{"id":7916,"date":"2022-06-20T23:43:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/?p=7916"},"modified":"2023-08-15T23:16:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T03:16:39","slug":"thats-me-a-hair-care-start-up-that-made-a-10-increase-in-revenue-by-data-driven-mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/2022\/06\/20\/thats-me-a-hair-care-start-up-that-made-a-10-increase-in-revenue-by-data-driven-mindset\/","title":{"rendered":"That\u2019s Me &#8211; A Hair Care Start-up That Made A 10% Increase In Revenue By Data-driven Mindset"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>That\u2019s Me &#8211; a hair care start-up with an ambitious vision\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Established in 2019 with a vision to empower customers to be the best version of themselves, <\/span><b>That\u2019s Me<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a Germany-based hair care start-up, has been constantly growing and expanding itself into a well-renowned brand with top-notch hair cosmetic merchandise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cFrom automotive to the beverage industry, anything made in Germany is regarded as top-quality products. So, why not hair care products?\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Derrick-Mensah Asiamah | Managing Director<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With that vision in mind, Mr.Derrick and the whole team initially get started with just a few items including their best-selling definition cream, shampoo, and hair spray serum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7933\" style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7933\" class=\"wp-image-7933 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-4-3.jpeg\" alt=\"A quick glance at That\u2019s Me diverse hair care products from mousse to hair serum\" width=\"1920\" height=\"937\" title=\"\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-7933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A quick glance at That\u2019s Me diverse hair care products from mousse to hair serum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, That\u2019s Me\u2019s vision is now much bigger than just a hair care retailer. According to Mr.Derrick, Managing Director of That\u2019s Me, the brand will launch many more skincare products alongside its popular hair-care line.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7932\" style=\"width: 1254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7932\" class=\"wp-image-7932 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-3-1.jpeg\" alt=\"That\u2019s Me\u2019s vegan moisturizer and hand cream product lines\" width=\"1244\" height=\"800\" title=\"\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-7932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That\u2019s Me\u2019s vegan moisturizer and hand cream product lines<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are a bootstrapping startup and want to continue to add new hair cosmetics and skin-care products to our product portfolio so we can achieve healthy growth and enter new markets in the medium term.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the expansion to the skincare niche, the brand\u2019s ultimate goal now is to accomplish its vision &#8211; \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To empower customers to be the best version of themselves<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Bootstrapping and encountering problems<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With great opportunities come great challenges, as That\u2019s Me scales up its business, the brand opens itself up to endless selling opportunities and, well, inevitable difficulties as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a bootstrapping startup, it was immensely important for That\u2019s Me <\/span><b>to be well aware of all the important metrics<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> so they could make more informed decisions to survive and more importantly, to thrive in the long run.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7931\" style=\"width: 1291px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7931\" class=\"wp-image-7931 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-2-1.jpeg\" alt=\"That\u2019s Me needs to make sure every move they make is based on historical data\" width=\"1281\" height=\"1921\" title=\"\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-7931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That\u2019s Me needs to make sure every move they make is based on historical data<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>\u201cWithout seeing our business\u2019 exact margins, it\u2019s tough for us to decide where to allocate financial resources or which marketing initiatives to prioritize when launching new products.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Derrick-Mensah Asiamah | Managing Director\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first, That\u2019s Me relied on Excel to work on their financial data. But they soon realized how time-wasting and exhausting it is to analyze their business KPIs in such a conventional way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As their business grows with many more orders and costs involved, manually updating each small piece of data using Excel turns out to be a nightmare. Even minor typing can ruin the whole calculation, making the final results no longer accurate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And it is at that time That\u2019s Me realized <\/span><b>Excel doesn\u2019t work anymore<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Making data-driven decisions &amp; increasing revenue by 10%\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the face of exponential growth, That\u2019s Me has come to TrueProfit, an application that, as Mr. Derrick claimed, is a game-changer to the way his whole team runs the business.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cIt is very extensive to work out financial data using Excel or other tools. TrueProfit has helped us a whole lot, especially the live tracking has been very important for us at certain times to see whether we are still in the area of profitability or not\u201d <\/b><b>Derrick-Mensah Asiamah | Managing Director<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to That\u2019s Me Director, TrueProfit takes a lot of work off our shoulders when it comes to calculating profitability. To his view, eCommerce is often about &#8220;bean counting&#8221;, so a bootstrapping startup needs to know all the financial KPIs in order to scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7930\" style=\"width: 1460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7930\" class=\"wp-image-7930 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"That\u2019s Me\u2019s team now has more time to focus on growing their business\" width=\"1450\" height=\"1930\" title=\"\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-7930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That\u2019s Me\u2019s team now has more time to focus on growing their business<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And thanks to TrueProfit, the German hair care start-up has seen a <\/span><b>10% increase in its revenue<\/b> <b>within just 3 months<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; quite impressive but that\u2019s a possible result of making data-driven decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cTrueProfit has become an inseparable part of our everyday business, and we can&#8217;t imagine life without it. It helps us every day to have an accurate overview of our figures and especially the profitability.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Derrick-Mensah Asiamah | Managing Director<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>To sum up: you can\u2019t improve on what you don\u2019t measure!<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s Me can achieve such an accomplishment thanks to their data-driven mindset &#8211; a key to achieving long-term success for any start-up or entrepreneur who is serious about elevating their business in today\u2019s fiercely competitive and ever-changing eCommerce.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s Me &#8211; a hair care start-up with an ambitious vision\u00a0 Established in 2019 with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15925,"href":"https:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916\/revisions\/15925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onecommerce.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}