Recent Posts
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Ecommerce, Interviews, Podcast
$400K/Month – Building an Australian Party Supplies Brand – Dean Salakas of The Party People
Dean Salakas, Co-founder of The Party People, shares the story of taking over the kid's party store business that his mother had started and establishing it into a household party store brand in Australia with successful brick & mortar and e-commerce operations.
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Ecommerce, Interviews, Podcast
$722K/Month – Creating and commercializing a product that prevents kitchen fires – Peter Thorpe of FireAvert
Peter Thorpe, the founder of FireAvert, shares how his experience as a firefighter inspired him to create a product that prevents kitchen fires. Peter shares his experiences commercializing the product to multi-family housing to make the biggest impact in preventing household fires. Peter also has plans to grow the Direct-to-Consumer D2C market.
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Ecommerce, Interviews, Podcast
Inventing a three-wheeled stair-climbing foldable cart – Leonid Khodor of UpCart
Leonid Khodor of UpCart shares the story of using his background in engineering and patent development to invent and bring to market a novel three-wheeled stair climbing foldable cart that helps people move stuff and allows easy foldable storage of the cart. The product now has mass distribution across the US as well as international markets through retailers such as Home Depot, Lowe's, Costco, Ace Hardware and many more. Leonid shares his advice on patent development and shares how he has overcome some of the challenges in manufacturing, supply, and distribution of the product.
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Ecommerce, Interviews, Podcast
$500K/Month – Building a successful Custom Matboard and Picture Frames Niche E-commerce Business – Mehdi kajbaf of Matboard and More
Mehdi Kajbaf, co-founder of Matboard and More, shares the story of building a Custom Matboard niche e-commerce business. This interview shows a great example of how to create competitive advantage and capture market share in a niche category by offering a large selection of high-quality products (in this case Custom Matboards).
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Ecommerce, Interviews, Podcast
$650K/Month – Building a Private Label Hair Extensions Company – Mikey Moran of Private Label Extensions
Mikey Moran, founder of Private Label Extensions, shares his journey in the beauty industry and how he built a successful hair extensions company. Despite not having prior knowledge about hair extensions, Moran dived deep into learning about the manufacturing side of products and combined it with his expertise in marketing and entrepreneurship to scale the business. Mikey shares the importance of having high-quality products that build loyalty with the customers.