How to Start an e-Commerce Business with What You Already Have

The Relationship Commerce Podcast

Beav Brodie is the Founder of Tactical Baby Gear, a military-style baby gear brand inspired by a new generation of involved fathers. Beav founded the company in 2013 to provide dads with the tools necessary to meet the rugged demands of parenting. The bags are built with military-style durability and packing efficiency, complete with fasteners, MOLLE webbing, and carabiners to strap up all the diapers, bottles, and accessories of fatherhood.

In 2018, Tactical Baby Gear was recognized by The Wall Street Journal as part of a niche market that has doubled and even tripled sales in the last year. Beav describes his business as a media company that sells a product. They engage with their customers by leveraging social media with over 140,000 followers on Instagram, over 5,500 followers on YouTube, and 280,000 followers on Facebook.

In this episode…

Do you have anything lying around your house that you can use to start an e-commerce business? Do you have the skills and expertise needed to create an e-commerce product? If you answered yes to these questions, then you are ready to start your new e-commerce brand.

Beav Brodie, the Founder of Tactical Baby Gear, joins Dean Dutro in this episode of the Relationship Commerce Podcast to explain how his frustration while shopping for diaper bags led to the creation of a multimillion-dollar business. Beav talks about starting the business with his own sewing machine at home, finding the right business partner, the value of networking, and building a solid business by leveraging the power of social media.