Why don’t you invest in ecommerce store, anon?

[Anonymous No.26047269]

Listen.

Fuck real estate. If you want to expand your income after crypto, invest in your own online store.

I started my brand 5 years ago doing $50k in sales. This year I’ll be doing $1m+ and profiting 40% after all business expenses. Do the math. $400k a year just running ads, emailing customers, and packing orders. I have zero employees.

Find a undiluted product market, create a brand out of it, and scale. So fucking easy, just needs a few years of grind and not paying yourself, then reap the benefits.

You fucks will be bored as fuck doing nothing after cashing out. I’m handing you a silver platter of how to make it after making it.

[Anonymous No.26047301]

your idea of doing something is putting labels on custom cock cages?

[Anonymous No.26047338]

I don't understand what shopify is. are you just trying to become a middleman?

[Anonymous No.26047481]

>>26047338
Shopify is just a platform. Your site pretty much runs on their platform/server and they process transactions. Just like
Wordpress, wix, square space, etc.

>>26047301
You’ll be poor as fuck for life if you always troll on advice threads. Atleast troll better

[Anonymous No.26047529]

>>26047481
>troll better
I'd rather live within my means in freedom and spend my time gardening, thank you.

[Anonymous No.26047581]

>>26047269
Putting your shitty label on a shitty product is not business, this is nigger tier hustling shit.
Does anyone here actually have and run an actual business? And not some meme droppshipping shit.
And yes my linkies stay supper stinky.

[Anonymous No.26047861]

>>26047581
Damn you’re obviously uneducated. I clearly stated in the post that I ship my own orders which isn’t Dropshipping. Dropshipping is for lazy fucks.

And I design my own products, not slap a logo on Chinese ready made shit.

[Anonymous No.26047916]

>>26047269
My man i'm not even close to your numbers (still, doing pretty well considering the effort) but how the fuck do you keep up with ordering all that shit? 10+ orders a day is already a pain in the ass

[Anonymous No.26047950]

>>26047269

How do you obtain the products you sell?

Dropshipping?
Resale?
Do you assemble?
Do you keep inventory stock?

[Anonymous No.26048005]

>>26047269
What are you selling?

[Anonymous No.26048069]

Any suggestions for how to pick a product? Or generally where to get started?

Also, how much capital and time investment are you talking at the start?

It's something I have always wanted to do, but I haven't made it like a lot of guys here (about 30k in crypto profits).

[Anonymous No.26048074]

No way OP can keep up with orders

I had a store doing 250k a year and me and 3 people couldn’t fucking pack orders quick enough.

Don’t ever start a business with you as the only way to operate. Drop shipping is way better for scaling you fuck

[Anonymous No.26048087]

>>26047916
I have $300k worth of inventory on hand. The bigger I get the more inventory I invest in so that I can push more sales. I don’t dropship.

>>26047950
I have suppliers in China who manufacture my products. Products stocked and shipped out of my warehouse. No middlemen.

[Anonymous No.26048114]

>>26047269
Yeah fuck real estate, I can just live in my virtual store if shit hits the fan!

[Anonymous No.26048180]

>>26047269
>>26047861
Alright anon you seem like the real deal disregard the fact that I suck cock.

Any idea on how to get clients? I want to get into manufacturing but I don't know how to sell a product/contract.
Or do you think I should just make my own product and try to sell it?
I know manufacturing since it is my industry but I don't know how to sell.

[Anonymous No.26048199]

>>26048005
Can’t say for obvious reasons but it’s in the sportswear niche.

>>26048069
Not really man it’s really hard to find a product and takes a lot of thought and research. I personally started with about $10-15k but keep in mind you need 5 years of not being profitable before things start rolling. It’s a mental investment as well.

>>26048074
Dude it takes me a minute maybe 45 seconds to pack one order. Maybe you’re just dumb lol.

