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We love Beyblade and we can't get enough of it and the inventory is limited (like everything these days), so when we have the ability to buy pallets (this is pallet 1 of 3) of stadiums, we close our eyes and pull the trigger.
Read the post →Every card shop shows you what they are selling. We built one that shows what we are buying. https://new.izzisgym.com Pulls straight from our buying system and shows every card that came through the door in the last seven days. Live. Sorta…
Read the post →Asking LinkedIn for a favor, and owning the reason I need one. Back at GAMMA I sat down and played a demo of the Palworld Official Card Game. It's Bushiroad, it's built on an IP that already has a massive audience, and the demo caravan is…
Read the post →Recently, I posted about my inventory problem at Izzi's. Here's what I did about it. Tuesday night I had an idea: a way to get more PSA slabs into the store. Two days later it's live. Cost: basically zero. No posting on Upwork. No intervie…
Read the post →Three years ago I petitioned TikTok for a processing-time exemption for made-to-order and print-on-demand sellers. It's finally real. TikTok Shop is rolling out Custom Handling Time — 3 to 7 days instead of the standard 2 — for sellers who…
Read the post →I'm facing a problem I've never had in 20+ years of business. When my dad and I ran restaurants, we never hit a point where I couldn't buy pepperoni. When I built teelaunch, there was never a Gildan shirt shortage. Grow the business, order…
Read the post →A month ago I met one of the most impressive people I've come across in a long time. His name is Luis. He's 17. He's been trading — crypto, silver, everything in between — since most kids his age were figuring out a class schedule. My brot…
Read the post →I can't imagine a more exciting time to be in print on demand. I was there 14 years ago when it all got started — and I'll say it plainly: there has never been a better time to get in than right now. Which is why it confuses me that most o…
Read the post →Leaving the business I spent 12 years building was terrifying. Tens of thousands of hours mastering that craft — and I walked away. Because I was stuck. I knew I'd hit my ceiling. So I bet on myself and started over in a brand new industry…
Read the post →Looking for advice from anyone who imports from China 🇨🇳📦 We have a person on the ground in China sourcing Pokémon cards from local shops — some of it super light (raw cards), dense cases of sealed boxes. This will be low-volume air shi…
Read the post →IZZISCON 2026 was UNREAL. 🎉 Over 10,000 kids and their families 🎟️ 100% FREE event 🃏 1 MILLION Pokémon cards given away 🛍️ 100+ vendors TOURNAMENTS: 🏆 Pokémon 🤖 Gundam 🏴☠️ One Piece 🎮 Fighting games ⚔️ Beyblade battles EXPLORE: 🕹…
Read the post →Shutterfly just had to pay up to refinance its debt — a 12.5% yield — partly because lenders are nervous about AI disrupting the business. I think they've got it backwards. AI isn't Shutterfly's risk. It's the best thing that's ever happen…
Read the post →60 cents of every dollar spent in trading cards now goes to graded cards. Not raw singles. Not sealed boxes. Slabs. And PSA controls 85% of that. More than half the money in this entire hobby flows through one label's plastic. Collectors s…
Read the post →Collectr just analyzed 95 million card sales. One number stopped me cold. 65% of collectors who joined the hobby in the last two years have never bought a card on eBay. Not once. So where are they buying? Local game stores. Card shows. Pla…
Read the post →My first big event is in 5 days. 76,000 square feet at the Sioux Falls Convention Center. All of it free. All of it for kids. By the numbers, it should work: 2 Local TV interviews. 15,000 free tickets handed out. Tens of thousands of my ow…
Read the post →I checked the profiles of my last 10 trolls. Zero of them have built anything. No store. No product. No event. No software. Nothing with their name on it that could fail in public. That's not a coincidence. Psychologists have studied inter…
Read the post →What can I say. The camera loves me. But that is not why new partners and distributors take the meeting. We have been open 15 months. I know how that sounds in an industry full of shops that predate the boom. Here is what those shops canno…
Read the post →Nobody sells Pokémon cards on DoorDash. So we did. Guerrilla marketing has one rule: get your name in front of people everywhere you can, for free. DoorDash has millions of buyers and almost zero competition for what we sell. No card shops…
Read the post →Two big articles about the store this week. I'm trying really hard not to get a big head. I regret to inform you it isn't working. But here's the honest part. This was never about press. It's about a room full of people who decided a card…
Read the post →We had the local news stop by Izzi's Gym this week, and honestly, it left us a little speechless. Watching someone from the outside walk through our doors and just get what we are trying to build here meant the world to us. When we opened,…
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