You are probably used to sending your products packaged to your customers – after all, you don't want them to arrive damaged. What you may not be very familiar with is the packaging legislation within Europe. The packaging legislation focuses on recycling of packaging materials. In this blog we would like to inform you about this legislation, what it entails, how it works and how to comply.

Packaging legislation in the EU

The United Kingdom has fairly flexible packaging legislation: here you only need to register your company from 50,000 kilos of packaging waste. Germany and France, on the other hand, are much stricter: you are obliged to ensure all your packaging is being recycled. In both countries there is no threshold: you have to register when you sell your first product to a German or French customer. Since it is difficult to check whether your customers recycle the packaging, these countries know so-called ‘dual systems’, also called ’recycling...

Sophie has been working with virtual assistants a lot herself in her own business, for the last 3 or so years; her company Resource Worldwide had placed virtual assistants in over 100 companies in August 2020, from when they first started in December 2019. So, Sophie is pretty familiar with virtual assistants, they definitely know how to work with their team to get the absolute best result out of them. 

Something which seems to be happening a lot, is confusion around how to get the best out of virtual assistants. So...this is what is what we are going to be talking about in this blog post.

Be Clear & Concise 

One of the key things here is when you set tasks for your team members, make sure you are very clear and concise with it. You don't want them to mess up or not get the criteria right because you haven't explained in enough or clear detail for them to understand specifically what you want.

Print Out Key Performance Indicators 

So, if I am talking...

In this blog post, I am going to be talking about why Amazon FBA. I am going to be explaining the fundamentals and the basics on why this model, which we call arbitrage, is such a big opportunity right now, for you to take advantage.

Arbitrage is simply getting a product from one price, from one marketplace, and selling it at a higher price, on another marketplace. And the difference could be your profit.

I am going to get into why FBA in this blog post, and explain why Amazon FBA is such a win-win for everybody - for you as the seller, for you as the customer, for Amazon themselves. It is a win-win for everybody.

If you would like to learn more about Amazon FBA, Kev has a full series where goes through the 3 major systems in full detail, watch the video below!

Amazon FBA Full Series

Consumer

Some benefits as a consumer, is that you trust Amazon. You know that if you purchase something from Amazon, it is going to turn up. It is not the same as just purchasing from a random retail...

This blog post is going to reveal 5 ways, which you can use to make Q4 easier for yourself this Q4. Q4 is the busiest time of the year. Coming up with ways and innovating ways where you can make things easier for yourself, to make yourself more productive, to be focused in one the right places and the right areas of your business, to have the best impact on the results of your business, is going to make a big difference.

So, these are 5 tips which you can take away and implement in your business.

Hire a Staff Member

Hire a staff member. Whether that is a virtual assistant that you can get access to from all around the world, whether that is in the Philippines, India, or anywhere else; just becoming more productive in terms of hiring a staff member. Hiring a staff member will make such a huge difference when it comes to your productivity, because there are so many things to do, when you think of the complexity of your business, everything from sourcing to purchasing to shipping, to...

Every online arbitrage and wholesale business needs this.... Can you guess what it it? Everyone that has been able to be successful in this business model over the years have done so because they began to build TEAMS.

TEAMS is what allows you to get all the tasks done every day that you need to get done. There are not enough hours in the day to get everything done that we need to do. Here are just some of the tasks we need to do:

Sourcing profitable products, reviewing profitable products, purchasing profitable products, unfulfillable products, inventory adjustments, repricing, replenishing, amazon seller central account health and much much more. How do we manage this? THROUGH TEAMS.

In this blog post, I am going to be sharing the steps of how to get this in your business. If you are building an online arbitrage business today, then this absolutely needs to be part of your vision for the future, whether that is right now, next month, next quarter, whatever it is, your goals...

In this blog post, I am going to be talking about how you can achieve your goals. We are now in 2021, and it is very important to be inspired and motivated to achieve those goals that you set for yourself at the beginning of the year.

 In this blog post, what I would really like to do is talk about specifically how you can achieve your goals, and give yourself the best opportunity and chance to achieve those goals that you set for yourself.

A lot of people, only 3 or 4 months into the year, have already given up on their new years resolutions, and there are specific and crucial reasons for that, people simply get discouraged, and they fall back into their day to day living.

So, what are 3 great tips to ensure that you can achieve these goals set for yourself? 

You Have to Get Yourself to a Point Where You Have to Make it a Must 

This is crucial. This is the most critical aspect of you achieving anything. If you make it a must, if you make achieving a goal...

In this blog post, you are going to learn the major insights on opening 3 wholesale accounts over the space of 24 hours, and that has been the result over the last 8 weeks of building a relationship, seeking out and finding these wholesalers, to the point where I say opened up accounts, it means that we now have an account with the wholesalers, we can place orders with the wholesalers, and even have phone numbers, where you can get on the phone right now, make a call, and speak about your account, and place an order on any amount of products that we desire (If they have it in stock). 

The journey really started seriously in August 2018, and and it was the beginning of August, when Kev was invited to the FBA Academy, which is a seller conference that is held every year by Andy Laurence from wholesale, and he invited Kev there to speak and share our journey, what they had done over the last 3 years within their operations at the time. He had a presentation about wholesale, and...

In this blog post, I am going to be talking about goals. I am going to be talking about achieving your goals, by creating systems.

So, hopefully, this is going to be a very thought-provoking blog post for you, something which you can get your teeth into, something that you can sit down in your spare time, and you can reverse engineer the goals that you have in your life and business. The chances are that you have goals; the chances are that you have set yourself goals, and you are a part of that 50% who are more likely to achieve goals, if you have got them written down. 

One of the things which Kev absolutely believes in is reverse engineering those goals, and what you have to do on a daily basis, to make them become a reality, to give you the best chance of making your goals become a reality. 

So, in this blog post, we are going to have a couple of examples, where we are going to be breaking down some business goals, some health and fitness goals, and then, at some...

In this blog post, I am going to be talking about how you can sell your business, preparing your business to sell it, and as you build your business, how can you optimise it, so that you have a potential opportunity to sell it?

One of the first things which Kev learnt really early on, from his engineering days; systemising in engineering is all about engineering and outcome, which is mechanical, and the probability of success and failure can be designed in a way to give it the optimum potential to each the outcome.

Learn how to hire staff members here:

See From An Asset Point Of View

Kev had the same philosophy coming into business, where if you want to build a business, you have got to see it from an asset point of view, where you are building something which is an asset that you can potentially sell. That was the philosophy of how everything that Kev has done, every single moment and every single strategic move, Kev always had that in mind. 

Let me dig down deeper, and let...

This blog post has been inspired by a couple of posts which we have seen across social medias in some communities and groups, which have specifically spoken about labour shortages, which have specifically spoken about how to attract talent into your business, as you are trying to build your team and build your business. And there has been so much conversation on what impact Brexit has had, what impact COVID-19 has had, the lockdowns, all the government support which has been given to people and businesses, and there have been some people who have been speaking about struggling to hire people, saying that there are people out there that may be too lazy or the government have been giving too much support, so why would people go back to work? There have been so many conversations going back and forth, but I wanted to specifically touch on something, which Kev has personally experienced as he has built his team and his business over the last 6 years, specifically when it comes to hiring...