[Anonymous No.26048210]

>>26047269
yo shut the fuk up if u not talking about crypto

[Anonymous No.26048258]

>>26047269
I think anon has a good point here. NPCs are consumers and retards. They will buy anything that is trendy.

[Anonymous No.26048322]

>>26048180
I sell direct to consumer, not businesses. I’ve actually sold to one retail store but that’s about it. For Business to business (manufacturer to business) I’d probably youtube it anon that’s out of my ballpark

[Anonymous No.26048344]

>>26047269
How do you grow? What kind of advertising do you do?

[Anonymous No.26048440]

>>26048344
Facebook ads. Big money.

[Anonymous No.26048500]

>>26048322
What's the main way you connect to customers? Do you do that seo facebook ad stuff?
How do you decide on your products? Also are your products functional or or they just clothing or gimmicky trash?
I'm not really sure if I want to do B to B or B to C business wise.

[546754hfdbfd No.26048534]

do you use amazon or other platforms?
should i llc before or after im selling the product?
whats your biggest expense?
any unknown's you wish to share to a noob?

[Anonymous No.26048582]

>>26048500
A little bit of everything. Fb ads yes: >>26048440

My brand is high quality sportswear. Think Gymshark. I’m building a sustainable business that customers love.

It’s up to you, but whatever you decide you need to hustle it out for years and not give up early.

[Anonymous No.26048622]

Mirin, OP. Currently on AMZ myself but it is absolutely fucked with the amount of chinks ruining everything on here. Only have 2 specific products at the moment, but I’ve managed 14.5k in sales thus far. Thought about transitioning my goods to a shopify platform.

[Anonymous No.26048806]

>>26048534
Just my website, I don’t do Amazon.
LLC before, you need one to process payments and verify on PayPal anyways.
Biggest expenses are inventory obviously but others are advertising and shipping. My only advice is patience, I wasn’t paying myself for 5 years. Now I’m reaping the benefits of my hard work.

>>26048622
Good shit bro. Amazon is definitely diluted. If your products are under your own brand I would absolutely open a Shopify store. Slowly transition by having both up at the same time and see how things go.

[Anonymous No.26048838]

>>26048582

How do you go about getting the materials to make your product?

[Anonymous No.26048894]

>tfw my shopystore went nowhere after a year
it was painful lol

[Anonymous No.26048936]

>>26047269
Nigganon, I connect Shopify Stores to ERP Systems. Feeling too Comfy easiest gig I ever had. I think I am going to Cuck... the company that hired me and go Indi....

[546754hfdbfd No.26048945]

great stuff.
any creative tax moves that your online business opens up for you? especially IN regards to crypto?

[Anonymous No.26049245]

>>26048838
In my case (sportswear): my supplier sends me a bunch of fabric swatches, accessories, etc and I pick from them

[Anonymous No.26049276]

>>26047269
stfu let me expand

[Anonymous No.26049355]

>>26048945
Absolutely. I cash out my crypto into my business account. No capital gains tax. If you want to take it a step further you can withdraw that cash and add it as a business expense to avoid taxes completely, but risky so I don’t do it.

[546754hfdbfd No.26049572]

what platforms do you use to advertise?
do people make ad's for you?
where do you go to get logos, graphics made?
how involved are you in the advertising area outside of using advertising platforms?

[Anonymous No.26050108]

>>26048894
Better luck next time. Finding the right product is very difficult.

[Anonymous No.26050252]

>>26047529
based.

[Anonymous No.26050515]

Tip me towards a product and I'll give u 2% for life already am doing 3mm 2 profit off running fb ads for a service product. Know I could crush e-commerce but too lazy to research what Chinese shit to sell atm. Also have experience dealing with Chinese vendors.

[Anonymous No.26050524]

>>26047269
>So fucking easy, just needs a few years of grind and not paying yourself, then reap the benefits
or I can click buy (takes 3 seconds of work) and reap the same benefits as your few years of grind. It's probably less risky, too.

