00:06:21 John Hell: Great Wayne 00:06:21 Wendy: Awesome 00:06:31 Alicia Julian: good, excited and a bit overwhelmed 00:06:32 Tony Laughton: Ok ish 00:06:34 Louise’s iPad: Still recovering from Canton 00:06:37 Nathan Emanuel: Busy reviewing all the ideas from Canton! 00:06:38 Rose Frankcomb: recovering post Canton - pumped 00:06:39 Elly Landrigan: After a few roadblocks, steaming on forward and thrilled about it. 00:06:40 Michael Kwok: pumped 00:06:42 JANE PROCTER: Sending my first shipment to Amazon Oz tomorrow 00:06:44 Mark Townsend: Ordinary 00:06:46 Wendy porter: fantastic 00:06:49 Michael & Hanh: amazing!!!! kids are away so we can go social : ) 00:06:53 Cassie Marsden: focused 00:06:54 Greg Horsfall: Taken it all to another level 00:06:55 James and Ingrid: had an amazing week (Claire at Ingrid's) 00:06:55 Rose and Michelle: Slowly... 00:06:56 Rebecca Paros: smashing it.gday from Jamie 00:07:07 John Hell: Congrat 00:07:08 Elly Landrigan: Awesome Jane!! 00:07:12 Goran Metford: Grinding Away! 00:07:15 stephenwilkinson: Twoderful is better than onederful. 00:07:29 Georgia Watt: Riding the emotional rollercoaster post Canton. Focused but overwhelmed with what I don’t know now. 00:07:41 James and Ingrid: Will be better when the boys get home from Bali 00:07:49 Kenyon Metford: V well. Slow though. 00:08:06 rosfrizell: Total overwhelm post canton ! 00:08:36 Wendy: hi Joe 00:08:44 Alicia Julian: hi Joe! 00:08:49 Cyril: hello all!!! 00:08:53 Greg Horsfall: We love Joe 00:08:57 Cyril: Hello Joe 00:09:09 Elly Landrigan: Ooo, secret business! 00:09:32 John Hell: Cool Joe, looking forward to it!! 00:09:42 Jules: Hi Joe, great to see you! 00:09:56 Elly Landrigan: Thanks Joe! Great to see and hear from you :) 00:09:57 Alicia Julian: what gave it away? 00:10:34 Cyril: Hello MM20 :)) 00:10:55 Wendy: Hi Cris 00:10:58 Alicia Julian: Hi Cris 00:11:00 Siu Ling Hui: Yay! Great to see you Cris! 00:11:01 Elly Landrigan: Hi Cris :) 00:11:01 Rosie: Hi Cris 00:11:04 Roslyn Camuglia: Welcome. 00:11:04 Rose and Michelle: Hey Chris! 00:11:06 Cyril: Hello cris 00:11:16 Wendy: really useful stuff - thank you 00:11:21 John Hell: It was great Cris 00:12:17 Ian McKinnon: No pressure Joe 00:12:27 Chis and Jen: #projectjoe100 00:14:34 Tony Laughton: 100 units right.. 00:14:35 Wendy: sounds like fun 00:14:40 Siu Ling Hui: OMG...what if I haven't done the importing course yet??? 00:14:41 Jules: Awesome idea! 00:14:48 Tony Laughton: easy 00:14:53 Elly Landrigan: *hand up* 00:14:53 Cassie Marsden: Totally love that idea 100%!!!!!! 00:14:53 Elsa & Bob: me!! 00:14:53 sashadunn: Yup 00:14:53 Simone Vivers: yessssss 00:14:55 Annette Kastermans: yes 00:14:56 Guy Hebblewhite: Cant wait...the Hebblewhite's are IN! 00:14:56 Shane: i'm in 00:14:57 Roslyn Camuglia: ME!! 00:14:57 Nathan Emanuel: I’M IN!!!! 00:14:59 John Hell: yeap 00:14:59 Barry & Sirima Foley: Im In 00:15:00 Joel & Ellie: Sure thing! 00:15:02 Louise’s iPad: Jules you in ? 00:15:02 Sherly & Lukas: im in 00:15:05 George & Michelle Kozman: IN 00:15:07 Robyn Hamilton-Smith: How fabulous!! 00:15:12 Rose and Michelle: Yeah yeah 00:15:14 Rose Frankcomb: YEs Im in! 00:15:17 Nicole: yep 00:15:18 Alicia Julian: I missed most of it, puppy accident but I’m in 00:15:18 Ian McKinnon: Wayne, your bandwidth sucks 00:15:18 James and Ingrid: We're in! 00:15:19 Michael Kwok: 100 00:15:21 Matt St Onge: I'm on 00:15:21 Anthony Jammal: one in all in 00:15:23 Matt St Onge: in 00:15:23 stephenwilkinson: Yes. 00:15:24 Wendy: great experience 00:15:29 Wendy porter: yes 00:15:29 Matt & Belinda Kaiser: I’m just gonna stay on track 00:15:30 Michael & Hanh: its on 00:16:18 Ben Haigh: in 00:16:19 Siu Ling Hui: Already following - good stuff 00:16:20 George & Michelle Kozman: Invaluable 00:16:20 Cassie Marsden: His rant today was incredible. 