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I'm sure most people don't know about this type of advertising. It's nothing new.
It goes way back to Claude Hopkins (1866 - 1932)creating a sensation out of Schlitz beer by advertising the process they used to bottle their beer. The Schlitz process was exactly the same as everybody else... The public was unaware of how it was done prior to being exposed to the advertising.
In this case, Organic Zero Sugar Sparkling Wine is pretty unique in the market, therefore I believe "special".
I'm pretty sure celebrities who advertise automobiles can not tell you how to build the cars. I've never heard of anyone expecting them to learn about the manufacturing process either.
I'm sure you'll agree you do not need to know how wine is made in order to enjoy it.
Hmmmm.... 2 pretty interesting phrases in your post:
"YOU GUYS"
and
"right now"
Looks like we're going to hold above .10
Go DDDX!
Nice Bellissima display at a very upscale party.
Thanks for posting.
Retail naturally wants to get the best price they can just like everybody else... only with more power behind them.
The upside of course is if retail is investing, they obviously expect it to be going UP!
...And everybody knows retail is supposed to be where the smart money is.
Retail naturally wants to get the best price they can just like everybody else... only with more power behind them.
The upside of course is if retail is investing, they obviously expect it to be going UP!
...And everybody knows retail is supposed to be where the smart money is.
Thanks. Hopefully... because that's today!
Have they undergone an annual verification and management certification process?
I saw that was one of the requirements before they can be up-listed.
Thanks for taking a guess...
I googled it and end of watch came up which didn't really make sense to me.
I'm not familiar with EOW... Please explain. Thanks.
Nice article. Thank you for posting it.
Please explain what exactly you mean by "Why does Rich always shoot this down?"
Thanks
"Partnered" might be a stretch, but Boeing definitely seems to be a very good customer!
Go DDDX!
It seems this is becoming quite a success.
Possibly in spite of the CEO as some on here seem to think....
I've never heard of sales being made all by themselves without any effort at all ;)
If that's the case here, just imagine how it would explode if somebody was actually working to sell it and get it into more locations!
We are all so smart to be invested in a product that sells itself!
Thank you for posting that. Very good to know!
Excellent news! Hopefully soon. ...At least it makes a bit more sense now.
Thanks
Has anybody tasted the Zero Sugar one?
I've only been able to buy the Rose and Brut recently.
We tried the Rose so far and liked it very much.
We'll probably try the Brut next weekend.
I'd like to try the Zero, but I do not want to order a case of it.
It would help to know what others think of it.
Thanks
* EDIT * I see Trez answered this very question while I was writing this. I'm so glad to know it's good too!
I would still be interested to know if anybody else has any input on this one.
It looks like for some reason the Santa Monica BevMo does not seem to carry the Zero Sugar variety...
I cannot understand why everybody who sells wine would not want to order it and promote the heck out of it.
One would think Diabetics would be all over this.
Anybody who has Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's Disease would seem to be a good candidate for the Zero Sugar too. It's my understanding the bad bacteria which affect these people negatively cannot tolerate sugar free diets.
It seems like a huge missed opportunity to sell to a large (growing daily) segment of the population.
It should be a slam dunk sale.
I guess you are right. Constantly keeping the website updated when the brand is growing so fast would probably be a full time job.
Apparently their website needs updating.
It would be very helpful to know exactly where it's available.
Agreed. The tax would be basically the same for all... It shouldn't be an issue at all.
Getting into the large population of Ontario would be something like a foreign company's product was made available for sale in New York, L.A., Chicago, Miami and Houston. I don't think anybody would dispute it if they would said they were selling in the United States even though they weren't selling absolutely everywhere.
It completely seems like an inconsequential nonissue... Like splitting hairs.
Here's a pretty good explanation of how this affects the stock price:
https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/70867/how-do-hidden-orders-affect-bid-ask-price
My account says less than 1 billion float...
Where do you get 2 billion from?
BTW: The short interest for this is down 77%!
See here to verify:
http://shortsqueeze.com/?symbol=icnb&submit=Short+Quote%E2%84%A2
Thank you for posting this... Looks like it should be good times ahead!
Looks like money well spent!
Are you saying a mere purchase of $50 can reverse the course of a stock?
I'm very glad to hear that! Even so...
I really hope all of their other customers together account for greater portion of their revenue than Boeing brings them.
We had a very well known very large company that was having problems with turnover in their Accounts Payable Dept. This caused them to get very behind in paying their bills to us and other companies I assume. Naturally, it caused some cash flow problems for us until they straightened it out.
