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Episode 70: Small Business Reality Check: What We Expected vs. What Actually Happened | Dirty Heifers

Episode 70: Small Business Reality Check: What We Expected vs. What Actually Happened | Dirty Heifers

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In this episode, Margaret (Warm and Fuzzy Soapery), Jessie (Country Lather Soapworks), and Shauna (Buona Bath & Body) pull back the curtain on the reality of running a bath and body business. From the shock of how much time goes into video editing to the surprising ease of scaling production, the heifers discuss the "rainbows and unicorns" they expected versus the spreadsheets and shipping boxes they actually got.

In this episode, we cover:

  • The "Redneck Word of the Week": Learning how to say "Eskatawpa" (and why it matters if you're a Three Doors Down fan).
  • The Content Struggle: Why making engaging marketing content is often harder than the actual soap making.
  • The Box Debate: Does packaging really drive sales, or is it just for the "shelf-appeal" in wholesale?.
  • Scaling Up: Why making 100 bars isn't actually 10 times harder than making 10.

Special thanks to our sponsor: Warm and Fuzzy Soapery.

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