Side Hustle Show 336 direct to consumer product research.

Through Amazon FBA or through your own e-commerce site,

direct to consumer products and brands are one side hustle with tremendous potential.

Here's how to get started.

What's up, what's up Nick Loper here?

Welcome to the Side Hustle show because there's got to be a better way.

There's got to be a better way than slaving away in a cubicle for 40 years to reach financial independence.

It was that line of thinking and a little firsthand experience on both Wall Street and Main Street that helped Chad Rubin create a profitable e-commerce business and later a software tool called Scubana to help other e-commerce sellers.

Laid off from his job on Wall Street,

Chad began helping out at his parents vacuum shop,

selling some of their inventory online.

But then came the realization that the profit margins were all

eaten up by intermediaries along the supply chain. He reasoned the closer he could get to the

manufacturer, the better deals he could make make both for himself and for his customers.

His first products, starting with what he knew, were vacuum filters.

But how do you figure out what to sell if you don't have an inn in a certain industry?

That's what this episode is about.

Today Chad's Business Think Crucial.com sells a wide variety of products for

your home, your pool, your car, and more. I think

coffee filters, hair filters, pool filters, and a whole bunch of other stuff. He

called himself the Filter King, but every product follows the same direct to consumer strategy that lets him source

and sell in-demand products efficiently and inexpensively.

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