00:16:22 Wendy: already following, it's great 00:16:28 rosfrizell: 100% in !! 00:16:36 Alicia Julian: Todays post was great! 00:16:52 Siu Ling Hui: Yes... you keep cutting out!! 00:17:15 Tony Laughton: Not working great today though 00:17:44 Rosie: PP network bandwidth is low 00:18:43 Platinum Partners: In determining the GAS factor for your target Avatar should you. A: Use Google to ask multiple iterations of. What do.......like, love, enjoy, etc. to gage interest. Or B: use Amazon and Zonguru as the primary search tools to determine product selection and potential. 00:19:33 Jules: Your gone wayne 00:19:35 Georgia Watt: Check out Merchant Words too - it returns search results from Amazon (not Google!) 00:19:36 Wendy: yes 00:19:37 Siu Ling Hui: Lost you Wayne 00:19:37 Matt & Belinda Kaiser: waynes gone 00:19:41 Barry & Sirima Foley: yes lost him 00:19:42 Richard Busfield: #where'swayne? 00:19:52 Rose and Michelle: Must be that fancy new microphone... 00:19:55 JustinUrwin: Wayne, you never sounded better 00:20:24 Platinum Partners: I’m working with a supplier that’s not on Alibaba and relying on sourcing agent to do most of the communication. They can only accept payment in local currency. What are some of the options/services out there to be able to pay them without having to transfer money to my sourcing agent? 00:20:38 Platinum Partners: So I just got a logo done on upwork but could not find the feature that Adam has spoken about running a competition for logo design can you shed some light? 00:21:15 Platinum Partners: QUESTION 00:21:24 Jules: You can do private from first competition as well 00:21:41 Platinum Partners: ============== 00:21:43 George & Michelle Kozman: Thanks great info Chris 00:21:57 Elly Landrigan: The one Adam is referring to is here: https://99designs.com.au/ 00:22:36 Ben Haigh: If you email 99 designs they will manually change your first competition to private if you request it. 00:23:52 Jules: Your doing just fine Cris! 00:24:47 Siu Ling Hui: PayPal also known as PainPal :-D 00:25:00 rosfrizell: Cris can we use WeChat 00:25:23 Sherly & Lukas: @Siu Ling, couldn't agree more! 00:25:29 Elly Landrigan: Paypal has changed their rules making it quite a process to receive the money on their end (per my China agent) 00:25:37 Georgia Watt: You need a Bank of China bank account linked tho 00:25:39 Mark Dzidowski: You need a Chinese Bank account 00:25:41 Kylie Beaumont: WorldFirst ? 00:25:48 Jules: YEs you need a chinese bank account for wechat 00:25:51 Phil and Justi: Has anyone tried Transfer Wise - we use it and its great, super low fee’s and great reputation 00:26:05 danandfi: OFX has recommended minimum amounts of around a few thousand 00:26:06 Elly Landrigan: Yes, Phil, I am currently using that 00:26:08 Rebecca Paros: Transfer Wise guys. Brilliant. Can open bank account in china and pay into suppliers RMB accounts or their US accounts 00:26:22 rosfrizell: Western Union is a no no is that right? 00:26:44 Siu Ling Hui: Oh yay! I've not been forgotten. 00:26:55 Siu Ling Hui: Yeah...but the thickness of a plate? 00:27:00 Platinum Partners: How do you figure out materials and details like thickness of say, a bowl , weight and so on. I know what I would like in terms of feel but trying to figure out how to do specs for sourcng. 