Are you coming to China for the first time? This episode is for you, even if you’ve traveled there before.
This week we talk about:
The essential apps and software to set up before laying your foot in China
How to carry your essentials and avoid getting pickpocketed
The #1 item that’ll help you keep your sanity with all the chaos and noise in China
Why you shouldn’t rely on your credit cards too much while traveling through China
This is the very first episode in which Mike and I share our stories of how we got started in China and what this podcast is going to be about. Including:
Why we decided to start sharing information about sourcing, crowdfunding, and setting up shop in China
Mike talks about his 7 years’ experience of running operations in China, how much Guangzhou has changed in that time, playing basketball semi-professionally and how he got started with sourcing
Rico’s story of jumping into China with both feet in, how he hustled in the beginning and how his failed ideas ultimately lead him to working with Mike
Whether you are an entrepreneur, or a purchasing agent; whether you are more serious about product development and want to launch a crowdfunding campaign (like many of our friends successfully did), or just private label a product and sell it on Amazon, you’ll find yourself facing pretty much the very same challenges in most of the stages of sourcing a product on Alibaba.
You need a good strategy for finding suppliers on Alibaba, and you’ve come to the right place. We’ll show you how, in 5 relatively simple steps, you can start finding and weeding out factories for your next product.
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