Comments on: Stop Bullshitting Yourself

By: Clothing Dropshippers

Clothing Dropshippers — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 06:24:00 +0000

‘Wholesalers Directory’, or ‘Drop Shippers Directory’, and look through the websites containing the lists of such manufacturers. Alternatively, you can type your product keyword together with the word ‘wholesale’. For example, if you want to sell wooden carvings, you may want to try the term ‘wholesale wooden carvings’ and take note of the websites offering wooden carvings at a wholesale price. After which, you can email or call the manufacturer and check if they offer drop shipping arrangements.

By: Todd_Andelin

Todd_Andelin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:38:00 +0000

IIdar:
I think your bags are really cool, especially the rubber messenger bag…very hip!
Your website is really informative, I might suggest trimming down some of the words and sticking to the products….make it like a slideshow, at least thats my perspective.

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:48:00 +0000

James, thank you !,
You are my Warren Buffett.
U are the richest person in the world in terms of experience’s.
-Mahesh

By: Cees- Hans van Toor

Cees- Hans van Toor — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:29:00 +0000

Didn’t read all the comments. But my suggestion is: Have a bag made with your website adress on it.
Give an A- List celebrity a share of your company or a shitload of money, to wear it around town.
Step 2: Profit

By: Dave Mayer

Dave Mayer — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:56:00 +0000

This is what I did to get my product recognized. If you aren’t ready to do something crazy like this, or don’t have $1M to promote your product, then you shouldn’t bother to try and launch something:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t73Q3f4YjwQ&feature=player_embedded

By: Hooch

Hooch — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:43:00 +0000

Ildar should consider partnering with his local NPR/public radio station. Offer them at cost to the station to use as a premium. NPR audiences are affluent, educated, constantly labeled as tree huggers and generally have about 45% female listeners, they might eat up the notion of organic bags. Once he has a success story in his home market, he can branch out into other/larger markets. What he should not do is offer it more than once in any one market because listeners will simply wait for the next pledge drive.

By: Ildar

Ildar — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:15:00 +0000

Benjamin,
The donation will go out of our margin – so it will not make the price of the item bigger – it just makes our profit a little smaller. But this is the part of our vision too – Give and you shall receive.
And when it comes to donating to charities – we don’t want just to mention their name, so nobody really knows what kind of charity it is and where the money goes – we want to “open it up” – and tell their story, what they do, and why we chose them.
Same idea is behind our bags – we want to start telling the story about every vendor – why they started the company, what’s their vision, etc – so we want to show real people behind all the businesses – and make sure everybody understands where the item comes from and who made it.

By: Benjamin Scherrey

Benjamin Scherrey — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:14:00 +0000

When people start telling me they’re giving some % of profits to charity I start wondering if I really wanna pay that extra % to buy their crap when I don’t really care for the charity or have a better charity I would prefer.

Is *anybody* gonna buy Weird Al’s new song because he’s giving the money to charity?? Hell no.

By: pjc

pjc — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:53:00 +0000

There is one solution to environmental problems. It’s called, “find the smallest set of players that are having the biggest impact and focus on getting them to change”. Otherwise known as “don’t be pennywise and pound foolish”.

The environmental movement used to do this. Now they throw out fear and confusion and collect book royalties and donations, just like the “Black Swan” investor class.

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:21:00 +0000

Thanks Claudia! I actually do 108 toe touches everyday…however, I haven’t actually slowed them down and regulated my breath to make it more relaxing. I do more of breath of fire and do it quickly. I will add this modification to my routine. This is so great…a business and yoga blog! If you guys keep this up I’ll have to make the AC my homepage.