This really cracks me up. Every time i pull out a bag of beef jerky the same thing happens:
"Eww, what is that??"
"It's Beef Jerky."
"Are You Sure?"
"Yah, I made it.. You want some??"
"Uhh..."
"Come on, you'll like it"
Ok, Ok.
**Tries the Jerky**
"OMFG!! ITS SO GOOD"
"I Know"
"How do you make it??"
"Cut up steak, marinade it, and dehydrate it"
"What's a dehydrator??"
"It dries things"
"Give me another pice!!!"
"OK OK"
"I'Il buy the bag!"
Basically the last couple steps repeat every day as they come to me for their jerky needs. I am happy (i think) to say that everyone who's tried my beef jerky, is now addicted.
An then comes the final comment, as they stuff more jerky into their mouth: "You should seriously make this a business."
So I pondered and realized that at first, the business would be successful. I wouldn't even need much marketing, world of mouth would do the trick. But when you start to get orders out of your community, larger orders, you need to boost production. And thats were the problem lies.
When your business model is born, you need to make sure it can do one thing and one thing only, SCALE. Yeah, selling jerky to my friends will work, but when I go global, something happens. There is a correlation between more production and quality. In order to make the jerky faster to meet my demand i need to cut time, and the only thing that will end up doing is diminishing my homemade goodness and quality. That's why Slim Jim's taste like S#%&T (And aren't made of the Finest Beef you can get)
