Podcast appearances and mentions of manuel becvar

Danny and Manuel Becvar get into discussions for the vital role of verifying suppliers, their certifications and a new innovation coming soon to make the vetting process impregnable through Blockchain.

In episode 139 of the AM/PM Podcast, host Manny Coats interviews serial entrepreneur and 7-figure Amazon seller Manuel Becvar, creator of Import Dojo and AsiaInvest.com. Manuel explains the finer points of how to choose a good Chinese supplier for your Amazon FBA business, the warning signs of a bad supplier, traveling to China, and what to do before committing to any one manufacturer.

Manuel Becvar is the founder of ImportDojo. He has been living and working in China for over 10 years, with 17 years in the sourcing business. He has a unique perspective because he has his own brand, sells to retailers and is a supplier. He has worked with the biggest retailers in the world, developing, sourcing, and finding new products. These include Wal-Mart, Amazon, Lowes, Sears, Home Depot, and many others. He is also the author of The Import Bible. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: [0:45] Jeremy introduces his guest, Manuel Becvar. [1:45] Manuel talks about the time he met Arnold Schwarzenegger. [3:30] Early mistakes that he made in business. [6:00] What is the Canton Fair? [10:00] Lessons from working with big name brands. [14:30] Common mistakes importers make. [18:20] How do you navigate patents and keep people from hijacking your product? [22:00] Working with inspectors and navigating payment issues. [29:00] Common questions from ecommerce sellers and resources to get started. [32:00] Advice from Manuel on the “Perfect Product” [37:00] Manuel’s first products and how he got started. [44:00] Why is Manuel so open about his products and process? [46:30] Manuel talks about selling in multiple countries. [50:00] What are Chinese sellers doing so well? [55:30] What are the best ways to boost sales? [57:00] Additional next steps and services that Manuel provides. [1:01:00] Challenges that Manuel deals with running his business. [1:04:00] Software Manuel uses to run his business. [1:05:30] What does Manuel use to research products? [1:10:00] The lowest and highest moments in business for Manuel. [1:15:00] The one industry you should invest in. In this episode… What does it take to really succeed in product sourcing for ecommerce sellers? Do you have to have all the right connections? Do you have to live in China and know the industry inside and out? How can sellers use all of their resources to their fullest advantage? On this episode of Inspired Insider, you’ll hear from business leader and entrepreneur Manuel Becvar. Manuel has his finger on the pulse of the product sourcing and ecommerce industry. Make sure to listen to this episode as he goes over how he runs his business, the tools he uses to validate products, how to boost sales, and so much more! You don’t want to miss this fascinating episode! How can importers make the most out of their position in the marketplace? What tools do they need to grow their business and succeed? How can they avoid some of the common mistakes made by most importers? On this episode of Inspired Insider, you’ll hear from expert importer Manuel Becvar as he opens up about how he has found success as an ecommerce seller and importer. Manuel literally wrote the book on the best practices for importers. If you’d like to take advantage of his experience and depth of knowledge, make sure you sit down with pen and paper and listen to this episode! What does it take to get a product that will take off and provide over the top numbers in terms of a return on your investment? Where do you even start to find a product that will perform that well? On this episode of Inspired Insider, you’ll hear from Manuel Becvar as he walks through his strategy on how to validate products and keep a finger on the pulse of the marketplace to stay ahead of market trends. What lessons and tips can you gain from Manuel’s years of experience? Make sure to listen to this episode and get all the info you need to succeed in the ecommerce sector! Are you considering expanding your products into a global marketplace? What plan do you have in place to make this leap? Have you taken the time to learn from importers and ecommerce sellers to get their take on the making that big move? On this episode of Inspired Insider, you’ll hear from ecommerce seller and entrepreneur Manuel Becvar as he shares from his wide range of experience in the ecommerce space. Manuel explains why it is best to start slow and go in a particular order of expanding to different international marketplaces to sell your products. You don’t want to make any big decisions on expanding your brand’s reach before you listen to this helpful episode! How do you expect to succeed as an ecommerce seller? Are you convinced that it will happen overnight and you’ll strike it rich? Do you really think that is an appropriate expectation to have? On this episode of Inspired Insider, you’ll hear from business leader Manuel Becvar as he walks through his experience and why it’s best to have an appropriate expectation of success. Don’t get duped by the personalities that say you can get rich quick! Manuel shares his own story of experiencing extreme highs and extreme lows, you have to be prepared for both! Learn more from his story on this episode! Resources Mentioned on this episode https://importdojo.com/ The Import Bible http://www.cantonfair.org.cn/en/index.aspx http://www.asiainspection.com/ www.alibaba.com www.theamazingseller.com http://www.smartchinasourcing.com/ www.World.taobao.com http://www.globalsources.com/ www.madeinchina.com www.aliexpress.com Jungle Scout Microsoft Office Wave apps TechCrunch Kickstarter Sponsor for this episode This is part of the Skubana Ecommerce Mastery Series where top Sellers and Experts teach you what really works to boost your ecommerce business. Skubana is a software platform to manage your entire ecommerce operation.

