Start, Scale, Learn Ecom: Recent Episodes
Andres Vasquez
We break down the steps on how to make money off e-commerce with successful entrepreneurs across different platforms including Amazon, Shopify, Poshmark, eBay, and others. The entrepreneurs on the show give insights into their stories behind their e-commerce brands, product research, sourcing strategies, marketing, and branding strategies to help make you with your e-commerce business!
Amazon has made previous giant acquisitions spreading its across different industries apart from its e-commerce and web service avenues. With its newest acquisition of One Medical, it is now in the health industry.
Main Headline:Instagram has a new shopping feature that allows people to DM businesses to buy products with the addition of having tracking numbers. This reduces any friction with any payments and trackability giving the customers more confidence in their purchase.
YouTube is also getting into the e-commerce mix with its new partnership with Shopify. Creators will be able to feature their products on their channels and within their content. The video giant also came up with a feature that allows all creators to access live shopping capabilities. These include the ability to tag products to a live stream directly from the Live Control Room panel.
Second Headline: Klarna, the buy now pay later fintech platform, is opening a pop-up shop in Los Angeles to emphasize conscious fashion and clean beauty, The pop-up shop will offer online and in-store discounts for selected products.
Main Headline: This is something that is overlooked but Shopify has a very in-depth set of tools and resources to help your e-commerce brand get to the next level. Not only do they share e-commerce success stories but they show trending products and marketing tips
CHECK OUT SHOPIFY LEARNING RESOURCES
Sub Headline: Nike makes a concept store in Seoul, Korea which includes augmented reality tech and customizable backdrops for content creation
Sub Headline: Amazon is both housing third-party sellers to sell on its platform and a seller itself with its private labeled brand. Amazon Basics products have been feared to outshow other branded products from other sellers. Because Amazon has all the data in regard to all the transactions, they know whether or not it will be a better idea to create a private labeled brand to compete with their customers and give themselves the advantage by pushing their products in the eyes of more consumers.
Reports say that this is not the case but others have speculated otherwise,
Okendo is a startup that primarily helps Shopify businesses by enabling them to collect customer reviews via product ratings, customer-generated photos + videos, preferences, and more.
Customer reviews drive sales. Think about it. Many shoppers on Amazon buy products that are rated highly and have great reviews. When pondering about buying product A or product B, customers tend to purchase the one that has a better rating. The same thing applies when going to a restaurant.
Okendo has already worked with over 5,000 brands and you can too. The reality is that one does not have to use them for your Shopify business. There are other plugins and tools that will help you display reviews. The important thing you must take away is to show you're a trusty brand selling products people love. The only way to do that is via ratings and customer reviews.
Amazon just broke the internet with the number of people buying products during Amazon's Prime Day Event. They surpassed 300,000 million items being sold at a rate of 100,000 items sold per minute!
Did you know that 90% of Americans only live within 10 miles of a Walmart? That to me sounds like sameday delivery is very possible potentially making Amazon worried.
Voice technology is only getting better and its applications for it can be limitless. Look at what Amazon is doing with its new feature where instead of Alexa (the default speaking assistant) reading a bedtime story to a child, a recognized voice (such as your parent or in this case a deceased grandma) can do so.
Now, what can voice assistants or smart speakers do more for your e-commerce business? More and more people are getting these types of devices and more people are making search queries. In addition, people are also buying more through voice search and the revenue to come out of that is in the billions!
Your business will not want to miss out on voice search so optimizing your site with long-tail keywords is super important.
More resources on voice search and what it can do for you e-commerce business:
- https://www.smarthint.co/en/busca-por-voz-ecommerce/
- https://www.netsolutions.com/insights/voice-search-for-ecommerce/
Here are the tips for creating a successful Amazon business through the CNBC article/video:
- Be passionate about your business (your work)
- Use influencers because they have a strong loyal following (this should be the audience you are trying to attract) where you can tap into and get the products into their minds
- leverage Amazon's FBA service and tools to get more sales
Raise your hand if you thought Lego already had tons of factories in the US. Legos were founded in Demark and they used Mexico to build a factory but now have plans to build in Virginia.
Petco aims to tap into the rural USA pet parents market which is worth about $7 billion. They plan to do this by building rural stores.
Amazon will soon be using drones to deliver packages in California.
The Fashion Act would only hit those apparel companies making over $100M in revenue per year and operating in New York (which is essentially every big brand)!
Sources:
- https://www.retaildive.com/spons/heres-what-passage-of-the-fashion-act-would-mean-for-apparel-companies/624587/
This is an opportunity calling as more and more e-commerce entrepreneurs and brands are transitioning to TikTok because the ads are cheaper. Not only that but depending on your target audience, TikTok might be the best medium to market. That's because TikTok has 386.6 million users aged 18 to 24, making up 43.7% of the platform’s users worldwide.
If you can figure out creative ways to market your brand and products then you'll have a competitive advantage especially if you make the first move.
For example, Roblox cultivates a lot of attention from a young audience that brands are looking to show off to. Brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Forever 21, and even Gucci have partnered up with Roblox.
Marketing experiments like these may or may not work but if it works then that's gold. Especially if you, again, have that first mover's advantage
Always be testing!
Read the full article on brands partnering up with Roblox
You got to protect the customer if you want them to keep coming back, right? Etsy is a massive online marketplace where a lot of unique products, especially personalized products, are being sold.
Because of its unique marketplace it really distinguishes itself from Amazon and Walmart. Even with this x-factor you still have to protect the customer so they can be happy and stay.
Read the full article here
SKKN is set to launch on June 21, 2022 exclusively on skknbykim.com. Influencers, YouTubers, and celebrities with their personal brands and influence have the position to leverage that and create their own products.
We are seeing this with Logan Paul and KSI with their drink Prime, Kim Kardashian with SKKN, and more along the way.
Buy Now Pay Later is a way for customers to buy a product through installments instead over a period of time (i.e. 4 installments every two weeks). If you want to buy an expensive item such as a grill or mattress then it might be less of a burden for you to spend that money all at once.
Note: What is Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL)?There are many platforms offering this such as Klarna, PayPal, and Sezzle to name a few. But now Apple is getting into the mix as it plans to integrate its own BNPL option into Apple Pay.
New technology will always propel a business and with AR, Amazon is utilizing it to help the customer buying experience.
Note: article on how Amazon is doing thisRetailers like Target have too much inventory due to supply chain issues, inflation, and consumer buying behaviors.
Check out the CNBC article on this storyVitamin Shoppe owner amongst other investors looking to buy Kohl's. Can Kohl's really be revitalized or is it too late?
Check out what is going on with Kohl's and the opportunity ROI of buying it
Ever since the pandemic, the demand for activewear has soared 35% in a two-year period. Sales in the men’s and women’s apparel category rose from $52.3 billion in 2019 to $70.8 billion in 2021.
It comes as no surprise that big-box retailers such as Walmart, Target, and Kohl's have launched private-labeled brands to enter this growing market. In today's episode, we go over this market demand and how Walmart has revealed another activewear line with fashion and fitness couple Michelle Smith and Stacey Griffith.
Etsy is a major player in the e-commerce world with custom and personalized products that you don't typically see on Amazon. I believe that Etsy businesses are doing very well with their unique products but can always scale by going on Shopify to get more control of their data.
Not only can you get more insights by switching or adding a Shopify store but it creates a branded experience. Today we explore a couple of products on Etsy to give you inspiration on what from Etsy can potentially be used to create a Shopify brand.
Here are some cool products on Etsy that were mentioned:
- Magnetic Wristband DIY tool
- Naughty Scratch Card for him
- DIY Hot Sauce Kit
Did you know you can actually dropship on Amazon and not just Shopify? Yes, Amazon is mainly known for wholesaling, private labeling, and retail arbitrage. You might ask, "Hey, I thought Amazon has really strict rules against dropshopping," but Shayne Cannell-Cohen explains that as long as you follow the guidelines you'll be safe!
On top of that reassurance, Shayne explains the story of how he had his back against the wall when he lost his part-time job and had to figure out a way to make money. He eventually got into entrepreneurship and started to make serious bags via Amazon dropshipping.
Today he will share his story and strategies to find winning products and how to get into the buy box on Amazon to generate sales!
Target is already selling clothes in its stores through the likes of:
- A New Day
- All In Motion
- Original Use
- Goodfellow & Co
- and many more
Whenever I go to Target I actually like to see the clothing collection and got some hoodies myself. To my surprise, a good amount of people from my local Target were also checking it out so I thought to myself that Target must be doing pretty well in this department.
