From Garage Prototype to Mass Production and Retail-Ready Packaging with GO Get Made

That's what I like about GoGetMade and Eric and them. Literally pick up the phone, it's like one phone call, and it's in production. My name is Anthony Metzger, and my company is called GlowPro Golf. We actually invented a golf training aid specifically designed to help golfers become better at putting. And so the entire company right now is just a one product company, and it's that invention that we came up with. And so that's where we're at right now. Before GoGetMade, we launched the product. It was a prototype we had made in the garage, and we launched it at the PGA Show down in Orlando, Florida, which is like the biggest golf convention in the world. And so we were sitting there with... at our booth showing people our prototype that we had just made in the garage, and that's when Eric with GoGetMade walked by, saw what we were doing, really liked the product. We had a really nice conversation. From there, we decided to actually work with him, and he's the one who really helped us get the product, what I would call shelf ready, and ready for mass sales, if you will, too. So before GoGetMade, it was a prototype being made in the garage. The hesitation was just the fact that you've gotta... you've met somebody, and now you're trusting them to do something that's pretty significant in your business. And so there's always that factor, no matter who it's gonna be, that you've got... at some point, you have to make a decision to trust somebody, right? Otherwise, you're just gonna be kinda stuck in your own ways. But we had a lot of conversations with Eric and with his team at GoGetMade, a lot of back and forth. And we decided... we built a good rapport with them, and we decided, you know, we're gonna trust them and give them a shot, and they delivered. So we were very happy with that. Once we got in with Eric, it just changes because when you're making them yourself, you just can't scale. I mean, it's just... it was too difficult. So with Eric, he was able to not only be able to get these things mass-produced, but the product he was able to develop with his team was a lot better than the product we were able to make ourself. He made huge improvements to our laser. He made huge improvements to our pad, and even the packaging. So it's been significant as far as, like, that homemade product to, like, something that soon will be sitting on the shelves of Dick's Sporting Goods, Golf Galaxy. So we're very happy with the progress that they've been able to make for us. We've done three orders with them now. And our first order, the product was a step up from what we had done before from the garage, but there was still improvements we wanted to have made to the product after we received them. So Eric and them were very helpful in actually hearing our ideas to improve the product. And then the second order we made with them, they had solved all those issues. So it was really nice being able to just communicate with one person. So we've been making improvements, and even on this third batch that's actually in production right now that'll be shipping out in a week, that's even gonna be better than the last one. So it's kind of... me and my business partners talk about it kind of like the iPhone. You got the 1, the 2, the 3, and now they're on, like, what, 18 or whatever. We're making progress, and GoGetMade has been significant in helping us make that progress. I would definitely recommend GoGetMade. They've been significant to us in helping us. Personally, myself too, a lot of people I think just go straight to Asia to get their manufacturing done and talk directly to manufacturers. To me, that was something I just couldn't... I just wasn't comfortable doing. I don't... I'd rather be able to talk to somebody in English here in the U.S. who's already got those relationships built out, who's spent so much time building that trust and that network. And so to me, it's just is no brainer. You just use the people that have the reputation and the systems already built out so that I can produce faster and focus more on sales as opposed to manufacturing. So I would definitely recommend them, and I have recommended them to other people. One thing is too that GoGetMade is when I did have questions or needed help in other areas, they have contacts and people that they can lead me towards. Because, for example, the packaging on our product is a really cool design. That's something I couldn't do, and the team at GoGetMade had somebody that they were able to put me in touch with, and we've created this beautiful packaging design that we're very happy with. And so yeah, so they've got a deep network that they've also helped me out with.