Last weekend before the holiday, I took a Salsabol field trip to NYC to meet some of the people we’ve been working with over the past few months to promote the ‘Bol.
My first stop was at Brooklyn Salsa’s HQ out in Queens, where I met Rob and Casey to talk salsa. I was there to pick up some cases of their Manhattan Pure salsa which we taste tested a few months ago. We’re using the salsa as part of a promotional project. They were going to ship the goods down to Philly, but that was expensive and a pickup gave us a great excuse to meet up.
The BK guys are running an incredible salsa operation out of NYC. (Check out the second picture in the slideshow. That view is from the deck of their warehouse/office building.) They just released their seasonal “Harvest” salsa which I got to sample—it’s a serious winner. We talked about how they got started and what they’ve done to reach so many markets so quickly. I was definitely inspired by their story and their daily drive to sell salsa. BK is a definitely further along than we are, but it’s good to know we’re not alone out there in the world of dip related products and services. Their salsa is all over NYC, heading into CT and NJ, and I'm sure will soon be in a grocery store near you. Check them out online for BK salsa asap.
My second and last stop was back in Manhattan at Open Sky’s headquarters. Open Sky is an incredible startup whose mission is to provide a marketplace/e-commerce platform for bloggers, vendors, and online shoppers to share and sell unique goods. Basically, bloggers become members of Open Sky and can list products from Open Sky’s vendor network on their blog stores, letting the growing number of bloggers who review products actually sell them in their own personal stores. The actual backbone of the Open Sky Project is much more complicated than I’ve just described, but I think that’s pretty much the gist of it. We got hooked up with Open Sky in August right after they launched their new site; we are very excited one of their many vendors.
Anyhow, they are a rapidly growing (30+ person) company and they are really taking the blogging marketplace world by storm. We feel very fortunate to be a tiny part of their network, so a visit was in order. When I got to Open Sky, I was greeted by Salsabol’s good friend, Gen (pictured above with hoolahoop), who actually just started working at Open Sky a few weeks ago. She claims that she is a marginally more popular there because she knows “the Salsabol guys”; I find this basically impossible to believe. Gen introduced me to a bunch of the Open Sky team members and I learned all about how they work and what their goals are. I even got to meet the CEO and all I do is make some measly Salsabols!—an indication of how committed Open Sky is to connecting with the little guys out there. It is a very exciting environment; there is that unmistakable feeling in the office that the company is about to explode with popularity. In the meeting room there were big plans on the whiteboard with the names of some very famous chefs and celebrities mixed in. Things are about to get crazay at Open Sky. Icing on the cake? I got to do some product testing during Open Sky’s Friday happy hour. Check the pics to see me in action.
All in all I had a great trip to the city, hanging with the BK Salsa dudes and meeting the incredible team at Open Sky. Over and out! --
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