At that time, E-Commerce was relatively new. There was not much information available on how to get started, but he recognized an opportunity and committed himself to make it work. 

Importing white label products and selling them on Amazon and Walmart.com was something that huge corporations did, not 20-year-olds working 18 hours a day out of an apartment. Working with a friend and very little money to start, he found a small inexpensive product that he believed could be marketed online and shipped from his home. Operating capital was so thin, the first product orders required the customer's payment to purchase the needed materials to fulfill the orders. Instead of buying shipping materials from the post office, he made an arrangement with the local mall to collect discarded boxes from the warehouse loading dock.

Now Brett has built an education program designed to help ambitious entrepreneurs like you take advantage of these cost-saving strategies to give you a competitive edge, grow your business, and ship smarter.

Without having the funds to purchase boxes that the postal service didn't offer for free, I worked at an area shopping mall at the time and noticed all the stores would place their empty case pack boxes out at closing for recycling.

So I had the idea to ask the mall manager if I could take the boxes since they would be recycled anyway. Sure enough, the Mall Manager said it was ok and to take all the boxes I wanted. It was awesome I now had free boxes to fulfill my orders. The joke always was Yankee Candle, and Bath & Body Works boxes were the best because those boxes were scented. 

That was the reason I wanted to do this, Whether your shipping orders from your own website or shipping your products to Amazon. I want to help you and teach you everything I know, so you don't make the same mistakes I made.