Secondhand clothing is a massive market as many online selling platforms like Poshmark, Facebook Marketplace, Let Go, Mercari, and Depop are being used by people as a side hustle (not to mention thrift stores in general as well)! Others take full advantage of the platforms to make 4-5 figure months.
The multibillion-dollar secondhand clothing market can be a great way for Target to make money via the ThredUp partnership.
Here's a very interesting excerpt from the article via Retail Dive:
"Retailers and brands, many with the help of ThredUp, are working to meet surging demand for secondhand clothing. Shoppers, including many younger ones, increasingly see used goods as a way to find a bargain and to limit consumption in the interest of sustainability.
For Target, the pilot is a way to explore how to better serve customers, including what products to carry and how to offer value, along with furthering its sustainability goals."
It's always fun looking at the best sellers on Amazon. One of the things that I discovered surfing the best sellers is:
- spring product/decor is doing very well because everyone is going to want to remodel or make their outdoor space cute. Who doesn't want their lawn and patio looking good for the spring/summer right?
- There is definitely a trend going on when fidget or stress reliever toys. When I go on the Toys & Games Best Sellers on Amazon, somewhere in the top 20 there are at least 2 or more toys that relieve some sort of stress (at least it's marketed that way)
I wanted to check out the best-selling products on Etsy around Mother's Day and came across this brand called Sweet Water Decor. This store has over 80,000 sales on Etsy and was trying to find a reason as to why or how that is.
Turns out that the brand was founded by Melissa Horvath in 2014. The execution and branding of the motivational business are spot on. The social media content is very aesthetically pleasing on both Instagram and Pinterest not to mention the Facebook ads as well.
Sweet Water Decor is actually in popular retail stores like Hobby Lobby, HomeGoods, TJMaxx, Staples, and in over 4,000 boutique stores. This brand sells mugs, candles, and other home products. It's fun exploring brands and the execution across its social channels.
Physical retail is not dead especially if you're a bigger brand that can afford to have a brick & mortar in an active region where people can interact with your store. It won't just be about more foot traffic to buy products on the spot, but rather to engage and experience the brand to potentially share or buy later.
The metaverse is still in its infancy but there are already cases where brands have used it to increase their brand awareness. Look at the example of Nike and Roblox. You can even take a look at the example of Forever 21 and Roblox where the retailer launched an exclusive partnership with Virtual Brand Group, a metaverse creation company, that allows users to buy and sell Forever 21 merchandise and customize their own stores on the Roblox video game platform.
To get the full read on the article that was covered for this podcast episode you can check it out here!
I love hearing about dropshipping and how entrepreneurs are making nice profits every month. But what if you as a dropshipper or new eCommerce entrepreneur can realize better gains and a potential supreme exit strategy.
This can be done by creating a brand. By implementing digital assets such as data, an email list, a 3PL, etc.
We have George Molous today, who is an e-commerce broker. He has experience in selling established brands to buyers.
George will provide insights on what buyers look for when buying brands so you can know what to expect and what to do for your business.
Welcome to a throwback episode we had back with Rondel Roach in December of last year. This story is pretty lit and the game that supplies for us today is very insightful for anyone trying to create a brand from a-z on their own.
Rondel is the co-founder of the soap brand Bombd Aesthetics alongside his business partner and wife back around 2018. The origin story of the soaps was to help their daughters who were born with sensitive skin.
However, there was a demand for the soap Rondel and his wife was making. They eventually go to making 5-6 figures, hiring multiple employees, and getting a warehouse to supply and distribute the soap.
To get more insights into the stories, read these articles which is where we got the sources from:
- Scotch & Soda expanding globally but mainly in North America
- Fabletic's using major influencers (in this case the actress Vanessa Hudgens) to create a clothing line. Instead of getting one-off influencers to promote a piece of clothing for your brand, you can probably sponsor one bigger influencer for a clothing collection instead.
- More e-commerce demand but a low supply of truck drivers. The work is hard but the pay is surprisingly pretty high.
- Etsy increases transaction fees to 6.5% from the 5% angering many Etsy sellers
- Walgreens turning to robots. Not focusing on redundant tasks and focusing on more important matters will only increase productivity. Robots will make that happen and is currently in many industries including big pharma.
Check out the sources where I got the articles:
- Shein to be valued at $1B
- AR and social commerce are on the rise!
- Macy's to open a $584M fulfillment center
The market for the pet niche is massive and when you combine that with the idea of personalized products it should be an instant hint, right?
This is the story of how Alex Djordjevic, the co-founder of Pup Ring, went from company debt to generating 5-6 figure months selling personalized pet rings. Alex has had e-commerce experience before Pup Ring but what gravitated him into creating a brand was the idea of a long-term project that also meant something to him on a passionate and sentimental level when his dog passed away.
The primary method of selling the personalized rings was through a vendor in China but as they started to progress in the business they moved operations to the US. Things were not sunshine in rainbows as Facebook was not generating a healthy amount of revenue.
As a matter of fact, Alex and his co-founder found themselves in debt and were close to shutting the store down until he dabbled with TikTok. After about a few videos, he eventually went viral and was able to smash over $20,000 in sales from that one video.
Ever since then his marketing strategies and PupRing outlook as never looked so good!
Take a look at PupRing here:
- Website
- TikTok
Who knew Kohl's started as a grocery business before becoming a department store? Today we break down the story of their latest pivot.
Here are stories where we got this info:
- Kohl's to pivot into a lifestyle concept
- Twitter is testing its shopping feature to compete in the world of social commerce
- Walmart+ to offer free Spotify memberships for 6 months to its members!
- Lululemon enter the footwear industry
We have Matias Myhrberg, who is the founder of Leadon, a digital marketing agency that helps e-commerce brands grow through platforms such as TikTok ads, Google ads, Email marketing, Facebook, and essentially everything in between.
When a brand is making 5-6 figure months, it is time to start branching out to various platforms to maximize reach. This is a must when trying to reach out to new customers are in other words get more top-of-the-funnel awareness.
In this episode, we also dive into more specific with TikTok marketing considering the fact that it is the most cost-efficient platform in terms of getting reach with little to no marketing dollars.
A unique selling proposition is simply the one thing that makes your product better than the competition. You can be a pioneer or an innovator like Steve Jobs disrupting the mobile market with the iPhone. He made the latest phone model (at the time BlackBerry phones) and improved it by like a factor of 50x.
This innovation is a different level of thinking but one can still make major contributions to the market you're in by selling something that is entirely different (but functional of course) or by improving upon another design.
A way you can check for faults in a product is by buying it yourself and testing it. Or you can check out what the consumers are saying by checking reviews on Amazon for example.
Use this as ammo to load up your ideas to make your product idea much better and use this difference in your marketing material as well.
This is a throwback episode we had back in September of 2021. There's one thing to build an e-commerce brand but there's an entirely different thing for setting it up to become an asset that can be sold.
We have George Molous today, who is an e-commerce broker. He has experience in selling established brands to buyers. George will provide insights on what buyers look for when buying brands so you can know what to expect and to do for your business.
Enjoy!
Today we have Craig Lewis a Pinterest marketing fanatics and founder of Pin and Grow where helps e-commerce brands scale using innovative Pinterest Strategies.
You might be scratching your head thinking about how Pinterest can help scale an e-commerce brand. Short story, Pinterest is a social media platform (in Craig's case a powerful search engine) with over 400 million monthly active users. If you drive attention from Pinterest to your shop then that's potential sales right there.
Craig goes in-depth of 101 and 201 on how you can use Pinterest to drive traffic to your site. His strategy incorporates both organic content and paid ads over the long haul.
If you want to experiment with a new social media platform to drive sales or cultivate an omnichannel approach with your brand then you may want to tune in.
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Welcome to another episode where we explore the wonderful, fun, and innovative products on crowdfunding sites like Indigogo and Kickstarter,
Today we will explore the Snoppa Rover Electric Stabilization Cinema Dollywhich is a remote-controlled cinema camera. If you want a device that has speeds up to almost 19mph with stability with great image quality (using your DSLR camera for example) then this can be for you.
This episode isn't only to just show how cool this camera is but to explore the idea of creating products that serve to complement an experience or a primary product instead of reinvesting the wheel.
Crowdfunding is an art but it's an opportunity to raise money on an innovative idea that nobody can really copy. With dropshipping people can copy your product in a matter of hours but by innovating your own, it will make things a lot more difficult.
