Weekly Update - September 24

Week ending on September 24, 2023.

Carry over from last week

Completed this week

• AAPES Hot Sauce was re-launched on Monday, Sept. 18th. Over 200 unique hot sauce listings carried over from United Sauces are now live!

  • Many details can be found in the space from @Dr_Z_Media.

  • Find your sauces on apocalyptic.shop.

• Custom Hot Sauces are also live. 9 flavors are available to put YOUR AAPE or Queen on the bottle.

  • United Sauces is discontinuing the Cactus Buzz flavor, but still available for now.

  • Get your custom sauce at apocalyptic.shop.

• The Primal Partner Program has been unveiled. Details with links and signup are found here.

  • Token-gated a sales and marketing tool-set to help AAPEs who want to actively sell and promote AAPES CPG products.

  • Signing up gets you a custom link for your sauces, plus a discount for your friends and family, and a commission for sales of your sauces.

• Nessy's Rilla Sauce has been released. I put that on everything! - Nessy

  • Nessy is giving out a 20% discount to OP3N MINDS holders.

  • Get your sauce and put that on everything. https://apocalyptic.shop/products/rilla-sauce

• Nessy x Apocalyptic Rations official brand theme song is scheduled for release on September 29th.

  • Presale started this Friday, Sept. 18th: https://bit.ly/nessyrations

• Co-hosted a space on Sunday the 24th with Addicted Marshmallows talking about bridging the gap between web3 and IRL. They have some cool things with their Addicted Marshmallow brand, like a farm and a comedy show.

  • We (Apocalyptic Rations and ThrillKicker) talked about IRL products and IRL events. Listen to the space here.

• Continued alternative packaging and product configuration testing for major retailers.

  • Research and testing for environmentally friendly packaging options.

• The good news is that we continue to receive communication from the retail distributor who has advised us that they are in discussions with three new stores. Some well-known. Due to NDAs, we cannot disclose much more but we are very excited to see this escalating.

• More small stuff and business development and discovery phone calls.

To do

• Hot Sauce

  • Wholesale pricing for AAPES with existing businesses.

    • The agreement between United Sauces and Apocalyptic Apes LLC allowed wholesale pricing on quantities as small as 1 bottle.

    • We are working on figuring out the minimum order quantities (MOQ) for wholesale pricing, but may not be able to meet the previous agreement quantities and/or pricing.

  • Legacy sauces

    • Some sauces that were previously listed on the United Sauces site but were removed.

      • We are working through the backlog of support requests to get these listed soon on apocalypitc.shop.

        • Submit a support request here if there are any Hot Sauce issues.

    • Others were "minted" or purchased, but never listed.

      • These are a little bit more complicated and a new label and listing on the shop will need to be created.

      • We will be starting on these very soon.

  • New Custom Sauces

    • Several orders have already been made for new Custom Hot Sauces. A new label and listing on the shop will need to be created.

      • We will also be starting these very soon.

Challenges

• Hot Sauce

  • How to pay royalties?

    • Group rev share/royalties.

      • How to allocate?

      • How to claim?

Other updates

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