i started crying when i saw the thumbnail, you look so happy! The profit is absolutely amazing for a small business. I have a small business myself so i know how hard we work!
So glad I found this - we’re planning to launch soon so these strategies came at the right time. Especially the keeping it amongst a small circle and the advice on starting with your socials from 0 followers
This was super helpful! I have wondering how long I need to plan my new business's pre-launch for. Hearing that you started with zero followers is relief for me since I feel the pressure to have a big audience before launching.
These are such great tips! I would love to see a video talking more about the influencers you reached out to, why you chose those specific influencers and your strategy on reaching out to them :) thanks!!
Thanks for this! I’m about to launch a product as well here in Australia. I honestly feeling a bit lost cos I plan to launch November and my pre launch isn’t really clear yet.
Thank you for sharing us these tips and keys to grow our business as well. God bless you more for being so generous. Gonna try this in my small candle business here in Philippines 😊
Really wonderful video and ideas!! I'm starting a business soon, and was wondering how you were able to make the website only available to the people on the mailing list for the pre launch? 💖☺️
This was so insightful thank you! I also have a small business but being the only one behind the brand definitely makes it hard to do it all but I’m going to keep your tips in mind for our next launch thank you ✨✨✨
can you give some tips how to collaborate with influencers and what kind of PR kits should we send to them especially if it will cost yoh money? thank you!
I love your channel I have a small soap business, that I can apply these strategies to launch my business this helps me to be even more creative, and look very professional, thanks.
I am preparing to launch myself. This is the best video I have found and it was suggested by UA-cam 😉 thank you so much 🙏🏻 did you do any paid advertising or was it all organic? Thank you again 😊😊
Thanks for this valuable video. I have a question. I am preparing my web shop now and before going live, I need to test shipping with my shipping partners to make sure that the webshop is working properly. Now my question is to wait until I luanch the web shop and then launch my Instagram, or launch my instagram and then keep the audience waiting for releasing the shop? What you did was to launch your website after your pre-launch on the same day of the main launch. But did you have your website link in your Bio? and how did you manage the fact that the visitos cannot buy anything until your website is up? Thank you
Unfortunately we don’t have much experience with that as we’re a relatively new brand! But will definitely consider it once we’ve been in the market for a longer time :) definitely don’t give up though! 🤍
We didn’t have a specific ‘strategy’ to the sample kit, we were very lucky that our tiktok introducing the sample kit went semi viral, and 300+ people signed up to our mailing list because of the tiktok wanting to buy the sample kit. Then when we grew on Instagram, same thing happened when we posted about the kit. It’s one of our most popular products because of the price point and offering. Hope that helps!
That video is course on product launch strategy! Thank you so much for posting it. If I understand correctly, you did a pre-launch one week before the actual launch (with limited quantities) which you promoted on social media and that was available for everybody (did you also had a time limit for that launch?) and then you did an exclusive 24hrs pre-launch day launch that you promoted only to your email list (how effective was that?), am I correct? Thank you in advance for the clarification!
Thanks so much for sharing! I've really enjoyed following your growth and it was warming to hear that you started from scratch and didn't tell many people. My concern has been whether or not its still possible to do a successful launch day if you're not someone with a large "influence" I'd also like to hear more about the influencers you chose. I do have a question- did you provide financial compensation as well to the influencers? Were you able to find influencers who were willing to receive the product as compensation for their review? Thanks again!
