Day 11 of starting a woodworking business!

[StrangeTerror]

Gotta be honest man, $150 for a simple looking, somewhat smaller cutting board from a no name company probably has a lot to do with it. Try $100 or even 75 for the 14×20 and run ads for another week or two, see what happens.

[pitbullLover-hy]

you can reuse the saw dust for wood filler

[neobaggins]

Can’t say I’m an expert, but from my observations, doing some leg work first can help. Hit the farmers market, it’s usually like $20 per season for a booth. People will be more willing to buy handmade stuff if they put a face with the hands.

I’ve seen crap from China that looks hand made, and has a flashy website. Getting a few loyal customers and then encouraging them to do your marketing for you seems to be the way. Starting out online only seems difficult, especially with a fairly common kitchen tool like a cutting board. Your stuff will stand out in person, and if you can bring a few boards to your booth each week and work on finishing them, that’ll also reinforce the impression that they’re unique, rare, high quality and worth the price you need to charge to recoup your time and tools.

[FigIsBack]

Lots of mentions of price I didn't even look at those numbers. Bottom line is you're lining up the boards the wrong way. Chop them to bits and make end grain boards if you want any sales, and if you're charging more than $10. If it's not end grain, it's a serving tray, not a cutting board, and I'd prefer a live edge full grain board over a couple planks of wood glued together. Independent products need to be decent to survive in this sea of junk.

[khaiheemthompson]

Keep going man! Website looks professional!

[matthewthompson]

Look at your competitors pricing, its a fairly perfect market with a lot of different sellers. Consider your product identical to others in the market. A maple end grain 20x14 cutting board from a reputable brand is around 90, you either have to make your product more unique/higher quality in the public perception or use the equalibrium market price. I would recommended making furniture instead if youre trying to start a general woodworking business as customers are willing to pay more when looking for furniture and if they dont decide to get a 1200 dollar piece of furniture a 150 cuttingboard from a woodworker may not seem like a splurge

[Fork]

Lower the price, then lower it again with an obvious markdown on the price on the website (red slash with the new) then after a few sales, make sure you get real testimonials from buyers, then put the price back to "original" (the first markdown.) After a few more sales, increase the price a little each time until the sales stop, then you've found the price you're worth until you get bigger

[calebbecker]

Coming from a person that makes around 70k a year and loves to be in the kitchen and cook, it’s the price man. 85$ for a basic cutting board is a bit steep. I don’t know what your cost to make each cutting board is and I have no clue how long it takes to make just one. But I am say from the eyes of someone looking for a cutting board I would rather go on Etsy or Amazon and get 2 for the same size and design with the same wood type for the price of your one. Love the video hope this helps add perspective <3

[katlynumba]

Yea brother, would be more than happy to support you with a $35 cutting board. Not trying to be cheap, but the market data probably shows that people spend an average of around $30 on a cutting board. It’d be hard to justify spending 100+ in this economy.

No knock on your work, I’m sure your quality is impeccable. Unfortunately this economy.

[johnlmorse]

I feel your pain let me know if you come up with the answer.

[michaelt]

Price for me. I know wood and business cost are high but for something that simple most people will decide "I can make that" even though most of them can't

[That_one_guy_with_a_gym]

Yeah, I like the site but it’s definitely priced really high. I’ll be honest, you have two options you can either lower the price which might be hard to do depending on where you source from or you could innovate with the board and add something that other companies have on high end boards or make something new that people would want with their board

[dylanbailey]

Dude I'm gonna be real with ya, I'm not paying over 50 dollars for a cutting board and idc how much of your blood sweat and tears you put into it. It's not about your effort, it's about the fact I can get a perfectly equivalent board for a quarter the price.

[formatagfys]

Make business cards 500 of them with qr code on them
Go to the city and from door to door u leave one card
Then u go in the intersection at the red light in one hand u have a sign and the other u offer the driver a business card
Total 1000 business cards ... if that doesn't work well idk m8

[shanedelgado]

Failure only happens when you stop trying. Boards are expensive though and Boos and others of the like have basically cornered that market. Good luck none the less, hopefully you're the next boos block

[nero]

make em end grain cutting boards better

[yachtcarpenter]

43 years in I can tell you Ls are part of bis. Google ads suck.

[liameverything]

What you need to do is make more products because cutting/charcuterie boards is nothing new at all adbthe more products the higher the range of people you will get and if people buy your products you’ll get your sales up and then you can actually start selling your cutting boards as well

[RavenFirstCompany]

Probably a bit overpriced for having zero name recognition. Also kinda looks like a scam site as I watched you scroll through.