The Black Sheep is an accomplished product entrepreneur and author. His companies invent, design, source manufacturing and market a range of consumer products. The companies’ distribution channels span the gamut from Costco to category leading sales on Amazon and reach 42 international markets. The majority of the manufacturing facilities comprising the firms’ supply chains are in mainland China. His products have been featured in Wired Magazine, the 4 Hour Work Week Blog and on NBC News Talk Radio. He recently authored The Black Sheep Formula - A Nonconformist’s Guide to Creating Products and Selling Online - to share his business secrets with other existing and aspiring entrepreneurs. He has chosen to write under an alias to remain anonymThe Black Sheep is an accomplished product entrepreneur and author. His companies invent, design, source manufacturing and market a range of consumer products. The companies’ distribution channels span the gamut from Costco to category leading sales on Amazon and reach 42 international markets. The majority of the manufacturing facilities comprising the firms’ supply chains are in mainland China. His products have been featured in Wired Magazine, the 4 Hour Work Week Blog and on NBC News Talk Radio. He recently authored The Black Sheep Formula - A Nonconformist’s Guide to Creating Products and Selling Online - to share his business secrets with other existing and aspiring entrepreneurs. He has chosen to write under an alias to remain anonymous out of respect for his and his family’s privacy and to maintain the secrecy of some of his top-selling products....more
Still can’t think of any product ideas? No problem. Maybe you don’t want to create a new product, per se. Maybe you want to create a new offering. You don’t have to create new products from scratch. That’s not the only way. You can assemble a group of existing products or pair up some complementary products to create a new offering.
This approach is often called batching, wherein you take a few dif