Learn how to professionally import from an expert who has been living in China for over 12 years. Do more than selling on Amazon. Get your products and brand across as many sales channels as possible and build a brand in the process. In today's episode we'll be covering mostly on finding the right ideas to make your products unique, zero in on the market position you are after and build a loyal customer base. What is the growth in Bangkok? My experience on working out of a co-working space and why it is super valuable What is the cost of living in South East Aisa? How well is the networking in a co-working space? What's changing in Amazon in China? How popular are the exhibitions in China getting, What are the benefits to attending? What is Amazon doing in China? What are key strategies to get traffic cheaper than PPC How to use an influencer to your advantage and how is brilliant for long term? What are benefits and drawbacks with PPC and Influencer Traffic? What is theImportDojo certification course and how will it benefit you? How Important are the regulations and how valuable is it to know the regulations? What are the consequences of not following regulations? Links from podcast ImportDojo - 25% off Amachete - 25% off Walmart & eBay Selling Tools   New to the Podcast? There is a Getting Started guide just for you to supercharge your path to profit on Amazon. Enjoy. The post Exclusive Interview with Manuel Becvar from ImportDojo ALL-145 appeared first on FBA Allstars.

We have a special guest today, Augustas Kilgys, to help up with seller optimization. Augustas is from Lithuania and Germany which gives him a unique insight into selling. He is also running the Seller Optimization Summit which is going to be going on very soon. If you are interest, please sign up to get more information. Seller Optimization Summit Seller Optimization Summit is a virtual summit. There is going to be a lot of great speakers that will help you improve your own optimization. Many of the speakers you have already heard on this podcast. Back in September, Augustas organized the European Private Label Summit which focused on delivering information to European sellers. It was a huge success. A lot of the attendees were very happy with the experience. This inspired Augustas to organize another one. It started out very as a very simple idea to focus on listing optimization. However, once he started contacting speakers, the topics grew far beyond the initial scope so Augustas decided to expand the summit to Seller Optimization. Topics Covered There is going to be speakers on listing optimization as well as optimizing sponsored ads. He will have Manuel Becvar to talking about sourcing. He wanted to get the attendees to think outside the box. You can learn how to expand your business outside Amazon onto other platforms and how to get external traffic to your listings. External Traffic He will be talking with Bryan Bowman about Facebook ads. Augustas will speak with Michael Hecker who is a German software developer that has a program that can track Facebook advertising clicks. Brian Burt will speak on how to approach influencers and get them to promote your product. Augustas will present a case study about a beginner seller with only a few thousands dollars. He managed to meet and influencer in Asia that he teamed up with. He went from selling $3,000 his first month to doing $70,000 a month now. Brand Building There will be four or five speakers to cover brand building. Susan Hixon, a private label lawyer, will be giving insights from a lawyer’s perspective. She will be discussing everything that goes into registering a trademark. Shelly Simon who is a UK seller, will be discussing her success in building a brand. He will also have a speaker that runs a subscriptions based business and how this can make your business much more valuable. Normally you can get 3x your net profits. Subscription businesses can sometimes get 11x. Sign Up If you want to participate in this sumit, head on over to amazingfba.com/sos for all the details about how you can sign up for free. It will be free from 3 April to 9 April. Every day during the summit you will be getting an email with videos to watch. They will be available for 24 hours. After that, they are locked and the new sessions are unlocked. You can upgrade and get more access to the videos. These videos will be pre-recorded. Every day there will be a live session with a presentation and Q&A at the end. This all starts 3 April with a kickoff webinar the day before at 3pm EDT, 8pm UK. This will have three guest speakers. Watch Seller Optimization Summit with Augustas Kligys

