TMBA 236: Thoughts on Getting Your First Product Manufactured in China

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This week, one of our listeners challenged us to go more in-depth about Chinese manufacturing and how to get your first product manufactured. We're gonna dive right in and talk about where and how you can learn about outsourcing your product to China, and everything that it entails.

Listen to this week's show and learn:

  • Five things you should be focusing on when considering going to China.

  • Tactics to find and identify factories you can work with.

  • Why it's important to scale with your factory.

  • How to differentiate between factories and agents and why it might behoove you to work with a Chinese agent.

People on this episode:

Dan
Ian

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