We haven’t paid any influencers so far! I think it’s hugely due to how you frame your email (which we will get into when we film) and being very honest and open about your brand. It’s definitely still possible! We were on socials for 3 weeks before we started telling our friends, we basically started with 0 followers on every platform and worked our way up. Good luck 🤍🤍
you didn't mention anything new to me except for the press release. but it's good to have a refresher, thank you for that. and congrats for such a succesful launch & business. i'm nowhere close to launching my business, but atm i am 90% sure i want to go for it. it will take me at least 6 months, though, i am pretty sure. and not only making but especially selling is a little nerve-wrecking to me only bc i want to know everything there is to know, i don't want anything to go wrong. i don't want to make any mistakes by using the wrong scent, warning labels and what not. this part would probably be easier if i'd start a clothing brand. i'm scared about doing smth wrong just as much as i am excited about the idea of launching a candle business sounds. ahhhh. 😅 also, i love that you're working on being sustainable. i've been doing research the past 1-2 weeks and my goal would be to purchase all the materials locally but wow some of it is really hard to find or expensive. so that's also someting that's been stressing me out. and i am nowhere close to selling candles yet 😂once again, thank you, congrats, and i'll probably be checking out more videos! 🤍
Hey there! This video is very informative and I have a question to ask. Prior to your launch day, did you announce to the public how much you’d be selling your products for? Or did you announced on the launching day itself? Thanks! 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Really admire your content but didn’t you ladies hire a PR agency? It’s so easy to get press and get features in publications as it is their job to get your business featured. Myself having a family member being in a major fashion/beauty publication industry I’m quite familiar how this works. Publications get thousands of products from businesses like yours and trying to get their attention is very slim especially if you are new. Within a matter of just a few months you guys get featured in a press is not really realistic unless you have a connection or hire a PR which costs thousands of dollars which many can’t afford when starting a small business. It’s a smart decision for any businesses which can be very beneficial and while I love your brand and genuinely wish you and other small businesses succeed I wish there was more transparency in this video.
Hi Jenni, thanks for your comment on our video. This video was about all the strategies we undertook prior to launching, which did not include a PR agency. We actually never hired a PR agency until 3 months after we launched our business, by using the revenue we received from sent. It was also not the best strategy for our business which we discussed quite openly in our FAQ video. Joanne comes from a PR background after studying it in university so she was able to write a press release and send it to various media outlets prior to launch - that’s how we got how first press feature. All media releases, press conversations, influencer relations were done purely by us because we couldn’t afford a PR agency. You can watch our influencer strategy video where we openly discuss how we did it. We’ve always been a transparent business and will always continue to be :) Thanks!
i started crying when i saw the thumbnail, you look so happy! The profit is absolutely amazing for a small business. I have a small business myself so i know how hard we work!
So glad I found this - we’re planning to launch soon so these strategies came at the right time. Especially the keeping it amongst a small circle and the advice on starting with your socials from 0 followers
This was super helpful! I have wondering how long I need to plan my new business's pre-launch for. Hearing that you started with zero followers is relief for me since I feel the pressure to have a big audience before launching.
Would love a video on influencer strategy when reaching out!
yes please!
that would be awesome!
Working on it! Thank you so much for watching
Yes please!
This was extremely informative... probably one of the only ones that have ever spoken. about the little things! Great work!
This was the most inciting... THANK YOU so much! Wow, I'm getting excited 🤸
Thanks! Definitely useful information and may God continue to bless your business
Definitely needed this! Thank you!! I’m launching my business next month!
So excited for you!! Good luck 🥰
Good notes thank. What is the app used to claim emails?
Keep the content coming! Love the channel
Thanks so much!
Incredibly helpful! Thanks for the video ❤
You're so welcome!
I love learning about this side of the business
Same here!
Thank you for sharing so many tips in this video. I would love to see a video about strategies to pitch to influencers and the media.
Coming soon!
These are such great tips! I would love to see a video talking more about the influencers you reached out to, why you chose those specific influencers and your strategy on reaching out to them :) thanks!!
Working on that now!! Thank you
@@@hello
Really good marketing plan. Thanks
Fantastic advice
Super helpful tips to launch a small business without the pressure to have a huge following before 🤩 Thank you so much !
Would love more videos on marketing for small businesses. Thank you for this one!
You guys are so inspiring!
Thank you so much lovely!! 🤍🤍
Thanks for this! I’m about to launch a product as well here in Australia. I honestly feeling a bit lost cos I plan to launch November and my pre launch isn’t really clear yet.
Great info thanks
Did you send a press release after you started or before ? And did those features happen before or after you launched?
I would love to know how you contacted influencers. This video is very clear. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing us these tips and keys to grow our business as well. God bless you more for being so generous. Gonna try this in my small candle business here in Philippines 😊
yes, spill the tea! congrats 🚀
would love to see what your brand media kit looks like :)
Strategies 🤩
You’re amazing, Thankyou ❤
Really wonderful video and ideas!! I'm starting a business soon, and was wondering how you were able to make the website only available to the people on the mailing list for the pre launch? 💖☺️
Excellent pre-launch tips!
Thanks for sharing!
Would love your outreach tips, please.
yes please
Yes please! How did you reach out to influencers and publications!
Yes, please a video on how you selected the influencers (if you used an agency to do so), would be great!!
