You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It’s easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. – “Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance” by Robert Pirsig Ideas have always been easy for me. I’ve thought pretty hard about how this isn’t a reality for most people. Why is it so
Two Powerful New Free Tools for Planning a Subscription Business
I’m excited to announce that we’ve released two tools today built to help interested founders plan to start a subscription business: Cratejoy’s Subscription Box Calculator + a Power User Calculator. The financial numbers we chose as defaults for these calculators are the actual numbers for a successful subscription business. Shared with permission, of course 🙂 The
Cratejoy is an all in one subscription commerce platform that includes everything you need to start your own subscription box business online.
7 Properties of a Great Subscription Box Business Idea
One of the most common questions I get as the CEO of Cratejoy is, “Hey Amir – is this a good subscription box business idea?” It’s always a challenging question to answer on the spot. Sometimes, it’s pretty obvious that an idea for a subscription service is great – but the only surefire way to
Helping Brands Flourish with Cratejoy’s New Subscription School Initiative
Being an entrepreneur is stressful, scary, and rewarding all at once. There’s inherent risk involved in developing an idea and putting all of your time and energy into making that idea a successful reality. At Cratejoy, we’re passionate about helping entrepreneurs succeed and today, we’re happy to announce a new initiative, one that will seek to educate those wanting to learn the ins and outs of the subscription business; something that will teach you how to operate your own small business, even if you have absolutely no experience doing so. We call it: Subscription School.
Build Your Business, Not a Website
One of our primary goals each and every day at Cratejoy is to reduce stress for our sellers when it comes to organizing all of the technical, logistical and flat-out irritating aspects of running your own e-commerce subscription business. The bottom line is that we want our Cratejoy sellers to be able to build a business, not a website. It’s something that we take a lot of pride in, and we think this short video explains what we strive to do for our customers on a daily basis. So, before you take off for your Thanksgiving holiday, check out this video and see what we’re constantly working towards. We hope you enjoy it!
Maximize Your Subscription Box This Holiday Season
Obviously we think subscriptions make the best gifts – they’re thoughtful, curated, high quality and they last longer than Christmas cookies. With that in mind, this upcoming holiday season will be a crucial point in the year for many of you, our sellers. We wanted to share a few tips to ensure you’re doing all the right things come Cyber Monday, everyone’s favorite shopping event. (We might be biased, but we think it’s way more fun than Black Friday.) Of course, your goal this holiday season should be to 1) delight your current customers and 2) bring in additional subscribers to delight. We’re here to support you in both endeavors and we think that some of these suggestions could make all the difference over the holidays.
Catching Up with Annie Lin of A Little Bundle
One of Cratejoy’s longest standing and most popular sellers is A Little Bundle, a monthly curated box designed for expecting mothers and their newborns. Every month, founder Annie Lin works with a variety of designers and brands to bring exclusive, beautiful and unique products to her 400 subscribers – and we’re thrilled we can help along the way. “It’s really what differentiates us compared to other baby brands is that we deliver products to people that they won’t find anywhere else in the world,” Annie recently shared with us. “In response, customers are always telling me how much they enjoy discovering new brands and products through our boxes, and it’s definitely rewarding.”
So why boxes of mom and baby products? Well, before moving to Austin, Annie was living in New York City and working in the fashion industry. After becoming familiar with Birchbox and other subscription businesses and seeing how much her friends were drawn to them, Annie came up with her own idea for a subscription business.
We’ve Launched Our Public Beta: Start Your Subscription Business with Cratejoy Today
When you’ve worked on something for over a year, it’s a pretty surreal experience to see it finally come together. That’s what my co-founder Alex and I are experiencing right now.
Today, we’re proud to officially announce that Cratejoy has launched its public beta, allowing the most passionate and unique sellers to register their subscription businesses on our cutting-edge platform. We’ve been working towards this day since graduating from Y Combinator last August. It hasn’t always been easy, but it’s incredibly rewarding to finally take our first big step towards our vision to bring the subscription model to everyone and change the face of modern e-commerce.