For something as primitive or simple as a notebook, it is one of those things that is never going not going to sell. I think it's because of the fact that humans need something physical to express themselves and find themselves through physical interactions in this ever digitized world.
In this podcast episode, we read and comment on the In a world gone digital, Moleskine still believes in the power of paper article on Retail Dive. The brand Moleskine is mainly known for selling notebooks and is very recognizable on Amazon and when you walk into book stores.
If you think that there is no way to compete in the notebook market then you need to think twice. Yes, it is hard but you need to ask yourself, "how can I innovate or add a unique selling proposition to have people buy my notebook?"
Some examples that people have already come up with are:
- Fidget toy cover notebooks
- personalized notebooks from Etsy (so many cool examples!)
- the reusable notebook where you can erase all your notes by putting it in the microwave...
We can all wholesale to sell clothes for our boutique or clothing brands. Now the problem is that these pieces of clothing will not be unique. It's definitely possible to have the correct marketing material in play to sell these clothes but to stand out from the crowd or at least give you a better chance to succeed is by innovation.
Can you create a piece of clothing that fixes a problem? Or can you create a design that nobody has seen before or maybe a design that improves your athletic ability? Add a layer of user-generated content and things will get interested according to Jordan Bias who works with online brands in the clothing space through his digital marketing agency Ecom Fluenz.
We have Akshaya, better known as Aksh, is an Indian entrepreneur and digital marketer helping DTC brands in the US and UK scale their business.
In this podcast episode, we will explore the power of user-generated content, the idea of making retargeting ads to get more sales through existing customers, and why organic content is so important for long-term growth!
Established brands that are already making 5-6 figure months are pretty much established and have a proven track record. To stay competitive in the market and reach new customers, one should do paid advertisements (i.e. Google ads, Facebook, etc).
However, many DTC brand owners, according to Cameron Collins, an e-commerce digital marketer, often underestimate the power of email/SMS marketing. It is something people should focus on to get an extra 15-30% revenue growth on essential autopilot.
Once this is established then one can decide, according to their budget, which platform to advertise on and scale to new heights!
As a company and brand, innovation is key. Without innovation and implementation of new technologies, you may fall behind the pack.
NFTs and the metaverses are becoming more mainstream and giant companies are venturing into this web3.0 space to maximize future returns. This sounds crazy but this is the new wave that only benefits both the consumer and the brands.
Listen to see what these brands are doing and why. You can find the article here of where this story was found.
We all know (or do we?) that paid advertising is the best way to scale a business. Organic reach is great but to reach a wider spectrum of people at any given time, paid reach is the best way.
Does that mean that organic content should be ignored after a certain aspect of success in your DTC business? Most certainly no. In fact, Andrea Esamor, a Facebook Ads coach, tells us that it is best to focus on organic reach prior to doing paid ads.
It's normal for DTC brands or dropshipping businesses to go immediately into Facebook ads but her recommendation is to build a foundation via content and connecting with a community. Only until then, you can really start making ads to get more sales. Let's dive into why this is and if this is the right approach for your new DTC business!
There are many ways to sell products online. Shopify, Amazon, Etsy, and so on. Retail arbitrage and flipping products on eBay are the fastest and arguably the best for beginners.
This episode isn't going to have the focus on how to make money off eBay. Instead, it will explore the back story of Shane Myers who is a full-time reseller in a small town in Illinois with a population of about 2,500 people.
There shouldn't be an excuse for those who live in small towns or places where there are no thrift stores to source products from. Shane insists that there are no deep tactical strategies when it comes to retail arbitrage. Instead, it comes from a strong and persistent mindset that will eventually lead you to make a nice income.
I highly recommend checking out Shane's Youtube channel. You'll get insights on how to make money by selling products on eBay.
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Hello everyone! Hope you enjoyed the holidays and refreshed your batteries because today we are going to go over branding for your DTC business.
Many DTC owners are very passionate about their business and products but do not have a clear idea of who their target audience is and what their brand story is about.
We are with Sarah Jansel, CEO of Jansel and Co, where she helps build, brand, and grow Shopify stores.
The points we will go over are:
- how to create a brand story (meaning knowing what your brand represents and not just the product it is selling)
- why user-generated content is great for building brand
- some cool brands that are worth looking at and taking notes
Note: Sarah also has a Facebook group to learn more about e-commerce and branding on Shopify if you'd like to join!
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Is it really possible to make an extra $500 a month, $1,000 a month, or even generate a real primary income by flipping products on eBay and Amazon? In short, yes. Although this might seem too good to be true it is actually a fact. The only thing for this idea to become a reality is to get up and learn because it is not a secret anymore.
Let me explain, so John Muscallero first sold furniture on the Facebook marketplace with the initial thought that the concept of it was completely ludicrous until he started to double his money for each piece of furniture.
After transitioning to selling books on Amazon and eBay he was able to generate a full-time income amongst other businesses he has on the side. One of the key things you'll get from this show today is that all the tools and software are out there to make your reselling hustle a lot easier. The piece of the puzzle that needs to be set is your work ethic and mentality.
We're not in this episode going to really break down the tactics and strategies for making 4-5 figure months reselling on eBay and Amazon. Instead, we're going to focus that this idea can become part of your portfolio if you put in the work based around the area you're living.
To learn for about John and how to make money reselling products online you can check out his links here:
- Links to resources
- Youtube
- Blog
From doing dropshipping to help DTC brands with Facebook ads, Lokesh spits some game on:
- why DTC businesses need to focus on branding (side note: in 2022 I think this is something you should really focus on)
- how to do Facebook ads from an ad creative standpoint
- the anatomy of Lokesh's ad campaign
With these points, I think one can really get a better idea of how to start growing e-commerce business. Hope you enjoy this episode and keep a mental note of the ideas brought forth today.
Take a stroll and listen to this casual conversation between Jerrayah and me about:
- what the outlook of marketing/branding will look like in 2022
- what tools to use to spice up your brand (hint: Canva is #1)
- how Jerrayah worked with CBD brands with their custom packaging
- what good packaging really means for an e-commerce brand
If you would like to learn more about Jerrayah you can check her Instagram here. She also helps entrepreneurs with logos, packaging design, and shirts!
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It's bread and butter time meaning that we're going to break down Facebook ads so you can scale your brand.
We're here with Alex Hadding, the CEO of Bolstered Media where he has generated over 7-figures across the brands he has worked with.
We explore the following:
- how the iOs update is making people use different advertising platforms but Facebook is still the go-to
- how applying the fundamentals in a Facebook ad is everything (for example looking for a broad audience and letting the Facebook algorithm do its thing)
- How to create creatives for your ads and Canva being a super tool to get this done
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We have Michael Elliott in the house today. He is the founder of EJM Media where he helps build Amazon FBA businesses at scale.
There's a lot of things that go in the backend of running an Amazon FBA business such as product research, product sourcing, supply chain logistics, Amazon listing strategies, product images, etc.
For the most part of this talk we go over product research and the criteria Michaek Elliott uses to generate $5,000 - $150,000 per month. After that, we go in one how to make your product listing as best as possible to be on the first pages on Amazon and scale.
In summary, you'll learn:
- how to add added value to already selling product by being innovative or solving solutions that you see in the comments section of the product on Amazon
- the product research criteria to find potential products that will generate you 5-6 figure months
- the tools such as Helium10 and Jungle Scout to find these products
- the breakdown on keyword research, pay-per-click ads, and product photography to make your listing the top on Amazon
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Welcome to the e-commerce news show where we give you a brief on the latest e-commerce news around the world.
In today's episode you'll get insight on:
- Saks Fifth Avenue splitting its business into retail and e-commerce
- How to view the Instagram shopping feature
- Nike acquires RTFKT
You can learn more about RTFKT here!
Today we run through a great article from Ad Week about the future of social commerce. The two key points that you must note from the article is the following:
- Facebook groups are a great way to engage in a large community (even a new one) and provide value that can result in more trust and brand affinity.
- Instagram Live is the best way to interact with your community on a one-on-one level. With live-stream shopping, you can enhance the shopping experience resulting in more sales.
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Welcome to another episode of the crowdfunding show where we look at projects on Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and more to analyze the cool projects that are seeking backers.
In this episode, we explore an all-in-one toolset, Buddie, that helps you clean your earbuds. Let's be real for a second, your earbuds can get pretty nasty and can be a little embarrassing if you want to let someone borrow them.
This toolset is in the shape of a pen, has all the necessary tips and brushes to make your earbuds look fresh. Now to play devil's advocate, this product is not entirely new as it already exists on other platforms such as Amazon.
