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Tim Ray

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
160 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

It was not to raise exposure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

It was just to get that critical mass.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

So that way the first month that we launched the company, we weren't going to sit to the supplier with like, you know, an order for 50 boxes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

You know what I mean?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

so our very first order um was 175 orders in the us and another 250 in canada wow um which you know it's you know for your very first month you know it did what it was supposed to do right it was enough critical mass that it was like worth talking to people yeah so what did it help us understand where it is now in february of 2016 how many boxes did you ship

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

Um, so we're, you know, we're seasonal business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

So we sent, uh, just over, I think 8,000 at Christmas time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

And, uh, you know, so we probably two thirds of our sales are gift oriented and, uh, on a typical month, like now we'd send around 5,500 boxes, um, this month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

And we're, you know, we're just doing two and a half years over scaling.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

March, we're sending, you know, just over 5,000 boxes in March.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

And, you know, we're in Europe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

Europe's a big focus for us because, you know, that's another 500 million people that we can access to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

So, yeah, one month box or a fixed gift subscription is $55 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

You know, that...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

gift giving multi-month gift giving is really how we finance our business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

Because you can imagine, let's say you want to, you know, give a gift to your dad for father's day coming up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray

You might give him like a four month gift.