00:27:19 Phil and Justi: we bought a Vernier Caliper and loving it, so professional and its the double checking peace of min when filling out the purchase order 00:27:29 Matt & Belinda Kaiser: western union is untraceable if it goes wrong 00:27:32 Phil and Justi: mind* 00:27:39 Platinum Partners: Are you able to share an example of great Designer brief document, containing I guess images, Loom video, words. What is takes to attract and brief the good designers 00:28:45 Siu Ling Hui: Thanks, Phil and Justi. I will try that. I am trying to find that ad that was showing up in FB for a laser measuring too. 00:29:08 Ian McKinnon: I have started using loop 00:29:12 Ian McKinnon: loom 00:29:36 John Hell: Cool thanks Cris 00:29:56 Platinum Partners: What is the most efficient and effective process ? Product idea, then get it professionally drawn up to provide to supplier or simply give specifications to supplier at outset for them to design from. 00:30:05 Phil and Justi: Ours was under $50 from Supercheap auto and we even took it to Canton 00:30:36 Rebecca Paros: enter here the engineer 00:32:01 Siu Ling Hui: @Ian McKinnon What's loop loom? I've just googled and getting weird results. 00:32:35 Georgia Watt: useloom.com <- video recording software (free) 00:32:58 Louise’s iPad: thanks guys, completely understand 00:33:09 Rosie: @Siu Ling Hui, just a typo Ian means Loom (video) 00:33:18 Ian McKinnon: Loom is an online app that allows you to record your screen/video, and sent it to someone 00:33:22 Siu Ling Hui: @Rosie, ok. Thanks! 00:33:38 Lucy: sorry we're late Wayne, small mother in law emergency! 00:33:45 Siu Ling Hui: I've already got SnagIt and Camtasia so won't need that. :-D 00:34:13 Chris: Design vs Engendering round II 00:34:13 Mark Dzidowski: In addition, a number or medium and bigger supplier have internal engineering departments. Knowing what the factory is capable of producing is important here. 00:34:26 rosfrizell: Wayne good to hear your new equi 00:34:29 Siu Ling Hui: Good to know Mark 00:34:32 Socrates V: Are you on NBN Wayne…. 00:34:43 rosfrizell: New equipment working well !! 00:34:58 Platinum Partners: After getting designs done professionally in AI format, is there an easier way to make basic changes yourself without having to keep going back and get a designer to change things. Eg. wording on inserts etc. The back and forth to get simple things changed can sometimes take a lot of time and energy. Is it worth getting Adobe Design software without training? I imagine its too complex. 00:35:15 Matt & Belinda Kaiser: no. its a very long process to learn 00:36:21 Platinum Partners: canva.com 00:36:44 Jules: Yes I have since used Canva to design my own stuff! 00:37:01 Platinum Partners: Word Swag 00:37:04 Matt St Onge: get an app on pc called GIMP 00:37:08 Siu Ling Hui: I think Adobe these days is on subscription rather than software purchase 00:37:21 Roslyn Camuglia: Keynote is great to do it with as well if you have an Apple 00:37:23 Matt St Onge: Its free and does all photoshop stuff 00:37:24 Rose and Michelle: Yes please... 00:37:52 Wendy: AI is about $40 per month, hard to use if you aren't familiar with it 00:37:54 Siu Ling Hui: Great, Wayne Keep doing that 00:38:23 Sherly & Lukas: that's right, Adobe Creative Cloud apps are subscription based now 00:38:52 Platinum Partners: Packaging Designer 00:39:14 Platinum Partners: Photo manipulation - Photoshop (deep etching) 00:39:30 Platinum Partners: Graphic overlays - graphic overlays (Adobe Illustrator) 00:39:52 Platinum Partners: Vector - scalable graphics 00:40:09 Platinum Partners: Seamless vector - a pattern that goes on forever 00:40:27 Platinum Partners: Graphic artist, illustrator 00:40:33 Platinum Partners: Product designer 00:40:41 Platinum Partners: Product Engineer 00:40:45 Platinum Partners: Design engineer 00:40:51 Platinum Partners: 3D Printer 00:41:53 Platinum Partners: I need to identify Shipping Logistics from Australia to USA Amazon. Who do you recommend ? 