Low price, slim margins, shipping costs more than the product. Once you have a hit, the market's flooded with copycats. Is the sticker business a "suicide mission"? That depends. We’re in an era where everything’s stickable for self-expression. Smart sellers have moved beyond the stationery aisle. Imagine single sheets going for $18 each, with niche [...]

Source a Color-Changing Jar for French Client Last month, a client from France reached out to customize a glass jar with a temperature-changing sticker, along with a few baking tools. It sounded simple at first, but once we got into the details, we realized everything couldn’t be sourced from a single factory, the jar also [...]

We previously talked about that bug-shooting salt gun—an idea that sounded crazy at first but somehow became a hit. Today, we’re looking at another toy blaster: Gel Blaster, which shoots biodegradable gel beads. They burst on impact, leave almost no mess, yet still manage to recreate that competitive, video-game-style shooting experience in a family backyard. [...]

Many people want to buy directly from China manufacturers for the cost advantages of a mature supply chain.But in practice, many buyers struggle with:Identifying real factoriesGetting factories to accept small test ordersFinding prices that are actually competitiveIn this post, I’ll walk you through these key questions most beginners and small buyers care about — and [...]

Some products are painful to run: low margin, time-consuming, and almost impossible to scale. Handmade craft is one of them. But that’s exactly why we’re talking about it. There are sellers who turned this “bad category” into a scalable, profitable business. Let’s take a look at how they solved these problems, turning traditional crafts into [...]

We talked to a few of our long-term clients recently, and we all noticed the same thing: demand for senior-focused products keeps rising, and buyers are zeroing in on solutions to very specific problems. The more targeted a product is, the faster it tends to take off. According to Fortune Business Insights, the global elderly-care [...]

Turning an idea into a real business doesn’t always require deep technical skills or brilliant marketing. Most of the time, it comes down to two things: Does the product solve a clear problem for enough people? And is there a supply chain that can actually make it happen? If you can build the product and [...]

Today we’re looking at a brand that sells a pair of slides for $100+ : DracoSlides. They target young men into street and hip-hop style and filled a gap where men’s everyday street slides didn’t exist. Founder Naam took that gap and turned a low-value, functional product into a $20M+ business in four years. First, let’s [...]

This week, we got an interesting request from Emma, one of our clients in New Zealand who runs a wedding planning business. She wanted us to source a “vintage telephone that can record voice messages.” At first, we honestly thought it was merely a decorative piece placed on a table at weddings.Lorem ipsum dolor sit [...]

Hiring an inspection company to check your goods before shipment is the usual routine when sourcing from China. For most standard products, this basic third-party quality inspection works fine.But once you need more thorough or flexible inspections, these QC services often can’t keep up. So in today’s post, I’ll walk you through typical inspection costs, [...]