Category: Entrepreneurship

Here's part 3 of the mini-series on how to start a supplement company. The business model is unique in that it has the greatest ability to mold itself around your own strengths and weaknesses. It allows you to be like water: able to penetrate the smallest of crevices, yet apply itself with brute force. This article covers the following issues: 1). What options you have 2). The art and science of determining your comparative advantage 3). A sample spreadsheet that lets you play around with some numbers 4). Much more inside!

Here's the second part in our three part introduction to starting your own supplement company. We're going to review the most important component in your business process: the manufacturer. If you mess this choice up the rest of your business is screwed. No amount of marketing sizzle or cheap prices can undo the damage done by a defective product. And if you get it right then you've given yourself a wonderful gift: an organization that'll willingly do the most important but least pleasant muck work that's absolutely essential to running a quality supplement company. So this begs the question....... Where do I start?

Starting a supplement company is pretty hard. But it's probably not any harder than working 50 hours a week at a regular job. Here's post 1 of 3 on the basics of starting a supplement company for the curious entrepreneur. We're going to start with the most basic of steps: how to choose your product. (And what mistakes to avoid).

Starting and running a food company probably seems like a mystery to most people. That's too bad, because it's not as complicated as people make it out to be. You don't need to be a genius, you don't need years of experience as a master chef, and you don't even need a whole lot of money to get started. And it's fun as hell. So if that's not enough to make you think differently about such an endeavor, here are 7 more reasons that'll do the trick.

Lots of people ask me how I started Health Kismet. So here's a post with 5 ideas for starting a business for people interested in health, food, or nutrition. They all have the following qualities:

• They don't cost much money to start up
• They don't take much time to get started
• They don't require any special credentials

If you don't like your current job description and are into living healthy I really think you ought to read this.