In the last post, I discussed my strategy for getting chemistryfamous’ Organic Chemistry Handbook onto Amazon Prime. Since then, months have passed. Update I stopped using Shopify, and migrated to an Etsy-based store. Etsy is cheaper for smaller stores, and provides an avenue for organic exposure through their discovery system. It was a win-win-win; I saved money, got…

Introduction After doing some research and crunching some numbers, I came to understand the costs and time required to have my own products listed on Amazon’s marketplace. As a follow-up to Stage One, I developed a concise “bottom-up strategy” to obtain a trademark – which I’ll outline below. In my previous post, I explained that to sell…

I designed and built a product for organic chemists and students called the Organic Chemistry Handbook. In my previous story, I wrote about how I grew a niche Instagram page around chemistry from 0–20K followers in 1 year. I decided it was time to start advertising my own products. A few ideas came to mind (phone cases, tshirts,…

Why did I create chemistryfamous? I actually don’t know why I created chemistryfamous. I wanted to start an Instagram page, and the first thing that came to mind was to create an online molecular gallery. I’d never seen anything of the sort, and thought it would be an interesting project. Deciding on a name During my junior year…