[Anonymous No.26050537]

>>26050515
3mm rev
2mm profit*

[Anonymous No.26050560]

>>26050515
>discount jerseys/vintage
buy from china at 17 per, sell for 45-60
ezpz

[Anonymous No.26050680]

>>26050515
What do you mean by service product? Like an educational course?

[Anonymous No.26050839]

>>26050680
Closer to a pay to play app. Won't go into more detail than that.

[Anonymous No.26051063]

>>26050839
I knew there was a catch... Fck that...

[Anonymous No.26051240]

>>26050839
maybe i'm a brainlet or just not a normie but I don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about. I mean you are running ads on fb after all.

[Anonymous No.26051347]

right there with you brother

[Anonymous No.26051460]

>>26048199
>4-5 years of not being profitable

Bro you deserve to be rich. I would've quit at 6 months. Respect.

[Anonymous No.26051482]

>>26051460
it was profitable he just invested it back in

[Anonymous No.26051528]

>>26047269
Correct. Except you should also leverage marketplaces if your product data is decent.

[Anonymous No.26051560]

>>26051347
Meanwhile my facebook ad account getting banned for no reason and shit

[Anonymous No.26051615]

>>26047269
Do you make your own product?

[Anonymous No.26051646]

>>26051347
The dream. How long did it take to make it?

[Anonymous No.26051690]

>>26051528
I'm currently selling on etsy and my sales are between 3k-12k per month for the single product I sell through there. I manufacture the item myself.
How does amazon compare? IDK if I want to go to amazon, there's so much competition and I don't want some chinaman to copy me.

[Anonymous No.26051715]

This shit it HARD

My Amazon seller account for 2 years got banned, saying that my account was associated with another account that was suspended, totally BS, had all my inventory sent back
Started shopify, constantly dealing with Facebook ad account ban, shopify store shut down with no reason and shit.
Tried google ad words and account suspension when Im selling only 2 fucking products.

This shit is difficult, not is that hard, its just the cock sucking big tech companies have zero fucking customer service and they hate their customers.

Im still grinding tho, not giving up

[Anonymous No.26051846]

>>26051690
You probably won't have a great time. I also sell on Etsy, volume isn't as great, but they offer very favorable policies towards sellers relative to Amazon. Amazon would throw a multi millions dollar seller under the bus for 2-3 complaints from low tier customers.

You also don't get to set your own return policy and expect to advertise EVERY fresh launch.

I like Etsy overall, about 20k/month, good bit of cs involved though is my only complaint.

That being said, there does not exist a platform capable of turning out volume like amazon. They own ecom in the states.

[Anonymous No.26051861]

>>26051690
If your product is selling hot, you bet your ass 200% a dozen china man will be copying you, or worse, reporting you to get you banned.
Based on my experience getting banned left and right, you need woo commerce, that's really your store, and you are not relying on big tech that can ban your store just by some stupid ass algorithm
Run ads on FB and google, use an ad agency
The point is, if you rely on platforms, you COULD run into problems with them and have zero income over night.

[Anonymous No.26051944]

>>26051846
I sell dog toys on the side on Etsy, did 2.5k sales in December, but only 2 orders this month.
What the fuck happened? What do you sell on there to get 20k sales?

[Anonymous No.26052128]

>>26051347
Well damn bro good shit! Trying to get on your level.

>>26051715
You Dropshipping or what? Usually when people get banned there has to be a reason.

[Anonymous No.26052191]

>>26048582
Do you sell one product or multiple? How’d you find the niche exactly? How’d you know it had traction? What happens if FB bans your ad account (happens constantly)?

[Anonymous No.26052192]

>>26051944
Imported wood shit. Claim I make it in house.

[Anonymous No.26052212]

>>26052192
hahaha i see

[Anonymous No.26052231]

>>26051846
>I like Etsy overall, about 20k/month, good bit of cs involved though is my only complaint.
Yeah I like that Etsy doesn't through me under the bus. I used to sell someone else through ebay and some customers totally take advantage and there's not support.

