Export Branding From Factory to Global Brand

A practical system for manufacturers and exporters to build, price, and market their own global product brand.
What you'll learn

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Whether building a brand is worth it for your specific product, and how to know you're ready
Using certifications and provenance to earn a stranger's trust before they've ever met you
Pricing correctly for export, including landed cost, tariffs, and wholesale margin
Building a name, identity, and website that work for a global, cross-cultural audience
Setting up the legal and logistics foundation to sell into the US or EU as a foreign manufacturer
Getting accepted into international wholesale marketplaces and managing buyer relationships
Running your own direct-to-consumer store and wholesale channels together, without one undercutting the other
Marketing internationally through email, paid social, and content/PR
Requirements

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No prior branding, marketing, or design experience required - this course teaches it from the ground up as it applies to export and manufacturing businesses You should currently manufacture, export, wholesale, or private-label a physical product, or be actively planning to - the course is built around applying the framework to a real product, not a hypothetical one Basic comfort using a website builder such as Shopify is helpful for the D2C sections, but not required to follow the strategic content No prior international trade, legal, or logistics background needed - the legal and logistics module covers the fundamentals from scratch
Description

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If you manufacture, export, or private-label a physical product, you already know how to make something well. This course is about the other half of the business: turning what you make into a brand that international buyers choose on purpose, instead of a commodity they compare on price alone.
Most branding courses are written for people starting from zero - no product, no factory, no export experience. This one is written for the opposite starting point: you already have production capability, and you're deciding whether it's worth the extra work to sell under your own name instead of someone else's.
Built from real experience running three export-facing brands into international markets - LEATHERE (LWG-certified leather accessories), Adrian Marelli (upcycled denim accessories placed on the international marketplace Wolf & Badger), and Ethos Pet (a natural pet care brand with US fulfillment operating through a US LLC) - plus 20 years of export and B2B experience before any of them existed, this course walks through the actual decisions and mechanics involved
Whether building a brand is worth it for your specific product, and how to know you're ready
Using certifications and provenance to earn a stranger's trust before they've ever met you
Pricing correctly for export, including landed cost, tariffs, and wholesale margin
Building a name, identity, and website that work for a global, cross-cultural audience
Setting up the legal and logistics foundation to sell into the US or EU as a foreign manufacturer
Getting accepted into international wholesale marketplaces and managing buyer relationships
Running your own direct-to-consumer store and wholesale channels together, without one undercutting the other
Marketing internationally through email, paid social, and content/PR
By the end, you'll have a positioning worksheet, a market-entry checklist, and buyer outreach templates you can use immediately - not just theory, but the actual framework used to take three different products, in three different categories, into international markets.
This course is not for you if you're looking for a generic "start an online store" or dropshipping course. It's for people who already make something real and want to stop selling it as a commodity.
Who this course is for

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Manufacturers and OEM/private-label producers who want to move from supplying other brands to building and selling their own Export-focused entrepreneurs and factory owners entering international B2B or D2C markets for the first time Existing DTC brand owners who source internationally and want a more structured approach to pricing, positioning, and market entry Not for people looking for a generic "start dropshipping" or general branding course with no manufacturing or export component - this course assumes you already have, or are building, a real product to export
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