Now, why would you want to buy this product if it's more expensive than others and it's going to take much longer to get compared to something that is already out in the market? Well, this team made their product very portable (hard to lose as long as you put it on your keychain) and honed their marketing materials to eco-friendliness.
Billions of wipes, toothpicks, and cotton swabs are wasted every year and Buddie also is aiming to help in that to some degree with their product.
The following resources were found in the following sites if you want to get a deeper dive:
- Uber Eats Delivery Expansion
- Facebook Testing Split Payments
- Italy Fining Amazon $1.3B
This story is pretty lit and the game that Rondel Roach supplies for us today is very insightful for anyone trying to create a brand from a-z on their own.
Rondel is the co-founder of the soap brand Bombd Aesthetics alongside his business partner and wife back around 2018. The origin story of the soaps was to help their daughters who were born with sensitive skin.
However, there was a demand for the soap Rondel and his wife was making. They eventually go to making 5-6 figures, hiring multiple employees, and getting a warehouse to supply and distribute the soap.
We have Rondel to break down the story and teach us the following:
- How at the beginning of the entrepreneurial journey you're going to suck but you will ultimately get better (for example, the first set of creatives around the products were very basic and elementary but over time is has a professional look. Go check out their Insta.)
- How creating content and creating a community was everything in the success of their brand
- Why you shouldn't care about a product being too saturated
- There's no such thing as taking an L. Instead its an experience you can learn from
- How to use Instagram alone to get more brand awareness and sales using paid shoutouts, influencers, and ads.
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👉 https://fireyourbosshireyourself.com/waitlist1634598312161
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We're going to get a unique perspective of an e-commerce entrepreneur and university student from Singapore.
Wesley Dela Cruz breaks down how he generates 5-figures using Shopee and Lazada which is like the Amazon of Singapore.
It's cool to get a different perspective on what other entrepreneurs are doing around the world because their strategies might be unknown to others in say the US and Canada.
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- How and why Wesley prefers private labeling and incorporating a brand and
- What the Shopee and Lazada e-commerce platforms actually are
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Nike is a supermassive brand that has a massive cult following around the world. This can be seen across its social media channels and the revenue it generates every year.
In this episode, we explore Nike's website to explore its aesthetics and try to reason why it is the way it is. Using Similarweb, we've seen that the Nike website gets over 100M monthly visitors!
On social media, they have over 200M followers with Instagram accounting for 183M. The awesome thing is that they don't shove content down your throat in order for you to buy a pair of shoes. Instead, they curated valuable, motivating, and entertaining content that compliments what their brand is all about.
If you're a fan of Nike or an e-commerce entrepreneur, there is a lot to learn but just exploring Nike and its respective channels:
- Nike website
- TikTok
- Youtube
- Ad Library
So many middlemen are being cut. If you want to watch a movie, you can just go on Netflix in the comfort of your home. You do not need to get into your car, wait in line, and buy snacks to watch a movie. For food, you no longer need to go to a restaurant. Uber Eats and Instacart can deliver food to you.
With the rise of at-home tech and workout equipment, Boxx is a beautifully designed punch bag and smart trackers. Boxx wants to take your at-home boxing workout to the next level.
As of this moment, they've already surpassed the asking pledge amount of $13,342. They've raised $196,729 thus far. Let's dive in!
Check out Boxx's Kickstarter campaign here.
It's easy to say that traditional marketing is dead but that's false to some degree. Marketing at the end of the day is all about getting a potential customer's attention with a call to action of some sort. Either you want them to learn about you, buy from you, or set a little reminder that the brand is still around.
We will see in this episode how brands are using more traditional marketing strategies to get more attention and reach new customers!
To get more info on these stories, check out the original articles:
- Why Brands Using Catalogs During Q4
- Joybird Launches New National TV Campaign
- Nike In The Metaverse With Roblox
We have Lokesh, aka Loki, to discuss how he made his start in India dropshipping to helping people with Facebook ads to eventually creating his own marketing agency.
In today's podcast episode we go over:
- Creating a niche store to sell and test multiple products. You might be creating a bottleneck selling one product once sales start to decline. This isn't a guarantee of course as other massively successful brands are able to pull it off, but for the most part, you want to increase your average order value.
- How to set up a Facebook campaign on a low budget ($200-$500) and let the Facebook algorithm do its thing. Loki goes in-depth on how to create a CBO campaign and the creatives themselves.
- Why you eventually want to create a brand experience with content, faster shipping times, and a nice website
Tools and resources Loki mentioned on the podcast:
- Klaviyo
- Ad Hunter 3.0
I'm really excited for you eCommerce entrepreneurs on this episode. I think what we're about to discuss here, David Perry and I, is going to help your brand tremendously if the right steps are taken of course.
David Perry is the CEO of Carro, a collaborative commerce application on Shopify that will allow you to connect with existing influencers that are already fans of your brand.
You don't need to spend time DMing influencers and things like that because Carro already does that for you. But that's not even the thing that I think is the coolest.
I think it's cool and effective when there are brand collabs or partnerships but this is often seen with 7-9 figure brands. With Carro, they are essentially giving you white-glove service (as an influencer or brand owner) to connect with other brands.
They enable you as the influencer or brand owner to sell each other's brand products that will ultimately lead to a higher average order value and obtain new customers.
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CVS is closing 900 stores! Looks like they are going to shift their focus onto health as they've already (kinda) accepted defeat in some aspects of their retail strategies.
Walmart is really going all-in on e-commerce and live stream shopping. They are hosting a live stream event on Twitter and a bunch of other platforms. As a matter of fact, they've partnered up with Jason Derulo to be the face of the event! Influencers and content creators must be licking their lips as this trend of live stream shopping will boom!
A Baby Food startup story has a cool lesson or two to teach us in terms of finding angles in the marketplace and creating problem-solving products.
Links to the articles are here:
- CVS story
- Walmart story
- Baby Food startup story
Welcome to the first episode of the New Crowdfunding show where we explore the different brands and crowdfunding projects on Kickstarter and Indigogo.
Today we will explore a Kickstarter campaign based off in Amanase, Ghana where the brand/company The Impact Chocolaterie is creating organic, hand-made, vegan chocolate.
They have crowdfunded multiple projects but this one is geared towards their new line of pralines. What's cool is that the chocolates look amazing and their whole factory and packaging have a low carbon footprint.
The factory in which the chocolate is made is solar powered and the chocolate packaging is bio-degradable.
To find the sources of this Kickstarter campaign, please check this link!
Note: The video of the Kickstarter campaign is not our footage and only using it for educational and entertainment purposes. Also, we are not affiliated with this brand or campaign (just a fan of chocolate and branding).
For more details on these stories please check out the sources:
- Staples Trying to Buy Office Depot
- Target Setting The Standard For Private Labeling
- Hasbro Going into Livestream Shopping
Note: sources come from Retail Dive
I love this brand, Euphoric Supply, for the aesthetic but there's more than meets the eye. A key passage from the 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing was something along the lines that people don't like something better but something new.
Does that mean reinventing the wheel? In short, no. Euphoric Supply is a DTC brand that sells customized merch wrapped around pop culture and pop art. Some products include customized rugs, branded shoes, fun shirts, collectibles, and NFTs.
Something you'll discover about this brand is that there are no Facebook ads, TikTok ads, Google ads, or any type of advertising. Everything is organic and a large community has been built around Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter.
Every business must have some factor of differentiability between them in the market. If your DTC business is a carbon copy of another winning business then why would people buy from you?
Maybe that will be great for short-term gains but not for the long haul. A unique selling proposition is something that makes your business different such as:
- different brand packaging and delivery times
- different target audience that nobody has tackled yet
- different methods of selling your product (i.e. are other brands on Shopify and/or Amazon)
- does your product come in a bundle with extra added value
- the list goes on and on
Every business should be different so ask yourself, what makes your brand different?
We are here today with Timmy Morris, the founder of Vibe Body Care, a men's hair care brand, to discuss how he went from having 100 units of his private label product to successfully selling on Shopify, Amazon, and getting into big-box stores such as Urban Outfitters.
Things weren't always looking so good in the brand as all entrepreneurs know there are major ups and downs. One of the variables of success, as he will later elaborate in the episode, is the importance of creativity. Creativity cannot be taught but it is something that will differentiate your business from the rest of the pack.
Remember, people like new, not better. Keep that in the back of your head when listening to the episode. Alright, let's jump in!
This is a rant on my two cents of how the metaverse and NFTs can complement and enhance the shopping experience for customers.
