This Entrepreneur Learned That When You Try Making ‘Something For Everyone,’ You Attract Nobody
From an Entrepreneur: You want customers to love your product, of course. But what happens when they don’t? The simple answer: You have to make a change — and it won’t be easy.
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You want customers to love your product, of course. But what happens when they don’t?
The simple answer: You have to make a change. And it won’t be easy.
Travis Merrigan knows how difficult the process is. He’s the co-founder of Grayl, a company that makes a bottle that also filters water — but when it hit the marketplace, sales weren’t what they’d hoped for, and many customers and retailers said the product line was confusing.
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“It’s a very, very challenging thing to put your heart and soul into your very first product,” Merrigan says. “You know it’s awesome. You know it’s groundbreaking. But then to listen to the things that aren’t right and to listen to feedback that’s not positive, and take that not as an insult to your idea but as prompt to make some change.”
In fact, it took three years for Grayl to completely understand its target customer and how to reach them. It required completely rethinking its product, its marketing and the retailers it built relationships with. But the payoff was worth it: Grayl has gone from a product people didn’t understand to one that’s now sold in more than 350 stores, including REI, and raised $222,450 on Kickstarter. The company saw triple-digit sales growth in 2016 and expects to replicate that in 2017.
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