Running a small business can be very exhilarating—you get to be your own boss as you call the shots and build your dreams. But let’s face it: there just aren’t enough hours in the day to handle everything that needs to be done. Between brainstorming new product ideas, managing marketing campaigns, and keeping customers happy, small business owners frequently turn to Taskrabbit for help to successfully complete time-consuming but necessary tasks that can otherwise eat up precious time.
In honor of Small Business Week, discover how the innovative snack company RIND Snacks has been using Taskrabbit not just to free up time and energy to run business smoothly, but also to expand its geographical reach without eating into expensive travel budgets. Hiring Taskers has helped their team streamline business and do what they do best: create delicious and healthy snacks. Check out our Q&A with RIND Snacks below!
Tell us about your business, why it was started, and how it came to be a major health pioneer in snacks.
RIND Snacks: RIND® makes sustainable, fruit-forward snacks that maximize nutrition and minimize waste. Launched in 2018, RIND is the result of a multigenerational family focus on delicious, all-natural, whole foods. RIND’s upcycled fruit snacks and mixes are naturally packed with fiber and vitamins and help eliminate more than one million pounds of food waste annually. RIND’s products are Upcycled certified, non-GMO Verified, Kosher, and naturally vegan and gluten free.
How long have you used Taskrabbit, and what brought you to the platform?
RIND Snacks: We’ve been using Taskrabbit for over three years and often hire Taskers for retail and merchandise support. We have them go into newly launched stores that we’re not able to reach to check on displays and inventory. This helps us understand how we’re performing and what else we can do differently!
In what significant ways have Taskers helped your business succeed?
RIND Snacks: For our Costco launches in different regions from Denver to San Diego, we needed retail support. We had well over 200 Taskers go into these newly launched Costco regions for us to be our eyes and ears. They took several pictures, checked on the displays and inventory and even were able to try some RIND out themselves!
Overall, what has been the most valuable aspect of using Taskrabbit to help your small business?
RIND Snacks: As a small team, we do not have the wide-spread ability to check all our retailer partners. Taskers are able to be our eyes and ears in places we can’t easily visit!
RIND Snacks isn’t the only small business regularly using Taskrabbit to keep operations running smoothly. Here are just a few ways other companies have turned to Taskers for help:
- A national events company uses Taskrabbit for delivery and packing of swag bags and food delivery.
- A prominent west-coast scooter sharing company uses Taskrabbit for bike repair, warehouse help, unloading and loading scooters, and scooter dropoff around town.
- A national tech platform for homeowners and renters uses Taskrabbit for repairs in residences, property inspection, mattress and furniture removal, cabinet assembly, cleaning, painting, patchwork, smartlock installs, and air filter replacement.
- A prominent mattress company uses Taskrabbit for pickup and dropoff of mattresses for donation when customers don’t want to keep mattresses after their free trial period.
- A short-term apartment rental agency hires Taskers to be on site and wait for cable and utilities installation, do apartment walk-throughs, and alert them of any damage done to rental units.
- Finally, a national Taskrabbit competitor hires Taskers when they don’t have enough people to fulfill their mounting, furniture assembly, painting, moving, electrical help, and cleaning tasks. We’ll take this as a win!
Running a small business can be a whirlwind, but it shouldn’t always feel like an endless to-do list. Try hiring a Tasker for your day-to-day business needs today!
