It’s been a big, busy, positive-momentum week especially since I’ve taken on the side hustle work I mentioned earlier.
Highlights include:
1. Submitted an application for the Icon Grant to help fund some things I need to create the prototypes for the furniture line. There were apparently 54 applicants that should be narrowed down to about 15 for the shortlist presentations.
My requirements don’t nicely fit into the criteria which seems to be more focussed on IT type projects. So, we’ll see. All I can do is try. The non-perfect 60 second video pitch I did is here which I actually taped at 1am in the morning! I don’t think my tiredness shows.
2: New Etsy Store: I also turned on the Etsy store for The Refoundry. I hesitated to set up one more website since I’m already managing so many right now. Still, I needed the presence for some media stuff coming out next week. At least with Etsy, the overhead costs are really low even though I don’t own the customer database like I do with our Harvestcare site on Weebly/Square.
I’m still having huge issues with finding a strong enough adhesive to hold the metal backings to the plastic consistently despite all my efforts. I found another potential glue solution online late last night. So, wish me luck because this is the final thing I need to fix to finally get these products to market.
3. More Harvestcare sales. Without really trying (because of supply bottleneck issues), I still managed to bring on one new retail customer and received a new order to restock an existing one.
Furthermore, I finally heard back from the Old Bus Depot Markets, and it’s looking promising that we can sell out of there twice a month. Fingers crossed as I’ve had to send them an incredible amount of information. I’m sure that none of the cooked food providers are being asked where they source their ingredients. So, I don’t know why my products are under such scrutiny.
As I said, a lot of positive momentum this week. So, hopefully the amount of work put into this business so far is starting to pay off a bit.
