On The Shelf: How To Get Your Products Into Big Box Retail!

One of the best ways of showcasing your brand is through trade shows. But how can you outshine so many similar products and services? Today, Timothy Bush shares some trade show strategies that you can use to allow your presence to vibrate in the venue. He highlights the benefits of trade shows as well as the things that you should certainly think about before going to such event. He also offers so...

As an entrepreneur, the temptation to keep doing things that only benefit the client or the business will always exist, no matter what situation. Because of this, personal growth for entrepreneurs is often ignored or left by the wayside. Timothy Bush talks about making room for one’s personal growth amid the chaos of running a successful business. Make sure you don’t leave your own personal growth...

What do you get when you put entrepreneurs and factories in one place together? A whole lot of innovation and magic. In this episode, host Timothy Bush reveals the five lessons he learned at the Canton Fair, a biannual trade show for factories in China to exhibit their capabilities in producing. He shares the wisdom he learned from attending the event with fellow entrepreneurs and the magic that c...

What do you do when you are not doing your job? In this Flash Topic episode, host Timothy Bush brings back Joe Tarnowski , Tracy Hazzard , and Salah Khalaf to talk about finding their entrepreneurial balance. In a world that seems to want more out of us, it can be very difficult to keep track of our life outside of the hustle we do at work. Timothy and his guests share their own thoughts and ways...

With the rise of Amazon, Facebook, and eCommerce websites, selling your products and capturing your target market via the internet is vital to your business success. In this episode, host Timothy Bush talks with Thibaud Clément, the CEO and Co-founder of Loomly about growing your ecommerce business through social media. Thibaud is an expert on making money on social media using Facebook, Instagram...

A lot of times, we are very busy building our own business and yet we still don’t seem to have enough time. In this episode, host Timothy Bush talks with special guest and serial entrepreneur Ramesh Dontha about how he became an entrepreneur. Ramesh is an entrepreneur, writer, and blogger. He talks about his agile methodology which is a very iterative, incremental, collaborative approach to d...

Getting around Amazon to scale up your business is not an easy-breezy task. From loading your catalog and getting your content together to setting up your campaigns, you can drain your energy doing all of these especially if you lack the manpower to do so. Podcast host, the author of Amazon for CMOs , and the Founder of Bobsled Marketing Kiri Masters offers her expertise in this area. Kiri launche...

For many entrepreneurs, traveling is part of the business, whether they like it or not. In most cases, traveling is made worse because other people fail to follow some unspoken travel rules. In this episode, Timothy Bush shares fifteen sensible travel rules that, if followed, are guaranteed to make everyone’s trip smoother and a little less daunting. He also touches on how you can do a year-end as...

One of the most important things that will help get your products into a major big-box retailer is a good presentation otherwise known as the buyer deck. In this episode, Timothy Bush takes on the topic of building a buyer deck that retailers can leaf through to learn about your company and product. He gets down into the things you can put in it, as well as talks about building the line sheets and...

Have you ever been in a position where you’re feeling stuck about the pricing you have? Have you sold to a retailer and the money that is coming back is not what you want it to be? If so, then this episode will be a treat for you. Timothy Bush sits down with two experts in the field, Steven Selikoff and Amy Wees of The Canton Fair Experience, to talk about product margins. They get deep into the d...

One of the greatest mysteries in business that has constantly been covered and uncovered is understanding what customers exactly want in a product. When people shop, all of them are potential customers. But how can you actually turn them into actual consumers? Getting into the topic in this thirteenth Flash Topic together with host Timothy Bush are Joe Tarnowski, Jamie Robinson, and Shannon Curtin...

In this very crowded market, it is very hard to be seen when you don’t have a product that stands out. How then can you rise above and become something that must not be missed? It’s simple. Find the uniques of your product. Timothy educates us on how to identify what makes your product shine among the crowd, giving a great and easy exercise that will bring them to light. Answering other questions...

