Dittie is a website that connects buyers directly to makers of unique, uncompromised micro-brands worldwide.
Shoppers have the opportunity to interact with the entrepreneurs and understand their passion behind their vision.
Sellers have a place to create meaningful brand experiences and to truely go global.
*micro-brand
a premium, niche brand usually recognized in certain geographic locations. Through dittie these brands are now accessible everywhere.
why sell on dittie?
Dittie is a new and unique distribution channel for independent entrepreneurs that offers a FREE customized website with marketing tools and resources to build your brand. Here at dittie our customized tools enable you to tell your story well and complete.
how much does it cost?
It is FREE to set up your shop on dittie. There will be a *25% commission charge on sales, plus a $10 set-up fee per sku. *rates subject to change.
who can sell on dittie?
Designers/creators of a premium, niche product/brand. We invite you to sell on dittie as long as you can ship product. Each, store gets a number. Reserve your low number now!
who is dittie?
Dittie is a team of independent thinkers and entrepreneurs just like the sellers we represent. We know that alot of times the most innovative product ideas aren’t necessarily represented on the shelves of the brick and mortar retailers. We know that teaming together makes us stonger as a group, than alone.
We are passionate about the immediate need for a new distribution channel. Our goal is to support a strong community of the best and brightest entrepreneurs while offering the power of a shared marketplace.
what does the name dittie stand for?
Dittie is a variation of the old English word ditty that means a short story (or song) and we know every brand, company and person has a story.
here's who works for dittie
Barbara Carey - President & CEO
Jeff Stone - VP Marketing
Rich Stachowski - CFO
Nicholai Martinson - COO
Anne Vrolyk - Strategy & Business Development
Devon Blain - Public Relations
Kavitha Rajan - Web Development
Jennifer Voss - Design
Sarah Niualiku - Customer Support
Rich Stachowski Jr. - Investor
A Note From Barbara Carey
Barbara Carey - dittie founder
After successfully making a living as an entrepreneur for the last 30 years, I find myself at a point where I am being pulled towards fulfilling my life-long goal to inspire and support small businesses.
Being micro-brands, my companies have never had the luxury of a marketing budget. We had to be nimble and try a different approach and work leaner, but still be effective. With this in mind, I developed a viral, hyper-focused marketing plan and committed our small companies to it. The plan worked and we have since used this strategy of leveraging our time and money self fund and build several multi-million dollar micro brands.
Over the years, through trial and error, I have learned that if we commit to a little bit of marketing every single day then eventually our products catch on. I have also learned that the key to selling anything, including PR, is to tell a compelling story with emotional branding. Delivering the same story every way it can be told is imperative.
The time is now that micro-brands must team together. A small brand alone gets lost amongst big brand/budget marketing. In order to keep small consumer product business alive and thriving we need to sell direct. We are more powerful as a group than alone.
Dittie is a space for the micro-brand. Shoppers come to dittie because they want an alternative experience where they can find and purchase special things directly from the maker. There will never be a large company with small brand under their guise on ditte. Dittie is a social shopping and selling experience that deliver the sellers in one location.
