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Getting the big retailers to stock your product
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This is creative thinking at its best. Jordan Kavana had a product that he knew was good, but the big retailers didn't want to stock it. Sometimes it just takes a little thinking out of the box. Hear more of his stories and wisdom on the full podcast episode: https://youtu.be/1A62tsliq04
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presented this to all the mass
merchants. I went to Toys R Us and
Walmart and Target and they all said,
"This is the dumbest idea ever. This is
never going to sell. This is too
expensive, kind of interesting, but not
going to work." So, I'm on a flight back
to China after having spent literally
millions of dollars developing this
thing. And I and this is all Hashem. And
I'm sitting next to a guy um who was a
master in the direct response space. Um
Rey, I won't mention his last name just
to protect his identity. and he says to
me, "Jordan, listen. What you have to do
is you have to drive demand to the
stores." So, my suggestion is go build a
direct response spot, buy time on
Nickelodeon and all the channels that
the kids and the and the parents of the
kids watch and put an 800 number and
when people call say go to the mass
merchant near you and you'll find the
toy. So, I went and produced an amazing
spot like award-winning director
[snorts] 800 number. People start
calling and we said go to the retailer
near you. Legally, we couldn't say it's
it's at, you know, Walmart or Target or
whatever, but we could say go find it.
So, people started coming to the stores
and asking. The buyers called 60 days
later and said, "We need this product."
>> Wow. And and then we placed it and we
named our price and we won toy of the