I offer the following services:

Consulting

If you need consulting, an advice on your import, retail or wholesale venture, I am available either in person, provided you live in Denver, Colorado, area, or via phone or email. My rates for in-person one-on-one consulting, are $75 per hour, $65 per hour if you had attended my classes at the Colorado Free University or bought my materials, either tapes, video or publications. The same rate applies to the over-the-telephone consulting. Due to a large number of daily email inquiries, I am no longer able to provide even a brief response by email to a question you may have. With just too many email inquiries a day to sort out through, most asking me for some form of a business-related advise, I am simply unable to provide answers. In order to answer to those that are truly serious about their venture and may be in need of an email-based consulting specifically, I will quote you a rate based on an estimate of time necessary to respond to your question and our mutual agreement.

Buying 

Having been in business for more than 25 years, importing from some 30 countries, direct retailing and wholesaling my imports in North America and Europe, I may be able to assist you. Although my background is in ethnographic arts and crafts, including antiques, from jewelry, clothing and fashion accessories to furniture, furnishings, decorative accessories, textile arts and architectural artifacts, I have a broad experience in sourcing and buying a wide range of products from many different countries. I do prefer to buy in countries where my own business takes me. At present, I offer buying on your account in the following countries: India, Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, China and Czech Republic.

Over the last 25 years, I have made numerous buying trips to Africa as well as South America. For the moment I am not planning a business trip to either but that can change so you are always welcome to inquire. I charge commissions based on a product, time, destination and travel expenses.

Product Development

Whether you may be already in retail or wholesale or simply are just thinking about a new product to import, which at this stage may only be an idea, I may be able to help. Taking a product design or a sample overseas to manufacture it there will typically lower your product development and manufacturing costs than doing the same in the United States or Europe. You can approach me with a drawing, sketch, photograph or a sample of a product that you would like to manufacture overseas and import into the United States or Europe, and I will give you an answer as to where you may consider to produce it. My services in the course of a product development entail taking your product idea to a typically third-world country where I know exist the necessary skilled labor to manufacture it at a desirable quality and price. I'll go there and prepare a sample for your approval. I'll oversee the product development, manufacture as well as the preparation of your shipment. Typically my charges will be based on time and travel expenses, plus commissions, and/or combination of all of these factors. As above, all projects are negotiable. To get started, please send me an email.

Make Another Country Your Second Home

Consulting on business start-up, investment, relocation and real estate acquisition assistance in the Czech Republic, Panama, Thailand, and India. All over the world there  are fine properties to buy, great houses to live in, there is food, wine, beaches, mountains, boating, biking, mountain climbing and the pleasures of the flesh. In some countries, there is also the possibility of becoming a casualty of local civil strife and wars, which is, some would argue, a decidedly more interesting end than being run over by a Ford Pinto on a street in Anytown, USA. It probably doesn't hurt to have an open mind, know a few of the local dances, and to have some decent life insurance. But the bottom line is that there indeed is life worth living and business worth conducting beyond the frontiers of this country.
 

You can always contact me either through this website, tomasb@geopilgrim.com, or  Footloose Travel Guides website, www.footloosetravelguides.com.

 

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