00:42:49 Siu Ling Hui: There's a Sponsored post that keeps popping up in my newsfeed about a 3D printing service 00:43:21 Cassie Marsden: Hey Adam! 00:43:21 Phil and Justi: Hey hey 00:43:22 Devina Hardjadinata: at a minimum what would you ask a design engineer to do? we’re not sure how much work we should do through them vs what the manufacturer should do. thanks guys! :) 00:43:28 Elly Landrigan: Hiya Adam :) 00:43:29 Cyril: Hey Adam 00:43:37 Chis and Jen: The ball buster has landed 00:43:51 Siu Ling Hui: Hi Adam. Cool! 00:44:17 Rose and Michelle: Wow can't wait! Go Adam and Joe! 00:44:37 John Hell: tahnks Adam 00:45:08 Platinum Partners: Cris, in terms of developing product (textiles) AND packaging with suppliers, how essential Do you think it is to invest in physical Pantone swatch cards, noting these would be separate books? Is there another reason way to access Pantone colours accurately online? 00:45:38 Rose Frankcomb: I picked up a set in HK! 00:45:52 Cassie Marsden: Online is RGB so it’s not going to be accurate to printed colour. As a marketer myself, I recommend Pantone books too. 00:46:20 Ian McKinnon: Get a physical. Online usually use RGB and then try and improvise. Also depends on your monitor quality 00:46:44 Platinum Partners: What are the pros and cons of shrink wrapping individual products that are not electrical. 00:49:10 Siu Ling Hui: Do we store the extras at a 3PL? 00:49:42 Platinum Partners: Can you guys put together a webinar where you walk people through listing a brand new item on seller central that includes variations. This process is really hard for newby’s to pick up. 00:49:49 Phil and Justi: What does cris mean about extra swing tags? 00:50:22 Platinum Partners: Can you rely on your keywords to help differentiate your product eg yoga mat for tall people or older people? Because we’ve found good products when you’re sitting in a niche market. Of course you’d then have to be visually different 00:50:40 danandfi: There are quite a few tutorials on youtube running you through how to complete a listing on amazon, including variations 00:50:49 Mark Dzidowski: This is already done Mark posted Amazon University Video that shows how to make a parent and child listing 00:51:55 Georgia Watt: Spot on Cris…. great point. 00:52:07 Cathy Dillon: Yep, wrote question before it was posted to PP facebook page, Im all over it now. The Amazon University tutorial was a great help. 00:52:18 Platinum Partners: Can anyone recommend a user friendly 3D modelling software program? 00:52:27 Simone Vivers: awesome thank u 00:52:28 Mark Dzidowski: https://youtu.be/dFzJn_uDw8I 00:52:42 Mark Dzidowski: How much you wanna spend? 00:52:47 Mark Dzidowski: Fusion 360 00:52:55 Mark Dzidowski: Your best bet 00:52:55 Siu Ling Hui: Upwork for 3D modelling? 00:53:04 Goran Metford: Solid Works! 00:53:15 Mark Dzidowski: Solidworks not Cheep 00:53:20 Mark Dzidowski: 10K plus 00:53:33 Matt St Onge: solidworks have a 30 day trial 00:53:40 Platinum Partners: If there isn’t a lot of visual differentiation in amazon but a lot of differentiation on the web... so you know at some stage people will jump on it, do you still go ahead? 