Here are the resources of where the information was taken from if you'd like to get a deeper dive:
- Peleton + Beyonce Partnership
- Spanx Sells Majority Stake in Company
- Google Eyeing Commerce Opportunities
- Tech in Supply Chain
- Amazon Alexa in Senior Citizen Niche
Imagine if getting at least 1-2 sales per month can make you a lot more money than selling lower ticket items?
Now, this sounds too good to be true, but it is totally possible by implementing the high ticket model.
What is high ticket e-commerce and how can you make serious money by selling a handful of products a month? We have Chisesi Rae today to break down the model, how to find products and suppliers to sell high ticket items, how Google ads are the bread and butter for advertising and using Facebook ads for retargeting purposes.
Get coached by Chisesi Rae to learn how to launch a 6-figure e-commerce business!
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Let's talk TikTok again. I'm telling you entrepreneurs that you have to look into using TikTok as another sales channel and here's why.
Amann Memon is an e-commerce entrepreneur who tried Facebook ads with no real success, but when he transitioned to TikTok, things dramatically changed.
Amann will break down how to do product research specifically for the audience on TikTok, how to recreate viral videos from other dropshipping products, the importance of creating original TikTok content, and how TikTok influencers can boost sales.
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What's good everybody? Today we are going to talk about branded stores and the concept of dropshipping.
A lot of people have been hating on the dropshipping business model but it is something that even the big companies do. It works no doubt but creating an actual brand can yield much better results.
We are here with Moe Hayek, an e-commerce entrepreneur running two branded stores, Modern Garden and Exotic Snakz. His brands and results speak for themselves as he explains the do's and don'ts of creating a Shopify brand.
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Here is a quick segment of the e-commerce news show. All of the sources were obtained here if you'd like to get more detail:
- Retail Dive
- TikTok partners with Square
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TikTok is a massive social media platform, but if used correctly, can be used as a resource to make serious money via e-commerce.
TikTok can be used as a search engine to find a product that can scale to 5-6 figures and a platform to find cheaper influencers to advertise your products.
Google ads and Facebook ads are great ways to scale an e-commerce business, but as of this moment, TikTok is working wonders for Brenden Stein and the entrepreneurs he is mentoring through his program.
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Check out Robert McCullum and how he helps brands scale with the help of email marketing, Facebook ads, and Google ads via his agency Luxury Leads Media.
Check out his Facebook group eCom Boss to Scale Your Brand To $600k+ In 90 Days!
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Jonathan Molendijk is running 4 businesses across Shopify and Amazon, where he is finding tremendous success. Jonathan is not just an operator of business, but a valuable content creator helping other e-commerce entrepreneurs.
Today he will break down which platform is better to start on, why you should focus on one platform at a time, product research, and logistics.
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Let's talk about branding in terms of e-commerce because that word is thrown out a lot. What's the difference between a dropshipping store and an actual e-commerce brand?
Austin Lovell is the founder of Choose Crafted, an advertising agency, helping e-commerce brands scale to 7-8 figures and beyond.
We will explore how branding can create more revenue over time, what is a branded store, and the steps to get your business to the next level.
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If there are things in e-commerce that you must do at least to some degree, it is email marketing. Of course, there are different levels in email marketing, but you should at least starting building a list.
Put it this, Apple and Google are making it harder with reaching your target audience with privacy being a high priority. So if you have an email list, that you own, you can directly market to them.
Today we have Jelmer Jetten who is an expert in email marketing in e-commerce and has generated $10M in sales.
He will give us the rundown on how to grow an email list and use it to get more conversion leading to more revenue for your business.
If you want to learn more about Jelmer's work in email marketing, you can check out his service Flizz.
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Here are the links to the full stories shared on the podcast:
- A Unicorn E-Commerce Business Valued at $1.1B
- Walmart Partnership With Ford
- Businesses Scrambling Over Data Privacy
What's up, everybody? Let's talk about dropshipping, branded stores, and marketing trends.
Today we have Nicolas Peytier, an e-commerce entrepreneur with multiple businesses and a digital marketer, helping brands scale their stores.
At first, he tried running an e-commerce business centered around the country of India but there were many drawbacks and failures that led him to pivot.
After that, he focused on the US and Canada markets where things were looking really good for him.
Using his expertise in digital marketing he kept adding more businesses to his portfolio and eventually marketing for other brands.
You will get an idea of trends for Q4 and for what you ought to do in 2022.
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Here's a little 5-6 minute rant on my take on dropshipping and creating branded stores. This is only my opinion.
If you're making money and making progress with your e-commerce methods then that's the most important thing.
Should you dabble in Amazon or Shopify? If you choose to do Shopify, how should you go about picking a niche or product to base your business around? Or maybe you're wondering what ad channels you should focus on to actually sell your products?
If you have these questions then you're in luck because we have Sara Lampela today who has experience in Amazon and Shopify with 2 different brands.
Sara goes over how being passionate and knowledgeable about your niche is important because it will help you create marketing material, the idea of private labeling and talking with suppliers to create supplements, and the different ad platforms one can use besides Facebook ads.
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I love hearing about dropshipping and how entrepreneurs are making nice profits every month. But what if you as a dropshipper or new eCommerce entrepreneur can realize better gains and a potential supreme exit strategy.
This can be done by creating a brand. By implementing digital assets such as data, an email list, a 3PL, etc.
We have George Molous today, who is an e-commerce broker. He has experience in selling established brands to buyers.
George will provide insights on what buyers look for when buying brands so you can know what to expect and to do for your business.
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E-commerce is all about online transactions. Either you're selling a product or service, doing so online is an art.
In Matthew Collins' case, he is helping professionals build an amazing physique despite having time constraints. Working with clientele one on one and getting word of mouth is great but scaling yourself in terms of service is better.
Matthew on this episode will explain how he uses LinkedIn to find his target audience, how he provides upfront value and eventually closes a sale to get another client.
If you're a service-based business or a coach then this episode might help you and your business.
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If you have spent more than 6-7 figures in advertising for e-commerce brands you must have a great insight into what ads convert.
Luckily we have Jonathan Ng, who is the founder of an e-commerce ad agency company, to break down how to scale our e-commerce businesses.
Jonathan explains that knowing to copywrite and sales are super important. Knowing these skills will help you no matter what platform you're using such as Facebook ads, Pinterest ads, Google ads, etc.
If you're looking to scale your business to multiple 5,6,7 figures then you might want to listen to this episode in full.
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From making 6-figure weeks in Q4 of 2020 to going $80k in debt due to chargebacks to making profitable dropshipping stores, Alpha Ba explains the ups and downs as an entrepreneur.
In this episode, we also go over the idea of creating quick money via dropshipping vs creating a sustaining brand with consistent cash flow.
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In e-commerce there are many niches to explore and create a business around. If you are in the niche of beauty looking to scale or contemplating creating a beauty brand then Facebook ads are a great way to drive sales.
We have Aleah Dorsey today, e-commerce entrepreneur and Facebook ads coach, to break down Facebook ads for beauty brand owners.
The quality of your product is important but the marketing of it is just as important. From knowing the product-market fit, target audience, creatives, and sales, Aleah will explain these pillars to grow a beauty business.
Extra resources from Aleah Dorsey here.
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Here are the 4 tools and resources that can help you and your business succeed to some degree:
- NameChk - check if your social media and domain names are not taken
- SimilarWeb - see how much traffic a website it getting
- WayBackMachine (archive.org/web) - see other websites looked from the very beginning of time
- Ad Library - check out the Facebook ads of brands
What can cryptocurrency do for Walmart and Amazon? These massive companies have been in the hunt for cryptocurrency exports but what for?
Maybe one day our e-commerce businesses will be able to accept cryptocurrency payments seamlessly (there's probably already a plug-in for that)!
Read this article for more information regarding this topic.
We've been talking a lot about dropshipping lately and today we're going to as well but with today's main discussion around Facebook ads.
As a dropshipper, either new or experienced, you're are going to go through a lot of obstacles such as Facebook suspending you or finding ad creatives that can differentiate you from the rest of the crowd.
Josh Fothergill is here with us today, a young e-commerce entrepreneur in his twenties, living in Bali, to tell us what to expect from Facebook ads as a drophshipper and what sort of ad creatives can help you get a return on investment.
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Print on demand is a great way to create a unique product in a niche sector. One of the key takeaways I got from Matthew Schmitt is the principle of finding ways to compete with Amazon. We cannot beat Amazon on price and speed, but with POD you can beat them with a unique product.