This money has been awful with CS. I have multiple people contacting me every day because some packages haven't moved in a fucking month. They're still stuck at the local sorting center. It's driving me bonkers because I have to manually fill out a stupid fucking service ticket which should be automated from the information my shipping account.

>>26051944
Christmas anon. Jan is usually slow, though it's been ok for me here.

>>26052192
>Imported wood shit. Claim I make it in house.
devilish

[Anonymous No.26052246]

>>26052128
My amazon was legit, getting stuff from alibaba and shit, was doing 10k a month and poof its gone
Shopify is dropshipping, but dropshipping is legal

[Anonymous No.26052260]

>>26047269
opinion on a shop of tshirts and shit with my art on it? like a artist merch shop? good idea?

[Anonymous No.26052271]

>>26047269
>$400k after 5 years of work and spending all day packing boxes when you can get banned at any instant and go to $0 if any one of the big tech you rely on changes their algo or bans you for bogus tos violation
>made $500k in one day with crypto with 1 week of work
already did the ecommerce seo bullshit 10 years ago, its not something you "invest" in after crypto, its something you do when you are new and are starting from zero. had multiple sites that would make $2k daily for a few months and then 0 after a google update, it is not a sustainable business.

[Anonymous No.26052297]

>>26052260
thats printful and print on demand
Tons n tons of competition tho

[Anonymous No.26052335]

>>26052271
what coin did you buy to make 500k in one day? leveraged trading?

[Anonymous No.26052337]

Nicely done, OP. I don't have any particular questions but I'm enjoying the thread. My wife is interested in getting into selling crafts online, she is quite good at crochet. I'm hoping we can turn it into a bit of supplemental income that she can do from home.

[Anonymous No.26052457]

>>26051861
Is there anywhere to buy an aged fb ad account that u know of? Also what is the best way to age a fb ad account. I have similar issues want to do 2-3k a day in ads but when one gets banned it takes forever to get back to that threshold.

[Anonymous No.26052474]

>>26052246
It’s legal, but keep in mind FB and PayPal hate it.

[Anonymous No.26052570]

E-commerce fag checking in. I design and sell stickers and key chains on BigCartel and Etsy. Automotive centric. Best month ever I made $11k US. Life got to me and I fucked up. Started again a few months back. Been doing a couple grand a month now. Nice thing is the brand I built had loyal customers. It’s a long road but OP is right, it is satisfying knowing it is mine. I won’t share much more, but I wouldn’t mind answering questions as much as I can.

[Anonymous No.26052580]

>>26052271
If you fell flat to zero after a Google update then your business was never sustainable to begin with. And forsure bro if only everyone can make $500k a day in crypto like you bro.

[Anonymous No.26052592]

>>26052474
Yeah, but like ,how can you test out a product with low cost? like with dropshipping if you find a winner you can import a box and ship locally

[Anonymous No.26052603]

>>26052231

USPS is fucking incompetent - stopped using them back in May. Ship.amazon offers comparable rates for small parcel and they actually fucking deliver. This is Amazon's fleet, they're going to run fulfillment nationwide in a couple years. Open API as well so you can integrate with shipstation (or whatever you want your guys to use) ezpz.

Hope this helps, USPS - NEVER AGAIN.

[Anonymous No.26052608]

Fucking great thread anons.

Don't want to detail but I thought I'd ask - say I want to do an airtasker type site for a specific niche, what is the best "out of the box" platform I can buy in your collective experience? I obviously cannot afford devs. Thanks all, monitoring the thread.

