42. Taking Action Success Story: Taiya Thompson of School Supply Shopper and Crooked Cactus CBD
The Product Boss with Jacqueline Snyder
Jacqueline Snyder
4.8 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Jacqueline and Minna chat with Taiya Thompson about her success story she posted in The Product Boss Facebook Group about how she had an idea for School Supply Shopper and, in only a month, made it happen - fueled with inspiration from the Subscription Boss series and some very quick action.
Jacqueline and Minna also give Taiya some strategy and guidance on how to grow School Supply Shopper even further, along with how to expand on her current business Crooked Cactus CBD.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to episode 42 of the Product Boss podcast. In this episode we interview |
| 0:06.0 | Tia Thompson of School Supply Shopper who launched her business only 30 days ago and has sold over 65% of the units that she had to offer. |
| 0:18.0 | We found Taya through a post that she shared on our Facebook group, the Product Boss Facebook group, and she wrote, |
| 0:25.6 | it's a long post so we're just going to kind of edit it out and share just some parts of it. |
| 0:29.8 | So she wrote, Meena and Jack, wanted to share my evolution of an idea and the resulting success story from the subscription series. |
| 0:36.0 | I binge listened over the 4th of July and was inspired to create a new revenue stream. |
| 0:41.0 | As I brainstormed ideas, I realized a monthly box would be too involved |
| 0:44.9 | and attract from my main business. So I focused on seasonal ideas and due to timing I |
| 0:49.5 | picked a school supply shopping to develop. So she did the market research. She basically |
| 0:56.2 | reached out to the schools and out of a hundred units that she had available |
| 1:00.4 | she sold 62 of them in three days. It's a fascinating story and we can't |
| 1:05.5 | wait to share it with you. So she concludes this post with this could be a very |
| 1:09.7 | lucrative seasonal business for our family. Thank you, Jack and Mina, for the inspiration and all you do to support our product boss community. |
| 1:17.0 | So, Taya, thank you so much for being in our community, |
| 1:21.0 | and we can't wait to share your episode with our listeners. So let's get |
| 1:25.2 | started. |
| 1:26.2 | Welcome to the Product Boss Podcast where we help product-based businesses grow their sales and improve their |
| 1:34.9 | strategies. Hey everyone I want to introduce you to my co-host and Viz Bestie |
| 1:41.4 | Mina Kula Cunlo Sita an Amazon guru that has and |
| 1:44.0 | Amazon Gueo Cetap |
| 1:45.0 | that has built a multi six-figure product-based business. |
| 1:48.0 | In introducing the other half of the product boss, |
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