And if you create a branded experience around your POD product then that will increase your chances of making a successful business.
Matthew has tons of experience in e-commerce, has multiple POD stores, and made a successful 7-figure exit.
In this episode, you will learn the difference between Shopify and other platforms like Etsy and Redbubble (where you can also do POD), how to find a niche to base your product around, and marketing strategies via Facebook to scale.
Additional links/resources from Matthew Schmitt:
- Skup
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From taking 6 months off of college to pursue dropshipping to creating multiple dropshipping stores generating 6-figures in revenue, Daniel Tran breaks down his story and strategies on dropshipping.
I am personally a big fan of branded Shopify stores, but that shouldn't take away from the fact that there is money to be made via dropshipping.
Daniel is really transparent with his work as he explains how he finds winning products, borrows other ad creatives to validate his product idea, and marketing strategies to scale his business.
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Is there one right way to approach e-commerce especially if you're new to it? In short no, but there can be steps that can help accelerate the growth of your business
Such steps are taking the path of creating a brand via user-generated content. We are here with Paul Benigeri, who is the co-founder and CEO of Archive.
Paul at Archive helps businesses drive organic traffic by building authentic relationships between the brand and its biggest fans.
In this episode, you will learn what UGC is, the old methods of using Instagram to drive sales and brand awareness, and the strategies to getting and utilizing the user-generated content.
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Toys R Us has been a very nostalgic brand and a lot of our hearts were broken when it filed for bankruptcy. Seeing our favorite kid's toy store close down was hard on our young hearts at the time.
But guess what? Toy R Us is partnering up with Macy's (again) to open 400 shop-in-shops in Macy's stores! What a time to be alive. This is going to be quite interesting.
What's up, everybody? We have Kevin Boateng who is the owner of multiple dropshipping stores and a private labeling brand.
Kevin will explain the pros and cons of both models, why private labeling can help you create sustainable e-commerce businesses, how to talk to suppliers to create your products, validating your idea, and doubling down on marketing efforts once validated.
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We are with the founder, Oh My Case, a popular phone case brand that Thomas Salic found.
Thomas built his brand in France and over time expanded globally. He will break down how he was able to generate 6-7 figures over a 2-3 year period, how user-generated content increased his brand awareness, and the steps it took to take his brand to the next level after initially focusing on the French market!
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As a business owner and entrepreneur, it is important to at least know about the new tools in e-commerce that can help scale your business.
In this case, we are talking about SMS marketing with Leighton Campbell. Leighton helps companies build profitable e-commerce sales channels for their brands.
In this episode, you learn what SMS marketing is, how to grow your list, why owning your own data is important, and how you can scale your brand with SMS marketing.
Additional Links:
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Get more information on the stories from these articles:
- Instagram going in on e-commerce
- Back to school business opportunity
Coraline Faure is here with us today from Lyon, France to give a different perspective of e-commerce in her current market of France and Europe.
Even though we're exploring countries, does not mean that things are totally different. The only different aspect is the consumer psychology of her target audience and introducing winning products as a dropshipper.
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We are here with Ollie Ecom to break down his story on how he leveraged his time during the pandemic to create dropshipping businesses and escape from the 9-5.
We go over how lucky he got with one of these products as he was one of the first entrepreneurs to dropship his product... however this does not discredit his e-commerce skills.
With what he learned through this experience he was able to replicate important aspects of this one dropshipping store to scale his business and incorporate it into his newer store.
Ollie favors marketing more than the whole process of running an e-commerce store as we also go over Facebook ads, marketing, and the importance of being creative.
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Check out these articles to read these stories in-depth:
- Twitter Debuts E-Commerce Feature
- Crocs Selling Socks
- Live Stream E-Commerce Is Coming To The US In Full
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We are here today with Kai Rogers to break down the longevity of a dropshipping business and why creating a brand can help in creating reliable revenue for the long term.
Kai gives insights on building the foundations of creating a brand, creating a community around a target audience, and how you can leverage TikTok to find content and market your products.
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Check out these two articles to get more informed on the topics discussed:
- How This DTC Brand Plans To Disrupt The $100B Children's Health and Wellness Market
- Youtube Diving Deeper Into Live Stream Shopping
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If you're knowledgeable in a certain area or passionate about a certain thing then it makes it much easier to run your e-commerce business.
With a solid background in a niche, you have a better understanding of what works what doesn't, you know the target audience making it easier to make marketing material, and with this, you can leapfrog other people creating businesses in your particular niche. The same thing can be said about being passionate about a certain subject.
We have Glenn Van Geldorp who is the founder of Gravity Grip Socks and a former soccer/futbol athlete. With this experience and passion for the sport, he was able to make the perfect sock that helped him and other footballers perform better.
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Dropshipping can be used for services and not just products. Fahad Saraj is here to explain what dropshipping services are, how to create a dropshipping service business, and how to scale your operations.
The first step is to work in a niche or business you're familiar with. For Fahad it was e-commerce and from there you need to start prospecting until you land your first couple of clients.
One of the coolest things you'll get from this episode is the idea of focusing on building revenue first or rather validating your product-market fit rather than working on stuff like the backend.
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What is branding and why is it important? Does adding perceived value to your product really make a difference?
These are the questions we explore with Ross Fledderjohn who is the founder of Shades on Party where he provides the perfect sunglasses for raves, music festivals, and special occasions.
Creating a branded experience and owning your own data and not just relying on Amazon to distribute your products will also be discussed as both Shopify and Amazon are great ways to sells products.
If you are planning on creating a brand that you'll feel proud of then listen to the episode in full.
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Hassan Bazzi is in the house today to break down for us how he built his e-commerce brands such as TheKdom, the Modernist Metals which was a personalized store, and the other micro-brands he's built.
He goes in-depth on how he scaled Modernist Metals, where he created personalized metal art and the problems he had with the supply chain side of things as well as payment processors.
Print on demand is a great business model but creating personalized art is challenging once you start to scale as Hassan explains.
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Want to learn about the importance of brand building and why you should look forward to doing it instead of making quick money off dropshipping?
We are here with Swan Kenzo to help us break down how to create an e-commerce brand on Shopify to eventually make an exit if that's your ultimate goal.
If selling your brand in the long-term is not your idea, running your business with this idea by building brand equity will certainly help you scale and have a sustainable business.
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This is the 11th episode of the E-commerce news show. Here are the stories shared that you can read from these sources:
- VCs investing heavily on grocery startups
- Amazon plans to build delivery robot in Finland
- White Castle and Puma Collab
- Urban Outfitters enter men’s makeup category
Facebook ads are almost a standard for scaling a business in the e-commerce world. TikTok is getting its own bit of shine as many entrepreneurs are using the platform to get huge spikes in sales.
But what about the other platforms like saying Snapchat or even Pinterest? We have Brock Jones, who is the founder of Digitl Inc, where he helped generate over $20M in revenue through Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms.
We will dive into Facebook, TikTok, and Pinterest marketing. More specifically TikTok and Pinterest!
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This in my opinion is the rawest interview ever about the hardships and truths of e-commerce.
Andrew Tan has dabbled in entrepreneurship and e-commerce as he explains how he sees dropshipping as his way out for living the life he wants on his own terms. Ever since he dropped out of college he's been making moves to create his own success.
At the moment he is in the trenches of dropshipping as he works jobs to pay for his marketing. If you're in a similar position as Andrew and looking for a connection or reassurance on how challenging e-commerce is then please listen until the end.
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Today we are going to talk about dropshipping and print on demand with Cyril Ortega and why you need to focus on branding to body off the competition and generate revenue on a more consistent basis.
We will go over the pros and cons of dropshipping compared to print-on-demand, supply chain management, and exit.
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If you are thinking about creating a direct-to-consumer beauty brand or looking for ways to scale it then we got you with Max Nketa.
Max is the founder of Lysis Agency where he helps scale DTC beauty brand to 7 and 8 figures. You'll learn about product-market fit within the beauty industry, how to create a brand, Facebook and TikTok ads, email marketing, and how to create a community.
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Can't emphasize it enough. Email marketing is a great way to generate revenue for your e-commerce business.
The sooner you start your email marketing flows the better. If you start sooner rather than later you will able to expand your email list, get better insights on your flows, and generate revenue.
We have Johnny aka Johny Ecom to break down how e-commerce entrepreneurs should tackled email marketing to scale their business.
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If you've been in the e-commerce game long enough or at least looking to then you will probably run into payment processor problems.
