Vapouround magazine Issue 03 | Page 36

F E AT U R E THE FIRST THING THAT STRIKES YOU ABOUT JOSH KRANE FROM CRAFT VAPERY IS THE HUGE AMOUNT OF PASSION, AND WE MEAN REAL, GENUINE PASSION, HE HAS FOR HIS BUSINESS. Josh positively floods his business with his passion, his creativity, and his desire to ensure his customers get the very best experience from their vaping products each and every time. He actually takes it as a personal failure if a customer is unhappy with their order, so it is not uncommon for him to call the customer himself and do whatever it takes to make things right. CRAFT VAPERY is the industry’s first curated and personalized vaping subscription service, where only the highest quality products are tailored to the individual needs and requirements of the customer. It is the vaping equivalent to getting a master tailor to hand-make a suit for you. Not only do you know that the quality will be perfect, but you also know that everything will be designed around you 34 ISSUE 03 VAPOUROUND MAGAZINE and you alone. Josh launched CRAFT VAPERY with his business partner after becoming sick and tired of buying and using bad vape products. “We wished there was somewhere out there where we could go and know that we were getting the best of the best,” Josh recounted. “Sadly there wasn't, so we set about providing that service ourselves. The first thing we did was decide what was really good and what was really premium, and knew we would offer only those products to our customers.” Right from the outset there was a rigorous selection process imposed before a juice could be selected for sale. It is those high standards that ensure only the very best products are sent out. In any given month there may be 80 or more brands who want to be stocked by CRAFT VAPERY, but only about one or two will be chosen. “We absolutely don’t compromise on standards,” said Josh. “If there is a month when none of the juices meet our standards, then we don’t select any new juices for that month.” As well as quality consideration, the other over-riding requirement is that customers get e-juice flavors they enjoy the first time and every time. When new members join CRAFT VAPERY they can ‘yum’ or ‘yuck’ 16 individual flavor categories and from this, and other information in the customer’s profile, the flavors are hand-curated for them. “Every box we send out is individualized,” Josh said. “Its contents are picked by humans, not computers.” Josh went on to describe just how