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Meet Marita Richardsen and Anne Zoumblios of Oracle Global Group

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Marita Richardsen and Anne Zoumblios.

Thanks for sharing your story with us Marita and Anne. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
My business partner Marita and I started Oracle Global Group in 2015. We would buy and import brands from Korea and China to the US market and the European market. We both had full-time jobs and we would clean apartment buildings at night to get the capital we needed to buy products. It was a rough few years with a lot of hard work and very little knowledge about the retail market. After meeting with many buyers and getting an understanding on what type of products the market was looking for we decided to represent new brands that stood out on the market.

We started representing little known brands and grew them into global sensations that are now the world’s best sellers within their industry. We have been able to set up a network of the world’s largest retailers and brands that we represent to be able to sell directly to retailers without using distributors. Giving them an extremely competitive price point by dropping the middle man.

We are currently one of very few operating with this business model and the only one at this scale. We do online marketing and build a following for our clients to increase business and revenue on their behalf. Breaking into a male-dominated industry was tough and the road seemed long but our hard and consistent work we have been able to build a company operating in a global market.

Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
The struggle along the way was to be taken seriously in such a difficult business. We always have to work a little harder and be more prepared because we are young females.

Alright – so let’s talk business. Tell us about Oracle Global Group – what should we know?
Oracle is a one-stop-shop powerhouse in building consumer products in the market, as we offer our expertise in both digital marketing and building the brand within retailers.

1) Digital Marketing:

We offer all aspects of digital marketing. Oracle Global Group creates algorithms that is sure to have our posts reach the intended people. We build brands faster than any other company. We work in a set system that has proven time and time again to beat any other strategy. Our campaigns run across Instagram, Facebook, Google, SnapChat and other apps and websites. By studying our brands and market changes, we are constantly one step ahead of our competitors. We have an in-house team that does all strategy, onboarding, site review, onsite optimization, off-site optimization, SEO Growth & Ranking. Oracle Global Group’s digital team strives to make sure that your brands is always the top-ranked product within your department.

2)Brand Building Within Retailers:
Oracle Global Group provides today’s businesses with best-in-class strategic and creative services that help their brands play a meaningful role in people’s lives and build their businesses. Oracle’s background in sales and marketing gives them an excellent understanding of how to get products effectively distributed into the right channels to maximize sales. Oracle knows what the market is looking for as far as packaging, price point, and products. They work closely with the retailers and their buyers in making sure that the brands have what it needs in order to get sales and volume. Oracle’s excellent understanding of packaging, branding and product design allows them to evaluate how to differentiate various products into the market space and effectively position the brand for success based on customer needs.

Oracle Global Group helps the brands with all their projections within the retailers. They also help market the brand within the retailers that the product is in to make sure that the brand hits the projections. Oracle Global Group has established connections and are working with retailers such as Costco, Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Target, 7-11, and many more. We also help the brand with their gross margins and we make sure that all their costs are covered from product cost, shipping, marketing, vendor set up, possible returns, ads/promotions within stores before we add the retailers’ markup. Our success is coming from our brands’ success and it is our job to make sure that they stand out from the millions of other brands out there and providing them sales.

As far as we know, we are the only company that works with the strategy we do by offering both digital marketing and access to all the retailers that we can help place their brand within.

Is there a characteristic or quality that you feel is essential to success?
We are extremely motivated, resilient, and persistent. We don’t take no for an answer and if we see an opportunity for our brands in a retailer or marketed in a certain way, then we keep working until we see the results we wanted.

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