Payment processors for your e-commerce business allow you to handle transactions so that your customers can buy your products. Some well-known payment processors are Stripe, PayPal, Shopify Payments, etc.
We've heard stories of e-commerce store owners getting screwed by payment processors because they would either hold their money for too long (as cashflow is very important), or they simply decide not to work with you anymore resulting in you scrambling to find another to get customers to pay for your products.
We have Trevor Galvin who works with payment processors in e-commerce to help alleviate any problems with the default payment processors. Trevor will break down the importance of it, how to stay out of trouble with your payments processor, best practices for your business, and how to transition to another payment gateway as you start to scale.
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If you don't work on something that scratches your own itch or not passionate about then there's a strong possibility that you won't be happy even if you're making a lot of money.
Today we have Kenny Sanders who is the founder of two brands, Not Socks, and a clothing brand Things That Matter.
We will discuss how Kenny was able to develop his products, create established brands, making money through dropshipping/print on demand, and the importance of your mindset as an entrepreneur.
Without a strong mindset, you will not be able to achieve the things you'd like to accomplish. Kenny has really deep insights into this.
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The opportunities of e-commerce are endless. There are different business models such as dropshipping, retail arbitrage, print on demand, wholesaling, etc. On top of that, there are multiple platforms where you can run your business including Shopify, eBay, Etsy, Facebook marketplace, Amazon, and more.
We are with Abu Nahid here today to break down how he made money across eBay, Walmart, and Facebook Marketplace using the dropshipping model. eBay is Abu's bread and butter as will dive into that more in-depth, but you will get insights on the opportunities on Walmart and Facebook dropshipping.
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There are many components in a successful e-commerce store. From the product, customer service, marketing, and down to the copywriting.
Copywriting is the translation of words to incentivize your potential customer to make a decision to buy your product. Copywriting is not only implemented for Facebook ads but also in click funnels, email marketing flows, the website, etc.
We are with Tate Clemons to break down the importance of copywriting, how you can improve your copywriting in your Facebook ads and website to get a higher conversion rate which means more revenue for you.
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This is the 10th episode of the E-commerce News Show with the following stories highlighted from:
- Companies Owning On Owning Multiple DTC Brands
- Insights On Tech Payment Methods
- Demand For Warehouse Space
- Wayfair and 3D Tech
We have Duncan Mcleod, a digital marketer and e-commerce business owner himself to break down Facebook and Tik Tok marketing.
We dive into Facebook marketing trends and the current land grabs opportunities with Tik Tok ads.
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From stumbling upon Facebook ads to making his own e-commerce stores to eventually making his own agency, which generated $4M in 12 months for eCommerce brands, Theriot Solutions, Nick Theriot break down Facebook ads.
Nick goes over how e-commerce entrepreneurs should reverse engineer their target audiences, how to structure the top, middle, and bottom of the funnel of their marketing strategy, and the difference between CBO and ABO Facebook campaigns.
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We're with Chad Novak to discuss how to help you increase your e-commerce business revenue through Facebook ads and Tik Tok.
If you want to scale your current operation you don't want to miss how video creatives on Facebook ads can make all the difference and the value of Tik Tok marketing.
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If you have an established brand and looking to optimize your website to maximize your conversions and brand image, then we have Thomas Giraud to break that down.
Thomas is a web developer and Shopify expert from France, but based in Malta at the moment, helping e-commerce entrepreneurs create converting online shops.
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This is the 9th episode of the E-commerce News Show. In today's episode we cover 3 stories:
- Amazon Fussing Over Fake Product Reviews
- Lululemon Investing In-Home Fitness Tech Company
- Glossier Back Into Physical Retail
Use this e-commerce news and insights to fuel your e-commerce entrepreneurial hats!
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Have you ever thought or heard about utilizing Google ads to scale your e-commerce store?
We have Gary Lim to explain to us how important it is to test other advertising platforms besides the typical Facebook ads from the jump.
For every media platform, there are products that saturate that channel but what if that winning product hasn't been shown on say Snapchat, TikTok, or in this case Google Ads?
This approach is very different but effective as Gary Lim explains how he managed to grow his e-commerce brand making 5-figures/month profit.
We are here once again with Jessica (aka JessiDrop) to talk about dropshipping and marketing to boost your sales.
It's been about 6 months since we spoke and she will break down even further on the latest marketing insights and the real difference between dropshipping and branding and what you ought to pursue.
We've most likely all heard about dropshipping. We've seen people using this model to sell on Shopify, eBay, and now Facebook!
It's fair to say that most of us have Facebook accounts and at least heard of the Facebook marketplace. Think of it as a Facebook feature that allows people to sell products like any other seller's platforms like eBay and OfferUp.
Well, what if you can dropship products on the Facebook marketplace? Is it possible? Can you seriously make money doing that on Facebook?
The answer is yes, and we have Thuewan White to break this down. There are many benefits to leveraging the Facebook marketplace to dropship compared to other marketplaces as you'll learn why in the show.
Today we have Ali Balaghe break down his 20 step process to creating a successful e-commerce business.
The breakdown takes the approach of high due diligence and branding before launching the actual product.
The idea is to find a product that solves a problem and market it to a niche community, validate the product without spending too much capital, create custom packaging, have influencers create user-generated content, and scale with Facebook ads.
If you take dropshipping seriously and not a side hustle then anything can happen.
For Brady Ulmer, it took him 11 months to finally find success in dropshipping. After taking courses, seeking mentors, and investing in himself, he was able to leave his full-time job and generate his own income.
We break down how to successfully find a winning product, make video creatives to advertise, influencer and TikTok marketing, and the importance of having a pristine website.
We are with Rachel Coley to break down how you can leverage your knowledge by monetizing it.
Rachel is an e-commerce entrepreneur focusing on selling digital products as she helps dozens of students do the same.
Everyone has a skill that they can teach to the world. From picking the subject matter you want to teach to picking the exact method of monetizing your knowledge, pre-launch strategies, content creation, and landing pages, and more to get started.
Work with Rachel here to start monetizing your skillsets!
If you have access to the internet, you have the opportunity to create a successful e-commerce business.
This is going to be a different podcast episode because we are going to get the perspective of an e-commerce entrepreneur from Namibia, Africa.
We will learn how the African markets look, how dropshipping principles that we see in the US and EU still apply to Africa, and the opportunity for Africans to generate their income through the power of e-commerce.
If you live in the US, Europe, or any developed nation, this episode with Chits Digital will give you a different perspective on e-commerce. If you're from Africa, this is for you. The world is at your fingertips with the power of the internet.
On this podcast, we went over many case studies of how successful entrepreneurs are making money off e-commerce. We also went over the mindset and psychology of being an entrepreneur.
I think there is another important element for being a successful entrepreneur and that is keeping the money you earn.
We are not talking about how you spend your money as an entrepreneur. Rather we're talking about being extremely effective on your taxes and accounting.
Taxes and accounting are things that aren't really talked about in the e-commerce space. Luckily we have Chris Rivera to break down taxes and accounting for your e-commerce business so you don't lose money to Uncle Sam.
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We have Chelsea Guarriello to break down how she went from becoming a celebrity makeup artist to make 6-figures with dropshipping and being a boss of her own.
Chelsea will provide insights on her previous e-commerce stores, hope she literally started her business with absolutely no knowledge in e-commerce and Facebook ads, and how important it was to invest in yourself in order to grow as an entrepreneur and for your business.
Learn with Chelsea here!
Dennis aka the Dropshipping King helps people turn into entrepreneurs through his dropshipping formula.
We are going to break down as much as possible for A-Z on how to start an e-commerce business including product research, Facebook and Tik Tok marketing, supply chain insights, and mindset.
We have three interesting e-commerce stories. Two of which are based around social media platforms helping content creators make more money.
With Instagram adding the shopping feature and now having influencers sell through affiliate marketing, Instagram lives, and other programs, the Instagram side hustle just got more real.
Of course, there is a lot of competition for attention and that's why we are seeing Tik Tok, Youtube, and Snapchat also paying its content creators.
In the E-commerce News Show we also take a look of the recent Kanye West $200 blue jacket drop with Gap.
If you own or are planning on creating your own online fashion brand then start taking out your notepad as Christopher Lewis will be breaking down the Facebook ad strategies and insights to start scaling your brand.
He also breaks down what to do in case of the new iOS update and why it's also a good idea to diversify your marketing to other platforms.
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Looking to scale your e-commerce business or get started into e-commerce? We have Vova Tess, who is the owner of VT Ad Agency, to break down how to find success in dropshipping.
