Previous Business Owner

I owned Niyama Herbal Arts for seven years. The business industry was dietary supplements, dried herbs, teas and skincare. The products were sold worldwide. I started the company with zero raised capital and about $8,000 in self funding. The first three years in the business, the median growth stayed strong at 30%, after that the business trended closer to 21% each year. By January 2017, we had over 400 items listed on Amazon and eBay and we hit the highest in monthly sells at $44K. Niyama was located in Nashville, Indiana.

SKILLS DEVELOPED: Start-up, Business Development, Operations, Budgeting, Planning, Sales (B2B & B2C), Negotation, Product development, Regulatory Compliance, Inventory Management, Purchasing, Competitive Analysis, Marketing, Web Dev & Maintenance, Amazon (FBM) Marketplace, Ebay Marketplace, E-Commerce sells, Multi-Channel Management, Domestic and International Shipping, Custom Regulations, Graphic Design, and more.

Below are an examples of the products, content writing and packaging.

Dietary Extracts

Keep Calm was a Dietary Supplement blend. This product marketed as a natural support that promote adaptogen brain’s natural ability to regulate emotions – helping to maintain balanced mood.

Herbal Teas

Wellness Herbal Tea was an herbal tea. That was marketed as a defense-strengthening blend the promotes energy featuring nettle, oat straw and hibiscus. Sweet, yet warming with fruity notes of pineapple.

Skin Care

Wild Herbs, Nourish with nature, Body Polishing scrub was one of our skin care products. Multi-tasking formula simultaneously exfoliates, cleanses and moisturizes the skin for that healthy glow.

We were an FDA register facility.

Dietary Supplement have to be manufactured in a FDA register facility. Niyama Herbal Arts was an approved FDA facility.

We sold our products worldwide.

World Map

This map was at our shop in Nashville, Indiana. We would pin a red-top plastic pin to the map when we shipped a product to state or country. It was kind fun!

Close up
picture of US

When I closed the shop in 2019, we had filled the entire US with repeated shipments to several states. This is close up of the red-top plastic pins that we used on the map.