QUOTE(ah_suknat @ Mar 25 2015, 01:27 PM)
are your friends been into business themselve?
I was once a producer, which in your context similar to being a baker, and I too have to rely on middleman to market and sell my products, because I need to spend a considerable amount of time to produce my products.
my point is, you cant be one size fits all, producer need middleman/distributor as much as distributor need producer.
unless you can micro manage stuff and have 2 separate division in your company that doing the production and distribution.
think of the relationship between the vegetables farmers in kundasang and the middleman who drive their lorry all the way to kundasang from all around Sabah then to distribute those veges to their respective area.
the way you can grow is to expand within your niche, who are you distributing your product to currently? what else do they need? can you find another producer that you can sell their products to your current customers?
I dont know about clothing business but if you try to search in mudah, there are alot of boutiques business for sell. its too easy to duplicate such type of business any tom and harry asal ada duit can do, at the end of the day all compete in price, cant cover expenses then have to close shop.
I saw in your past thread about buying a plot of land in membakut, hows that going?
Yes they're friends that i met while selling. They said,since my product is perishable, it needs special care to keep. Due to that, my market are going to be small unless i invest more on packaging and transportation which for me, make sense. I talked this to my producer, about the large potential of investing in that, but she seems afraid of costing and many other risk.
Good advice about to find another producer, i was thinking about that too but until now, i haven't found any offer that suits me. I tried few other things to sell to my existing customer but the feedback is below average.
Clothing business in KK quite slow, but what makes me excited is i just found a new method of selling online by providing drop-ship. My friend do that in KL, monthly turnover is RM15k. But since he's near to his supplier, he got the cost reduced to minimum. No warehouse needed, if there's any order, after collecting order, he just walk to his nearby supplier the next day and take the item and posted it. I thought he's one of /k but not really active nowadays.
I didn't buy it, the seller raise the price to the level that anyone would think twice