Jenn’s Pearls
Live commerce.
the objective.
Take $300 and create a live commerce platform and grow as fast as possible and hire full-time employees with full health benefits. Protect the brand with a trademark. Within 4 months, monthly sales were over $60k. Live viewers could be as much as 400 people watching at the same time with a total reach per video of around 10k (different people that watched the video at some point in the shows duration).
the story.
Jenn's Pearls was the brain child of Jennifer Ramsey who brought the idea to Randy after researching the concept for about 4 months. When she pitched it to Randy he was instantly impressed and within a few weeks the entire live commerce infrastructure was in place as well as relationships with overseas manufacturers and suppliers. This was an exploration into the live commerce space. This addressed many complications with a static and standard e-commerce page. First, with live commerce there is no requirement to run ads as the virality of the show itself is enough to drive organic traffic. Second, customer service is inherently built into the format of the experience. If customers have questions about their orders or something else, they simply ask the sales person live and its solve immediately just like going into a store. Third, trust. The customer can see exactly whats going one and there's an established relationship there. Fourth, repeat customers. The show itself was highly addicting, blending real-life drama and entertainment with professionalism. The combination of these two provided the perfect store for customers to continuously purchase more and more inventory. A great example is a person in Perth Australia purchased $16,000 worth of inventory.
the technologies strategies deployed.
Leverage Facebook Live
Redirect traffic to shopify site
Utilize OBS studio for live video switching
the strategies deployed.
Transparency + Authenticity - The premise of the live commerce experience was to make the entire experience as transparent as possible to earn trust and tackle customer issues on the fly
Add some drama - Randy’s sometimes controversial personality was used to inject a level of dramatics into the show to keep customers entertained, engaged, and talking.
Responsive customer service - Every customer service issue was solved either in real-time or within a few hours. The customers knew us, our employees running support for us and this resulted in very few chargebacks.
the people.
Kayla Manuel - Employee
Live Streaming Personality
Jenn Ramsey - Founder
Live Stream Personality | Sales | Visionary
Randy Robert - Technical Cofounder
Live Stream Personality | Operations | Management
Stephanie Miller - Employee
Live Streaming Personality
Ashley Hull - Co-Owner
Live Streaming Personality | Inventory Management | Packing
Emily Ishmael - Employee
Packing
Brittany Dayton - Contractor
Live Streaming Personality
the locations.
Ohio, USA
Global fan-base
*Green indicates states/countries where orders were placed