#268 - How do you know which suppliers to trust?
Built by Business: Amazon FBA, E-Commerce, Brand Building
Andy Isom | Amazon FBA Seller & Agency Founder
4.9 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
When you're starting out a business, you have to look for suppliers you can trust to make high quality products for you. In this episode, I talk about why looking for suppliers is similar to dating.
Building a good relationship wit your supplier is one of the most important things when you want to be a successful entrepreneur.
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| 0:00.0 | Negotiating with suppliers. Forget the negotiation part. Like just reaching out and contacting |
| 0:05.1 | suppliers and starting this entire process is a relationship. You are essentially dating your |
| 0:12.6 | supplier or suppliers, right? If you obviously don't know which supplier to trust yet, |
| 0:17.1 | so you're essentially dating multiple suppliers, right? As you reach out to them and contact |
| 0:22.4 | them in the same way that you would go about dating someone to. |
| 0:32.9 | What's up, guys? You're listening to another episode of Selling on Amazon with Andy Isam. |
| 0:38.3 | How do you know which suppliers to trust? |
| 0:42.1 | Shout out to Luciana over on Instagram for recommending this podcast episode idea. |
| 0:47.1 | And I'm going to go into the analogy cookie jar here again with another analogy of how to know which suppliers you can |
| 1:00.2 | trust. Negotiating with suppliers or contacting suppliers, I guess what we should say. |
| 1:06.2 | Forget the negotiation part. Like just reaching out and contacting suppliers and starting this |
| 1:11.7 | entire process is a relationship. So the analogy I'm going to use in our episode today is dating. |
| 1:21.1 | You are essentially dating your supplier or suppliers, right? If you obviously don't know which supplier to trust yet so you're |
| 1:29.8 | essentially dating multiple suppliers right as you reach out to them and contact them in the same way |
| 1:37.6 | that you would go about dating someone to start a relationship like in real life, right? Like if you're, you know, |
| 1:46.1 | trying to get married or, you know, just date and, you know, get in a relationship. Same sort of thing, |
| 1:50.5 | right? You're going to reach out to someone. You're going to put your best face forward. You know, |
| 1:54.3 | introduce yourself. You're going to, you know, ask them out on a date and, you know, learn more about |
| 2:00.4 | them. |
| 2:01.4 | And so to know which kind of supplier to trust when it comes to, you know, making your product |
| 2:06.2 | and hopefully not running away with all your money and never delivering your product or delivering |
| 2:10.6 | you a piece of crap product, knowing how to trust them is very similar, in my opinion, |
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