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title: "Greetings from Yiwu, China - Reflections on Yiwu Sourcing for Amazon FBA with Ino Topalovic"
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date_published: "2018-09-11T02:02:06+00:00"
description: "GFAE040. Hello from the middle of Mainland China - we are recording live at our Yiwu sourcing Trip. It is a pleasure to bring back Ino on the show from Insight Quality - and discuss about our Yiwu sourcing reflections, how things went with the moka pot sourcing and other items in the past - and how we should do it better this time around. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce040."
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# Greetings from Yiwu, China - Reflections on Yiwu Sourcing for Amazon FBA with Ino Topalovic

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Hello from the middle of Mainland China – we are recording live at our Yiwu sourcing Trip. It is a pleasure to bring back Ino on the show from Insight Quality – and discuss how things went with the moka pot sourcing and other items in the past – and how we should do it better this time around.

We have a conversation at the workshop – and after the interview I talk about what we accomplished during the event and the sourcing plans for going forward, enjoy!

## Topics Covered in this Episode

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#### Welcome Ino
    
    Hey, Ino – welcome back!
    
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#### How you felt things went
    
    How was our first year of sourcing from Yiwu, to you, Ino
    
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#### What we could have done better
    
    Discussing decision making process
    
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#### Going forward - more products
    
    Getting more products added, faster – with lower MOQ
    
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#### Talk about Packaging
    
    One strategy we learned from Meir is more generic products with custom packaging – a kind of one size fits all solution.
    
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#### Mike’s discussion on what was sourced this time
    
    Here we are a year into the Amazon FBA “game” and now are picking up more ASINs more products.
    

## People / Companies / Resources Mentioned in this Episode

√ Insight Quality (read [GFA review](https://globalfromanywhere.com/reviews/insight-quality/))  
√ Insight Quality (read [Yiwu sourcing trip](https://globalfromanywhere.com/yiwu-china/))  
√ Insight Quality (read [Ino’s GFA Expert profile](https://vip.globalfromasia.com/network/ino-topalovic/))

## Episode Length 31:29

Thanks for listening – we had a hyperactive couple days at the Yiwu market and hope to grow the business to new heights from it. Next week will be ready to share the new GM and partner of the business – he is doing great already but need some more time to announce it.

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## Comments

## 3 Comments on “Greetings from Yiwu, China – Reflections on Yiwu Sourcing for Amazon FBA with Ino Topalovic”

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    Chris
    
    [12.20.2018 at 3:41 am](https://globalfromanywhere.com/yiwu-sourcing-reflections/#comment-2680)
    
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    Sorry, my English not so perfect
    
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    David Smith
    
    [01.13.2020 at 7:54 pm](https://globalfromanywhere.com/yiwu-sourcing-reflections/#comment-3426)
    
    wow, great info thanks for sharing the information Ino and Mike!