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15 Years of Product Sourcing in 1 Email

Date: August 24th, 2026

Summary: With Market Masters 4 just wrapping in Austin, Kevin hands the episode over to a sample edition of Marketing Misfits, the newsletter he writes weekly with Norm Farrar. The theme is product sourcing: Kian Golzari's fifteen years of factory-floor experience, what AI actually changes about supplier research, and where tariffs are pushing manufacturing next. Along the way there is a customer avatar framework, a welcome-sequence teardown, and the Cards Against Humanity case study.

Key Points Discussed:

Pay Chinese suppliers in RMB rather than USD — suppliers often…

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