Are you one of the many Amazon sellers that think that China is the only game in town for sourcing your products?

Listen as I speak with an expert on sourcing in India who will explain why that's not at all the case.

Hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of the serious seller's podcast by Helium 10. I'm your

host, Bradley Sutton, and this is the show that's a completely BS-free, unscripted, and

un-rehearsed, organic conversation about serious strategies for serious sellers of any level in the e-commerce world. And speaking of

world, we are going to be talking about a country in the world that we have not talked about

before, and that is India. So joining me today is Megala. Megala, how's it going?

It's going great, Bradley. Thanks a lot for having me.

No problem. What time is it over there right now?

It is 5.40 p.m. It is 2.30 or 240 in the morning here. So if I fall asleep, please just pick up your

voice and then I'll wake up. I will wake you. Anyways, you actually just got back from a trip to India, right? That's right. We just got back last week. That's awesome. So where you are now, not much time difference though, right? From India, so no jet lag for you? No, no, no jet lag. It's about, I'm based in Singapore, and India is about two and a half hours behind Singapore. So that's manageable. Okay.

So not too bad.

Now before we get into that, I do want to talk about India.

That's one of the countries I've never been to even for vacation, let alone sourcing or things like that.

But I wanted to talk.

What I always start off with is what I call the origin story of my guest because we have so many different people from all

walks of life and somehow they get to the e-commerce world.

So were you born in India or Singapore or where were you born?

Yeah, I was born in India.

I studied in India in Delhi specifically, which is the capital of India.

And then I moved out of India in 2003.

I worked in the Philippines for three years.

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