and Grow Your Subscription Box
On today’s episode, I’m joined by Tamara Bennett, one of my biz besties who also happens to be a member of Launch Your Box! Tamara is the founder and CEO of Southern A-Door-nments Decor where she teaches women how to paint door hangers. Her business has grown over the years thanks in no small part to Tamara’s dedication to creating connections with her audience. Tamara and I met at Stu McLaren’s Mastermind more than four years ago and hit it off right away. We talk all the time about all the things, including business. We had many discussions about her adding a subscription...
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075: Serving a Niched-Down Audience Reaps Over 1000 Subscribers in 2 Months
Launch Your Box Podcast with Sarah Williams | Start, Launch, and Grow Your Subscription Box
“When people are part of the process, they buy in.” - Britney Brown I’m so excited to introduce you to Britney Brown, Launch Your Box member and founder, CEO, and all the things of Imperfect Inspiration. Britney’s story and the incredible growth she’s seen in her company and her subscription box are actually perfectly inspirational! In 2020, Britney was a full-time photographer and mom of five. When the pandemic hit, the photography industry shut down. Britney turned to Tik Tok to document her life during this time and also to document her new ADHD diagnosis. During this...
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074: From 0 to 400 Subscribers: Turning One-Time Sales into Recurring Revenue
Launch Your Box Podcast with Sarah Williams | Start, Launch, and Grow Your Subscription Box
“Start with what you have and build up to what you want.” Welcome to my first on-location podcast episode! Launch Your Box member Rachel Duguay joined me live onstage at SubSummit, the first and only conference exclusively for the subscription box industry. Rachel and I met at last year’s SubSummit and she quickly became a member of Launch Your Box. At that time, Rachel and her husband’s business, MicroPuzzles, sold miniature puzzles as one-time purchases. In business since 2018, MicroPuzzles took off in 2020 when the entire world turned to puzzles as a way to pass...
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073: Ask Sarah: How to Retain Subscribers in a World Where Costs are Rising with Beth Eaton of the Ruffled Daisy
Launch Your Box Podcast with Sarah Williams | Start, Launch, and Grow Your Subscription Box
Welcome to the last episode in my eight-part series on the podcast called, “Ask Sarah.” Each week, I’ve answered a question from inside my Launch Your Box coaching membership. This week Beth Eaton of The Ruffled Daisy is here to talk about something we’re all facing right now. How to retain subscribers in a world where costs are rising. Beth started her business 10 years ago selling completed home decor pieces. Soon, people wanted to learn how to make these pieces themselves and they wanted Beth to teach them. Beth started selling kits and building a community of...
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072: Ask Sarah: How Do I Handle a Price Increase and Closing the Cart for My Subscriptions with Light of the Lamb
Launch Your Box Podcast with Sarah Williams | Start, Launch, and Grow Your Subscription Box
Welcome to episode seven of my eight-part series on the podcast called, “Ask Sarah.” Each week, I answer a question from inside my Launch Your Box coaching membership. This week Alivia Key of Light of the Lamb is here to talk about how to handle increasing the price of her subscription and whether it’s time to move from an open to a closed cart model. Alivia has been a member of Launch Your Box for two years. During that time she has launched and grown two subscriptions - a monthly t-shirt subscription and a quarterly subscription box. Like all business owners right now,...
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071: Ask Sarah: How Do I Introduce My Subscription Box to My Audience? with Holden Keepsakes
Launch Your Box Podcast with Sarah Williams | Start, Launch, and Grow Your Subscription Box
Welcome to episode six of my eight-part series on the podcast called, “Ask Sarah.” Each week, I answer a question from inside my Launch Your Box coaching membership. This week BreeAnna Holden of Holden Keepsakes is here to talk about how to introduce her subscription box to the audience she has built for her online product-based business. BreeAnna is an OG member of Launch Your Box. That means she has been inside my coaching membership for almost two years. But, she hasn’t launched her subscription box yet. She’s stuck. When she started her glitter tumbler business...