Having been an overachiever and a straight-A student since she was young, Amy Wees’ fire for business and finance was lit when she won a stock market competition in high school. Since then, she’s been fascinated with business and became a full-time entrepreneur after her eighteen-year stint with the government and the military as a strategist and planner. Amy is now the CEO of Amazing at Home, a c...

As the world of branding and advertising is continuously evolving to a more modern domain, competition, especially in the food and beverage company, is also getting stronger. David Lemley, Chief Strategist of Retail Voodoo, talks about how to showcase food products in a sustainable manner. He shares his opinions about brands and gives some tips on how to get noticed, how to get products in the fie...

The road to success is never an easy one. However, all the challenges you face are meant to help you become a better and learned entrepreneur. In this episode, Tim shares the top ten lessons he has learned as an entrepreneur and talks about TLB Consulting’s tenth anniversary. Get insights as he shares some essential tips on retail, product packaging, and continuously pursuing your dreams. Love the...

Joe Tarnowski, Salah Khalaf, Shannon Curtin, and Tom and Tracy Hazzard are back to take us into their library as they provide a great reading list for success. Equipped with two books that they felt had a major impact on their lives and businesses, they gear us up for a journey across multiple places. Get in touch with a book for entrepreneurs who work themselves all the time. Find out how br...

Do you ever wonder why you don’t get a ‘yes’ from the buyer in spite of what you might think is a great presentation? Do you email them and they don’t respond to you? Making a sale can be such an uphill battle. Having an effective sales pitch is a key fundamental in a sales job, therefore, you need to prepare an effective technique. Preparing an answer to their possible questions may definitely do...

More and more people are wanting to become entrepreneurs. However, what is that really like? Before jumping in with both feet, listen to what the experts have to say. Joe Tarnowski, Tracy Hazzard, Jamie Robinson, and Salah Khalaf are back on the panel of Flash Topic, joined by a new addition, Shannon Curtin of The Possibility Group, to dish out some of the best advice they have for aspiring entrep...

There are so many layers to entrepreneurship that needs to be explored when you want to become successful in it. Going deep into the retail side of it is Shannon Curtin. Shannon is a beauty industry expert, art curator, real estate developer, clean water activist, and the founder of TPG, The Possibility Group. She gives great insights into retail as she provides her personal experience in the indu...

At the end of the day it's just people trying to make the best decisions for their company. Pete Roberts and Brian Littlefield from Origin USA sat down with Tim to talk about how they started their company and how embracing excellence enabled them to scale it. Pete and Brian’s partnership is a huge powerhouse. Origin USA manufactures products for Jiu Jitsu, MMA, BJJ, Grappling and Lifestyle Athlet...

One of the challenges of taking your product to retail is getting that professional packaging which can cost you as much as $10,000 to $15,000. It can be very heavy on the pocket, but then you can’t very well do it with substandard packaging because in retail, packaging is very important. So what do you do? Learn the answer to this as well as other questions that come to mind when you’re taking yo...

What makes up an image? We’re talking about your image, your company’s image, or your product’s image. What is it and does it even matter? How does it all come about and how do you protect it, grow it, and make it better? Emily Page from Pearl Resourcing is here to give her thoughts on how important your image is. Love the show?  Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the On Th...

In sales, getting the person you’re talking to engaged in your sales conversation is crucial, especially if they’re not engaged. That means the person you’re talking to is on their phone, they’re looking around, they’re rolling their eyes, they’re yawning, they’re putting their head in their hands. It’s a struggle to get any kind of a commitment from these types of people. To get anything going, y...

For those who may not be familiar with the show Make48, it’s where teams of all ages, genders, backgrounds, and places develop brand new ideas in a weekend invent-a-thon where they have 48 hours to plan, prototype, and pitch an idea for prizes and licensing potential. It is a valuable resource for anyone and everyone to gain insight into the innovation community. David McCutcheon, full time teache...

Do you every notice that somehow packaging always seems to take a back seat to other seemingly more important items on you list. It’s what gets done with the the money that is leftover, which Emily Page will tell you is not always the best strategy. The real truth is that product packaging is major. It can be difficult, if not impossible, to land your product on the shelf of a major retailer witho...