Instant Pot Now Featured on Brand Media Coalition
The Instant Pot story is inspirational not only for home chefs seeking a time-saving device but for entrepreneurs seeking to pursue their dreams. Instant Pot has joined the growing number of leading brands featured at BrandMediaCoalition.com, the only online marketplace that tells the story, personality, and demographics of brands anactive in the corporate market. The Instant Post storefront is sponsored by Premco, a leading master fulfillment company.
Brandmediacoalition.com is the world’s only digital marketplace that tells the stories of the world’s great brands active in the corporate marketplace for business, event, promotional gifting, rewards, and corporate amenities. The platform is designed to help organizations select the right brands to tell their own stories through their gifting, rewards and amenity programs and d to find experts offering corporate pricing, customization, personalization and other enhanced gift or award experiences.
Like with so many great companies, Instant Pot’s founder is passionate about his product. Dr. David Wang, an engineer, conceived of the idea while working in the telecommunications field, with a working wife and two children. After getting laid off, he set out to create a product that would make home cooking quick and easy. It took him and two partners well over a year and about $350,000 to solve a perennial problem for working parents who want to feed their children wholesome meals: how to cook a quick, nutritious and tasty meal around full-time jobs and busy schedules.
Dr. Wang believed he could improve upon the model of pressure cookers that require preparation before leaving for work in the morning by creating a device that can be used in the evening. The Instant Pot device combines pressure cooking and slow cooking with the rice cookers he had known as a child growing up in China. The goal was to make it easy for people to come home from work and have dinner on the table in under an hour.
With no marketing budget, Dr. Wang started selling the product on Amazon.com in 2010, with at first only a few orders trickling in. Sales gradually grew, with Dr. Wang assiduously responding to comments on Amazon.com, good and bad, all the while processing the feedback to improve the product. By 2012, the company was widely recognized for having created a new category of cooking device. By 2016, the company sold over 215,000 units on Black Friday.
Learn all about Instant Pot, its demographics and buyer persona, and those of nearly 50 great brands and growing at BrandMediaCoalition.com.
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