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- Hi, I have a small business that makes reusable food packaging. We are one year old and have been making everything by hand. We have approximately 20 stockists in NZ and are keeping up with the demand. We have recently received offers from companies overseas wanting to act as distributors in UAE, Japan and UK. We believe these are genuine as we have a product that is a world first. We have the funds to invest and grow, but currently we are super small and just working out of a garage so this is difficult for us to get our heads around as to how we will manage this. Our product is also able to be copied very easily but we do have the advantage of a strong story and brand. So essentially we are out of our depth but don’t want to miss out on these opportunities. One thing I have thought of doing next week is trying to throw together an advisory board. What advice can you offer us? Thanks in advance.
- Reply To: Hi, I have a small business that makes reusable food packaging. We are one year old and have been making everything by hand. We have approximately 20 stockists in NZ and are keeping up with the demand. We have recently received offers from companies overseas wanting to act as distributors in UAE, Japan and UK. We believe these are genuine as we have a product that is a world first. We have the funds to invest and grow, but currently we are super small and just working out of a garage so this is difficult for us to get our heads around as to how we will manage this. Our product is also able to be copied very easily but we do have the advantage of a strong story and brand. So essentially we are out of our depth but don’t want to miss out on these opportunities. One thing I have thought of doing next week is trying to throw together an advisory board. What advice can you offer us? Thanks in advance.
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DJD
Business Owner
@djd
Reply submitted 02/06/21 @ 04:03pm
::Hi Andrew,
sorry for the late reply. Great advice, makes perfect sense, which makes me think I’ll contact some businesses who are doing well in Japan… EcoStore, Ethique. The person I ended up getting advice from kinda made me rethink my focus away from the problem ‘how could we possibly do this’ and back to the opportunity – and what it consists of. And then encouraged me that we can ‘make it happen’ or ‘let it fall into place’ once we have defined and accepted the opportunity.
I will return with more questions no doubt!David
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