A partner you can trust
About Us
The history of Brand Ascend begins 4 years ago between myself and my Uncle. The both of us always shared the dream of owning and operating our own ecommerce business through our interest in commerce that began 20 years ago when we worked together at a local tool retailer and distributor.
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Family
My Uncle, at the time, was the Vice President and IT Director with over 25 years if retail and distribution experience under his belt. For myself, I was fresh out of collage with a Graphics Design and Marketing Degree looking for an opportunity. Fast forward 5 years, my uncle and I built an ecommerce department from the ground up that soon generated over 1.2 million dollars in sales. Though it was years later, it was this success that seeded our idea try business for ourselves.
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Early Beginnings
In 2014, my uncle and I sat down to look for a business model. At that time, a Google search for business ideas would quickly result in such models as affiliate marketing, eBay flipping, private label products and even product flipping on Amazon. Looking for the easiest and most low cost startup we could try, we ended up buying a course about flipping products on Amazon also known as retail arbitrage. If you are unfamiliar of what retail arbitrage is, it's simply the process of purchasing closeout products at big box stores and selling them for full price on Amazon.
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$80,000 in sales later, we were spending countless hours locating and restocking our top sellers that would sell out quickly. No matter how hard we worked, we would constantly be faced with the limitation of how many units we could buy at the stores. We'd clear out every store within a 50 mile radius however it was inevitable we would eventually run out of stock. The solution, manufacturer wholesale.
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A Company Born
Our journey into wholesale distribution on Amazon was were we discovered the hate most manufacturer's had for Amazon. If it wasn't hatred, it was the lack of knowledge that their product were being sold on Amazon. In either case, call after call would be problem after problem. This is where Brand Ascend was born.
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We learned that many companies simply do not understand how the Amazon marketplace works. We understand why. Amazon took the market like storm and is still relatively new to the scene. It is no different then when Google first appeared and web optimization was born. Amazon is no different and many manufacturers simply are not prepared for it nor do they have the experience to handle the many problems Amazon can cause for distribution.
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Brand Ascend was developed to handle these problems and help companies grow their brands on Amazon rather than run from the marketplace. Over the next two years we tested and developed a system that helps manufacturers solve the common problems they have with Amazon and helps them grown their sales rather than kill their sales.
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We are a family owned business with a passion for marketing and retail.
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Proactive Strategic Planning
We understand the common pitfalls of marketplace selling and actively help our brands avoid these issues.
Customer Service & Support
We provide you with a layer of multi-channel support you can not get anywhere else. We work with you and provide support on all of your product listings.
100% Satisfaction Feedback
We are proud to have and maintain a 5-star 100% satisfaction merchant feedback on the marketplaces we sell.
How are we different
Successful brands that sell on popular marketplaces like Amazon often do not have the internal resources to properly manage these selling channels. Brand's who do not manage these channels properly will eventually run into major problems that will affect them across all channels.
We offer you a complete multichannel management package that solves these problems. We take vested interest in your brand and provide you with a suite of free services that effectively manages all aspects of these channels for you and increases sales.
The benefits of an arrangement such as this are huge. Because we are actively selling the brands we support, we have greater control of the marketing and the monitoring of your products than traditional marketing firms. Most of all, because we purchase the inventory we sell, we have a vested interest in helping you succeed and prosper. This is opposite than a marketing firms who actively sell their client's products and charge fees regardless of the performance their efforts produce.
Our complete multichannel package solves and prevents problems from occurring; freeing manufacturers and brand owners from the task of managing these sources on their own. Our dedication to the brands we carry along with the service and support we offer is what makes us stand out from the crowd.