{"id":33115,"date":"2023-10-20T14:30:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/owen-mccrink-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:30:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:30:04","slug":"owen-mccrink-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/owen-mccrink-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Owen McCrink &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/owen-mccrink.jpg\" alt=\"Owen McCrink\" title=\"Owen McCrink\"\/><\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17758\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/owen-mccrink.jpg\" alt=\"Owen McCrink\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" \/>Name:<\/strong> Owen McCrink <\/p>\n<p><strong>Business name:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"ReGadget\" href=\"http:\/\/www.regadget.com.au\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ReGadget<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong> 23<\/p>\n<p><strong>State:<\/strong> Victoria<\/p>\n<p>  <span id=\"more-4293\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Owen McCrink is the founder of ReGadget, an online service offering instant cash prizes in exchange for mobile phones, digital cameras, MP3 players and consoles.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe calculate the price based on a few questions answered by the users. After the user completes the checkout process, a prepaid shipping bag is sent to them,\u201d McCrink says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the gadget is received, the user is paid directly into their bank account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite launching on the back of barely any advertising, relying instead on word-of-mouth and media coverage, ReGadget paid out $30,000 to customers in its first four months.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving launched on a minimum budget to test the market, we are working on a large backend system upgrade as well as new branding,\u201d McCrink says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The business will set its sights on organisations, clubs and charities to help them fundraise, while partnering with retail stores to offer customers trade-ins when they upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a large opportunity to grow in this area and, with no major players servicing the market, we feel we have huge room to grow,\u201d McCrink says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith an online business and low start-up costs, age is not a barrier. You can look like a million dollar company on the internet with very little investment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Owen McCrink Business name: ReGadget Age: 23 State: Victoria \u00a0 Owen McCrink is the founder of ReGadget, an online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}