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Let’s share ideas on how to make profits
through import-export. This
business is a great way to gain opportunity at every turn as it
provides freedom for travel.
Merri and me at Otavalo Market looking for export
product ideas to
share with you.
Here is a great example. One couple just visited
and stayed a week at
El Meson. While here they visited Otavalo Market, the largest
indigenous market in Central and South America. Some wonderful
scarves attracted their attention. They bought a batch and took
them home in
their suitcase and practiced what Merri and I call Suitcase
Importing. Here is what they just shared with us.
“Merri and Gary, Pam
and I have sold enough of our scarves to buy a
plane ticket. We want to come back again! You are two truly very
special people and it is a joy to be a part of your life and your
very special projects of service. Love to all, David”
We hear this story again and again. Another delegate
just left and
shipped six huge bags full of ponchos after previously selling
out
their entire lot from a previous trip down here. They will make
many
times the cost of their travel and excellent profit as they sell
their ponchos.
So at our last course in Ecuador we looked at
ways to make money through exports and shared some very unique
investing ideas. One of
these ideas is really sweet because it relates to exporting and ….you
should guess because by now you may have figured out that I have
a
sweet tooth….chocolate which we learned in Friday's message
is also
good for your health.
At the course we looked at a tasty way to enhance
your health and
wealth, support the Amazon, help the environment and perhaps enhance
your community’s wealth with fair trade chocolate!
Many farmers around the world receive market payments
that are lower
than the costs of production, forcing them into a cycle of poverty
and debt. This may push them into intensive farming that adds pesticide
pollution and deforestation in environmentally sensitive rain
forests.
Fair Trade works to correct these imbalances by
guaranteeing a minimum wage for small producers by encouraging
organic and sustainable
cultivation methods. Fair trade farmers are provided badly needed
credit and assured livable wages. With profits generated from fair
wages, farmers can invest in health, education, and environmental
protection.
When you buy fair trade products you support rather
than exploit farmers around the world.
At our last course Hector Vargas spoke to us.
He represents Yachana Gourmet, a business recognized by the Fair
Trade Federation as a
responsible operator. 100% of Yachana Gourmet's profits support
rain
forest conservation and sustainable development programs of the
Foundation for Integrated Education and Development. This foundation
is non-profit dedicated to finding sustainable solutions for rain
forest preservation and the realities of life in the Ecuadorian
Amazon.
Hector is a guide at the Yachana Lodge in the
Amazon, has been seen
on the Discovery Channel and is co-author Amazon Life. He has also
purchased with his own funds a 250 acre island, deep in the Amazon,
where he is nurturing seven breeds of monkeys that are endangered
species.
Hector explained how Yachana Gourmet has been
formed to create income
for Amazon communities who are trying to resist the exploitation
of
Amazon lands.
Yachana offers all natural, fair trade, vegan
chocolates made from
the world's purest and healthiest chocolate.
Chocolate comes from the cocoa bean and there
are many varieties of
beans. Jungle Chocolate is the world's purest, most flavorful organic "cacao nacional" bean,
the most aromatic and richest variety of
chocolate bean.
Yachana not only brings Jungle Chocolate direct
from the Amazon rainforest where local families help grow harvest
and process in
natural ways. Because this is processed correctly it is also
delicious chocolate as the delegates at our seminar discovered
when they tasted
samples.
Yachana produces Jungle Chocolate with Pineapple,
Jungle Chocolate with Macadamia Nuts, Jungle Chocolate with Brazil
Nuts and Essence of
Coffee and Jungle Chocolate with Raisins and Coconut.
Yachana is prompting manufacturers of all types
to incorporate the
organic fair trade cocoa nibs into trail mixes, cereals, baked
goods,
yogurts, ice creams, etc. Yachana Gourmet supplies these companies
with the highest quality cocoa, both raw and toasted.
So one simple export opportunity is to find manufacturers
who could
use this organic fair trade products. But there is more.
There are export opportunities where you can enhance
your and your
community’s wealth as well as health. Yachana now offers
a fund
raising program so you can earn money as you help classrooms, sports
teams, environmental clubs, churches and community
organizations. You can export chocolate to sell for fundraisers.
Fund
raising details with Yachana Gourmet Chocolate
You can learn more about Yachana also through its email: info@yachanagourmet.com.
We will feature Yachana Chocolates and other fair
trade health products on our upcoming Import Export expedition.
This leads me to a request. We limit our expeditions to 40 and
our
March expedition is nearly full (we have 36 signed up now and a
long
list of those who say they are coming).
Because of this demand, Merri and I are
willing to stay in Ecuador a
couple weeks longer than planned and do one more expedition April
23
to 30, if there are enough of you who would like to join us. Would
you send me a note at gary@garyascott.com and say yes if you are
interested in that late April course.
Until next message, good investing!
Gary
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Import Export Expedition
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