Success at Ponoko

We’re very near to launching our new Value Prime subscription service from San Francisco and New Zealand. Just a few last details to square away and we’re good to go!

It’s a sweet deal …

You can lower your costs to make stuff – saving serious $$ on making and shipping. You can request almost any material you want, to make products without compromising your creativity one iota. You can get sponsorship grants to make your stuff and and gain wholesale exposure with a huge opportunity to get your designs in front of over 200 design stores throughout the USA.

Plus there are a heap of other benefits from priority making, to one-to-one expert consultation on design files before you buy, to material samples delivered to your door for cheap cheap, and some cool new ways to mix with us and other designers and makers.

Why are we doing this?
Value Prime is an upgrade to our existing subscription service because EVERYONE should be able to get the best possible deal to try stuff out (and get noticed by the big names if that’s what you’re into).

We want more people to experience the success that many others have - like Alan Chao who turned his idea into a global product in just 8 weeks, Nervous System who went from students to 6-figures a year,  Chris Jackson’s hot selling photo frame, along with Jon Cantin who knocked 71% off his making costs by using Prime and some good ideas.

Besides, it’s another important evolution in our drive to reinvent how goods are designed, made and distributed in this world of ours - in the greenest way possible.

So, what’s the price you pay?
Just to remind you, here’s what you pay for our current Designmake Free service:

$0 per month + $2.00 per minute making + $10 packaging + from $0.50 for materials

And here’s what you pay for our current Designmake Prime service, if you were just anyone:

$39 per month + $1.35 per minute making + $5 packaging + from $0.50 for materials

But you’re not just anyone. So here’s your special deal
As promised, because you are a member of our ‘Latest Group’, we’ve cut you a special deal during the launch period of this new service (which starts in the next couple of weeks). Sign up to Value Prime and you pay:

$27 per month + $0.87 per minute making + $3 packaging + from $0.50 for materials

So you’re asking yourself, would Value Prime be a better deal for me?
If you do your sums, our Value Prime launch offer makes perfect sense if you:

• Aspire to make more stuff than you do right now, but are stopped by cost or complexity.
• Crave the very best shipping deal.
• Make something every six weeks or so.
• Want to make one single order at any time that totals about $50 - $70 or more.
• Wish to sell your creations at the best price or best profit.
• Want to take advantage of any of the unique Prime services on offer - like get one-to-one design advice before you hit the make button, or bump the queue to get priority making, or get materials samples delivered to your door at a crazy low price.

And there are absolutely no catches
We only want you to be a Prime customer if the service is absolutely right for you. That’s why:

• There is:
  • No sign up fee.
  • No fee to upgrade from Designmake Free.
  • No long term contract.
  • No cancellation fee.
• It’s a month-to-month service (we email a receipt each time you are billed).
• You can downgrade or cancel at any time.
• If you downgrade or cancel, you won’t be billed the monthly fee again from that moment forward (you’ll only pay for the current month).

And of course, you continue to get unlimited free instant online quotes and face no setup fees or minimum orders to make stuff.

There you have it!
A cool upgrade to the world’s first manufacturing-as-a-service (MaaS) offering! A service where EVERYONE (not just a select few) has the ability to get the best deal to design, make and market their product ideas – whether it’s just for themselves or to be picked up by global design retailers.

On your mark, get set …
Value Prime goes on sale in the next couple of weeks – so keep a look out to snap up your $27 per month + $0.87 per minute making + $3 packaging account before it reverts to the current Prime pricing.

If you have any questions about Prime or the signup process just leave a comment below or send us email to: service-at-ponoko-dot-com. We’re keen to hear what you think!