If you’re focused on selling consumer products, as I am, there’s no better place to research and discover new product ideas than Amazon.
The website that launched my online business career! I started selling gumballs at school when I was 12 years old. Years later, I started a gumball machine vending route in the Pacific Northwest. I developed relationships with a handful of vending machine manufacturers and started selling gumball machines on Ebay. I used the profits from my Ebay sales to purchase the domain name and develop/launch the e-commerce store. Gumballs.com grew to become one of the largest online vending machine retailers in the world at the time. www.gumballs.com
After reading countless biographical books about business leaders and industry titans, I’ve come to realize that failures and fuck ups are a normality in business.