- We will be able to immediately increase our volume by 3,000 cards per month.
Do you have demand to sell that many more cards each month?
You know when you type a long post and it gets deleted because your gaming mouse has a back button in an inconvenient place? I swear to god. I am going to kill that mouse.
So, the school I work for in the evenings has 120 students. 1 card per student per day is already more than 3,000 cards. But I also work closely with a K/Pre-K school which could bump us up another few thousand cards. Thirdly to this, occasionally work comes around from another school in the form of a book order or flashcards for something else. This is how we make money now. But I am banking on the new JLPT set we're working on, and sets like the Chinese one I've designed for you. This market is our main money-maker. I am trying to sell this idea to a major chain school. If we could produce flashcards for a major chain school, things will go boom very fast. That is one end goal I would like to explore.
More than half a million people took the JLPT in China and Japan last year. This is in a society where freaked out students under extreme social pressure have killed themselves because they failed their college entrance exams. I'm being serious now, it's true. The point is, language, learning, is valuable here. People want this more than you can imagine. In America flashcards today are something of a novelty. However in China and Japan schoolchildren are still forced to learn the abacus. Now let's talk about the products which don't exist which we can provide. First, Chinese-Japanese flashcards of any kind, do not exist. Second, there is no such thing as a JLPT N5 level reader. However, we produce a reader and textbook which becomes available to learners with just 15% of the JLPT N5 vocabulary. Nothing else like this exist, we own that market.
We are working on new sets of cards all the time, especially in response to student demand because that's how we make money now. But I would really like to see what happens when we start talking to white rabbit and j-list with our JLPT sets and textbooks, and putting them on amazon. That could make things go boom very fast.
whatnxt suggested that I start selling business cards to community members but honestly, it's not going to do anything for our business. I think instead I'll just give away business cards at cost to community members. That would be a better idea.
Anyways there's a whole host of sets I am looking at designing. I'm pretty sure I can get people to buy a few more cards a month if it's working for them.
I'm late for work....
What we have:
1. Printer
2. Office Space
What we need:
1. Office Furniture (3000 shares, low priority)
2. $3000 worth of laminating pouches (
http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/A4-laminating-pockets-250micron_731716804.html) ~6,000 shares
3. a million index cards (
http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/wholesale-white-paper-plain-index-card_1234903204.html) ~5,000 shares
4. Advertising budget (probably a couple thousand shares, not sure).
Now that we have the printer we're focused on moving into the new office. My target for occupancy is october first.