How to Become a Wholesaler It’s more than just growing your business on Amazon. You have to actively contact and cold call retailers in order to sell your products. It’s the next step in the process. You’ve sold on Amazon, you’ve diversified through other channels, and you’ve built up your brand. If you want to become a wholesaler, you have to take the time to build your brand. It’s not an overnight task. It takes a lot of time to build a brand. Approach Local Retailers It might not be a good idea to start large chains like Tesco or Wal-Mart. The better idea would be to find a smaller one in your area. Make contact with the owner or decision maker, and set up a presentation where you can make a pitch on your products. A fallback would be to create a PDF that goes over all the information. You can them email the document to them and follow up a few days later with a phone call. Go to Exhibitions You may not have the money to get a booth or a stand, but you can go as a guest. You can find local retails and get their contact information. Then you can send them an email and PDF where you talk about your company and make a pitch. One vital aspect, in order to become a wholesaler, is making these connections. Build Your Catalog You can’t go to these retailers and sell some generic widget. It needs to be unique. It also helps to have several products in your catalog before you become a wholesaler. Bear in mind that even though it may take a year or two for your wholesale business to get going, the payoff happens when retailer orders tens of thousands of products at once. Immense Potential The great thing about wholesale is the potential. It really is possible to to do great things with it. Whether you want to do it to make some extra income or make it into a large operation. Manuel has done this. He currently does about $300,000 on Amazon, and close to $1.5 million in wholesale. When you factor in his consulting and sourcing income, he is making around $2.5 million a year. The potential is there if you’re willing to put in the time and effort. Get in touch with Manuel at importdojo.com and get a free eBook and newsletter. Watch How to Become a Wholesaler with Manuel Becvar Part 3 of 3

Building a Brand Off-Amazon As we discussed in the previous episode, building a brand away from Amazon is a very good idea. Amazon owns you and your listing. They control everything. They can suspend your account at anytime. If you sell exclusively on Amazon, that puts you in a difficult situation. It’s a good idea to have multiple selling channels. That way, if any one goes down for whatever reason, you have other sources of income. Amazon only accounts for about 20 - 30% of Manuel’s income. Now, if something happens to his Amazon account, it wouldn’t shut down his business. Another reason for building a brand is that Amazon is a race to the bottom on pricing. If you come up with a new product, in a couple months a lot of sellers have copied it and now everyone is lowering prices to get sales. If you have your own ecommerce site or wholesale, you can dictate the prices as long. Off-Amazon Sales Channel When building a brand, there are several options when it comes to other sales channels. There is jet.com where you can signup to be a third-party seller. Wal-Mart recently bought them for $3.3 billion. You can also sign up to be a third party seller on walmart.com. When it comes to these these third-party selling routes, it's important to bear in mind that it may take awhile to be ungated. For those in the UK, you can use tesco.com. The downside to these platforms is that you are still a third-party that is subject to Wal-Mart or Jet or Tesco, etc. Shopify The best security would be owning the platform with Shopify. That way you control everything. It takes a lot more work than with Amazon as you don’t have the benefit of them shipping everything. However, the big issue is getting traffic. You can always find people on Amazon, but getting them to come to your site takes work, like all aspects of building a brand. You have to work on SEO in order to be found. One strategy is to go to other sites where your target audience is. You can find forums or go to Reddit and talk to people that are interested in your category. For example, Manuel is selling VR products so he goes to a Reddit forum about VR and talks to people about a new headset Samsung is releasing. This can drive traffic to your Shopify store which will help your Google rank. Ads are another way to boost rank and drive traffic. Google or Bing as are effective. You can use Facebook ads for conversion and email signup; not so much for selling products. It can be more expensive and it takes a lot of work. But if you have good content, good SEO and traffic you can easily rank on page 1 or 2 of Google. That is building a brand that has visibility on the most powerful website on the planet: Google.  Watch Building a Brand with Manuel Becvar Part 2 of 3