[Anonymous No.26052628]

Sup biz. I do $370k a month on amazon. Started this account 14 years ago. Im 33 and a multimillionaire.
Selling in the lawn&garden catagory. I do ebay &amazon. Thats it. No independent websites. Not worth the hassel.
I don't run any ads. Never have. Never will.
Profit margin is seasonal. around 0~60%
I have good relationship with amazon. Have had my account suspended before, now i know the pitfalls and recovery process well so its no longer an issue.
Not taking questions. Goodbye biz

[Anonymous No.26052667]

>>26052457
I think you can do a google search and there are quite a few websites selling ages FB accounts
quite expensive tho, like a couple hundreds each.

But if you run into problems with FB , and they want you to upload a ID i think you are fucked , no?

FB is just cancer. Honestly they suck

[Anonymous No.26052713]

>>26050515
Anon, I want to learn social media marketing for a niche. What's the best place to start? Is tai lopez's course a giant meme or has he actually pulled together all the correct info? (I don't mind paying for free stuff, as long as it's all there and I don't have to track it down myself)

[Anonymous No.26052810]

>>26052628
>13 years
Clearly a first mover advantage with aged listings. Interesting. Go fuck your self faggot.

[Anonymous No.26052848]

>>26047269
Post profit faggot not sales

[Anonymous No.26053038]

Am I in 2016 biz wtf?

[Anonymous No.26053137]

>>26052848
Here ya go. Profit margins before advertising and shipping expenses.

[Anonymous No.26053159]

Opening a store would be awesome, but I hate social media. I'm interested in writing shopify apps tho - do you notice any gaps? Got any problems you need solving?

[Anonymous No.26053187]

>>26047269
I got niche product as well, can you help with facebook advertisement ?where can I email you?

[Anonymous No.26053193]

>>26052580
hope you realize that random retarded fatasses made hundreds of millions during 2017 with erc20 icos of fake bullshit its not even an accomplishment to earn 9 figures anymore. a box of pokemon cards i ordered a few years ago is now worth more than your entire shopify business for fucks sake. enjoy paying 40% taxes

[Anonymous No.26053275]

>>26051715
>>26052128
I was banned from Amazon as well. They said it was for having multiple seller accounts, I've only ever had a single amazon account. Still only have one. They never let me back in.

[Anonymous No.26053357]

>>26053193
I made $500k during the 2017 bullrun as well. What the fuck is your point? Do you feel cool?

>look me me guys I make more money than you hurr durr

Nobody fucking cares loser lmao. Building something long lasting feels much better than short term gambling.

[Anonymous No.26053400]

>>26053137
And how much after ads? $3k?

[Anonymous No.26053402]

Stop taking yourself so fucking seriously. I will not work for free for the ""hope"" of making 40k a year at some point in the future. Minimum wage is 32k a year if you work 40hr/week. Now go buy link you absolute faggot.

[i8765gchjbv No.26053416]

how do you advertise?
do you make your own ad's?
do you spam email/sms?
amazon and other big players keep customer data, what and how available and valuable is it to your online biz?

[Anonymous No.26053419]

>>26053193
Stay mad faggot.

[Anonymous No.26053450]

>>26053357
Did you buy and hold or how’d you net 500k in crypto? What was your e-commerce niche or seo strategy? Why’d you stop

[Anonymous No.26053474]

>>26047481
>Posts on flying snake breeding board
>D D D D DONT TROOOOL GUYS!!!!!!
rope yourself fag

[Anonymous No.26053519]

If you're gonna do e-commerce don't do dropshipping. I spent months testing products, branding, filming ads, and reworking others ads. The results? No sales, banned Facebook ad account, and a lot of wasted time and money.

My suggestion? Work a regular boring job for the benefits then learn to invest (stocks, crypto, real estate, idgaf) on the side.

[Anonymous No.26053523]

>>26053357
>Building something long lasting feels much better than short term gambling.
a shopify website is anything but long lasting

[Anonymous No.26053526]

>>26053400
40%

>>26053450
Yup I took out a $10k credit advance and $10k Shopify loan and bought Nano unironically. I still hold some crypto for the hell of it

[Anonymous No.26053667]

>>26053519
ngmi

[Anonymous No.26053790]

>>26053523
Seethe more.

