I am struggling to build a D2C distribution network at the moment (offline). Looking for some gyaan.

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Founder

Suggestions on D2C podcasts- Grapevine

I want to start D2C brand in confectionary space, however not sure how to approach distribution via offline stores. How do I reach out to distributors? Does anyone have suggestions?

Offline stores distribution

Product Manager

For A new D2C brand to begin today and grow, is it possible to grow organically without any marketing budgets. If so, how??

Recommend startups in D2C that are doing well..and have a decent culture

Good D2C brands

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Hi all, I’m a D2C brand founder alongside working at Infosys. Yes, I’m moonlighting. I need help in cracking performance marketing. Any tips, any courses i can do? I’m stuck at low sales right now and need to scale my tshirt ecomm business.

Hi viners, i am the founder of a D2C startup and trying to figure out performance marketing and scaling my ecomm

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Lead social, brand, perf, SEO, partnerships, community, growth, pretty much everything across zero to fairly high budgets. Happy to help.

Marketing lead, 10.5 years, here to help!

Brand marketing manager

Is there any report/ resource on Indian D2C brands by funding, revenue and profit?

Indian D2C space

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I am a product manager in a FinTech company in Gurgaon, with an experience of almost 4 years, I want to eventually leave and do something on my own, looking for ideas for the same.

As a Product Manager, how can I start a side business? Any recommendation from people who have done something similar?

Which are your favourite podcasts and why? If a fairly popular media company were contemplating a new Podcast, what are the subjects/theme can you suggest what you'd like to hear?

Content Strategist

Or how about Learning from small biz owners (msme owners)

What kind of podcasts are not being made in India? Whats a good urgent and long lasting need? (Something non masala please) - Genuinely trying to figure out. Have some ideas - 1. Mens mental health / indians mental health

Program Manager

Hi Grapevine Family,

I have been using Grapevine Since January, 23. 

I have an experience of teaching Yoga and now wish to start an edtech firm, catering to candidates appearing in UGC-NET Exam for Yoga Paper.

I myself have been an Ex-AIIMS, NEW DELHI, Yoga Therapist, and have also taught at UG Level, across a few private universities in Delhi/NCR.

How should I do market research for it?

How to start a niche EdTech firm?

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Hello everyone,

I have been working for around 13 years now. I started my investment journey around 11 years ago. Over 11 years have seen 3 market corrections. 1 major and 2 minor. Seen demonetisation, GST, covid, Russia war, middle east war.

Inspite of all this was able to create a 8 digit portfolio. Hit my first 1 Cr 2 years back.

I have been able to consistently able to hit 35% CAGR in my investments from past 11 years which includes equity, mutual funds, ppf, FD, etc.

At my work everyone asks me for financial advice and I also have helped more than 100 of my colleagues in starting their financial journey. People are quite happy with my advice.

But now I want to get your advice on how I can productize my advice so that I am able to reach people at mass who could benefit and also start their investment journey.

Happy to get your suggestions and advice. Please note I don't want to start a financial advisory firm as then I can only reach or cater to max maybe 200 people.

My thought is to reach 3-5 lakhs individuals.

Welcome to any ideas and collaborations. Let me know.

Ideas to turn my hobby into a product?

I seem to be at a loss as a marketer in the age of noise and hidden ads. Google meta and Amazon control most of the global online ad market and distribution channels.

If you have enough money to throw on ads, great. Maybe you'll get somewhere and figure it out. 

But unless your product is exceptional and so is your luck, you will most likely get beaten by an average competitor with deeper pockets.

Building distribution has become all important these days. Can it be done without spending a lot of money though?

The only possible solution imo seems to be building a personal brand. But not everyone's interested in being a creator either. What options do they have?

Marketing and sales walon, any thoughts?

How to build distribution in today's age?

Product Owner

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Give me some good informational podacsts to listen to

Podcasts

Software Engineer

I am running a bootstrapped B2C startup, and our Product(app) is in the market, the domain is pure tech, like productivity tools for end users, One thing we are facing problem is acquiring users, as our product is not based on dopamine release we are unable to get good organic growth, I have tried google and Facebook ads but conversion is very slow and not good, as we have also marketing budget concerns due to bootstrap.
Here is more detail of our product: https://grapevine.in/post/2cd2f9d5-b706-4fc2-b13a-33395eca3b6b
I need some actionable advice from fellow tech-enthusiastic people, on how to get users.

PS: We are based in India, and we are providing our APP is free.
Regards
Bootstrapped Founder

We are building Data-Oauth, the next version of Oauth/Public SSO. We are first creating a Data Repository from the existing online footprint, then storing this data in Data Pods, and then creating a lot of User-generated Data packets, where users can transfer their data/interests with their consent to other platforms.
As this is uncharted territory, I want some feedback and suggestions on this.
PS: Thanks in Advance.

Hello guys need some feedback on stealth Product(Data-Oauth) - Grapevine

Need Advice to Get Users for my B2C startup.

Data scientist

Any new age consumer / D2C brands that you are fond of? Looking for inspiration on how to build a brand

Help a new founder

willl try my best to be honest, ask me anything

AMA - I work at a VC fund

Analyst

Every random founder is now a guru of some sort trying to monetise their content. I used to really look forward to stories from indian founders and their journeys. Hardly any founder is genuine.

We really need some podcasts like a16z, acquired, brand wars for real insights/stories. I can only think of think school which is doing podcasts/videos closer to the firangi ones.

Any podcast recommendations which you did not find faffy or global gyaani?

Too much faff and Global gyaan podcasts

I am starting a D2C fashion brand. Haven't been able to arrange funds from any sources. 

In a way, it's a chicken and egg problem in market conditions like this. Funding ke liye traction chahiye and traction ke liye funding chahiye. 

Need 15 lacs to get things off the ground. Considering the minimum order requirements and marketing expense. 

Do you think it would be a good idea to do crowdfunding for my startup? Any help / insights would be highly appreciated 🙏

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