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070: Ask Sarah: How Do You Handle Variations and Personalization for Your Subscription Box? with Sunflower & Scout
Launch Your Box Podcast with Sarah Williams | Start, Launch, and Grow Your Subscription Box
Welcome to episode five of my eight-part series on the podcast called, “Ask Sarah.” Each week, I answer a question from inside my Launch Your Box coaching membership. This week Maria Riebe of Sunflower & Scout is here to talk about how to handle variations and personalization for her subscription box. Like so many entrepreneurs, the pandemic forced Maria to pivot. A true antique-lover, she had been producing an outdoor vintage market, Rustapalooza. She had experienced a great deal of success and national recognition for this show. Covid caused the cancellation of the show...
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069: Ask Sarah: How to Grow Your Subscription Past the Plateau - with Print Cut Craft
Launch Your Box Podcast with Sarah Williams | Start, Launch, and Grow Your Subscription Box
Welcome to episode four of my eight-part series on the podcast called, “Ask Sarah.” Each week, I’ll be answering a question from inside my Launch Your Box coaching membership. This week Traci Gibson of Print Cut Craft and I tackled the question of how to grow a subscription past a plateau. Traci started her business ten years ago, selling printables and teaching classes at scrapbooking conferences. When she (and her family) got tired of all the weekend travel, Traci took her scrapbook kits online. She pivoted and her business evolved as she listened to what her customers...
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068: Ask Sarah: How to Get People to Engage on Social Media - with the Crafty Lady Boutique
Launch Your Box Podcast with Sarah Williams | Start, Launch, and Grow Your Subscription Box
Welcome to the third installment of my eight-part series on the podcast called, “Ask Sarah.” Each week, I’ll be answering a question from inside my Launch Your Box coaching membership. This week Lexie Haubert of The Crafty Lady Boutique and I tackled the question of how to get people to engage with her content on social media. Lexie’s online business came about when she was unable to find bridal party gifts she liked while planning her own wedding and instead created her own. When she received incredibly positive feedback about her creations, she decided to take them...
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067: Ask Sarah: What's Holding Me Back from Starting My Subscription Box?
Launch Your Box Podcast with Sarah Williams | Start, Launch, and Grow Your Subscription Box
“Messy Action is better than no action.” - Sarah Williams Welcome to the second in my new eight-part series on the podcast called, “Ask Sarah.” Each week, I’ll be answering a question from inside my Launch Your Box coaching membership. This week’s question came from Gina Rich of Serendipity Lane. Gina’s question was simple. “Why am I stuck?” Gina had a brick-and-mortar scrapbooking and card-making business for 15 years. She still runs occasional classes and scrapbooking retreats out of the space, but moved the majority of her business online due to the pandemic....
info_outline“Part-time work will get you part-time results.”
There’s nothing quite like sitting and talking business with someone who just “gets it.” And just gets you.
For this episode, I sat down with one of my biz besties, Susan Bradley. Susan is the founder of The Social Sales Girls as well as the past and current owner of successful online retail businesses.
Susan and I are at different stages in our businesses right now and we talked about the issues, challenges, and feelings that come with each of those stages. My business is established after years of working in it and on it full-time. Susan is in the early stages of her newest business and is only able to devote part-time hours to its growth.
We went deep. We got real. And we talked about five things we want all new entrepreneurs to know. Things you need to understand and get comfortable with in order to succeed.
- Manage your expectations.
- It takes time to build a profitable, sustainable business. You have to give it time.
- Part-time work will give you part-time results.
- The hockey stick effect - there is a point where you’ll pass the curve to catch up. (Susan is Canadian - there had to be a hockey reference in there somewhere).
- Find a friend who understands. Trust us on this one.
I always learn from my conversations with Susan. And I always laugh during them. I know you’ll learn from listening to us talk and I have a feeling you’ll get a laugh or two when we share our recent misadventures in California.
This episode is for any entrepreneur, including subscription box owners, who is starting, launching, or growing a business.
Find and follow Susan:
- The Social Sales Girls Podcast
- The Social Sales Girls on Instagram
- The Social Sales Girls on Facebook
- The Social Sales Girls Website
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