Bring Your Product Idea to Life

My guest today is Jenny Tse Sipping Streams Tea Company. Sipping Stream Tea Company is an international award-winning tea company and tea educator based in Alaska. Direct tea importer and master blenders. Creating community through their tea offerings: loose-leaf tea, custom blend specialty teas, matcha tea, fireweed honey, bubble tea kits, tea accessories and more! Jenny started her business 17 y...

How do you start selling on Amazon? In this episode I walk you through everything you need to know about setting yourself up and starting to sell on Amazon, from how to apply to become an Amazon seller, through deciding whether to fulfill orders by FBA or FBM, to what to do to encourage those first orders once your account is all set. Listen in to hear me share: Why you should consider selling on...

Today I'm talking to Jennifer Cooper. Jenny is the founder of Jennifer Cooper Timesaver, and with her team Jenny provides time saving support, support to small business owners and entrepreneurs. Jenny's also the founder of Kindred Spirits, a community for fellow small business owners that provides opportunities for connection and collaboration with unique events and group mentoring. And as part of...

Ryan Margolin is the CEO of Professional Hair Labs, a cosmetic manufacturer who supply private label products and also custom formulate and contract manufacture for companies globally.  Professional Hair Labs started off as a two-person family business and has now expanded massively with locations in the USA and Ireland and they sell their products to distributors, wholesalers and retailers a...

Charlie Day is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur who has built three multi-six-figure businesses from the ground up. Charlie is passionate about helping business owners create more sales in their businesses and proclaims that ‘sales is easy if you just know how.’ She runs the free Facebook community for business owners, The Entrepreneurs Growth Club. This is a must listen to episode, as Charlie b...

It’s episode 155, and 3 years since I started this podcast. I've spoken to so many wonderful product creators and people who support product creators over the last three years, and I have learned so much from absolutely everyone that I spoke to. To celebrate I have put together a compilation of some of the best advice I have heard over the years. If you want to launch your own product or are just...

In episode 152 I spoke with Chris Lefteri from FixIts, who talked about his unique product. On 9 March 2023 Chris was on BBC’s Dragons Den. In this short episode, I speak with Chris about what it was like, what it involves and whether he’d recommend it as an experience! USEFUL RESOURCES: Episode 152 Fixits Website Fixits Facebook Fixits Instagram Fixits LinkedIn Fixits Pinterest Fixits Twitter Kic...

Leslie Kenny is the Founder and CEO of Oxford Healthspan,   an anti-aging supplement brand that contains spermidine, a potent organic compound that inhibits six of the nine hallmarks of aging. She is also a co-founder of Oxford Longevity , which brings together scientific experts to discuss the latest breakthroughs in health and aging by providing free public health webinars. It was fascinati...

Millie Jaspert is the founder of Spark Bubble,an online store selling bath-toys particularly for children aged 2-9 years old. Millie has developed some of these toys herself and others are a curated collection created by other brands. Millie is also a Primary Teacher so has chosen open-ended toys and shares suggestions for ways children can explore and learn with them. We had a really interesting...

Chris Lefteri is a Materials Consultant, Designer and author of 9 books on materials. He is also the inventor and founder of Fixits, reusable eco-plastic moldable sticks, which you can use to repair all manner of things around the home and office.  Chris shared how he turned a useful material into a marketable product and the challenges of creating and marketing a unique product, where the au...

I work with a lot of Amazon sellers everyday, helping them set up and grow their Amazon account. I see a lot of people do well – but I also see people who don’t.  What’s worse is that for some of them there are reasons for this, out of their control, and they might have been better off focusing their time and effort into another marketplace. In this episode I share why Amazon might be the rig...

Today I'm talking with Lucy Herron, the founder of Sloafer, a women's shoe brand that handmakes ballerina pumps with an all day sneaker comfort sole. It’s a really powerful episode, as Lucy is incredibly articulate about the importance of valuing your product and yourself. Lucy explains how she has chosen to work with a factory that pays a fair wage, and why she is shunning fast fashion practices....

