Optimized Ecommerce EP 068 – Our E-Commerce Product FAILURE: Ape Tape Case Study

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Business Tech Ninjas | Aug 25, 2021

Welcome to Episode 068 of Optimized Ecommerce – Our E-Commerce Product FAILURE: Ape Tape Case Study. I’m your host, Tanner Larsson, CEO of BGS.

BGS means Build Grow Scale! It is a community that we founded where eCommerce entrepreneurs and physical product sellers come to learn how to take their businesses to the next level.

Here’s just a taste of what we talked about today:

We talked about how we discovered the Kinesio Tape.

The following are the steps we did to find the Kinesio Tape:

• Run an independent research
• Looked at Amazon
• Gravitated to sports & outdoor category
• CrossFit games + Amazon bestseller list = idea
• Merchant words keyword search
• Amazon category search
• Inc Magazine’s fastest growing companies search

Then, we discussed how we sourced ApeTape.

Check out the list below:

• Checked out Alibaba.com
• Search: kinesiology tape
• Searched the top 3 companies (Longest Gold Member)
• Set up Skype calls with each of them
• Asked about the company
• Specialty
• Quality Control process
• Manufacturing capacity
• Product customization
• Packaging options
• Ordered samples from 2 of the 3
• Compared them against competitor product

We also discussed a few other fun topics, including:

• Competitive advantages of Ape Tape.
• The Why behind Ape Tape’s branding. 
• Ape Tape Trademark and Trademark Fiasco.

But you’ll have to watch or listen to the episode to hear about those!

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