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Showing posts with label vegan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vegan. Show all posts
2011-02-17
Why Veg, or better yet, why Vegan?
When Chris started mentoring for me and the business, he mentioned our products are great and delicious, but why Vegan? Why not vegetarian because there is a bigger population?
I replied, because vegetarian (either lacto or ovo) still consumes from animals, might not be directly but the action still encourages the idea of profitable business for raising cattle for milk (and what to do with all the meat after milk is gone... there you go!) or for eggs (where to get all the eggs, all that many eggs??) The answer is obvious.
For someone to be able to say they are animal lover, the environmental conscious activist, or to have some sympathy, one shall never eat or use or touch anything that relates to animal cruelty, period.
2011-01-24
I am so crazy!
Honestly, I am probably one of the craziest person I know...
Why? I stalk our competitor which I just found at Whole Foods in Blossom Hills, (where we did demo and all sold out) and found out their physical address is like in the forest. Not only that, even though their website is cute and all that, if it cannot be viewed on iPhone or my not very smart phone because of the flash, then it wont be as effective. So my recommendation to my dear competitor who also promote vegan products:
1. When building website, use html not flash
2. If you are Peta Business Friend, make sure that can be searchable.
3. I guess everyone has a story, whether their name is Amy, Helen, or Sophie.
Okok, I know I am not that nice here; what can I do? I feel strange when I see "Product of Taiwan" and I guess all the standard claim of "vegan", "non-GMO", "0g trans fat", "high in protein/fiber" and that made me really think about why we are different, and what is our story to share and connect with our dear customers. Maybe, maybe I will come out with a story about my sponsored children and how they are short of food, daily supplies, safe & sanitary place to live, or much to eat, if we, the people who lived in a developed country continue to grow crops to feed the animals but not the human. Sike, there is much education needed and love and patience for things to move toward the ideal direction; till then, we do our best, and you do your best!
Here we go! Cheers to All!
Why? I stalk our competitor which I just found at Whole Foods in Blossom Hills, (where we did demo and all sold out) and found out their physical address is like in the forest. Not only that, even though their website is cute and all that, if it cannot be viewed on iPhone or my not very smart phone because of the flash, then it wont be as effective. So my recommendation to my dear competitor who also promote vegan products:
1. When building website, use html not flash
2. If you are Peta Business Friend, make sure that can be searchable.
3. I guess everyone has a story, whether their name is Amy, Helen, or Sophie.
Okok, I know I am not that nice here; what can I do? I feel strange when I see "Product of Taiwan" and I guess all the standard claim of "vegan", "non-GMO", "0g trans fat", "high in protein/fiber" and that made me really think about why we are different, and what is our story to share and connect with our dear customers. Maybe, maybe I will come out with a story about my sponsored children and how they are short of food, daily supplies, safe & sanitary place to live, or much to eat, if we, the people who lived in a developed country continue to grow crops to feed the animals but not the human. Sike, there is much education needed and love and patience for things to move toward the ideal direction; till then, we do our best, and you do your best!
Here we go! Cheers to All!
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2010-12-22
Vegan people are nicer and friendlier
Do'nt you agree?
For example, if you contact VeganEssentials or VeggieBrothers or Eco-Vegan Gal, they are always pleasant to talk to!! =D 2010-10-15
Sunshine Who?
As it turns out, the sunshine burger/patty is quite a name. This acquaintance of mine once asked me if I were going to run into any problem with the sunshine burger WholeFoods sell, and I didn't take it so seriously; and now here comes my lesson.
In the Q&A on mentoring, I answered his question of how to choose a company name by searching the USPTO database, but did I not do it for my product name?
How silly was I that we even have the Sunshine Burger's packaging and looking at it for a good period of time but not noticing it is actually a company but not just a product!!
So lesson of the day: always check USPTO before you name your company, product, or anything that you are going to sell otherwise you could run into infringement of someone else's trademark! Good luck!
We will now take actions to this!
In the Q&A on mentoring, I answered his question of how to choose a company name by searching the USPTO database, but did I not do it for my product name?