Importance of a Social Media Strategy Today on the show we have Manuel Becvar of Import Dojo. As Will Tjernlund mentioned during his interview, Amazon wants to increase their own private label operation. As Amazon become a larger competitor, you’ll want to establish your brand off-Amazon. Once you have a strong audience, this will not only help you sell more on Amazon, but give you the leverage you need if you wanted to sell on other channels. An important step to this, is creating a social media strategy. There are differing opinions on social media. Some people say it’s a complete waste of time while others say it’s the cornerstone of their business. Social media can be a huge driver of traffic for your listings. When creating a brand, it’s important not to overlook the critical component that is social media. Return on Investment It’s understandable that people may think that social media is a complete waste of time. You’re not going to get instant results. You won’t see anything in a couple months. However, if you stick with your social media strategy, and keep building your social media presence, you will start to see in impact in a year or two. Manuel Becvar doesn’t run PPC ads anymore because of the success of the success of his social media platform. Now he can take the money he would have spent on ads, and use it on continuing to build on social media, and put it into his products. You will have to invest in your social media. Whether that’s you putting in time, or paying someone to do it. Either way you decide to do it will still be beneficial. Even if you’re paying someone to put out content every week, you will still make more from sales than you would have if you put that money into ads. Immediate ROI If you’re creating a brand, then you might not have the audience for it to make much difference. However, you can always outsource it. There are sites, like Famebit, that will bring you together with influencers. These are people have have very large following on social media. You write up a campaign and get offers from different people. They will then review your product and send it out to there tens of thousands of followers. This can drive 2000 - 3000 people to your Amazon listings. Manuel Bacvar estimates that this led to 60 -70 additional sales in the first week. Well worth the $500 he spent on it because he wouldn’t have gotten that kind of return with PPC. You could even contact them directly. If you go on social media and look up people that have a large audience and send them a message. This will let you target those that would buy your product. Long Term Approach As much as we all love to get a quick turnaround on our investments, you have to understand that your social media strategy takes time. Again, you can outsource this if you’d like. You can hire people to run your social media accounts and they will post new content weekly and maintain it. There are a few techniques you or your VA can do to help grow your audience. The first step, obviously, is to post regular content. You need to be posting at least once a week on most platforms. Go onto other accounts that target the same audience to post similar content and follow their followers. The idea is that once you follow them, they will look at your content and will be more likely to follow you since they are already following a similar account. Finding Your Audience When planning your social media strategy, it’s important to target the right people. One way to do that is to target people that have purchased your products. This way you know they are interested in the category you’re selling in. Manuel has grown his mailing list to over 800 subscribers in 2 ½ years. It’s very simple. As we all know, we need to put information in the packaging. This way we can encourage buyers to leave a review on Amazon, or to contact us, rather than Amazon, if they have an issue. Manuel goes a bit further and offers an additional 6 month warran...

