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    Insurance who do you use?

    I believe Indie Beauty Network is cheaper than HSMG also for over 5k year in sales.
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    Trademarking question help plz?

    another inexpensive thing you should consider is buying the domain name for your business. It would be pretty hard for person who attempts to steal your name without having the ability to own the .com on it. Their survival rate would be short lived and they would have almost no ability to grow...
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    Wholesaling and Trademarks

    Hello everyone, We are now being contacted by international companies (mostly in china) who are asking to be wholesalers for us. They are asking for samples of product (our products are not cheap but more middle or road and up) and they are requiring us to be trademarked internationally. I...
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    boxes - packaging

    Has anyone used a company that produces the boxes for each individual product? thank you Van
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    Do your own website or hire someone?

    we have been at this for few years now. I think in beginning you should use inexpensive platform but as you grow you should let another company do the heavy lifting. This is what we did (feel free to follow): 1. buy domain from godaddy.com (you shouldn't buy your domain from same company...
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    What's your Pinterest handle?

    great list. I actually took few minutes to enter handles (for those in beginning of post who were not including links) Maitribb glittergirlsmom proulxtoo ShannonM722 nakedapothecary lizflowers42 melstanford775 kpduty51 Sammi552 Badgerx153 dianneforrester Ancel Mitchell maliam My pinterest...
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    Straight up Advertising

    Hello, We recently upgraded our product line after having what I would consider "better than anticipated" first year in business. We have not spent one penny on advertising yet. My goal for 2014 is learn advertising on multiple platforms (google shopping, bing and amazon). Can anyone suggest a...
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    UPC's

    I have discovered Amazon Brand Registry does not require UPC codes. I am just now looking into requirements. If anyone has applied for this...your input would be greatly appreciated.
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    Is anyone selling on Amazon?

    We are looking to sell on amazon shortly and looking for those already selling there. I looked at this briefly before and remember then asking for upc number, etc. Thanks in advance for anyone info.
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    How to increase customer through websites?

    now that is what you call a broad question. I would say you need to find what works best for you. I know we hear that alot but it is so true. We learned from experience. For example when we started people were telling us to use twitter, pinterest, facebook, seo. But what we found was that the...
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    UPC's

    does anyone know if Amazon requires GS1
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    Has anyone here trademarked their business name?

    at the very least I think you should buy domain name of your company. That would make it very difficult if someone where to attempt to claim your name. Even if you get trademark in USA I don't believe it counts toward International Law and that is really where your at bigger risk of someone...
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    Just labels (not printing) in custom color

    Hello, Has anyone used online label company just for blank label sheets on background color of our choice. We have local print company who will do printing but just looking for sheets of labels in color we want to go with. I checked with onlinelabels but they only sell in pre-determined...
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    Opinions Needed Please - Logo Design

    cm4bleenmb those were great suggestions and I will let her test that to see if it works. I also agree that the fond needs little more impact so when we reduce it...it doesn't get lost. Spicey477: Guuky is pronounced: gew-key. I actually added a slider image on our home page that shows how to...
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    Opinions Needed Please - Logo Design

    update I went back to drawing board and studied many logos of companies in our industry (alot of the market leaders). What I found surprised me at bit. They kept it simple. No fancy colors or abstracts...just straight black color with changes in font and location of letters. Here is our...
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    Opinions Needed Please - Logo Design

    One of the issues with green leaf is that most natural companies I see are using it. Even driving around the other day I saw a natural cleaning company with logo on side of truck that had a green leaf in it. It just seems so over-played to me. The green logo plays well in our international...
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    Opinions Needed Please - Logo Design

    thanks everyone for feedback. Crazy8 you really touched on alot of critical issues I have also thought about. You mentioned you wouldn't change a thing on black/pink logo. A person made suggestion of maybe changing the floral/vines coming out of G to green this way you capture the 'natural'...
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    Opinions Needed Please - Logo Design

    Hello, I need opinions on these two logo designs. This is for natural cosmetic company. Target market is female age group: 18-35. Products are priced middle-to-middle/upper. Here is the question to ask yourself: Which logo is more professional, trustworthy and more likely you would...
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    Gift Boxes for Holidays

    hello, Our customers are asking us to offer gift boxes for holidays. We also thought it was time to offer that. Goal is to create low cost professional looking gift box (without adding to much to our cost-per-product). Our initial thought was just to find gift boxes at dollar store but...
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    What commission rate do you pay your reps?

    TRXFLYER, We simply posted ad on craigslist. We received over 30 responses and to filter it down we posted links to all of our social media sites and asked each of them what three things they would change to improve it. We got some really good ideas and one particular person stood out. Turns out...
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