Will film and upload very soon!
Thank you. This was awesome tips would love to know about how to contact influencers x
Really loved this, thank you!!! Can you also share tips and tricks on product photography?
Definitely! It’s on our list, will get to filming it soon 🤍 thank you!
yes please
Great information, Thank you. Please share the influencers strategy
It’s on our channel now! 👌🏻
Please can you kindly make a video explaining how to contact influencers and also influencer strategies
I sure would LOVE a video on influencer strategy
Coming soon 👀
This was so insightful thank you! I also have a small business but being the only one behind the brand definitely makes it hard to do it all but I’m going to keep your tips in mind for our next launch thank you ✨✨✨
Totally agree! It’s definitely so hard to do it all. We have two of us and it’s still hard so you’re doing amazing love! x
can you give some tips how to collaborate with influencers and what kind of PR kits should we send to them especially if it will cost yoh money? thank you!
Definitely will add to our list
Hi, I am not known to praise anyone, but this was super helpful. Many thanks and I will be keeping tabs on you, :)
Thank you! We’re glad you found it helpful
Hello, I love your video. I will love to see more about influencers and preparing for a launch! Thank you. Congratulations!
Really liked your video thank you for help.
I love your channel I have a small soap business, that I can apply these strategies to launch my business this helps me to be even more creative, and look very professional, thanks.
Glad this video can help!
I would love to see a video on influencer outreach
Easy to digest video. So helpful💕
Wow tremendously helpful! Thank you 😊
would love a video on how to contact influencers
It’s on our channel now!
Amazing video, thanks for sharing. For your socials did you set it up as personal account or business account please?
Business account!
Very nice upload
Great video! Would love to hear about your influencer strategies!
Absolutely amazing! Looking forward to the influencer strategy video! :)
I am preparing to launch myself. This is the best video I have found and it was suggested by UA-cam 😉 thank you so much 🙏🏻 did you do any paid advertising or was it all organic? Thank you again 😊😊
Hi could you please send info on how to contact influencers? Thanks so much!
I would love to hear more about influencer strategy! Love your content- thanks for all the transparency!
What web hosting you use ?
Thank you so much for these tips! They really helped. I'm curious to have an idea of how much you spent to implement these strategies 🤞🏼
We shared all the cost used to launch here -
ua-cam.com/video/D4bIz-4r9Tw/v-deo.html 🤗🤗
Thanks for this valuable video. I have a question. I am preparing my web shop now and before going live, I need to test shipping with my shipping partners to make sure that the webshop is working properly. Now my question is to wait until I luanch the web shop and then launch my Instagram, or launch my instagram and then keep the audience waiting for releasing the shop? What you did was to launch your website after your pre-launch on the same day of the main launch. But did you have your website link in your Bio? and how did you manage the fact that the visitos cannot buy anything until your website is up? Thank you
Can you do a video about regaining momentum as a brand? I feel stagnant. I completely neglected my brand and I feel it’s hard to get traction again .
Unfortunately we don’t have much experience with that as we’re a relatively new brand! But will definitely consider it once we’ve been in the market for a longer time :) definitely don’t give up though! 🤍
LOVE THIS!! where is your shirt from? so cute! and looks super comfy :)
It’s from Showpo! One of their Plisse sets :)
Would you tell us more about your sample kit strategy?
We didn’t have a specific ‘strategy’ to the sample kit, we were very lucky that our tiktok introducing the sample kit went semi viral, and 300+ people signed up to our mailing list because of the tiktok wanting to buy the sample kit. Then when we grew on Instagram, same thing happened when we posted about the kit. It’s one of our most popular products because of the price point and offering. Hope that helps!
That video is course on product launch strategy! Thank you so much for posting it. If I understand correctly, you did a pre-launch one week before the actual launch (with limited quantities) which you promoted on social media and that was available for everybody (did you also had a time limit for that launch?) and then you did an exclusive 24hrs pre-launch day launch that you promoted only to your email list (how effective was that?), am I correct? Thank you in advance for the clarification!
Hello! Thank you for this video!
How did you create your landing page? Through what website?
Yes, it was made through the website
Looking forward to the influencer strategy information
It’s up already :) Check our latest video!
