Editing The Pen Addict 223/transcript (section)

== Future Products ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, I can... So, yeah. This is a long answer. So, let's talk about what's not going to happen. Because those are the questions I'm getting right now. So, the two primary ones are... Number one. Will there be more colors available? Right now, it's a no. And that's probably not going to change. Unless something crazy happens. And the numbers go like... Pinball high scores. There's probably not going to be an option for another color. We're real happy with these two color choices. There's probably not going to be a third. The second one we get a lot is... Can I have the A5 pouch by itself? That's not going to be a stretch goal either. Because if we did that... We would probably do something different. That's more of a stationary only product. And... You know, we feel... We would maybe tweak that a little bit. It would just be different. It's not... It's sold as a set for a reason. And if we just had the pouch available... We'd want to do it a little bit differently, I think. So, that's probably not going to happen. That's definitely not going to happen. More colors is more likely than A5 by itself. At this time. Yeah. And probably... Those are probably 99.9% not going to happen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Frankly, A5 by itself is a whole new product line. That's like a whole thing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Which is something we'd like to do. We've always talked about doing that. We hope to do that in the future. I mean, that's on the future near-term radar. Like 2017 type radar type of thing. That's a different product. So, will there be stretch goals? We have one idea. I don't even know if I want to say it yet. I mean, it's not like, oh man, this is going to knock my socks off idea. But it might just be a thing. Like if we hit some number. Like we're not a big fan of stretch goals to begin with. Just from a Kickstarter point of view.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But we might add in a something.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's a maybe. There's a discussion on that we might release our next paper product early. Okay. As part of this campaign. I'll say that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, it's not like, you know, oh, amazing new Lanier and rainbow unicorn colors. You know, it's not going to be that type of thing. But we might do something later in the project if we hit a certain dollar amount that we might.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Don't say the word unicorn because you know you're going to upset people.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I mean.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Who want the blue and pink.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, that would be pretty stellar. I think that would get kind of dirty in that case though. But just don't say that word. I know. The unicorn barf colorway has to come back at some time. Me and Jeff know that. It's not imminent. It's not happening in this project. But, you know, maybe we can work on that next year. I mean, that's a real thing that people want. And we know that. So, we hope to bring it back. We love it. So, yeah. So, there's no defined stretch goals. That's just not the way we build our campaigns. A lot of them are faux stretch goals in most projects anyway. You know, they're built in from the built in up front. We don't do that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And, okay. Okay. You said you had a goal, like, to beat last year. Mm-hmm. Lay it out on the line. What do you think is going to happen?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' As far as where is this project going to end? Yeah. I want six figures.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, boy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Look at you. I mean. All right. The way it's at right now, I don't think that's going to happen. But we're still early. We'll see.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Hey, there's nothing wrong with saying what you want. Right? It's not necessarily what you think you'll get. But it's what you want.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. And hitting six figures, I mean, that's an arbitrary number. Right? It doesn't mean anything. You know, that's no different than, you know, $94,383. I mean, it's completely arbitrary. But it's just, that would be a nice to have. Hey, we hit six figures on this project.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's kind of cool to say. It would just be nice, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think I get a minimum, like the best, minimum best thing to happen is you beat last year. Right? Because that's just cool. You just beat it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Right? If we beat the first project, even though they're so different in the way they're laid out and what the projects are. But if we hit 80,000, which we did 78 and change for three years ago to start our company, which was still amazes us to this day that we did that. If we can beat that, that would be great. But it's irrelevant if we don't because they're just not a match. They're total apples and oranges. But it would be nice to say, hey, we beat that last project. It would be really nice to say, hey, we hit six figures on this thing. That would be kind of cool. I would be like, this is cool. We did 100 grand on a Kickstarter project. That would make me feel fancy and warrant this pen addict engraved pen that I'm currently using. I would be happy about that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I'll say it right now. If you haven't, just go and back it. It's going to be in our show notes, relay.fm slash pen addict slash 223. You'll find a link right at the very top to go and back the linear on Kickstarter. You should because this is a great product. You should back it and give it to someone if you don't like it. Like gift it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We've actually had a lot of people buying these for gifts. That's most of my emails have been Kickstarter spam or how do I order more than one? So that's been the second one has been a good one. The first one has been terrible. Why don't you have a buy two option? I probably should. Put it on there. What's the worst that could happen? Yeah. But what's the difference in buying three? I mean, people just add the amount of the case into the pledge and it's just as easy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, not a big deal because I mean, honestly, you're not going to get a break for buying more than one, right? And I don't say that to be rude. It's just the way it is. You know, if you want to buy three, it's X amount times three and that's how much you pledge and you just pay once for shipping. So it's easy enough to explain for the people that want to buy more than one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm so proud of you guys.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is fun, even though I'm stressed to the freaking hilt. Yeah. It's...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Do you expect that to calm down over the next couple of days, maybe?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, we have too much going on.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What do you mean?