When a customer decides to cancel an order - a big order - it’s not an easy thing to handle. On today’s episode Manuel Becvar shares the impact a large cancelled order had on his business as it was just starting to scale. Manuel is the founder of Import Dojo. He has been living and working in China for over 10 years, with 17 years in the sourcing business. He has a unique perspective because he has his own brand, sells to retailers and is a supplier. He has worked with the biggest retailers in the world, developing, sourcing, and finding new products. These include: Wal-Mart, Amazon, Lowes, Sears, Home Depot, and many others. He is author of The Import Bible: the complete beginners guide to successful importing from China. a glimpse of what you’ll learn: [0:14] Jeremy’s introduction to Manuel Becvar, founder of Import Dojo. [1:34] Manuel’s lowest moment in business so far. [5:29] Places you can go to connect with Manuel. [6:28] Business ideas Manuel wants you to steal (because he doesn’t have time to act on them). In this episode… Any product business lives or dies on the orders of regular customers. It’s a vital part of the way things work. When one of those large clients abruptly cancels a large order the company is depending on, something has to give. On this episode, Manuel Becvar tells of his lowest point in business, when a large client did cancel their order suddenly. You’ll be encouraged by the way Manuel handled this unexpected challenge, so be sure you listen. One of the impacts of losing a big order is that the supplies and resources to fulfill that order may have already been purchased. That means cash flow is restricted and the ability to service other customers effectively could be hampered. Manuel Becvar tells how he and his company dealt with the loss of an important order, on this episode of Inspired Insider. Many savvy business owners set aside reserve funds - savings if you will - for that unexpected event that could destroy the company if cash reserves aren't available. When Import Dojo was suddenly informed that a big order from a customer was canceled the company had to draw on its savings in order to offset the costs already spent. Manuel Becvar tells how the company rebounded from the disappointing loss of that order, on this episode. When a customer order is canceled many things can be effected in a negative way: payroll, other customer orders, overall cash flow, and more. Every company CEO wants to be past the point of one lost order causing a lot of problems, but when the company is in its early stages, it’s almost unavoidable. Find out how Manuel Becvar and the Import Dojo team weathered the situation in its early days, on this episode. Resources Mentioned on this episode www.ImportDojo.com www.GlobalSources.com Sponsors for this episode This is part of the Skubana Ecommerce Mastery Series where top Sellers and Experts teach you what really works to boost your ecommerce business. Skubana is a platform to manage your entire ecommerce operation. *************** One of our sponsors today is www.Rise25.com where entrepreneurs of 6,7, and 8 figure businesses come together live and in person every few months to solve their biggest business challenges through this high-level Mastermind group. Each member leaves each week with lifelong friendships and actionable steps to take their business to the next level. Check out Rise25.com - a group run by myself and cofounder John Corcoran. Rise 25 is application only.  

Today I have Manuel Becvar on the show. Now Manuel and I had exchanged several emails in the past few years but it wasn’t until Will Tjernlund and Peter Zapf of Global Sources and I started chatting did I get to know Manuel. If you’ve never heard of Manuel, he runs ImportDojo.com which is a site that helps others source goods from Asia. In fact, Manuel runs a sourcing service as well and he has been helping me source a few things from China. Anyway, Manuel has a ton of experience sourcing products from Asia and he’s got a ton […] The post 130: Tips And Tricks On How To Find Suppliers And Source Product In Asia With Manuel Becvar appeared first on MyWifeQuitHerJob.com.

Tune into one of best interviews we've done thus far on the podcast. Manuel Becvar is a renaissance man based out of Hong Kong & Bangkok, with over 10 years of experience sourcing electronics in China and two successful companies. He took us to school on topics such as: Why he never took the leap from Hong Kong to mainland China The sourcing skills he's mastered through his electronics trading company Mandarin-Gear and translating those into a successful Amazon FBA Coaching venture called ImportDojo If Amazon will try to kill the competition and take all the knowledge/skills learnt from it's sellers When an FBA seller should consider shipping via Air vs Sea His FBA launch process and favourite marketing tactics What the main differences are between Alibaba & Global Sources The importance of networking and giving value without expecting anything return Why most people shy way from importing electronics and how to compete with big boys like Bose & Beats by Dre

GFA109. Let's face it, sourcing in China or anywhere else for your business can be a little tricky. You have to make sure that you find a very good supplier among other stuff that you need to consider for your business. Today's podcast we have Manuel from Import Dojo.com giving us some tips and tricks for electronics sourcing in China. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/episode109 The post Tips & Tricks During Your China Sourcing Endeavors w/ Manuel Becvar appeared first on Global From Asia.