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I never made a introduction post since I joined last year. I am going to the Fastlane Summit and thought I'd post an introduction along with my picture so I am not stranger when you see me 
I live in New Jersey but grew up in Northern Virginia. I went to school at the University of Maryland and double majored in Accounting and Economics. Started my career in tax at PwC. Fast forward 7 years, worked up the corporate ladder, and now I'm a manager at a PE fund focusing on transactional tax work. Yep, boring story so far right?....
Over the 7 years, I had an interest in real estate. I purchased my first rental property a year ago in Ohio. I was hooked on getting passive rental checks which brought me here on this forum when I was researching on real estate development.
I read TMF twice. I read through most of the gold threads. I'm now taking action and have plans to leave my slow lane job in 2016.
Importing/FBA - In June 2015, I started importing products to private label. I must have imported around 8 different products. Out of those 8 products, I only have one "winner" which brings me around $3,600 in sales (in November so it is overstated due to Holidays). When I first imported this one product, I lost a lot of money on advertising. Now I am #2 listing in the search results for most of my keywords. If you knew the product, you would have no idea that they were popular. I'm working on expanding the product line as we speak. I've already set up a website but have not gotten any sales on it (even after getting visitors from instagram and adwords).
In October 2015, I went to the China to meet with several manufactures that I will be working with. It was a great trip. I also went to the Canton Fair but in my opinion, it was not as useful or I was not prepared.
Kickstarter - I am also launching a kickstarter campaign for a product that I hope to sell online and wholesale to distributors. If you are an INSIDERS, you will see my progress thread. I've built an e-mail subscriber list of more then 2,000 people all in less then a month. My strategy was to use facebook ads paying 1 cent per click! Once I receive my sample in 2 weeks, I will start cranking up my budget for these ads. Now with a huge subscriber list and following on facebook and instagram, I was able to survey my followers to give them the exact product.
I hope to meet you all at the Summit. Here is a picture of me so if you see me, please say Hi to me in February!
Me in Guangzhou after the Canton Fair in October
Cliffnote:
- Raised in Northern Virginia
- A CPA looking to quit the slowlane
- Started importing and amazon FBA in June 2015
- Starting Kickstarter Campaign in 2016
-Looking to meet everyone at the Summitt
-Mike
I live in New Jersey but grew up in Northern Virginia. I went to school at the University of Maryland and double majored in Accounting and Economics. Started my career in tax at PwC. Fast forward 7 years, worked up the corporate ladder, and now I'm a manager at a PE fund focusing on transactional tax work. Yep, boring story so far right?....
Over the 7 years, I had an interest in real estate. I purchased my first rental property a year ago in Ohio. I was hooked on getting passive rental checks which brought me here on this forum when I was researching on real estate development.
I read TMF twice. I read through most of the gold threads. I'm now taking action and have plans to leave my slow lane job in 2016.
Importing/FBA - In June 2015, I started importing products to private label. I must have imported around 8 different products. Out of those 8 products, I only have one "winner" which brings me around $3,600 in sales (in November so it is overstated due to Holidays). When I first imported this one product, I lost a lot of money on advertising. Now I am #2 listing in the search results for most of my keywords. If you knew the product, you would have no idea that they were popular. I'm working on expanding the product line as we speak. I've already set up a website but have not gotten any sales on it (even after getting visitors from instagram and adwords).
In October 2015, I went to the China to meet with several manufactures that I will be working with. It was a great trip. I also went to the Canton Fair but in my opinion, it was not as useful or I was not prepared.
Kickstarter - I am also launching a kickstarter campaign for a product that I hope to sell online and wholesale to distributors. If you are an INSIDERS, you will see my progress thread. I've built an e-mail subscriber list of more then 2,000 people all in less then a month. My strategy was to use facebook ads paying 1 cent per click! Once I receive my sample in 2 weeks, I will start cranking up my budget for these ads. Now with a huge subscriber list and following on facebook and instagram, I was able to survey my followers to give them the exact product.
I hope to meet you all at the Summit. Here is a picture of me so if you see me, please say Hi to me in February!
Me in Guangzhou after the Canton Fair in October
Cliffnote:
- Raised in Northern Virginia
- A CPA looking to quit the slowlane
- Started importing and amazon FBA in June 2015
- Starting Kickstarter Campaign in 2016
-Looking to meet everyone at the Summitt
-Mike
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