What Do You Think Of My First Two Leather Bags?

[FISTfullaLEATHER]

I understand you want to sell your product. But I'm curious a couple of times you said they worked real out of the country. What is the difference in going to another state or a different part of the state you live in except for the fact you were able to to go to another country. The way i read your Kickstarter having them if your going to another is better than having something else. I understand you want to sell your product.

I think it's because it was inspired by items they saw while traveling. I'd have to agree, you don't see those type of bags much in usual parts of America.

Thanks! We are so excited that it went so well. We were almost 200% funded! Thank goodness for that too, because every penny of the kickstarter (and then some) has gone into buying the minimums on the leathers we need and into production costs.

We have launched our website for the leather bags at www.intrepidbags.com and are taking preorders now too for the second run of bags once we get the first all finished.

Best advice I have is to build up your community before you launch and get as many excited first, then when you launch mobilize your community of fans to move all at once. This will help boost you up on Kickstarter, and hopefully get you noticed by other members of the site. Also don't skimp on the video and the photos. The better they are, the better your campaign will do (assuming your product is good too).

We will probably be doing future kickstarters for our new bags. We don't have the funds to launch new lines on our own, and even though you make almost no profit with Kickstarter, it's a great way to see if your designs are as good as you hope. If the Kickstarter fails, at least you don't end up with thousands of dollars of unsellable bags on your hands.

Very cool. I can't wait to see the new line. I'll be following you in anticipation. And thank you for the advice. I'd really like to do something small to fund a sewing machine and a few other tools. I've been approached quite a bit to make large quantities of items and I just can't do it and give myself and the buyer a fair price with the time it takes to hand sew.