Desk of Juzzy owner of JDM By MBJ
Welcome to the Desk of Juzzy the owner of JDM By MBJ.
Back in July 2024 when we first ever did our first market, we only had JDM's which are keyring holders for your key's we still have these available at markets only.
In August, I had one of my beautiful friends Stella Simple Soaps. Her beautiful youngest asked myself to get in a few jibbitz. I asked him which designs to buy in as I had zero clue on what these were or what would sell in the world. Let's just say this young man was correct! I sold out of my 300 design's I had on hand. Spider man and Batman was a hit!
Since September 2024 we grown in our stock and found a couple of suppliers we have since support here locally in Australia with designs which no one else has on hand.
October we did our largest order with our supplier which was 2500 designs to be shipped out to us in Melbourne, with a little bit of a hiccup we were able to get them into Australia from our trusted suppliers.
This was also our first time at Bunyip Market in Bunyip just shy of 85km's from Melbourne CBD. Honestly we were not sure if we would even make a dollar it was pouring with rain that last Sunday in October, I had to think about the business if we would grow to where we are today, and if you had asked me back then. "Justin, you gonna make money?" my answer back then would have been "nar just a hobby"
November came around and we were moved to another site in Bunyip, and honestly with the little social media present we have we did 600% from my sales the month before. I was working for a transport company, and made 3 times my weekly wage. I did another large order with our supplier of 7000 charm's this time so about (1000 designs) shipment arrived early December and we had over 10,000 designs on hand. We started building our Draw system we still use to this day in markets and in-store.
December we had our largest sell date since launching our small business. Doubling our largest sale since launching the small business.
January 2025, we advised Bunyip we will like to be permanently onsite each month if we are welcomed to be apart of this community market. Within seconds they accepted my permitted site.
With the draw system we use, from day one we only had 3 draws with a total of 138 draws on hand. We knew that the 3 draws towers wouldn't be enough, we had to hunt down more of these systems. We found another 2 draws and filled them as quickly as they arrived in the post. To date now we have 12 Draw systems with two styles in them as a minimum some of them have 3 designs in the draw depending on their sizing.
March 2025 we thought about building this website, which we were not sure if this website would ever be built, we put it on the back burner.
April we were smashed with sales on social media and at all the markets we had attended, I was working full-time for a transport company and made the leap of faith to quit my full time job to ensure JDM By MBJ would be available for everyone at any given moment in time. Late April I did my last job as a delivery driver in Alonta, being the 24th of April. I gave my truck keys and hooked the business up on to the back of my car as we out grow the office space we had at home, I towed the trailer to Pakenham and spent a few days getting everything into place for the Monday morning launch in store. I've also spent time doing a full stock take on the products we had to ensure we had enough products. We then had time to build our website on our platform we are on today shopify, we spend hours doing the website. We have over 1000 items listed to the website to date while we're always adding more weekly to the website.
While we love to stay and chat we have some major new item's coming to our website, watch the space and follow us on social media.
Kind regards
Juzzy
JDM By MBJ
Owner