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BIGpuppyENERGY t1_j15r98z wrote

Reply to comment by SmellMyChocha in I'm the inventor of the best sellin' building toy on Amazon: BRAIN FLAKES. My company did $8.88 million in sales last year. Ask me anything! by SmellMyChocha

How much of that $16,000 was used for your investment and how was it used?

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SmellMyChocha OP t1_j15rl3u wrote

Our first container was 20,000 pieces at around $1 a piece (this was Kikbo, our first product, not Brain Flakes) if memory serves. So I used it all, but I was able to convert that into more money by selling those products. As I said, I kept my expenses crazy low!

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BIGpuppyENERGY t1_j15ssf2 wrote

Did that include packaging/logistics to US or was this local to China? As I understand your main market is in the US for your products and at the time you were living In China?

This is assuming you source from China

Its cool to see that your inital investment wasn't astronomical and makes me wonder what I could come up with. I'm sick of the corporate life.

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SmellMyChocha OP t1_j15t0dh wrote

This was 12 years ago so I don't remember all the details sorry! That included packaging, but I don't remember if it included logistics. You are correct re: main market and where I was living.

I could've done that for much much less than $20k. It could've been $1-2k.

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BIGpuppyENERGY t1_j15v2xn wrote

One last question - do you speak mandarin or any other local chinese languages? I assume you would having lived in China however it's a possibility that this is not the case.

Thanks for the conversation! Definitely makes me think about possibilities

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SmellMyChocha OP t1_j15vicp wrote

Yes, I am self taught conversant mandarin speaker and reader and typer (I can't hand-write).

You don't need to learn Chinese to do business there. You just need to have the balls to go.

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