How it started

I discovered eBay at the age of 15, and overnight it expanded my audience from my high school to the entirety of Australia’s eBay users. Over the next few years I became a “Power Seller” on eBay, doing both a buy-sell model and a dropshipping model. 

I built an entire portfolio of eBay stores across several niches & categories. In total they produced a combined $3M+ sales over 3 years.

In the beginning, I would purchase products from suppliers overseas and store the inventory at home, shipping orders everyday after school. But very quickly, I couldn’t keep up with the sales, and would eventually instruct my suppliers overseas to ship the products directly to my Australian customers.

This gave me a taste of the dropshipping model, and once I realised the unlimited potential, I opened more eBay stores and rapidly grew my product lines. I was dropshipping without even knowing what it was called, and today this supply model is very common and popular!

Retail arbitrage – eBay

Although I sold my “Power Seller” eBay stores many years ago, I am still involved with eBay selling today, however using a different model. In recent years, I discovered the “retail arbitrage” model, which is just like dropshipping, but on steroids. It involves using local retailers as suppliers – which means faster shipping times, better quality products, and larger supply potential!

How it started

Building on my Amazon affiliate marketing, I started exploring wider ranges of product categories on Amazon. One of these included books. And at the same time, an entrepreneurial friend recommended self publishing books to generate leads and further grow income streams from my niche websites.

In 2015, while working in a corporate “9-5” job, I founded a publishing company, VentureInk™. I worked directly with writers to help them publish their work, including purchasing books from ghost writers to market and sell within my portfolio of niche websites. VentureInk™ is the first multi-million dollar business that I founded. I built a team of over 15 staff worldwide, publishing 500+ books, selling over 1M+ copies and generating $5M+ in book sales.

How it started

In order to build truly large businesses that would last a lifetime, I knew I had to create brands and sell products / services without the use of marketplaces such as eBay and Amazon, and not rely on ad revenue controlled by Google. Another plus, is this would involve building companies that created jobs for people in my community, supporting their families, contributing to society, and adding value to people’s lives on a larger scale.

In late 2017, I co-founded and launched Bath Box® – which is today a multi-million dollar company, and household brand in Australia featured in numerous top-tier news segments, articles, and press. With over $10M+ in sales to date, we are continuing to grow and expand each year.

Along with this business, I have founded and own several smaller brands that are doing over six figures in sales, both within Australia and worldwide, with plans to continue growing and expanding.