Sourcing Your Product

If you want to source your product outside the US then you must make the committment to do the following.
1) Find a reliable agent who is located in country or has contacts on the ground in country.
2) Plan on going there you need to build trust
3) Plan on going there you need to see where your product is being made
4) PLAN ON GOING THERE you need to cut the time to get what you really want shortened
5) Insure your specifications leave nothing to the imagination.
6) Supply prototype made to the specifications
7) Get a domestic quote
8) Never-Never-Never say yes to anything but what you want
9) Understand what ALL the costs of getting the product from there to here are
10) Before you write a PO sell something.
11) All communication must be in writing even after phone calls
12) Remember even if they speak English you need to be sure they UNDERSTAND English
Follow these steps and you will stand a better chance of having a product you want and being able to be successful