#176 - What's the best way to explain to your MFG how to modify your product?

Selling on Amazon with Andy Isom

Andy Isom | Amazon FBA Seller & Agency Founder

Amazon, Business, Amazonfba, Selling, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Personalbusiness, Productbusiness, Ecommerce, Onlinebusiness

4.9 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I share 4 different ways to explain to your manufacturer how to modify your product:

1) Send your supplier photos of your product idea with edits on how you want to change your product

2) Send your supplier a video of your product idea and explain how you want the product modified

3) Send your supplier competitor products

4) Send your supplier a handmade prototype

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0:00.0	What's the best way to explain to your manufacturer how to modify your product?
0:05.7	You're going to have to differentiate. Whatever your supplier has, whatever they're currently making,
0:09.8	you need to make it different in some way, even if it's minor, but it needs to be unique.
0:13.8	So how do we explain to our manufacturer how to modify that product?
0:17.7	We're going to talk about four things here. Again, these are going to be in order from least effective they're all effective to some degree but i'm going to explain them least
0:24.6	effective to the most effective what's up guys you're listening to another episode of selling on
0:36.0	amazon with andy isome what's the best way to explain to your manufacturer how to modify What's up guys? You're listening to another episode of Selling on Amazon with Andy Isam.
0:38.2	What's the best way to explain to your manufacturer how to modify your product?
0:43.6	In this episode, we're going to go over four different ways. And I'm actually going to talk about
0:47.4	these in order of the least effective way to the most effective way to explain to your manufacturer how to modify your product.
0:57.6	Most of you guys are probably sourcing from suppliers on Alibaba or AliExpress. It's just the
1:04.1	easiest platform to find suppliers. There's other methods and sources out there for find a good
1:09.2	supplier or a good manufacturer. And I definitely
1:12.0	recommend doing as much research as you can and exploring all those different options out there.
1:17.0	In fact, I talk about a few of those different options here on the podcast. So go through,
1:21.4	scroll through some of the older episodes to find some of those episodes that talk about those
1:25.0	other strategies. But yeah, I would definitely recommend utilizing as many methods as possible, but I do understand most of you are probably
1:32.6	sourcing from an Alibaba supplier. And again, the beauty of Alibaba is that it is basically
1:39.5	like a search engine where you go and you type in whatever product it is that you're trying to sell,
1:45.2	and you'll likely get dozens of results for suppliers and factories that are making that type of
1:51.5	product. But in order to really stand out, in order to really be successful with your brand and
1:57.2	business on Amazon and off Amazon, you need to differentiate. You need to be different
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