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Posted By Importexport

Re: Looking for Amazon Fba Mentor.

My experience involves running an importing business for 22 years before I retired. I operated in 4 countries where I had many franchisees working for me.

Products imported include some high...

Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping

25th June 2015, 06:00 PM

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Posted By Importexport

Re: Looking for Amazon Fba Mentor.

Are you sure you are dealing with genuine manufacturers? The big B2B sites list thousands of traders masquerading as manufacturers and those traders don't have the ability to customize. They will pay...

Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping

23rd June 2015, 05:58 AM

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Posted By Ryan David

Re: Looking for Amazon Fba Mentor.

It means when a product it selling well, it's not like you can just turn around and put the money in your pocket. It needs to be re-invested into purchasing more inventory, usually at a much higher...

Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping

22nd June 2015, 08:20 AM

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Posted By Ryan David

Re: Looking for Amazon Fba Mentor.

This shouldn't be that surprising though. My most successful listings are from 2+ years ago. I have some newer listings that are from the last 12 months, but those are still in the growth phase. ...

Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping

21st June 2015, 05:45 PM

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Posted By cabenb

Re: Looking for Amazon Fba Mentor.

If you know the basics: Just do it. You will learn soon enough.

Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping

9th June 2015, 02:34 PM

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Share Drop-Shipping sites here!

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Posted By MSutton

Re: Share Drop-Shipping sites here!

I am looking for USA-based dropshippers of vape/e-cig supplies. Please PM me if you have one worth looking into.

I am not looking for dry herb or wax vaporizers. I am looking for...

Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping

13th May 2015, 03:06 PM

Replies: 64

Best Amazon Private Label Course?

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Posted By frankie_flores

Re: Best Amazon Private Label Course?

I second, third, fourth and 100th every person that recommends the Jim Cockrum product.

Anything and everything I've ever seen him put out is top notch. Trusted. And tons of updates and support.

Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping

6th May 2015, 10:30 PM

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Posted By Importexport

Re: Big Risk In Shipping Direct From China To FBA

Even with your private label there is no guarantee that your Chinese supplier won't move into the same market area, but it is much less likely.

Having your own eCommerce site probably gives far...

Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping

6th May 2015, 06:50 PM

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Posted By Importexport

Re: Big Risk In Shipping Direct From China To FBA

You can have them sent to a prepping service. If you need help with that I will PM a link for you. If you don't want that small added cost you can do the inspection and packaging yourself.

I...

2nd May 2015, 03:15 AM

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Fiverr Need a Easy GIG (Have no Talent)

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Posted By Ralph83

Re: Fiverr Need a Easy GIG (Have no Talent)

I've been thinking about a similar method, but with much larger profits. This is what I had in mind (it's a bit dirtier though):

Find decent gigs (SEO, writing services etc) on Fiverr (decent...

29th April 2015, 10:34 AM

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Fiverr Need a Easy GIG (Have no Talent)

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Posted By Mark Mazza

Re: Fiverr Need a Easy GIG (Have no Talent)

Instead of creating a gig that requires no talent why dont you work on getting some talent in one area and then try to resell that. You can get some good practice on fiverr while you build your skill.

27th April 2015, 05:02 AM

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Fiverr Need a Easy GIG (Have no Talent)

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Posted By heruma

Re: Fiverr Need a Easy GIG (Have no Talent)

You should sit down,

Switch off the television

Get a piece of paper

Start writing everything that you know how to do, it does not have to be related to internet marketing or design.

Just...

25th April 2015, 01:11 PM

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Posted By Marx Vergel Melencio

Re: How to turn skills/experience into a business?

Leo,

Is there a particular set of industries that you're offering specialized translation services for?

For example --
There are many multinational corporations, established companies and...

25th April 2015, 11:23 AM

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Posted By jbsmith

Re: How to turn skills/experience into a business?

I think, in a way, you have answered your own questions in your post. To me, it is simple, you have two options:

1. You put all of your energy into forming a model where you can go up-market -...

25th April 2015, 09:01 AM

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Posted By Steve B

Re: How to turn skills/experience into a business?

