"How can you leverage your family's skills and talents to create a profitable family business?"
- Paula Gushiken
- Apr 13, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: Apr 27, 2024
I love the feeling of empowering my loved ones to excel in whatever it is that they want to do. I believe this is my strongest quality. It truly is the best feeling in the world to be able to help and watch your efforts positively affect your children or grandchildren or even spouse or sibling. In this particular blog, I am starting a family business for my son in law and daughter. I did research on you tube and google to learn more about an online store and was amazed at how much information is out there. While trying to decide what it was that I would sell despite what experienced and successful entrepreneurs do, I thought the best option is to sell all the things that I spend the most money on. For me, this happens to be dog food, treats, supplies and women's anti-aging products. That is how www.ManaOhanaTreats.com and www.Goody2s.us got started. We decided that since our dogs live long healthy lives due to our accessibility to axis deer, it would be best to share this healthy nutritious food, treats and supplies to everyone that would appreciate it. The Axis deer on Maui is rampant. Controlling this problem for a food source for our pets was a win for all farmers, ranchers, land owners but especially for our family. We agreed on Deer Jerky, Deer Liver Treats, Raw Diet Freeze Dried Meals, Salmon Oil, leashes, car seat covers for dogs and safety belts. All of the dog food products are 100% grass fed Axis deer which is prepared with only meat and organs providing the healthiest natural food for your pets. This new venture would allow my grandsons to hunt with their father and learn how to do so safely and with pride. The saying "do what you love and get paid for it" is probably the best feeling of accomplishment in a persons life. This is not something everyone can achieve in life so when it does, we should be grateful. Once we figured out what we were going to sell, it was time to shop for everything that was needed to make these products. I was able to do what I am sure almost every woman loves to do which is shop.
I found that I am addicted to Alibaba and the purchasing of the products. I love trying to get the price down as low as I can so that I could make the highest profit. I loved dealing with the different supplier sales people from China that could barely speak English but tried their best. Every time I found a product that I loved that made more than 75% profit, I was ecstatic! Then I learned that I could design my own products packaging. The first thought that came to mind was my 2nd oldest daughter would be perfect for this and I can pay her for it. This would be a 2nd stream of income for her and her family. Although she is one of the owners of our car storage family business and works hard every day managing over 400 vehicles, I learned that she is very talented in creating designs.
Who better than her to design all the products and make some side money while accomplishing something that she created for all to see and buy. Now, we have my son in law and 2 grandsons as the hunters and preparers, my daughter who is in charge of the packaging and shipping and now her sister, my other daughter who is the graphic designer of all the products that we sell.

This is such a wonderful feeling to know that all of my family are working together while gaining knowledge and experience as well as a paycheck for all their efforts.
We were able to utilize everyone's strengths and talents for this but most of all to successfully own and operate a family business that strengthens the bonds between all.
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