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David Bronke

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70 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

So the business is doing well.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

Yeah.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

And we've kind of been in that low seven figure, though, for the last few years.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

And we're trying to break out of that.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

Yeah.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

So, I mean, I guess for ages, Americans have been in the habit of buying a candle, disposing of it when it's done.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

You know, some people try to recycle it, try to repurpose it, but the reality is most just end up in the trash.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

And it really is negligous to the way people thought about plastic water bottles 15, 20 years ago.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

We bought that bottle, we drank it, threw it away.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

Now that's almost unthinkable as we've embraced reusable bottles.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

And that's what candle vessels should be.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

So the question we have is, what are the keys to shifting consumer behavior towards refilling something that people are used to throwing away?

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

It's something that we've tried to find, obviously, through surveys and other things.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

And we can kind of see when the shipping address is different from the billing address.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

You know, that's sometimes a little bit of a telltale.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

And we try to find out who is gifting.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

And it's still a small percentage.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

And I think that's partly because we're not maybe marketing it as well as a gift.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

We kind of tend to talk more towards marketing.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur

the users themselves.