[Anonymous No.26053864]

>>26053790
you think anyone is seething at your lame $400k business you are a joke or retarded kid

[Anonymous No.26053909]

>>26053864
How does it feel to be the lamest person in this thread

[Anonymous No.26053927]

>>26051861
Or just build your own shit.

[Anonymous No.26054040]

>>26053909
you made a thread about your website thinking you are cool or something when you are actually a dipshit. i have a 12 year old nephew who makes more than you selling slime on youtube you are probably 30+

[Anonymous No.26054081]

>>26049355
Incredible

[Anonymous No.26054087]

>>26053357
>August
Fucking fomo reddit faggot larper

[Anonymous No.26054098]

>>26054040
LMAO

[Anonymous No.26054222]

>>26054040
shut up faggot

[Anonymous No.26054356]

>>26054040
shut up faggot
Adults are discussing business

[Anonymous No.26054432]

>>26049355
Don't you need a special designation to do that? Also, you're cashing out into your gym stuff account?
Lastly, so then what, you just pay yourself the amount you cashed out? So you pay regular income tax on it then? (disregarding any deductions)

[Anonymous No.26054535]

>>26054432
No, you just classify that income as sales or whatever else when you file taxes. When you have a good amount of money coming in from sales regularly than depositing $5-7k from crypto at a time looks normal. As an single person LLC you file your business and personal together so you only get taxed once.

[Anonymous No.26054578]

>>26047269
Just use woocommerce and save thousands in Shopify fees. Seriously ngmi

[Anonymous No.26054585]

>>26051347
>>26047269
What do you actually sell? Perhaps im an interested buyer.

[Anonymous No.26054828]

>>26054535
Do you think that any money can be made from importing foreign religious projects and selling them on etsy under the guise that I manufactured it?

[Anonymous No.26054895]

>>26054828
I know somebody who did that and made some good money but that type of stuff is all over Etsy so lots of competition.

[Anonymous No.26054903]

>>26054535
Why and LLC and not a Corp? or maybe an S corp? Do you have a Solo 401k and do you max it out?

[Anonymous No.26054971]

Anon always says this shit but never tells you which product is really profitable while also not being over saturated with competitor
How tf am I supposed to find out then

[Anonymous No.26055021]

>>26047269
I did just that by accident.

Similar situation. Started with 30k a year as a side gig while pursuing my "dream job". Now I make $350k/yr in profits just for packaging my goods at home while shitposting online.

Comfy af life. I wasn't even impacted by COVID.

[Anonymous No.26055162]

>>26047269

Nice thread, OP. I have a fashion niche shopify store as well but it’s not doing well atm. Could you share your FB ad strategy or any tips on that?

[Anonymous No.26055184]

>>26054903
Corp is the same idea except needs to be taxed separately. I don’t

>>26054971
Cmon anon, why would anyone tell you what they sell. Just creates more competitors. Do the research :)

>>26055021
Good shit. Covid effected me for like a week or two then sales went back to normal

[Anonymous No.26055223]

>>26055162
I bought the course called CBO cookbook by depesh mandelia. Worth every dollar my friend. Hiring an ad agency is a waste unless you’re too retarded to do it yourself

[Anonymous No.26055273]

>>26050515
>profits in millimeters

[Anonymous No.26055333]

>>26048087
How do you find the chinese suppliers? I have a consumer product I'd like to get made cheap

[Anonymous No.26055355]

>>26055184
dude that it literally retarded.
you start a thread claiming its to help but then you wont set an example. for all we know you might be a guy who got rich by selling a book on how to get rich. I mean shit we might even patronize you.

[Anonymous No.26055381]

>>26049355
Breh isnt that illegal, are you tax fraudin

[Anonymous No.26055436]

>>26047269
>>26055021
Any tips of coming up with a good product?

Can you give an example of what could be a good product (not one of your own products obviously)?

