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China Performance Group (CPG) offers importers their own branch office and sourcing team in China. Those who seek excellence in their supply chain rely on this on-site presence and expertise to manage their programs. We bring over 40 years of China sourcing experience to our management systems and apply a cost-effective and transparent pricing model that gives our clients unparalleled access to the vast resources of China. CPG provides a wide range of services, such as product development, price benchmarking, contract negotiation, sourcing optimization, factory audits, quality assurance, and logistics. Each CPG client has its own dedicated China team designed to understand and execute their vision, protect their interests, and address their concerns. Every China team is structured and sized to handle each client's specific needs and is trained to respond to client directives, giving our clients optimal control of their supply chain. CPG is product agnostic and works with all industries and product lines, from large machinery to fine jewelry. CPG’s “product" is its expertise in the China sourcing process, for any product. If a product can be sourced from China, CPG can add value. Visit our Services page to learn more about how we add value to our clients.

Cin7 provides Connected Inventory Performance – a cloud-based inventory management software with AI-powered forecasting capabilties that gives growing product businesses an automated and real-time view of the entire inventory lifecycle. Cin7’s Core and Omni products natively integrate with over 700+ applications, so business owners can consolidate, streamline, automate, and scale their inventory operation from one place. Powered by a proprietary AI engine, the company’s ForesightAI solution also enables sellers to forecast demand with unmatched accuracy months in advance, maintaining optimal stock levels and eliminating overages. Founded in 2012, Cin7 has grown into a global force, supporting product sellers in 100+ countries, serving 8,000+ customers and processing over 125 million orders annually.

EcomBalance is a monthly bookkeeping service that helps eCommerce and digital businesses better manage and understand their bookkeeping and finances. We meet to understand your business, take bookkeeping off your plate, and provide customized analysis each month so you can better understand your numbers and make smarter decisions. After selling online for 7 years and running our own business catering to thousands of eCommerce sellers, we saw a major problem in the eCommerce bookkeeping space that we wanted to tackle. We aim to help thousands of eCommerce and digital businesses save time, get cleaner books, and grow without worrying about their bookkeeping and accounting. If you're selling on Amazon, Shopify, BigCommerce, Ebay, Walmart, Etsy, and other marketplaces, you deserve a bookkeeper that truly understands your channels. At EcomBalance, we have the best US bookkeeping and accounting talent who understand eCommerce and continue to stay up to date with trends in the industry.

eComEngine’s cutting-edge operational analytics provide automated, actionable insights at the SKU level to help sellers succeed on Amazon. We make it easy to access and understand the most critical data points so you can protect your brand, manage inventory, decrease FBA fees, and increase profitability. SellerPulse includes Amazon insights, convenient reports, and alerts to help you protect your profitability. FeedbackFive automates Amazon review and feedback requests and includes detailed reports and alerts to help you manage your seller reputation. RestockPro streamlines FBA inventory management to save you time and money.

Enventys Partners is a leader in product development. For over 15 years, clients have utilized our combined services to take their consumer product from napkin sketch to production. Our additional capabilities focused on crowdfunding and ecommerce marketing allow you to quickly test your product’s market demand, find additional funds to produce it and turn it into a commercial success.

Forecastr makes financial modeling simple for founders. Using Forecastr's proprietary software, we help you build a great financial model that enables you to confidently make better strategic decisions for your company and impress your investors. Forecastr helps you predict cash runway, know your monthly burn rates, understand how much money you need to raise and when, and confidently make important decisions around hiring, capital expenditures, customer acquisition models, etc.

The most trusted name in order fulfillment. Boost customer satisfaction and scale your business faster with a logistics partner that feels like an extension of your team. Services include same-day shipping, real-time order and inventory tracking, dedicated customer service, and volume-based discounts. World-class service You’ll get a dedicated logistics specialist who will always know what’s happening with your account and will answer all your inquiries within a business day. Time-saving technology Highly robust yet easy to use, our proprietary, cloud-based software integrates with over 25 online shopping carts, gives you access to order and inventory updates in real time, and helps you automate time-consuming tasks so you can focus on growing your business. Faster than fast Tired of waiting two weeks after warehouse delivery for your inventory to be ready to ship? We can start fulfilling your orders the very day your product arrives at our warehouse—even if you have multiple SKUs.

Hawke Media is an award-winning digital marketing consultancy and full-service agency headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with employees in over 40 states and hubs. Hawke offers custom, data-driven marketing strategies to businesses of all sizes, offering its services on an a la carte basis with flexible contracts. We’ve worked with over 4,000 brands since our inception (eg. Verizon, Red Bull, Tamara Mellon, The Sill) making our depth of knowledge in marketing precise and unique. In 9+ years, Hawke has grown from 7 to more than 300 full-time employees. While we’re industry agnostic, we’ve done really great work with DTC E-commerce brands (including in the cannabis and CBD space) and with B2B SaaS companies. Our services include: - Strategy - Branding - Media Buying - Amazon Services - Paid Search - Paid Social - Lifecycle Marketing - Affiliate/ Influencer Marketing - Web Design and Development - SEO - Content - Photo/ Video

LaunchBoom is the most effective product launch system that allows you to generate sales before you have inventory. We partner with companies looking to launch new innovative products on Indiegogo or Kickstarter and we always deliver successful campaigns. Please visit our website www.launchboom.com to learn more about how we can help you launch your new product and review some of our most recent campaigns.

myPocketCFO is an all-in-one finance management platform for small & medium eCommerce businesses. Think of myPocketCFO as the Shopify for Finance. myPocketCFO will serve as your digital version of a finance department to help take care of accounting, reporting, forecasting, and financing. We are on a mission to make finance management table stakes for small & medium businesses.