Leo,

You are right about scaling freelancing work . . . you only have so many hours in the day and often prevailing rates by competitors (especially world-wide competitors) keep your potential...

25th April 2015, 06:50 AM

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Posted By ksmusselman

Re: How to turn skills/experience into a business?

Hi leo!

I had my own transcription business for a while and stayed away from sites like oDesk and eLance because of the same reason - cheap competition and people looking for cheap workers.
...

21st April 2015, 07:15 AM

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Posted By astral walker

Re: Looking for a way to make 50 dollars a day

If you need money quickly, I would suggest content writing. Write 6 - 10 quality articles and submit it to bloggers. You can set whatever price you want. Build a long term relationship will tech...

21st April 2015, 05:50 AM

Replies: 18

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Posted By Tom Addams

Re: Looking for a way to make 50 dollars a day

Hey Julien,

You're going to receive mixed responses to your thread; some negative, others positive and helpful. Reason being: this question gets asked a lot and the more jaded members are tired...

21st April 2015, 05:33 AM

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Posted By Robbie B

Re: Looking for a way to make 50 dollars a day

Definitely providing a service.

Here's a list of 40 services that can be done freelance. I'm using software and it's set to the UK search, so some of these won't be applicable to your area....

21st April 2015, 05:07 AM

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Posted By ryanbiddulph

Re: Looking for a way to make 50 dollars a day

Hi Julien,

Make $50 a day by getting an offline job. It'll be better for you to fund your project ;)

Really, going online and expecting to make $50 a day - or even $5 - is similar to walking...

Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping

17th April 2015, 11:49 PM

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Posted By Importexport

Re: Big Risk In Shipping Direct From China To FBA

1688.com is a Chinese clone of Alibaba and suffers from the same faults: Almost non-existent verification, and listing by huge numbers of traders saying they are manufacturers.

Traders take too...

Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping

16th April 2015, 01:09 AM

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Posted By erickz

Re: Big Risk In Shipping Direct From China To FBA

I mainly sourced my products from the chinese version alibaba, 1688. How would you rate 1688? There are manufacturers there but there are also resellers too.

Anyway, I still got to learn more...

Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping

16th April 2015, 01:05 AM

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Posted By erickz

Re: Big Risk In Shipping Direct From China To FBA

It would be advisable to ship to yourself first so that you can check and inspect the quality (especially so if you are getting from the supplier for the first time). Unless you have absolute trust...

Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping

14th April 2015, 03:52 PM

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Posted By Importexport

Re: Big Risk In Shipping Direct From China To FBA

Hearty congratulations! I enjoyed reading your post.

It is certainly possible to outperform those who don't have the cultural understanding or the language skills. Unfortunately there are many...

Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping

14th April 2015, 12:47 PM

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Posted By Rock Solid Links

Re: Big Risk In Shipping Direct From China To FBA

My brand has products made in the USA ranking in the top 1000 in the Home and Kitchen category. I looked into sourcing from China in order to improve production time and reliability. Sent specs and...

Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping

20th March 2015, 04:31 PM

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Posted By OnlineStoreHelp

Re: Big Risk In Shipping Direct From China To FBA

You missed one important risk as well. The minute that truck backs up into the dock, you have given Amazon your manifest, you have given them the factory or buyer you got your product from. Do good...

Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping

17th March 2015, 09:46 PM

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Posted By Importexport

Big Risk In Shipping Direct From China To FBA

I suggest that Amazon vendors who ship direct from their China supplier are risking losing their business.

The reason is that those who do this are educating potential competitors how to compete...

Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping

8th February 2015, 11:28 PM

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Best Amazon Private Label Course?

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Posted By Silas Hart

Re: Best Amazon Private Label Course?

I haven't come across one yet that provides enough information that is adequate or equal to several years of experience in selling private label products or self manufactured products.

6th January 2015, 01:19 PM

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Finding Prospects for Translation Services

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Posted By Marx Vergel Melencio

Re: Finding Prospects for Translation Services

Simon,

Let's start with your ideal customer avatar — I think some of your target customers include marketing VPs, Web property managers and HR managers of IT and medical / healthcare...