One of the very first profitable businesses I ran was importing products from China and selling them online mainly through Amazon eBay. I started with counterfeits at 12-years old, and by the time I was 17 had built my e-commerce business into an empire I was proud of.
It was difficult when I was getting started, due to my lack of experience and the fact that there was nobody to help me. I had hundreds of questions racing around my head:
A couple hundred dollars worth of imports 🙂
How do you know what products will sell?
How do you determine what product to sell first?
How do you find trustworthy suppliers?
How do you eliminate the risk of scams bad quality products?
Where the hell do I get started?
When you're trying to learn a new business model from scratch, you'll find your mind running in circles unless you have a clear direction to run into…
So my goal is to make this the definitive A-Z guide to starting an importing e-commerce business from scratch. It's what I would do, step-by-step, if I was starting over from scratch.
I'll give you every step of the process, and also give some insights on the ‘why' behind my strategy. I'll also be adding to this over time (as I get questions from readers), so be sure to bookmark this for future reference.
Finally I encourage you to follow this guide step-by-step, and to avoid jumping around. Importing products from China and selling them online is an incredibly simple business model it's only when you do things out of order that it becomes risky complex.
So without further ado here's the story of my rise fall in the importing/e-commerce industry, and how you can launch one of these suckers for yourself 🙂