Platform88 is a China-based product accelerator dedicated to helping young startups scale. With 11 factories in 4 countries, we have everything you need to build and scale a consumer products brand. Our fully-owned factories manufacture products in the following categories: • Kitchen & Grilling • Hydration • Food Storage • Hydroponics • Small Electronics • Garments & Bags Manufacturing sustainably is our core focus. We are proud that we currently use up-cycled plastic, ocean-bound plastic, recycled stainless steel, algae, bamboo fiber, PLA, and a number of other bio-based plastics at our facilities. Our team has the ability to take a product from concept to mass production — it's never too early (or too late) to reach out.

Pod Foods is a logistics-enabled distribution solution connecting brands of all sizes directly with retailers.

Quiet Light is the most trusted marketplace to buy and sell vetted online businesses. We have advised digital entrepreneurs on the sale of nearly 1 billion in transactions since 2007. Each of Quiet Light's advisors have built, bought, and sold their own substantial online businesses, and love giving entrepreneurs unique perspectives from every side of the deal. Our advisors will help you understand the levers that can increase the value of your investment of time, money and hard work. We’ll work alongside you during every step of the sale process to maximize the value of your business, find the right buyer and negotiate terms that align with your goals. We specialize in selling online businesses, including Amazon FBA, eCommerce, SaaS and content companies.

RangeMe is the leading product discovery, sourcing, and purchasing platform where retailers and suppliers discover, connect, and grow their business.

Retailbound is a comprehensive retail solutions agency that helps brands launch and scale their products in over 150+ retailers in both the US and Canada. Specializing in bridging the gap between product creators and retailers, Retailbound offers a range of services from retail strategy development, buyer engagement, sales management and channel marketing support. Whether the client is a startup or an established brand, Retailbound provides expert guidance to increase their retail presence, navigate buyer relationships, and drive sales growth both in-store and online. Our consumer product goods clients range from start-ups to small/medium sized businesses in various hardline product verticals such as consumer electronics, sporting goods, toys, small appliances to name a couple categories. One-time shelf placement is not an indicator of our success – repeatable purchases orders and becoming a long-term vendor partner with your retailers are. Our relationships with major retailers and distributors are as long in tenure as our track record for client performance. We start with a retail-go-to-market strategy, considering all tactics needed to get our clients "retail-ready". Then we "match-make" our clients with our 100+ sales reps out in the field to open up new retail accounts. We then enhance our clients retail placements by building consumer excitement and brand visibility which in turn drives traffic to their retail partners. We analyze product performance at retail through POS data, and proactively manage our clients' business to drive success (i.e. sell-through), whether it's on the shelf, online, on a catalog page, or on-air. We also deliver marketing support – from online marketing tactics like paid search and email blasts to offline marketing tactics like in-store merchandising, promotions and point-of-shelf displays to ensure that we’re creating and sustaining demand for our clients.

ShipBob is the leading global omnifulfillment platform designed for businesses of all sizes, providing them access to best-in-class supply chain capabilities. The ShipBob platform provides merchants with a single view of their business and customers across all of their sales channels to manage products, inventory, orders, and shipments, leveraging real-time analytics and reporting. ShipBob enables merchants to optimize fulfillment operations in their own facilities with ShipBob WMS (ShipBob's proprietary warehouse management system), and/or outsource fulfillment to have their orders picked, packed, and shipped from any of ShipBob’s 50 fulfillment centers across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. By providing proprietary fulfillment software, comprehensive support, and dozens of tech and retail partnerships, ShipBob enables brands to build a scalable, affordable fulfillment strategy and fulfill orders with seamless omnichannel connectivity. Founded in 2014 out of Chicago, ShipBob was launched through Y Combinator by co-founders Dhruv Saxena and Divey Gulati, two entrepreneurs who saw a need for more efficient shipping for ecommerce businesses.

We have been building and leading finance & accounting teams for over 20 years. We are a team of Chief Financial Officers, Controllers, Analysts & Accountants with experience across multiple early and mid-stage companies. Spanning a variety of industries including Direct-to-Consumer, Organic & Natural Foods, Food Manufacturing & Distribution, Apparel & Accessories, Subscriptions, Restaurants, Franchising, Innovation and Branding. We are results-oriented leaders, adept communicators, and analytical thinkers with a proven ability to support management teams in fast-paced environments with ever-changing priorities.