help with adult toy product?
 

https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&i...751842304-1&zw

so this is a toy that one of my friends designed. he is now having trouble finding a profitable way to bring it to market. does anyone have any experience or contacts or anything that would maybe be a help to someone doing this? any thoughts or input of any kind is appreciated as always! thanks.

-abatis

Is it bigger than a bread box?

Lol... So the image isn't showing? /! I'll fix it later...
But I would say no! Cleo lol. This is a serious question all jokes aside!

Thanks for the feedback!

_Abatis

Oh, the image isn't showing? I thought your friend had invented a sex toy that looked like a big red X, and I was trying to work out how you used it! :)

The image URL is:
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&i...751842304-1&zw

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I'm going to guess that it is larger than a broken image icon but smaller than a bread box.

thanks greenie.


-abatis

Cleo I miss your old avatar, I've grown to love it

ahhh well... I got a magnifying glass and still nothing...

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/13534612/FunPics/adult-toy.png
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Apparently the toy is a small icon on one's screen. I guess you rub the appropriate body part against it.

Those dots are actually buttons:
Red: Stop
Yellow: Slow
Blue: Fast

I tried that and now my screen has snail tracks all over it. :D

Ha ha ha, best laugh I have had all day! Thanks for cheering this grump up!

http://intsub.com/sextoy/sextoybig.jpg

CAN YOU SEE IT NOW?

-abatis

Interesting. and kind of a tough task. the classic route would be for him to manufacture a test batch, (get manufactured, rather, presumably in china lol), and then do the sales thing, going to the various material fulfillment companies and try to get them to order some.

This would entail writing up promo material for it, designing packaging - you want them to have to do as little work as possible to add it to their lines.

First step I would say is to prototype it with a 3d printer and get people to use it, to work out the bugs and be able to tell the outlets its a tested mature product.

he could try just selling the idea, but, there are problems with that.

This is either a really good idea or a really silly one, let your friend think about it and decide:

A while back a watch company made the news by starting up on Kickstarter, or some similar site. The idea was that you pledged the cost of a watch and if they got enough to start the company your reward was a watch. In other words, customers agreed to buy the watch before manufacturing started, when they got enough orders to make manufacturing worthwhile they started making them using the money from those first orders. To me this was a brilliant idea as not only did they get their start up capital, they also got to find out if it would be a popular product before actually deciding to start manufacturing (financing, market research, and advertising all in one neat package).

In the case of a sex toy, you get an extra bonus. Someone funding a sex toy on Kickstarter will hit the headlines. This will mostly be "Disgusting, shouldn't be allowed" type articles. But all advertising is good advertising, and it should give the product an enormous boost!

I think abatis needs to do a video demonstrating how this sextoy is used.

I was almost afraid to ask but what do you do with it?

Bend over, pick a hole and insert I would guess.

I tried that, now I'm banned from the gold course!

thnaks everyone. i guess i could have given a lil bit more info. as far as progress goes. this is pictures of the prototype. and fun shiny packaging exists too. i think the main problem is finding a way to manufacture it at low enough costs to make it so the distributors can still get it cheap enough to profit. as for use goes....idk its a sex toy, so go fuck yourself.

lol.

-abatis

kickstarter is an interesting idea. It strikes me that I know nothing about using kickstarter for adult, I've known a fair number of people trying kickstarter for mainstream ideas, but, never studied it for adult.

Yes, one of the things one could try is doing as much viral marketing as possible - you would sell it to the material fulfillment companies a fuck of a lot easier of it had some viral buzz.

oh, yeah, and there are still networks of brick-and-mortar stores, of varying vitality.

These are serviced by networks that go back to a few companies - and if you have a finished product with packaging ready to be bought in bulk, it wouldn't be all that hard to get access to their buyers - but you'd have to do the in-person sales things.

I'm friends with a family that owns a strip club that has a bookstore as part of the building - so I hear about the business behind those bookstores pretty often. The claim was that one fulfillment depot handles about 2000 stores - so, a pretty deep market.