Thank you

[Anonymous No.26055456]

>>26055333
Also, this. How do you go about finding manufacturers?

[Anonymous No.26055525]

>>26055333
Alibaba

>>26055355
How is it retarded? I said earlier I sell sportswear similar to gymshark, but a more niche customer base. I can’t get into more detail than that. But I’ll tell you this. Id I were to start a new business I would sell bidets. Now you’ll have to start one before I do.

[Anonymous No.26055550]

>>26055436
Bidets >>26055525

[Anonymous No.26055566]

>>26047861
how do you design your own products? do you build it yourself before sending it out to you manufacturer or do you just tell them what to do?

[Anonymous No.26055606]

>>26055525
i heard you have to negotiate with the suppliers on alibaba? how do you go about this and how much can you expect to get them to knock off the listed price?

[Anonymous No.26055628]

>>26055566
Well it’s just sportswear so I just sketch it out and pick the fabrics. It’s not as complicated as products which require CAD or 3D modeling and all that

[Anonymous No.26055643]

>>26055566
This, I would also like to know.

[Anonymous No.26055701]

>>26055606
You can’t negotiate until you’ve bought from them multiple times and for a few years.. or you buy an extremely large amount. They have the leverage up until then. It’s been 5 years for me and I just started getting better terms over my last few orders because they are in the $70-80k range now.

[Anonymous No.26055720]

>>26055628
how do you compete in sporstwear when all clothes basically seem like the same thing? I thought about doing that but figured whats the difference between me and champions or underarmour

[Anonymous No.26055744]

>>26055701
do you have to get like models to take pictures of the clothes and shit for advertisements or what

[Anonymous No.26055755]

>>26047269
Thanks for making this thread. I've always been interested in this sort of thing, and I definitely have the capital to get the ball rolling, but I honestly don't know how to start. Everyone says "use shopify" and "find an undiluted market" but I don't really know how to do the latter, and the former is so vague. Are there any resources (books, wikis, etc...) for how to get started in this? What were your steps from knowing nothing about this to where you are today?

[Anonymous No.26055804]

OP if you wanna make real bank among male gym rats make knockoff Sheath underwear but way cheaper

[Anonymous No.26055813]

>>26051347
Imagine having your entire business dependent on a kike run cia entity that can ban you for no reason and WHAM your entire business it’s cut to nothing.

[Anonymous No.26055839]

also would you happen to know anything about finding a food manufacturer?

[Anonymous No.26055880]

>>26055839
a farm dumbass

[Anonymous No.26055910]

>>26051528
fellow fba anon

[Anonymous No.26055952]

>>26055880
wtf I'm not talking about meat here I'm trying to make processed foods you can sell packaged online

[Anonymous No.26056004]

So your business plan is buying merch in bulk for alibaba and then up marking it to 50-100% on shopify? The amount of dumbfucks with money they shouldn’t have on the internet makes these parasite resellers active on the internet. For shame, at least make something.

[Anonymous No.26056014]

>>26055744
I outsource my product photography to Upwork

>>26055755
You’re welcome. You don’t need Shopify, it’s just a platform. There are many platforms to choose from. Honestly it’s just trial and error man, so many resources online, use it to your advantage. Before you start you need motivation so I would read these two books:

Millionaire Fastlane
Shoe Dog

>>26055839
No

>>26055910
Good shit brother. Makes me happy to see my biz bros succeeding

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>>26055755
These fags never tell you because they are either lying or just posting to gloat.

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>>26052191
reading this thread leads me to believe there is a lot of highschoolers that post here

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>>26056004
You clearly don’t read before commenting.

My brand is exclusive. Designs are our own. I don’t buy generic shit and slap my logo on it. I only use Alibaba to find suppliers.

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>>26056074
There’s nothing exclusive about sportswear. Your brand is just another shitty generic brand among the millions. Count your blessings on dumbfuck buying overpriced crap.

