CyclistBox - Chicago Start Up Subscription Box for Cycling Products - Early Special.
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Madeline,
Please go get a real job and stop pestering us with your sales pitch here.
In other box news, though, this one is cheaper!
Exactly.
Which brings up the main problem with Madeline's endeavor. Unless you stuff that box with products that can generate repeat buys, you're not going to be able to attract companies to give you a good deal.
How many bike lights/bike shorts/bike-whatever does a commuter really need?
I am afraid that the box will contain mainly consumables (gel bars, sun screen, energy drink, etc). But I may be wrong.
Daniel G said:
The BroBox is the best way for any Bro to connect with great brands while getting the opportunity to try awesome products.
This is how marketing people think humans interact with reality. We connect with great brands.
God help us all. I cannot imagine the voluntary emotional stunting required to see the world in such a base and hideous way.
Why did you have to lie to this forum?
Madeline said:
JoLondon - and Chainlink Friends! My relationship to this venture is more than anything market research and seeing how the community would respond to this. I am not in any way shape or form collecting money from you (not until I have my paid for advertising in Chainlink ;) ) Just thought I'd get some feedback from our community. So far you have been great! If this is going to be built in Chicago why not start with this awesome Chicago community that you have already established. Thats why we are here right? Support each other and furthering cycling and cycle enthusiasts in Chicago?
jolondon30 said:
I thought it was kind of obvious she was the one behind it with her trying to hard enthusiasm and folksy appeal.
Madeline maybe you should be more open about your relationship with this venture. Just a thought.
+1!!!
h' 1.0 said:
OMG Madeline please forgive me-- I totally meant to include this and I forgot:
Aw c'mon folks.... it's not like anyone with a brain didn't plainly see she was promoting her own product here... let's not drive this poor struggling entrepreneur off before she's had a chance to redeem herself buy buying paid advertising on chainlink.
Also, Madeline has started discussions looking for free photographs from this community "to use on her site," and started a discussion claiming she is a new commuter cyclist looking for tips and what she needs to cycle to work.
Madeline, do you own a bike and ride it regularly? To where do you commute from Woodstock, since you seem to have a home business?
How many electric bikes did Madeline sell so far?
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130611/NEWS07/130619980/el...
No witch hunt.
I think it's great that the OP has looked to create start-ups around bicycling.
Super transparency is how she should have started this conversation.
I'm disappointed at what looks to me like misleading marketing to CL community.
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