Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Small Businesses Thriving on Amazon

Amazon is featuring Clip-n-Seals again this week on their homepage because the story has been updated with a video, and it’s part of their Success Stories series. The video was shot in Seattle and in Yakima, Washington at our factory. It’s about how we made an idea into reality and shipped it eventually to tens of thousands of Amazon’s customers.


Who knew extrusion could look so good.

JD runs our factory in Yakima.

This brought a big boost to our sales. More importantly and what’s key in the video is that there are people right here in America, like JD, who partner with entrepreneurs like me.

JD and I have worked together for a decade. He took our smallest, possible minimum order when other factories didn’t return our call. As the story goes, I have
… vivid memories of tweaking that 25th not-quite-right prototype and waking up in the middle of the night, filled with stress that his “entirely self-funded” venture might fail and drag his family down.