Something I get asked a lot is what software I use and recommend when working with Amazon.  Over the years I’ve tried a lot - and my favourite is Jungle Scout.  I’ve been using it for years, ever since I first started selling on Amazon and I’m still using it daily to help other Amazon Sellers. In this bonus episode I explain the features, what I use it for, and whether it might be a good...

Today I'm talking with Iain Moore from BGreater Shoes. BGreater Shoes design and sell affordable kids foot friendly shoes which are designed to allow children’s feet to grow, develop and move more naturally than most high street brands, whilst importantly looking after parents wallets and time. Iain and I discussed why he set up BGreater Shoes, and the particular challenges of designing and manufa...

This week my guest on the podcast is Em Royston from Chasing Threads. Chasing Threads make stitchable accessories and cross stitch kits for the modern world. The first collection of unique, stylish and functional accessories that can be stitched and personalised, born from the idea to 'sew where you go'. Em has an interesting background, having previously worked for product brand Suck UK. We talke...

In this week’s episode, I share the ways that I can support you and your small business.  I specialise in promoting small businesses on Amazon. I know Amazon is not for everyone. So I wanted to share why I work on this platform, and the advantages I believe it offers small businesses. I am not affiliated in any way with Amazon, these are just my honest, professional opinions. Listen in to hea...

This week my guest on the podcast is Laura Seago from Futliit. Futliit makes LED backpacks that use tech to make you properly visible. Our smart light-up backpacks are ideal for kids walking to school, commuters and in fact anyone who needs to be seen at night.  Laura is a wonderful example of someone who saw a problem, and created a product to overcome this. Once she started looking into roa...

Have you considered wholesaling your products? Or are you looking for a fresh take on how to do this? Today’s podcast guest is perfectly positioned to share a wealth of knowledge on this topic. Ami Rabheru is the founder of The Retail Business Hub and Scale with Wholesale® Academy. Ami is a Retail business consultant and product strategist.  She specialises in teaching productpreneurs® how to...

Helen Barker is the co-founder of Fika. Helen’s aim is to create a positive impact in the fashion industry through my slower paced, sustainably conscious brand. We talked about the fashion industry as a whole, and some of the issues that Helen sees with the industry. We discussed how Helen is trying to change this Fika focusing on slow and sustainable fashion. From how she sources material sustain...

This week I thought I'd re-release one of my very favourite ever episodes. If you’re a regular listener you’ll know I ask all product creators who join me on the show for their number 1 piece of advice. For episode 50, I put together a compilation of 20 of the best tips I'd heard from product creators. If you want to launch your own product or are just in need of a friendly boost this is the episo...

Kresse Wesling, CBE, is a multi-award winning environmental entrepreneur. After first meeting the London Fire Brigade in 2005, Kresse launched Elvis & Kresse, which rescues and transforms decommissioned fire hose into innovative lifestyle products and returns 50% of profits to the Fire Fighters Charity. The company now collects 12 different waste streams and has several charitable partnerships...

Today on the podcast, I'm delighted to have Shona Chambers join me. Shona is a returning guest, who first appeared on the podcast 2 years ago. Um, Shona is a marketing consultant and she's here today to talk specifically about how to grow your email list. She talks about why it's important for small businesses to have a list, how you might grow it, and if you do have an email list of people on, yo...

My guest on the podcast today is Simon Fineman, who together with his wife, Dr. Evie Kemp runs Haspaka, a company selling nutritious products made from the little known but amazing haskap berry. In a previous life, Simon ran a large timbering court importing company pioneering the use of sustainable timbers for industry and construction. A lifelong vegetarian. Simon is passionate about the environ...

So you’ve got a great idea for a product. What do you do next? One of the single most important things you can do is to validate your product idea before you go ahead and start creating or manufacturing your product. I want you to have to be confident that your product will sell before you start investing in creating it. So today I am going to share 5 free ways to validate your product idea. All t...

Today I'm talking with Vic Wood from Greener Beauty. Greener Beauty is an online store where you can find all the ethical, vegan and cruelty-free and natural beauty products that you love all in one place.  Vic shares how she went about sourcing products for her business, ensuring that they meet her ethical standards and how the business has grown rapidly over the past few years. Vic now has...