The Tom Wang Show

I wanted to share some insights on my investment portfolio.  Background: I exited my ecommerce business 3 years ago. Also have another online business that generates 7 figures in ebitda.  Never had so much money in my account so I wasn't 100% sure what to do with it.  Went down the rabbit hole of investing. Took a "throw my money against the wall and see what sticks" approach.  Invested in everything you can imagine: penny stocks, crypto, stocks, hedgefund, PE, real estate, list goes on and on. After 3 years, it is very obvious which deals have generated a great return and which ones sucked.  Broke everything down in this podcast.  _________________________

In today's episode, I interview the co-founder and CEO of Manta Sleep Mask, Mark Zhang. If you're interested in building a successful physical product business and brand, make sure to watch the entire video. We talk about how Mark raised $700,000 on Kickstarter, what are the proven product business strategies to skyrocket your sales are, what the manufacturing and branding process is like, and what were the challenges he overcame to reach the level of success he has now. JOIN MY FBA MASTERCLASS - https://masterfba.com/video Email: hello@tomwang.io IG: www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig YT: www.youtube.com/tomwang

In this special episode with my life coach, Chad Herst, we talked about the more personal and emotional issues that hold back a lot of entrepreneurs, and what you can do to overcome the past traumas and the inner critic that hold you back.   JOIN MY FBA MASTERCLASS - https://masterfba.com/video Email: hello@tomwang.io IG: www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig YT: www.youtube.com/tomwang

In this episode, Stephen Zhao interviews my 24-year old mentee Daniel McGill, who shares an in-depth explanation of how he went from $0 to selling his Amazon FBA business for $600,000 within 2 years. With a track record of launching profitable products one after another, he shares a lot of great tips on how to consistently pick the best products to sell, how to make your brand stand out in a marketplace full of "me-too products", and how to sell your Amazon FBA business for a higher valuation. JOIN MY FBA MASTERCLASS - https://masterfba.com/video Email: hello@tomwang.io IG: www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig YT: www.youtube.com/tomwang

Stephen interviews me and Christina about our entire Amazon FBA journey, from the first time we learned about Amazon, to the day we sold Sdara Skincare to Thrasio for millions. JOIN MY FBA MASTERCLASS - https://masterfba.com/video Email: hello@tomwang.io IG: www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig YT: www.youtube.com/tomwang

In this episode, I interview Jake Karls, one of the co-founders of Mid-Day Squares. We talk about the unique social media and promotional strategies his team used to build their cult-like following despite being in a competitive market. He also talks about how documenting their day-to-day operations, even the good, bad and ugly, helped grow their family business into the multi-million dollar chocolate empire it is today. JOIN MY FBA MASTERCLASS - https://masterfba.com/video Email: hello@tomwang.io IG: www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig YT: www.youtube.com/tomwang

In today's episode, I interview our special guest Brett Curry, the CEO and co-founder of OMG Commerce. We have a behind-the-scenes discussion about how to build and run a successful digital marketing agency in 2021. JOIN MY FBA MASTERCLASS - https://masterfba.com/video Email: hello@tomwang.io IG: www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig YT: www.youtube.com/tomwang

I talk to Adam Heist about everything involved in successfully building and growing multiple 7-figure Amazon FBA brands. JOIN MY FBA MASTERCLASS - https://masterfba.com/video Email: hello@tomwang.io IG: www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig YT: www.youtube.com/tomwang

I talk to my special guest Riaz Ahmed, an ex-engineer who has recently sold his Amazon FBA business at about the same time as me. He shares how he was able to build his business from basically nothing to 7 figures, and my students also get an opportunity to ask him more Amazon-specific questions. JOIN MY FBA MASTERCLASS - https://masterfba.com/video Email: hello@tomwang.io IG: www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig YT: www.youtube.com/tomwang

In this episode, I interview my mentor Thach, who has built a real estate portfolio that generates over $100,000 / month in passive income. JOIN MY FBA MASTERCLASS - https://masterfba.com/video Email: hello@tomwang.io IG: www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig YT: www.youtube.com/tomwang

