I started this ecommerce blog in 2009 to document the steps my wife and I used to build a successful ecommerce, an effort that we started early in our marriage and that got our family off to a great start.
We build a sporting goods store, RobbinsSports.com, that (after five years of hard work) was netting us over $1m annually in sales, and producing an annual income that was over $200k.
During the process of building our sporting good store, we added two children to our family, and we learned how to balance our time between raising these kids and continuing to build a business that would provide for them and others to come.
In 2009, we sold RobbinsSports.com. Shortly after that, went to work I spent two years working for the LDS Church doing search engine optimization and helping with other marketing and consulting roles.
Fast forward 20 years from when we started our first successful ecommerce drop-ship business in 2004. Much has changed about the industry.
With our non-compete agreement long since expired, and now with six sports-loving boys in the household, it made sense for us to pick back up on sporting goods and team sports equipment. In 2023, we created RobbinsAthletics.com, a resource for athletes, coaches, and parents to learn and to buy sporting goods. Over the first half of 2024, we decided to start making significant efforts to make RobbinsAthletics our main family income, specializing in, among other (sometimes random) things:
- Custom Sports Uniforms - A couple of our suppliers now offer design tools that allow customers to do custom jersey and other designs to make their uniforms
- Portable Bleachers - These are not so easy to ship, but our supplier has a deal with freight that makes shipping somewhat affordable despite high gas prices and a bit of a breakdown of the overall logistics system in the US.