Such an inspiration - 🇵🇭
Thank you 🥺🤍
Would love a video on influencer strategy when reaching out
Coming soon 👀
Thanks so much for sharing! I've really enjoyed following your growth and it was warming to hear that you started from scratch and didn't tell many people. My concern has been whether or not its still possible to do a successful launch day if you're not someone with a large "influence"
I'd also like to hear more about the influencers you chose. I do have a question- did you provide financial compensation as well to the influencers? Were you able to find influencers who were willing to receive the product as compensation for their review?
Thanks again!
We haven’t paid any influencers so far! I think it’s hugely due to how you frame your email (which we will get into when we film) and being very honest and open about your brand. It’s definitely still possible! We were on socials for 3 weeks before we started telling our friends, we basically started with 0 followers on every platform and worked our way up. Good luck 🤍🤍
@@sent.studio Nice this is good to know! Thanks for the encouragement, looking forward to the next video :)
you didn't mention anything new to me except for the press release. but it's good to have a refresher, thank you for that. and congrats for such a succesful launch & business. i'm nowhere close to launching my business, but atm i am 90% sure i want to go for it. it will take me at least 6 months, though, i am pretty sure. and not only making but especially selling is a little nerve-wrecking to me only bc i want to know everything there is to know, i don't want anything to go wrong. i don't want to make any mistakes by using the wrong scent, warning labels and what not. this part would probably be easier if i'd start a clothing brand. i'm scared about doing smth wrong just as much as i am excited about the idea of launching a candle business sounds. ahhhh. 😅
also, i love that you're working on being sustainable. i've been doing research the past 1-2 weeks and my goal would be to purchase all the materials locally but wow some of it is really hard to find or expensive. so that's also someting that's been stressing me out. and i am nowhere close to selling candles yet 😂once again, thank you, congrats, and i'll probably be checking out more videos! 🤍
How do you contact influencers?
Do you post photos/videos on IG feed during the pre-launch or after launching your products officially?
We started posting on IG twice a day, 1 month before launching and then posted once a day after we introduced all our scents
Did you guys pay the influencers? Or was it just a free product delivery for them to shout out you guys?
Where's the video at 😭
Sorryyyy!! We’ve been so busy, will be uploading this week - fingers crossed 🤞🏼
@@sent.studio no stress/rush! 🙂 just excited to see it lol my girlfriend & I are so appreciative of your videos! Thank you
Can you please tell how did you make that intro video of your brand, and if it is paid can you tell any free alternative of it
We made it on canva!
Hey there! This video is very informative and I have a question to ask. Prior to your launch day, did you announce to the public how much you’d be selling your products for? Or did you announced on the launching day itself? Thanks! 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Just announced it on the day
You are the baddest bitch for this video. Out of all the ones I’ve watched, this is the most genuine and informative. Good for you girl! X
Did you feel overwhelmed on launch day or were you totally prepared?
Do you both only work on Sent or do you have other jobs/streams of income?
We are only working on sent studio the moment! :)
first
Thank you!!
How many candles did you have prepped for each scent before launch?
About 30 of each scent :)
did the influencers ask for money? most do
Really admire your content but didn’t you ladies hire a PR agency? It’s so easy to get press and get features in publications as it is their job to get your business featured. Myself having a family member being in a major fashion/beauty publication industry I’m quite familiar how this works. Publications get thousands of products from businesses like yours and trying to get their attention is very slim especially if you are new. Within a matter of just a few months you guys get featured in a press is not really realistic unless you have a connection or hire a PR which costs thousands of dollars which many can’t afford when starting a small business. It’s a smart decision for any businesses which can be very beneficial and while I love your brand and genuinely wish you and other small businesses succeed I wish there was more transparency in this video.
Hi Jenni, thanks for your comment on our video. This video was about all the strategies we undertook prior to launching, which did not include a PR agency. We actually never hired a PR agency until 3 months after we launched our business, by using the revenue we received from sent. It was also not the best strategy for our business which we discussed quite openly in our FAQ video.
Joanne comes from a PR background after studying it in university so she was able to write a press release and send it to various media outlets prior to launch - that’s how we got how first press feature. All media releases, press conversations, influencer relations were done purely by us because we couldn’t afford a PR agency. You can watch our influencer strategy video where we openly discuss how we did it.
We’ve always been a transparent business and will always continue to be :) Thanks!
"Diverse influencers too, so we could get the most out of their community". BIG CRINGE
Would love a video on influencer strategy when reaching out!
It’s on our channel! :)