Excited to finally get this service out and show it off on Product Hunt first. The concept of "spec samples" is big in the print world, but no one's doing it cost effectively in sticker land yet. This service is designed to help anyone that want to inexpensively see spec samples of their designs before placing a bigger order. It's also ideal for customers to show a new design off in real life around the office.
We ship Test Drive orders for free via UPS 2nd Day Air too so that the turnaround is blazing fast. Would love to get feedback from the Product Hunt community. :)
@nicholosberry Ha! I'm hoping we can. I remember a few years back worrying that we were almost out of ideas, but our roadmap has grown quite long lately. Lots more coming soon! :)
Seems cool, but I've ordered a lot of custom stickers and $2/1 sticker is not a good rate. Not sure why this is being promoted like it's some doorbusting deal. http://stickerapp.com/custom-sti...#!. They do 21 pieces for $20 with no shipping.
There goes my cynicism again :P.
Everyone seems to love stickermule though so I'll try them out sometime.
@blainehatab Hey Blaine, thanks for posting & hope you give us a try. Our Test Drive service is quite different than what the other company you mentioned is doing.
1) Our Test Drive service includes free shipping via UPS 2nd Day Air. By contrast, their "free shipping" deal is for USPS 1st Class Mail which is prone to lost packages and substantial delays. We refuse to ship bulk orders via USPS because they often lose orders. If you want to upgrade to UPS they charge $32 and for UPS Express they charge $50.
2) Our online proofing system puts the responsibility on us to ensure optimal quality. We work with our customers during proofing to ensure their stickers look exactly how they want. By contrast, their design online tool makes you responsible for the end product and is less flexible to work with than our proofing team.
We designed Test Drive to help you try us out before placing a bulk order. To that end, it's important that it's fast (free 2nd day air) and also optimized to ensure you get amazing quality even though the order size is small (free online proofing FTW!).
The major innovation here is our ability to scale proofing to support lots of really small orders and the cost savings is that you get a high quality sample batch of stickers in record time. That said, Test Drive is still V1.0 so there's plenty of room for us to continue innovating on it. Thanks for giving us a nudge to do that :)
Try out a small batch of stickers before making the big buy. Sticker Mule is offering this new service that allows you to get 10 sample stickers with your design.
I've ordered stickers here before and this addition to their already amazing range of products/services will make it easier for me to convince future customers to buy stickers! Great work.
Good idea, lowers the barrier to entry to make a larger purchase. I'd venture a guess that you'll see high reorder rates from those that order a Test Drive order.
@front9tech that's our hope. we want to be "the easiest way to buy stickers" so lowering the price point to try us definitely fits that aim. Once you give us a try our team is determined to make you have an awesome experience so with any luck you'll be back for more after trying Test Drive. :)
What a fantastic idea. I know plenty of people who have been nervous about making orders like this (myself included) without some sort of test. And people want to do larger orders, so are hesitant to make a small and cost-ineffective order just to be disappointed. Really brilliant move.
@joshsmith Thanks Josh! One of the hidden features if we give everyone our standard free 2-day shipping for this service. Normally, you only get access to that on orders over $50, but we want to make sure customers using Test Drive get the full Sticker Mule experience. :)
This is pretty huge. I recently (as of yesterday) ordered a series of stickers and also put some up on the marketplace (https://www.stickermule.com/mark...). @ac132 was super helpful getting my design revisions up and the process was really straight forward. Being able to preview your design with quick turn around is one thing, but being able to see it and feel it is another level that no one else offers. Nice work!
@alexkinsella Hey Alex! Thanks so much for spreading the word. It's a great feeling to know people actively spread the word about us. Our team puts a tremendous amount of effort towards being worthy of referrals.
This is fantabulous! If you ever get random assortments of overruns, slightly imperfect I would be interested in getting some for incentives for some kids programs I have coming up this winter.
This looks like the perfect way to crowdfund new sticker designs, since these "prototypes" can be shown in real world scenarios, and thus make the customer more likely to click buy.
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