00:53:43 Mark Dzidowski: What do you do after 30 days? 00:53:56 Mark Dzidowski: I use both SW and Fusion 00:54:02 Matt St Onge: hack your registry 00:54:22 Mark Dzidowski: Naughty Naughty:) 00:55:05 Cathy Dillon: Yep found it thanks 00:55:06 Mark Dzidowski: Kathy here is the link to marks video. https://youtu.be/dFzJn_uDw8I 00:55:10 Platinum Partners: Hi Wayne Long time listener first time poster. We would be interested to hear your sagely opinion about utilising other E-commerce sites (shopify for example) at the same time as selling on Amazon. Do you think that the potential for exposure to different / more customers justifies the added overheads? Cheers Terry M 00:55:56 Goran Metford: Go Terry! …and Kellie 00:56:15 Kellie Mastersen: Thanks G 00:56:20 Goran Metford: Hahah 00:57:06 Georgia Watt: Yep, increase the value of your business - more channels, less risk, more control over customer data. 00:58:32 Kylie Beaumont: distribution can be complex and expensive to do yourself 00:59:00 Platinum Partners: While at Canton we found a number of new to market products. Is it worth jumping into the frypan with other new sellers or do you need deep pockets to start strong with a new to market product that you expect to be a big seller? We expect it could also be a short term gain if you get in early but may slow down shortly after if market gets flooded with new sellers? 00:59:52 Georgia Watt: Definitely, but if your business is mature enough, worht the effort IMO - loads of great ecommerce platforms out there to automate loads of operational processes (shipping, labelling, dispatching, etc). 01:00:50 Jules: Great points, thank! 01:00:52 Platinum Partners: RE: Amazon Australia, I had a few people buying my product to give reviews however they can not do that because they have not spent $50 within the first year, is there anyway around this and is this the same for the Amazon US? 01:00:53 Rose and Michelle: Sage advice Cris! 01:01:22 Gary Clements: It is the same in the US 01:01:24 Kellie Mastersen: yes its the same in us 01:02:01 Platinum Partners: RE: Amazon Australia, I had a few people buying my product to give reviews however they can not do that because they have not spent $50 within the first year, is there anyway around this and is this the same for the Amazon US? 01:02:08 Platinum Partners: I am so blessed of meeting great people at Canton Fair, Global Sources and HK Megashow Fairs. I’ve had the opportunity to visit one factory in Guangzhou (Small structure family business). During the visit and meeting at the factory, one partner mention “Brand Share”. This means they would like to expand their brand to USA market. Questions: How should we do this? What are the key points to take in consideration when a factory is asking this? What type of contract should we write down? 01:03:26 Sherly & Lukas: Spend $ 50, combining that product with other producs in one purchase. Amazon AU sells quite a few range of household, pet and food products now. Many are cheaper than supermarkets or dept stores 01:03:39 Cyril: thank you cris 01:03:41 Georgia Watt: Very cool! Always wondered about exclusivity deals on AMZ. Thanks for the question/answer team. 01:05:36 Sherly & Lukas: Additionally, Amazon AU regularly offer 20% off of household products with minimum spend of $ 50 01:05:40 Gary Clements: Thanks Wayne 01:05:41 Platinum Partners: I am so blessed of meeting great people at Canton Fair, Global Sources and HK Megashow Fairs. I’ve had the opportunity to visit one factory in Guangzhou (Small structure family business). During the visit and meeting at the factory, one partner mention “Brand Share”. This means they would like to expand their brand to USA market. Questions: How should we do this? What are the key points to take in consideration when a factory is asking this? What type of contract should we write down? 01:05:47 Siu Ling Hui: OK. Gotta run. Will listen to the rest on recording. 01:05:57 Siu Ling Hui: Thanks, Wayne. Thanks, Cris. 01:06:04 Lucy: love PPC!!