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For almost a year now, my wife and I have been selling art
toys of my wife`s design on the internet. These creatures are known as
amigurumi (ah-mee-gah-roo-mee)- fancy Japanese word that essentially means
cute, crocheted or knitted doll. Click here
to see some of her work. My wife has received alot of attention for her dolls
including several gallery shows, an upcoming article in Make Magazine, various
offers to lead amigurumi workshops and a even "how to" book deal with
Lark Publishing.
So, as we start our second year as entreprenuers, we are looking for solutions
and ideas to some of our more persistent problems.
In this post, we are looking for packaging solutions.
This has been a problem from the very beginning. Since the majority
of our business is done over the internet, our packaging up until this point
has been based around shipping supplies, laying a doll on a bed of packing
paper in a USPS Priority Mail box and sealing it up with a short thank your
note on a business card. At upwards of $175.00 a doll though, this
packing seems a bit crude. The dolls come in a number of sizes - anywhere
from 14" high to 3" high and weigh approx. a pound for the
heaviest. We`ve considered clear tubes or long envelopes
with little windows, but anything we get will most likely have to be
custom ordered. And custom orders brings up another problem: finding
reliable packaging suppliers who are willing to produce small runs of these
goods.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
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Tbakems - a wearer of many hats.
www.gourmetamigurumi.com