In this episode, we talk about Troy's story, how he got started, what Amazon was like back in 2013, his first failures and how he survived them, team building strategies, and goal planning. JOIN MY FBA MASTERCLASS - https://masterfba.com/video Email: hello@tomwang.io IG: www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig YT: www.youtube.com/tomwang  

In this episode, I interviewed my friend Andri, who recently he sold his Amazon FBA business for $500,000 in CASH. I got the opportunity to pick his brain and ask why and how he sold his Amazon business, what he did before Amazon, what mistakes he’s made, and the good decisions he made along the way. If you have the intention of selling your business one day for up to $200 million - $500 million, then you will get a ton of value from this interview. MASTERCLASS: masterfba.com/video Follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig Watch me YouTube: www.youtube.com/tomwang      

Had the opportunity to interview AJ Patel, a serial entrepreneur and 8 to 9-figure Amazon seller who has done really well with every product he's launched. If I wanted to build a physical product, or wanted someone on my advisory board, he is hands down the industry expert to partner with. On this episode, we talk about his launch strategy, how he picks which niche and market to go after, how he tests for market fit, how to build a team so he's able to take himself out of the business and how to scale successfully. Enjoy the high-level, advanced tips from this episode! JOIN MY FBA MASTERCLASS - https://masterfba.com/video Email: hello@tomwang.io IG: www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig YT: www.youtube.com/tomwang  

On this episode of the Tom Wang Show, I interviewed my long time friend Jonathan Jesper. He talked about how he went from being in debt, to building a 7-figure business in the baby niche. Then all of a sudden, Amazon wiped out all of his reviews and his business took a massive hit. He then pivoted into selling supplements on Amazon. Since then, he has grew it into a 7-figure brand.

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Wanna know how someone went from $0 to $130K/month in a step by step process? In this interview, Robert and I discussed the secret behind his success.  We went over topics like product research, sourcing, mistakes he made as well as how he is gaining market dominance for his product.  Email: hello@tomwang.ioIG: www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig YT: www.youtube.com/tomwang  

Ronnie shares how he went from working at Best Buy to using “First Principle Thinking” to run more than 10 successful e-commerce businesses including an 8 figure watch brand.   Feel free to hit me up at hello@tomwang.io with any suggestions and feedback!  This podcast is made for you. Follow me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig Follow me on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/tomwang/  See you guys in episode #11

Is drop shipping dead? Not according to Connor Shelefontiuk. Check out how Connor has built multiple drop shipping stores from scratch! Feel free to hit me up at hello@tomwang.io with any suggestions and feedback!  This podcast is made for you. Follow me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig/ Follow me on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/tomwang/  See you guys in episode #10

Do you wanna learn how to build an 8-figure subscription business? Ryan Mckenzie has built multiple successful e-commerce businesses focusing on the subscription model.  There were TONS of golden nuggets dropped in this interview. Feel free to hit me up at hello@tomwang.io with any suggestions and feedback!  This podcast is made for you. Follow me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig/ Follow me on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/tomwang/  See you guys in episode #9

Welcome to Episode #7 of the Tom Wang Show.  In this episode, I had the opportunity to chat with Jerin Mece, co-founder of Nude Beverage. If you are not from Vancouver, this brand might not sound familiar. But if you live in the 604 then I can guarantee you have seen their product on the shelves of a liquor store or at a party. Jerin and Julius met around 2015. Julius has been working on Nude Beverage for a few years now, but he needed some help with raising capital as well as with distribution. Given that Jerin had experience in the hospitality industry, he thought he could provide a lot of value to Julius. After getting rejected by more than 70 investors they finally found an investor who was willing to take a chance on the 2 young entrepreneurs.  The rest was history as they say. Jerin would spend the next few years racking up miles on his car, driving store to store to pitch their product.  Fast forward to today, they have dominated the market in BC, expanding into Ontario and USA with their 0 sugar, 0 carb alcoholic beverage. http://nudebeverages.com Feel free to hit me up at hello@tomwang.io with any suggestions and feedback!  This podcast is made for you. Follow me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig/ Follow me on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/tomwang/  See you guys in episode #8

