THE WALMART.COM PARTNERSHIP

Fancy: You now have a partnership with Walmart com Congratulations on that How did that come about?

Tami: Well, it's a very long-winded, loaded response, so I have these bullet points of what I did and what I suggest for the essence of time's sake The first thing is whether you want to brand partner with Walmart or whatever retailer, have an abundance mindset and an attitude of gratitude. A positive mindset gives you that clarity and vision that you need to curate whatever you want to curate and be able to receive additional resources and information to pivot the brand if need be. Do you know what I'm saying?

The second thing I would say to do is to research where you want to show up in the industry, what it is that you ' re offering, and who you are offering it to One thing about retail, specifically with Walmart com, you must have a tangible item or a product that is not customizable The reason why they want it to be non-customizable is in case you get an influx of orders They're not going to be waiting on you to sit there and customize any products One thing about Walmart, and I say it all the time, you can get 50 orders a day They want each order out that same day They don't play when it comes to that I love that about that partnership, and it definitely holds me accountable as well to make sure everybody's getting their products in time

Once you figure out what tangible product you want to do, make sure you register your products If you want to get on the shelf, if you want to sell online, whatever your goal is to do- you want to make sure you register your product and brand and have your brand legally set up The structure needs to be set up legally, and it needs to be at least a corporation or LLC It cannot be a sole proprietorship or anything like that You want to make sure you have that set up correctly as well with the state and city, your local ordinances Once you do that, insure your products Not sure if I mentioned that just yet, but just insure your products and make sure whatever policy you have on your brand, that your products are underneath that policy as well

There's a website you'll actually go to and register for your UPC codes and your barcodes So you would go to gs1.org. Having more than one product is actually even better because retailers want more stuff that they'll be able to offer to their customers as well.

Once you do all of that and you have all your legal documents in place, you upload them You complete the application process, of course, and you upload it to the dashboard so they can review and see what it is that you ' re offering They will do research, like a background on your company, to make sure everything is legally set up properly Actually, my approval didn't take very long at all

Once you are approved, you can upload and stuff like that It’s very exciting I love