Investor and operator in self-storage and flex-space (contractor garages) industrial real estate.

Winks Living is a D2C eCommerce company selling exclusively on Amazon.com. Our brands include Grit Performance, Winks Travel, and K9 Casuals. In 2020 Winks Living was sold to Thras.io.

BuyBoxOps.com serves brand owners, big and small, take advantage of the largest online marketplace in the US, Amazon.com. We live and breathe Amazon. Understanding and taking advantage of every opportunity within the marketplace, we partner with existing brands, not as a seller, but as a partner, to help optimize product listings, organize and run product launches, and manage operations for our brand partners. Amazon is a jungle of rules and processes that take an expert to navigate. BuyBoxOps takes a machete to the entangling vines that prevent brands from maximizing their reach on Amazon.com. Through education and partnerships, we put the control back into the hands of brand owners if it's been lost, and create solutions for underrepresented brands on Amazon.

Following the retirement of the local toy store owner in Placerville, we decided to open a family fun toy store on historic Main Street in the storefront connected to the Original Thomas Kinkade Gallery. In 2013 we expanded our brick and mortar to the web and exploded on the scene as a 3rd party seller on Amazon.com, selling just under $2 million in 2015.We have since started our own brands on Amazon, taking advantage of the power of Amazon's marketplace to reach new customers and product categories.

As a pioneer for online Thomas Kinkade sales, we set the example for how to operate a Thomas Kinkade fine art gallery on the web. Taking advantage of Google AdWords backed up by a robust, innovative site and killer customer service, we created waves among the gallery network and publishing company. Sadly, following Thomas Kinkade's untimely death in 2012, we made the difficult decision to close the Original Thomas Kinkade Gallery in Placerville, CA.