Two other issues I can think of off the top of my head are:
1. If you cater to that large customer to the exclusion of your smaller customers, you can lose some of those accounts. Who knows which of those small accounts could possibly become much larger in the future? it's a juggling act. You want to be careful because you never want to alienate anybody or get a bad reputation.
2. If you count on that one big customer too much and they leave or drastically reduce their orders... well, you know the rest.
Please don't get me wrong... I'm very happy they have at least one very large customer. Hopefully that will help them catch even more whales.
Does anybody happen to have an idea of about how large their customer base is?
Having too many eggs in one basket can be problematic. Hopefully they have quite a few.
I've never heard of a store deciding to sue a company because they no longer want to carry their products. As far as I know, they simply do not re-order.
I really do not understand what you are talking about.
Would you please explain what you mean?
Thanks
Do you mean nothing about Bellissima sales in Canada for Q2?
If so, are they on a different fiscal year that makes the August 3rd approval to sell in Canada part of Q2? (Only 3 weeks ago... Exactly how fast do you think this process can go?)
Maybe the sales they are getting in Canada is part of what's making Q3 so good.
Does that make sense?
I think this one seems pretty easy to understand.
Everything in life has to happen in a certain order.
First, you get approved.
Second, you have the right to sell there.
Third, if you go through all the hoops to get approved, you would naturally be looking forward to getting sales in that place.
Am I missing something?
Did I misconstrue what you meant?
Thank you for clearing that up. I appreciate the response.
I tend to agree. Most people do not understand what it takes to get a business off the ground. If it were easy to do, everybody would start a business... Of course if that were the case, who would be there to do the many different skilled and unskilled jobs necessary to be successful?
Would you please explain what you mean by "It's a brand New Company"?
Do you mean the company's not that old... or they are going in a new direction... or something else?
I've been holding for a while now and any encouragement would definitely be appreciated.
Today's trading was better. Maybe we found a bottom.
Getting into selling Bellissima t-shirts would be easy-peasy using one of the print-on-demand websites. Most of them require no up front costs at all. The printing fees come from the sales so there is virtually no risk.
They already have the designs (the hardest part) so they are good to go.
They could be up and running and have t-shirts for sale (as well as hoodies and other types of shirts) to test the concept in a matter of days if they wanted to. It's that simple!
They can have them listed for sale on their own website if they want to.
CB could do some Instagram posts about them. They could also do a little Facebook advertising if they wanted to test it out.
It's all actually pretty simple stuff.
BTW: I think they are stocked in about 20 locations in my state!
I purchased 2 bottles last night. I'll post my opinion on how they taste after we try them.
Dilution good or bad? It depends... http://www.dummies.com/personal-finance/investing/penny-stocks/what-penny-stock-investors-should-know-about-dilution/
This article helps you to understand the differences.
Looks like when filings are late, it's not always a bad sign!
I've been holding on to this for a while now because I thought it was going to be good...
I was thinking it could hit .20, but now I'm thinking higher... Hopefully much higher.
Time will tell... How high can it go?
Yippee!
Read a post today that said: "It's time to start buying when the haters show up !!"
Sounds pretty good to me.
I thought this was a pretty helpful article explaining how you might interpret death crosses (as well as their opposite golden crosses) when you are deciding how to trade.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4035210-understanding-golden-cross-death-cross-properly
BTW: If CB is buying up the shares as they get cheaper, might it pay to stay in?
They do NOT even need to go to the expense of printing up any t-shirts at all to make them available to the public!
There are plenty of print on demand t-shirt websites they could use to make them available without any up front costs because they already have the designs...
The cost of the t-shirts and printing comes out of the sale. The profit goes to Iconic Brands.
It's pretty simple. If they decided to incur costs by advertising on Facebook, the sale of the t-shirts should more than cover that when people buy their shirts.
Seems like it could be a win-win for them. Get the word out about their wine while at the same time making profit on the sale of the t-shirts.
Does anybody happen to know what the revenues were for the 2nd quarter last year?
Most companies also like to measure against the same quarter from the previous year because quarter over quarter is only part of way to see how a company is actually doing. Naturally the economy and other circumstances such as capital expenditures factor in as well in order to see the whole financial picture accurately.
Has anybody been able to verify if Rich has really not sold any of his shares? ...One would think he would want the price to be as high as possible when he cashes out.
You can find the address, phone number, and website are listed toward the bottom of this page:
https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/ICNB:US
(The phone number listed there is different than the one you posted.)