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🗓️ 13 March 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Wouldn’t it be helpful to pick the brain of an expert on Chinese suppliers? Imagine the insights and lessons you could learn from such a knowledgeable individual. Look no further! On this episode of The Amazing Seller, Scott’s guest is Sam Boyd. He has intimate knowledge of the Chinese supplier market. Sam lives in China and operates a business called Guided Imports that helps business leaders like you get all the resources you need to run your production smoothly. Scott and Sam cover why you shouldn’t focus on a single strategy, how to secure a dependable supplier, a streamlined product validation approach, and so much more! Sam is so generous that he also provides a product validation checklist. You don’t want to miss this helpful episode.
A common mistake that many business leaders make when they start their efforts with selling on Amazon and dealing with Chinese suppliers is relying on a single strategy. You need to keep in mind that circumstances change, be flexible and adapt to how the market shifts. There have been many failed attempts to get an operation up and running because the business leader was locked into doing things one particular way and that handicapped their efforts for success. Don’t let that be you! Learn how you can be flexible to change on this episode of The Amazing Seller!
What is the best strategy when starting your interactions with a Chinese supplier? How should you present yourself? Do you go in acting like a big supplier or do you start off being upfront and honest about your size and scale? Sam Boyd lives and works in China, he has a unique insight on how to do business with Chinese suppliers. His advice to sellers looking for a dependable supplier is, to be honest and upfront. Years ago it would have been almost impossible to do business with a supplier if you were coming to them as a small-scale business, but that’s no longer the case. To hear Sam expand on his insight with Chinese suppliers, make sure to listen to this episode of The Amazing Seller!
Do you have a bunch of great ideas for products to list on Amazon? Is the one thing holding you back the time needed to validate each product idea? There is a proven and successful way to outsource this step. Scott’s guest, Sam Boyd has a service that will take your product ideas and help you validate them in a streamlined process. This is a game changer. Imagine all the time and resources you’ll save! Listen to this episode of The Amazing Seller to hear how Sam’s service can help you fast track your business toward exponential success.
Getting started as a Private Label seller can be long and laborious. Hang in there! By coming to The Amazing Seller, you have many of the tools you need right at your fingertips. Scott’s guest, Sam Boyd encourages business leaders to remain patient. If you are not seeing the numbers you would like to or if you don’t feel good about working with a particular supplier, don’t be afraid to start again. This is vital advice to consider that could save you a lot of money down the line. Go with your gut, don’t be afraid to walk away. Be confident that you have the resources there at TAS to help you overcome any struggles you face.
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0:00.0 | Well hey, what's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode of the Amazing Seller |
0:05.2 | podcast. This is episode number 332 and today we're gonna be talking all |
0:10.4 | about sourcing. Yes, that's right. sourcing it's a huge thing for a lot of people |
0:16.4 | when they're first getting started or even if they're growing their business |
0:20.1 | and not really knowing how to find good sourcing or good sources for your product. |
0:26.0 | And what I wanted to do is have an expert come on and his name is Sam Boyd. |
0:30.0 | He actually runs Guided Imports, but he's agreed to come on and share what he calls the sourcing funnel to find and validate product suppliers and he also has a checklist that he's going to be going through. |
0:41.0 | We're going to be digging into that as we do this interview. |
0:44.5 | And the interview is really just a conversation of him and I going through this and I really |
0:48.2 | kind of drill down into some areas that I'm not familiar with and I wanted to kind of learn |
0:52.4 | through this process and I learned a ton. |
0:54.8 | And I think you're going to get a ton from this. There's also going to be like I said a checklist that you can |
0:58.8 | actually download. You're probably going to want to head over to the show notes to this episode. |
1:03.0 | That will be The Amazing Seller.com |
1:05.1 | forward slash 332. |
1:08.0 | Like I said, there's going to be a lot of notes there and links and all of that stuff. |
1:12.6 | So definitely go to the show notes, The Amazing Seller.com, |
1:15.4 | forward slash 332, and everything will be linked up there for you. |
1:19.7 | I know that a lot of people struggle with sourcing |
1:22.3 | or at least feeling comfortable with the sourcing |
1:24.6 | process and you know there's always things to learn I mean like I said I learned just by going |
1:29.9 | through this conversation with Sam and really opened my eyes and really allowed me to |
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