meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Rock Your Brand Podcast

TAS 330: How to Build a Business from Scratch and Then Sell It + Valuable Tips on Sourcing

Rock Your Brand Podcast

Scott Voelker

Email List Building, Email Marketing, Online Marketing, Business, Digital Product Creation, Blogging, Start A Business, Marketing, Brand Building, Make Money Online, Passive Income, Entrepreneurship, Online Business

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Wouldn’t it be great to get insight from someone who has worked at an Amazon warehouse? How about someone who has built a thriving eCommerce business and sold it at a good profit? What if you were able to get tips and hacks on how to build a strong and valuable relationship with Chinese suppliers? Look no further! Scott’s guest on this episode of The Amazing Seller is David Bryant. He has all the above experiences to share and a lot more. This is an episode you don’t want to miss. So make the time, sit down with a pen and paper and take in all the valuable insight David has to share!

Establishing supplier relations in China

How can you get the best value out of dealing with a supplier from China? Business leader David Bryant has some great tips and hacks to share about making the right connections and getting the best deals. David highly suggests traveling to China if you can make that happen. Once there you can go to trade shows and meet many of the suppliers and establish a relationship. David says that there are many suppliers that don’t show up on Alibaba and they are eager to get new clients. The best part is because they aren’t on Alibaba your competition is very low for their business. If you can’t make it to China, David suggests looking up the suppliers that are on the list for many of the trade shows in China. Then contact those suppliers and try to establish a relationship with them. To hear David expand on these tips and so much more - listen to this episode of The Amazing Seller.

Selling your eCommerceBusiness

Starting something new can be very intimidating, it can also be exhausting. But for David Bryant, it’s exhilarating. David recently sold his eCommerce business and is gearing up for starting something brand new. He has learned the valuable lesson that his worth isn’t in his company, it’s in the skills and expertise that he has discovered in himself over the years. This realization allowed David to do what seems crazy to a lot of FBA business leaders, sell his business. David doesn't regret it for a moment. He was happy to make the deal and he’s fired up for his next project. You can learn more about David’s story on this episode of The Amazing Seller.

What is it like working in an Amazon Warehouse?

What is it like inside an Amazon warehouse? Scott’s guest, David Bryant recently sold his successful eCommerce business and decided to take the free time he had to see what it would be like to work for a seasonal position at an Amazon warehouse. He describes the process as “Seeing the sausage get made.” It was a fascinating and eye-opening experience for David. He spent his time at their “Oversize items” warehouse where he learned that Amazon has the capacity to ship just about anything regardless of size or weight. If you’d like to hear more about David’s inside look at an Amazon warehouse, make sure to catch this episode of The Amazing Seller!

The key to a successful FBA Business

What is one of the most important things you can do be successful with an FBA business? It sounds simple but David Bryant’s advice is to just get started. Don’t wait around for too long, get your feet wet! You might be really concerned about making all the right decisions - dotting your “i’s” and crossing your “t’s.” But the number one thing that is going to bring you success is getting the momentum started. David is confident that once you get that ball rolling, it will motivate you more than anything else can. So what are you waiting for? As Scott LOVES to say, TAKE ACTION!

OUTLINE OF THIS EPISODE OF THE AMAZING SELLER

  • [0:03] Scott’s introduction to this episode of the podcast!
  • [2:40] David Bryant joins the show.
  • [4:20] David talks about his background.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Well hey hey what's up everyone welcome back to another episode of the

0:06.3

amazing seller podcast this is episode number 330 and today I'm excited

0:11.8

because we're gonna talk to someone who has built a business from scratch,

0:16.4

basically in his dorm room at one time, and then able to now sell it.

0:22.8

And he's going to also give us some really awesome tips

0:25.8

on sourcing.

0:27.1

It's funny because whenever I do these interviews,

0:29.2

I always kind of have a topic of what we're going to dig into,

0:31.8

which is obviously here how he built a business from scratch and then sold it, right?

0:35.4

Like that's what you would think we'd be talking about, which it is, but then we just start to go down these different paths through his journey, and I love doing that because it's so real it's so raw and there's a lot of valuable tips that usually get exposed here and that's exactly what happens here.

0:52.6

Now his name is David Bryant and real, real,

0:56.4

great guy, smart guy, and just awesome story

1:00.6

because he went from nothing, literally in his college dorm room to

1:05.6

wanting to earn a little bit of extra money and then started to figure out this

1:09.5

whole sourcing thing and then started to well well the rest is history and he's going to kind of let us know what happened and how it all happened and how he's starting to build another business now after he's already sold one.

1:20.0

So really awesome and I think the other thing you're going to probably pull from this is that you know people out there that are thinking that you know

1:27.3

e-commerce or Amazon or any platform for that matter. It's just it's you know everyone's doing it there's no

1:33.7

opportunity out there for anyone and it's a perfect example of David going back in

1:38.0

the game again after he's already sold and kind of exited and starting from scratch again and he talks a little bit about that at the end

1:45.6

and we'll dig into that as well. The show notes to this episode will be at the amazing cellar.

1:50.3

com forward slash 330 again all the show notes will be there I did want to remind any new

1:56.1

listeners or anyone that hasn't attended a live workshop of ours we're actually going to

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Scott Voelker, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Scott Voelker and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.