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>>26048199
Do you have a marketing angle that made people aware of your brand (Instagram thots) or did you just use SEO?

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>>26056102
It’s not though, because you have no clue what type of sportswear I sell or the customer base I sell it to. And I don’t share that information because of hating ass like you lol.

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>>26056158
But it is since there’s nothing exclusive about sportswear or any type of sprotswear. It took you five years to make a profit so it took you five years to find dumbfucks to overpay for your shitty merch from China. China resellers should count their blessings on dumbfucks as I said but from your own story it takes a lot of time to find dumbfucks willing to pay your markup so it’s not worth playing reseller on chink goods unless you’re lucky.

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>>26055720
Price + decent quality gets you far I guess?

I work out plenty but I still find Gymshark and Under Armor to be too expensive to justify. They want their margins, I understand that, but I don't want to pay 20 USD for an athletic/breathing t-shirt.

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>>26056014
Thanks for the motivational books. To give you my honest opinion, I don't think they do much for me, in part because I'm skeptical of those sort of "get rich without the details" books, and in part because I'm already sitting around $1MM so I'm probably not the target audience, but I'll still add them to my reading list.

So a more concrete question... I just thought of a product idea, maybe 5 minutes ago. It would be relatively cheap to produce, and functionally pretty simple (no moving parts, no electronics, just 2 or 3 cheap materials, small). However, its not just slapping a logo on a clothing item, assuming it doesn't exist it would be a unique product. After I look around on amazon, etsy, etc... to verify that the product doesn't already exist, what is my next step? I can build a prototype and then... what? Who do I contact re: manufacturing based off the prototype?

I'm not especially tied to this product idea, but its something I wish I had around and I don't think exists. But I've had ideas like this before (literally searching for some relatively simple product and getting frustrated that I cant buy it because it doesn't exist) so if its not this idea it'd be one of the others, and the same questions apply to them as well.

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>>26048199
>but keep in mind you need 5 years of not being profitable before things start rolling.

Is this because you kept trying multiple products or was it on the marketing end? How many items did you go through before finding a winner? Or did you have market research done prior and purposely had something manufactured and branded because you knew it would sell and just started steal market share from competitors?

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>>26056223
Lol you’re a waste of time

>>26056369
Build a prototype. If it’s gadget then I’m guessing you hire someone to create a 3D/CAD model out of that product. Then you give the CAD file to manufacturer. But I know very little about this area so I’d recommend doing some hard research.

Products like clothing or socks and shit aren’t complicated. So every product is in its own ballpark.

>>26056541
Marketing end. Most days I’d have $0 sales starting out. Inventory was low. Took it one step at a time and kept reinvesting my revenue into more inventory so that I’d be able to scale at large years down the line.

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>>26056825
Thanks.

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Thank you man for this thread. Finally something different than crypto coins.

Interesting thread OP. I have 4 years to make 150k for an incoming lawsuit lol. And I was thinking on doing something on the side of my regular job.

Do you recommend any books or articles to start with? Something that gives you a general view.

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>>26056825
the hardest part, is actually doing the research and finding a product that sells. That part is very diffcult.

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>>26056825
-Do you sell on Amazon as well?
-Are your suppliers Chinese or US manufactured?
-Have trademarks been relevant to you?
-What tools do you use to research a niche for clothing?

I work with sellers and do product research. Sportswear in general is very competitive so hats off to you for making it through your own marketing on Shopify. I'm also very surprised you don't have a team of VAs and are handling everything yourself. I'm willing to bet you can at least halve the time your spending on daily tasks with just a couple VAs.

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Forgot to ask.
You have said that some markets are highly competitive so you wouldn't recommend getting into them. But isn't your own market saturated too? You sell sportwear right? I can't think of any gym clothes that isn't saturated

[Anonymous No.26057899]

it would be funny to start a nigger mall clothing store brand like fubu and make ironic nigger clothing with subtle memes and shit and convince niggers to actually wear it. you could call it boochie