How silly was I that we even have the Sunshine Burger's packaging and looking at it for a good period of time but not noticing it is actually a company but not just a product!!
So lesson of the day: always check USPTO before you name your company, product, or anything that you are going to sell otherwise you could run into infringement of someone else's trademark! Good luck!
We will now take actions to this!
2010-09-26
Vegan Essentials
Have I mentioned Vegan Essentials? Besides the fact that they are a huge and awesome online vegan retailer that supplies all the eco-friendly and cruelty-free vegan products, as a business partnership they are just so wonderful to work with!! Friendly, professional, timely, well-manner, I cannot think of anything that's not positive to say about them! I sincerely hope this will be a long term relationship! :)
Vegan: because nothing was killed, and no one died.
I met up with a friend on Friday night; Steve was the temple builder last year and this year for Burning Man. As Steve experienced the building and burning of the temple, and letting go some of the griefs experienced with losing someone in life, a decision was made. Steve wants to do something for others, especially for those under-privileged 10-years old in the Oakland district. He will organize a project with 10 to 15 kids who have also lost someone in their lives and have those kids to build the temple, as a ritual to help them to let go those sorrows, and to learn how to live more peacefully with respects.
I think this is something absolutely wonderful. Something we do for others is always greater than something we do for ourselves, to put in a different perspective that there are always things we can do to help others! I thought that is very noble.
We discussed many details and ideas, and still need to come up with names too. Also, I let him know we would sponsor Vegan food. This is minimal to us, but could be significant to the kids, considering maybe they don't even have the food stability. Sometimes, I feel really sad to know that even in the metropolitan of San Francisco, just across the bridge or even under the bridge, there are still beings living with hunger, shelter-less, or lack of security; how can anyone not feel compassionate or want to offer ourselves to help?! The phrase Steve put, really touched me. He said he will mention to the kids (and the volunteers) the reason why vegan food is served, is that nothing was killed, and no one died for you to eat; which just echoes to what the temple project is about too! Thank you!
2010-09-20
Working our way into school
I spoke with KS in PCRM today regarding ecoVegan's products, and how possibly we can serve to schools so the kids can have the meat-free option, which is better for them and the society anyway! I almost feel this cannot be disclosed, but since I was able to search and found it, the USDA's National School Lunch Program reimburse $2.37 for the school that provide lunches to its students. That means, $2.37 a lunch meal for a child, including overhead; in reality, sometimes it could really come down to $1 per lunch meal, and I don't even want to think how the breakdown will be between all the content in that meal. Trust me, there is no such thing called "free lunch." This is a rather hard task for us at this stage because we are not that financially competent yet to be competitive with the big name company, aside from the details we have to go through in order to sell to school.
There are lots of resources and information that we need to be aware; for one, we need to register for Central Contract's program under Federal, which then enable us to be searchable under SBA and then can apply to become vendor for the major distributors that service the school districts. It is, in short, a very complicated system. And before that, a D-U-N-S number must also be available too.
Even with this much details needed to be worked out, I think it is still a necessary task. Wish us luck!!
There are lots of resources and information that we need to be aware; for one, we need to register for Central Contract's program under Federal, which then enable us to be searchable under SBA and then can apply to become vendor for the major distributors that service the school districts. It is, in short, a very complicated system. And before that, a D-U-N-S number must also be available too.
Even with this much details needed to be worked out, I think it is still a necessary task. Wish us luck!!
2010-09-18
While I am at it
I want to thank God first for the opportunity to start ecoVegan; I have been much blessed to have this exceptional opportunity to work on something I truly believe, while learning new things everyday, and meet with some very wonderful people that just made me appreciate life, and all lives, even more. Words can never truly express my deep feelings of gratitude, so that's why I know I have written less and less and just do more. Action speaks louder than words, and I hope that someday, one day, soon, that everyone all come to the same understanding of we are just simply love, and all beings do share this common space together; and when everyone becomes vegan, it will be heaven on earth again. Let's pray.
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