You have the idea and the money. We have the twenty hours a week.

Side Venture takes a small ecommerce brand from a sentence to a working store with a first customer-acquisition test behind it. You approve the decisions that matter. We do the rest.

Fixed fee, fixed scope, twelve weeks. You own the company and every account in it.

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Hollow & Pin
Golf accessories
Milled divot tool

Illustrative brand. Not a client.

Twelve weeks, and what happens in each.

  1. Weeks 1 to 2

    Research and range

    • Category and competitor review
    • A shortlist of four products with landed costs
    • A margin model at three price points

    You choose the range.

  2. Weeks 3 to 5

    Sourcing and samples

    • Three supplier options with terms
    • Samples ordered and assessed
    • Fulfilment and shipping plan with costs

    You approve the supplier and sign off the samples.

  3. Weeks 6 to 8

    Brand and store

    • Name, identity and packaging
    • Product photography brief and shoot
    • Shopify build with payments, tax and shipping configured

    You sign off the identity and the store before it goes live.

  4. Weeks 9 to 12

    Launch and first test

    • Launch
    • A paid test on one channel with a set budget
    • A written read on cost per acquisition and what it implies

    You decide whether to continue, adjust or stop.

Four decisions in twelve weeks. Everything between them is ours.

About six hours of your time, in total.

Yours

  • Kickoff conversation1 hr
  • Range call1 hr
  • Sample review2 hrs
  • Launch sign-off2 hrs

Ours

  • Supplier correspondence
  • Sample chasing
  • Customs and duty checks
  • Packaging spec
  • Product photography
  • Shopify configuration
  • Shipping rules
  • Returns policy
  • Ad account setup
  • Creative production

The list on the right is why this keeps losing to your day job.

What the output looks like.

Hollow & Pin is a worked illustration we built to show the standard and the scope. It is not a client and it has not traded.

Hollow & Pin
Golf accessories

Packaging

Hollow & Pin

Leather scorecard holder

£00.00

Milled divot tool

£00.00

Waxed-canvas valuables pouch

£00.00

Alignment sticks, set of three

£00.00

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Example figures from a week 12 report. Not results.

Landed cost per unit
£11.40 (example)
Retail price
£38.00 (example)
Contribution margin
£19.60 (example)

You own the business. All of it.

Yours

  • The company
  • The domain
  • The Shopify account
  • The supplier relationships
  • The ad accounts
  • The customer list
  • The bank account
  • The stock

Ours

  • The work
  • The process
  • The people doing it
  • And nothing else

We do not take equity, we do not hold your accounts, and nothing is registered in our name. If you stop working with us you keep everything and we hand over the passwords.

Or we run it afterwards.

Customer support

Covered: inbox, order queries, returns and replacements.

Yours: refund limits and anything a customer escalates to you.

Supplier and stock management

Covered: reorder points, purchase orders, inbound shipping and stock counts.

Yours: paying suppliers and approving each order before it is placed.

Marketing

Covered: ad account management, creative production and a monthly written read.

Yours: the budget and whether it goes up or down.

£2,400 a month.

Month to month. Most clients either take this for the first six months or hire one person instead, and we will tell you honestly which one your situation calls for.

A fixed fee for the twelve weeks.

One fee covering everything in the schedule above. Stock, samples, supplier deposits and ad spend are yours and paid directly by you, so nothing is marked up on the way through. We will give you a realistic range for those before you commit.

We take on a small number of these at a time, because they are largely unautomatable.