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 some tips on what you can present in your booth, something that makes you unique and memorable, highlighting the power of timing or understanding the perfect moment that you can engage in retail.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the On The Shelf community today: Ontheshelfnow.com On The Shelf Now Facebook Group On the Shelf Now Facebook On The Shelf Now Twitter On the Shelf Now Instagram

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 behind! Plus, Timothy answers some questions from On The Shelf listeners.

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 came out of seeing entrepreneurial opportunities come to life. Learn some golden nuggets from Timothy about negotiating, seizing opportunities, finding your people, and more!

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 of keeping that work-life balance or what Jeff Bezos calls the “work-life harmony.” They shed light on the many aspects that many working people forget, from morning routines and doing self-reflection to taking vacations. Sharing their own experiences and struggles with understanding whether it is balance or harmony they want in life, Tom, Joe, Tracy, and Salah offer some great things to think about as we proceed with whatever we need to face daily.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the On the Shelf community today: Ontheshelfnow.com On The Shelf Now Facebook Group On the Shelf Now Facebook On The Shelf Now Twitter On the Shelf Now Instagram

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, WhatsApp, and even your own website. Listen to this episode and discover how you can be making money online other than Amazon.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the On the Shelf community today: Ontheshelfnow.com On The Shelf Now Facebook Group On the Shelf Now Facebook On The Shelf Now Twitter On the Shelf Now 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 developing software that makes things very fast. Ramesh also introduces his book, The 60 Minute Startup, and touches on how to properly pivot and what should cause it. Join Ramesh today as he teaches on how to be an agile entrepreneur and make your own business empire.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the On the Shelf community today: Ontheshelfnow.com On The Shelf Now Facebook Group On the Shelf Now Facebook On The Shelf Now Twitter On the Shelf Now Instagram

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 launched her first eCommerce business on Amazon. She shares some tips on how you can make your way through the Amazon Marketplace and how her company can help you scale your products. She also introduces the Marketplace Institute and talks about the challenges and benefits of podcasting.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the On the Shelf community today: Ontheshelfnow.com On The Shelf Now Facebook Group On the Shelf Now Facebook On The Shelf Now Twitter On the Shelf Now Instagram

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 assessment of your efforts to put your products on the shelf. Catch his tips on how to get a "yes" from your retailers.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the On the Shelf community today: Ontheshelfnow.com On The Shelf Now Facebook Group On the Shelf Now Facebook On The Shelf Now Twitter On the Shelf Now Instagram

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 spec sheets. Don’t miss out on learning about buyer decks as you enter into a partnership with your retailers.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the On the Shelf community today: Ontheshelfnow.com On The Shelf Now Facebook Group On the Shelf Now Facebook On The Shelf Now Twitter On the Shelf Now Instagram

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 discussion about creating some efficiencies that will change your product in a meaningful way and, thus, upping your margins. Sharing The Canton Fair Experience, they give us a peek into this gathering of the largest exposition of suppliers, as well as talk about sourcing in China, negotiating the cost of your product, and more.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the On the Shelf community today: Ontheshelfnow.com On The Shelf Now Facebook Group On the Shelf Now Facebook On The Shelf Now Twitter On the Shelf Now Instagram

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. As they go deeper into understanding what makes people want to buy, they give insights from different perspectives backed with a number of data. Learn what they have to say about the consumer’s mindset, social media’s relationship with brands, throwaway products, and loyal customers.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the On the Shelf community today: Ontheshelfnow.com On The Shelf Now Facebook Group On the Shelf Now Facebook On The Shelf Now Twitter On the Shelf Now Instagram

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 along the way, he also shares his insights on how you can keep going in the face of rejection, finding your why, making emotional deposits, and more.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the On the Shelf community today: Ontheshelfnow.com On The Shelf Now Facebook Group On the Shelf Now Facebook On The Shelf Now Twitter On the Shelf Now Instagram

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 consultant, and a podcast host. She joins us to show how we can get our product produced right the first time and why it is crucial to get deep into the process of building your products uniquely to be successful in your eCommerce business.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How »   Join the On the Shelf community today: Ontheshelfnow.com On The Shelf Now Facebook Group On the Shelf Now Facebook On The Shelf Now Twitter On the Shelf Now Instagram

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 field, and how to rise above the noise. As David talks about disruption, he lists having a good social media program, sampling, and creating trials as some of the best ways to let a product become shelf stable.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How »   Join the On the Shelf community today: Ontheshelfnow.com On The Shelf Now Facebook Group On the Shelf Now Facebook On The Shelf Now Twitter On the Shelf Now Instagram

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 show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How »   Join the On the Shelf community today: Ontheshelfnow.com On The Shelf Now Facebook Group On the Shelf Now Facebook On The Shelf Now Twitter On the Shelf Now Instagram