104: How to Find and Validate Your First Import Product

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Four months ago, Andy Slamans gave us a detailed look at Amazon FBA product selection, working with manufacturers, and bringing those products to market. But the most common question I get from listeners is how to find that first product to import. How do I find a profitable product? How do I measure the competition? How do I validate the demand and the pricing? In today's episode, I sit down with Will Mitchell from StartupBros.com to dive into those exact questions.

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0:00.0	Side also show 104 how to find and validate your first import product.
0:04.6	Hey in a couple minutes you're going to hear me say there's a free training event put on by
0:08.7	will on March 22nd. The correct date is April 22nd. Thank you so much to Phil Ferguson at
0:15.4	Phil underscore Ferguson on Twitter for letting me know about that. Hope to see you there.
0:20.0	Welcome to the Side Hustle Show, where aspiring part-time entrepreneurs learn how to turn their
0:25.5	side hustle dreams into reality.
0:28.5	Because your 9-to-5 may make you a living, but your 5-9 makes you alive and now your host Nick Loper.
0:37.0	Hey everybody Nick Loper here welcome to the Side Hustle Show.
0:44.0	Thanks so much for joining me. This is episode 104.
0:48.0	How to Find and Validate your first import product.
0:51.0	Will Mitchell from startupbrows.com is in the house dropping the
0:56.3	importing wisdom into our earbuds or gently placing it perhaps. If you're not a reader of the startup prose blog, you should be.
1:06.8	It's definitely one of my faves. They're known for big, you know, it's big detailed case study step-by-step tutorials tons of fun stuff.
1:16.5	Will runs it with his fellow bro, Kyle, who I don't think they're actually brothers, but they are startup bros.com.
1:26.0	On this call we're going to dive into kind of brainstorming and researching your first product
1:31.1	to sell through Amazon FBA, how to work with the manufacturers to get
1:35.6	your samples in hand and how to sell those to validate the demand, the pricing and the logistics.
1:42.2	Sound good. All the notes and links logistics sound good.
1:43.4	All the notes and links for this call
1:45.5	are at side oscillation.com slash 104.
1:48.8	And once you're over there,
1:49.7	you can also download a free PDF with all the details, Wheel shares Plus, his top tips for
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