Welcome to Episode #6 of the Tom Wang Show.  This is a very special episode because I got a chance to sit down with one of my best friends, Dan Kogan, and asked him questions on how was able to quickly build up a $100,000/month Amazon FBA business in 8 months! In this conversation, we talked about what he did before Amazon FBA.  Why did he finally take the plunge and started an Amazon FBA business even though he was making a $200K/year salary.  How did he find his first products? How did he negotiate with suppliers to get the cheapest rate? How managed cashflow and scaled up his Amazon FBA empire!   Feel free to hit me up at hello@tomwang.io with any suggestions and feedback!  This podcast is made for you. Follow me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig/ Follow me on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/tomwang/  See you guys in episode #7

Welcome to Episode #5 of the Tom Wang Show.  This is a special episode where we held a live event exclusively for my students locally in Vancouver who attended the 2-day FBA Masterclass. On this episode, we interviewed 2 of my dear friends, Mikaella and Tony, from Vessi Footwear. https://vessifootwear.ca/ They were able to turn this company from just a kickstarter project into a massive 8-figure brand within a very short period of time.  They have done extremely well through their own e-commerce site, often selling out of stock. They even had a 5:00 AM line up outside their pop up store in Vancouver.  Feel free to hit me up at hello@tomwang.io with any suggestions and feedback!  This podcast is made for you. Follow me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig Follow me on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/tomwang See you guys in episode #6

Ok, I will say it. This was one of the most entertaining episodes I’ve done yet.  Clay is not only an amazing story teller, but also a very savvy businessman. On this episode of the Tom Wang Show, Clay talks to us about how he went from being an accountant to running an 8 figure e-commerce company selling adult toys. That’s right, adult toys. I know what you are wondering, how the hell did he get into THAT business? Don’t worry, that was one of the first questions I asked him too. He also talked about the early challenges he went through raising money from VCs and angels to fuel the company’s growth. Overall, this was a very entertaining and educational episode. Follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig and YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/tomwang  Leave a review on iTunes or Spotify!  See you guys in episode #5

Adi Gullia was one of Tom’s first inspirations to start into the business of selling Amazon. He has appeared on the TV show Dragon’s Den to pitch his skincare brand Grace & Stella and he currently owns 4 physical products brands grossing 8 figures in sales. https://www.graceandstella.com adigullia@graceandstella.com  Adi’s Biggest Lessons & Take Aways: Identify what you want and why. Do whatever you can to convince yourself that you’re going to get it. If you’re convinced that makes everything easier. The quality of the people around you (in life and in business) is going to make all the difference to your success. If you have these in place, you’ll figure it out. Feel free to hit me up at hello@tomwang.io with any suggestions and feedback! This podcast is made for you. Follow me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig/ See you guys in episode #4. 

Welcome to Episode #2 of the Tom Wang Show.  In this episode, I interviewed my friend Ben Weir, co-founder of the hair product company Blumaan. We talk about where he came from, how he and his business partner connected, using YouTube tutorials to build an audience and how they eventually launched Bluuman and turned it into a multiple 7-figure brand.  http://blumaan.com/ - 10% Off Coupon Code: JOE Feel free to hit me up at hello@tomwang.io with any suggestions and feedback! This podcast is made for you. Follow me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig/ See you guys in episode #3!

Welcome to Episode #1 of the Tom Wang Show. Funny story is that originally, I wanted to call this podcast series "How I Started", emulating the popular podcast "How I Built This". However as I interviewed many founders, who are also my friends, we couldn't get deep. Meaning the stuff we were chatting about were all very surface level, at least for us. I decided to change the name to The Tom Wang Show so that we are not so restricted with the topics we can discuss. In this episode, I interviewed my friend Kevin Pasco, co-founder of Nested Naturals. Kevin recently sold his stake in the company to pursue other personal ambitions. Feel free to hit me up at hello@tomwang.io with any suggestions and feedback! This podcast is made for you. Follow me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tomdotcom.ig/ See you guys in episode #2!