The Maui CEO: Import from China, Sell on eBay, and Live Wherever You Want
Have you always dreamed of leaving your mundane job and owning your own business? The Maui CEO is a practical guide for any new entrepreneur that demonstrates how to develop a business from idea to launch. Maui CEO provides specific tips on how to dominate and manage an entire competitive segment on eBay.
Author John Tennant, an experienced dot-com business owner and professor, shares his vast knowledge about eBay?a critical channel for product businesses. Mr. Tennant helps you decide which product to buy for resale, and provides practical direction on how to:
- Develop an online business identity and incorporate in Nevada
- Find sellers in China
- Order and import your first container of product
- Outsource Web development, site hosting, and merchant integration
- Locate warehouse space and manage inventory
- Avoid fraud with eBay, escrow, and PayPal
The Maui CEO will help you create a product-oriented business that will quickly be up and running, and can easily be managed from any location. If you are ready to earn the coveted eBay title ?category killer,? then don?t wait any longer?get started today!
Customer Review: Excellent and easy to read book……highly recommended
Mr. Tennant’s “Maui Ceo” is a no non-sense guide to getting started in the Import business. The book takes you step by step thru the process of setting up your business. The author gives great information on finding and selecting products, developing your own corporate identity and finding sellers for your products. Also covered are the details of shipping containers from foreign ports as well as warehouse information. Personal website development and E-Bay are also discussed in detail. The book as a whole contains pertinent information free of fluff and is a very easy read.
-Robert Johnson
Synergy Exchange Solutions
Customer Review: Awesome business book
First of all, it’s easy to read yet packed with solid business and financial information. Second, Maui CEO is the ultimate expression of buying low and using e-commerce to leverage a small business. There are obviously different ways of going about this, and I think another reviewer misses this point. Using weight loss as an analogy, you can’t be successful with Atkins if you follow only the parts that make sense to you. Likewise, if you import via LTL and store the stuff in your garage, you haven’t lowered your risk: you’ve already lost, because you are acquiring your product from a distributor (i.e. not getting the lowest price) and you are selling a product (iPod headphones, or whatever) that does not have any competitive barriers.
I like the reviewer using specifics about what he didn’t like or believe, but he misses the book’s ultimate points on how to buy low. I don’t even think a quality Chinese manufacturer will sell LTL quantities anyway.
To summarize the book’s point in this area, 1) sell items that weigh more than 150 lbs so that UPS can’t ship it (to reduce competition); 2) sell items that are more expensive which gives buyers more reason to buy online (like air conditioners or Jacuzzis)–the more money you save, the more incentive buyers have to buy online; and 3) the process of container shipping is clearly spelled out. To me, that’s good advice.
Unlike today’s hot book–The 4-hour Workweek–I believe Maui CEO contains nothing but meat–written in a way that makes fighting the big-guys possible and practical. “BUY NOW”
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