Hi everyone 👋🏽 My name is Christine (Ascending Clicks). I’m passionate about business growth, digital positioning, and building scalable systems that create long-term impact. Currently, I’m focused on learning and understanding how to build sustainable e-commerce brands the right way, especially through structured systems and strategic scaling. I’m looking to venture into the laptops, monitors, and tech accessories import business in the future. I’m particularly interested in high-ticket electronics and creating a trusted brand around quality, reliability, and smart sourcing. My reason for joining Import & Scale is to gain practical, real-world insights on: • Finding high-margin tech products • Avoiding supplier and logistics pitfalls • Building modern sales systems • Scaling efficiently using automation and lean operations At the moment, I’m in the learning and research phase ;building knowledge, studying the model, and positioning myself strategically before execution. Excited to learn, implement, and grow within this community 🤝🏼 Looking forward to building something serious.

🚨 IMPORTANT: Read This Before You Do Anything in Import & Scale Welcome everyone, stoked to have you here. Over the last few years, I’ve built several 7 & 8-figure e-commerce brands by importing high-ticket products. I've also had $200K days, hired a full-time team, travelled the world and created a network of high-level business owners. I’ve done all this without massive upfront investment, without relying on luck and without the usual traps most importers/ecom owners fall into. Inside this community, I’ll share everything I’ve learned from real-world experience building brands that have generated millions, including: ✅ How to find high-margin products (without chasing fads) ✅ Supplier & logistics secrets (avoiding the common rip-offs and failures) ✅ Modern sales systems (ads, funnels, outreach, marketplaces) ✅ Scaling playbooks (automation, lean ops, AI tools) ✅ Real behind-the-scenes lessons from building brands today This isn’t theory. It’s what I’ve personally used to build several successful brands while living between New Zealand, Australia & Bali. 👉 Before you do anything else, introduce yourself below: - Who you are - What you do - Why you want to build an import/export business - Your current e-com/brand experience (if any) P.S. I’ll keep adding value here with guides, videos, and breakdowns and if you want me to personally review your business idea, product selection, or strategy, stay tuned for private consulting opportunities. Let’s build some serious brands.

I'm going to run meta ads for a high ticket product and I was just wondering if you have a rule of thumb for how much spend you'd spend a day when testing a product? I'm used to low ticket budgets, testing at around $60usd a day but that obviously is an insignificant figure when selling a higher ticket product. Also is there a certain spend you'd need to validate a product? I know with meta ads your first sale/sales can be more expensive whilst your ads are more broad and the algorithim is still learning your audience, so if your not getting as significant margins as you'd hope/expect would you just cut and move on or is it more case dependant?

Hi Shad, me and a friend have partnered in creating our own line of recovery focused workout supplements. Two out of three of these blends are unique recipes that we are looking to patent and produce through a NZ supplier and distribute through a local 3PL company. I have an appointment lined up with Callaghan innovations for a funding program they provide for new startups that offers 25k towards launch and 2mil once product hits market. I'm wondering if you have any pointers you could give me in preparation when dealing with investors like this and what preparation if any I would need going into it?

I've just added 4x free training videos to the "Classroom" tab at the top of the page. These will be focused around questions I've been getting asked. If you need clarifying on anything just let me know, as I recorded all of them in 1 take. Will be adding more videos every week or so. If you want a video explaining anything - just let me know.