Author Archives: tom
Importing from China to the US: Calculating Import Duty and Tax
I admit that importing products to distribute and resell in your home country can be an exciting and profitable way to grow your own online business. Although importing has its own inherent minefield to navigate. Its important to understand the charges that are sometimes imposed on imported shipments as tax or duty. Please don’t…
8 Big Ideas for Small Businesses to Build a Brand and Make Money with Private Label Products
When my students or anyone who knows what I do for a living asks me about choosing products that would be good products to sell online, they often assume that I’m going to instantly hand them the name of a particular product, where to source it and how to sell it. Although if I did…
7 Huge Benefits to Selling Your Own Brand Products
One day I walked into the Boots store to look for my trusted and preferred shaving gel brand although it had been replaced with a ‘Boots own brand’ version shaving gel. The shaving gel tube and packaging looked similar to my preferred ‘King of Shaves’ brand and the packaging looked almost identical except for the…
What Exactly is Private Label and Why the Heck Should I Even Care?
OK, you may (or may not) have already heard of the term ‘private label’ and if you have then great, although for clarity here’s my own definition.. My definition of the term ‘Private Label’.. “to assign your own brand name, trademark (or label) to a product or service that you’re legally able to claim ‘rights’ to…
Proven Private Label: Build Your Own Brand Of Physical Products
Recently I launched the most popular and successful course I’ve ever launched being the Proven Private Label Course. The course teaches everything I know about private labeling physical product and how I built several online ‘6 and 7 figure business’ from scratch using private label physical products to build my own brands and by selling…