In his agency, Vova and his team take responsibility for product research, website development, and marketing. The owner of the actual e-commerce store is responsible for logistics such as fulfillment.
After working on his own stores for a period of time and applying his framework for many e-commerce entrepreneurs, Vova is someone with deep knowledge in starting and scaling e-commerce businesses.
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We have Ecom Mik today who is an e-commerce entrepreneur based in Germany to break down how he has been able to generate 5-figures in profit off one product.
One of the key insights you will get from Mik is the concept of validating your product idea and then having custom creates to put on your Facebook ads to grow.
Having your own creatives can bring your brand from 0-5 figures but of course one would have to have multiple A/B tests.
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- BarkBox merger with SPAC approved (link)
- Costco bringing back full in-store sampling (link)
- Three-story Harry Potter Store Open in NYC (link)
- Gamification the future of retail apps (link)
- Etsy buys Depop for $1.625B (link)
We have Rhett Ulmann with us today who is an influencer marketing expert to really break down how e-commerce entrepreneurs can leverage influencer marketing to get some serious sales.
We go over how to find the right influencers, the difference between nano, micro, and giant influencers, how to approach them, and how to scale the process.
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From working in the corporate world for over 10 years to becoming an e-commerce entrepreneur, Damien Coughlan breaks down the different models he explored such as print on demand and private labeling to generate some serious sales.
Damien believes that one has to think about what you'd like for your business. For example, do you want to work on it and scale it for many years to come, or do you plan on having an exit strategy?
Having an email list is massively important and owning digital assets will help you scale your brand and position you to sell your brand.
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If someone can make it from a very difficult circumstance in life and become successful then there are no excuses in life.
We have TJ today, to break down how he went from serving 11 years incarcerated to making multiple 6-figures across his e-commerce brands.
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Dennis White is the house today to break down how he is able to generate tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars for Shopify brands using Youtube influencers.
Influencer marketing is such a powerful way to get sales, but the methods are completely different across platforms such as Instagram, Twiter, and TikTok to name a few.
One of the biggest benefits of Youtube is that the video where the influencer promotes your product will be online forever generating foot traffic and sales to your store even after a period of time.
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From working at KFC to making 7-figures, Kingsley Specter breaks down how he was able to create a successful Shopify store.
Kingsley explains his framework from product validation to increasing brand awareness to scaling.
One of the coolest things that you'll hear from Kingsley is the fact that he utilizes Facebook Marketplace to validate his product. This is something that is kind of unheard of but its works wonder for Kingsley.
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- Amazon buys MGM for $8.45B (Link)
- Uniqlo making a killing selling comfort bras (Link)
- Walmart and Gap collab (Link)
- China automation and its aging population (Link)
Can email marketing really help your brand? Is it even worth it? Johnathon Zamora is here to answer these questions and break down how email marketing is a powerful addition to your brand to getting more sales.
Johnathon has had previous experience making e-comm stores and is the CEO of Settler Systems where he helps scale brands with email systems by 15-35%
Facebook Ads will spark the fire in your brand's revenue and email marketing is the accelerant to help you go from say $100k to $130K.
If you like making more money as an e-commerce entrepreneur I highly suggest listening to the full episode.
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Dropshipping is a great way to start on e-commerce but there is also the private labeling route where you can get a product, slap your logo on it, and create an established brand with a serious marketing effort.
We are here with Anthony Pulera to break down his framework on how to do private labeling and how his products got into physical retail stores.
Let's get it!
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You can have the best product in the world but if nobody knows about it then you will not create a profitable business. If you don't have a good marketing plan then it will be a struggle to generate real business results.
Luckily we have Anthony Mastellone who is the founder of Reign Marketing where he helps scale brands to multiple 7-figures through branding and media buying.
If you are looking to scale your e-commerce brand and don't have a solid idea how listen to the full episode to get better insights on advertising...more specifically Facebook ads.
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I feel that the best businesses that you can build are the ones that scratch your own itch or is something you're very passionate about.
Iman El-Bawab always had a thing for crocheting ever since she was a kid and turned this passion into a viral sensation on Tik Tok and social media with her brand The Love Cats Crotchet.
Iman is able to handmake cute crochet animals that sell out whenever she restocks. The crazy thing is that she is still in college studying computer engineering which is some task.
We will go over how Iman started and scaled her brand and how she balances school work, and social life.
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We are here with Quinten Roberts who is an eCommerce email specialist to break down how to successfully set up your email flow to generate an extra source of revenue for your brand.
Facebook ads and influencer marketing are the foundations in terms of generating vast amounts of revenue but email marketing can be the dark horse to really scaling your brand.
Don't underestimate email marketing and let's dive into how it can help you!
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- How Covid-19 has accelerated the growth of E-commerce
- Shopify and Google partner up
- VR is the future of e-commerce
- E-commerce Opportunities in Latin America
- Shein overtakes Amazon in app downloads
Resources used to cover these stories:
- Story #1 + McKinsey Stats
- Story #2
- Story #3
- Story #4
- Story #5
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High ticket e-commerce is something that is not mentioned a lot in the e-commerce realm, but the opportunities with this business model are scary good.
Why is that? With high ticket e-commerce, you only have to sell a handful of products every month to make at least 4-5 figures in revenue instead of dozens of products with lower ticket items.
Joshua Darrington is here today to break down how he makes 4-5 figures per month with high ticket e-commerce so you can start.
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From realizing his dream of having 100k Youtube subscribers when he was 12 years old to create a brand that was more meaningful after the dream was complete, Patrick Popp breaks down how he was able to create a clothing brand Live It with a large fanbase.
Patrick explains the importance of being passionate about your idea, how being the face of your business can be beneficial to raise brand awareness, and how he manages his influencer and email marketing strategies to make sales.
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Tools and marketing strategies are what help E-commerce entrepreneurs scale their brands. Shopify is a great platform to get your business idea up and running but we cannot forget the 3rd party tools that are available.
One of these 3rd party tools is Social Snowball founded by Noah Tucker.
He is here today to break down his experience as an e-commerce entrepreneur and how he pivoted into created an application or plug-in to help other business owners scale their brand through the power of affiliate marketing.
Noah shares how he leveraged influencers and affiliates to scale his brands and how he wanted to make this an actual service for others to utilize.
The idea came into realization just recently. Social Snowball helps turn your customers into motivated affiliates so they can sell and promote your brand products resulting in an increase in sales.
Let's dive into how it works!
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We are here with Lawrence Henderson to break down how he started and scaled his jewelry brand Brooklyn or Bust.
One of the key takeaways from this interview with Lawrence was the idea of modeling your business through successful brands and not other online retailers.
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We have Saad Bellouadi in the house to explain how we ought to focus on branding immediately rather than finding a winning product and using Facebook ads to validate the idea.
This model is a little backward to what other e-commerce entrepreneurs share where they test as many, quote on quote, winning products as possible.
Saad believes that you should focus on making the branding experience as best as possible from the very start and leverage influencer marketers to raise brand awareness.
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Stories we cover in today's episode of E-commerce News Episode #4:
- Walmart acquires virtual fitting room company Zeekit
- Amazon partners up with Tile to compete with AppleTags
- Snapchat trying to combine AR with e-commerce
- COVID-19 has changed the way we shopped for groceries
Sources used for information:
1. CNBC
2. CNBC
3. Retail Dive
4. Digital Commerce 360
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- Learn more about AppleTags vs Tile
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The E-commerce Reaction Show is a special segment where we react to e-commerce news, trends, insights from social media.
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From working at a restaurant to the corporate world to becoming self-employed by reselling on eBay, Sebastian Pilch shares his story and insights on how it came to be.
We also breakdown how what it really took to make over $300k in sales on eBay. Important points that he highlights is the fact that the reselling market is massive and you can get a piece of the market by putting in the work.
You can literally sell anything you want but it is better to sell things you're knowledgeable in when sourcing your products.
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As an e-commerce entrepreneur, there are so many things that you have to execute in order to make a successful business. If you have a great product and nobody knows about it then you're never going to sell your products.
Today we have Corey McKinney who is an e-commerce marketer who has helped multiple clothing brands generate tons of revenue via Facebook ads and email marketing.
If you are thinking of creating a clothing brand this might suit you because this is Corey's forte. He will help us break down what it takes to find your target audience for your brand, what you need for your ad copy and creatives, and why you must leverage email marketing.
Email marketing is no joke accounting for 20-40% of the clothing brand revenues he has worked on. Again, don't sleep on email marketing.
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We are with Jared Oks, the guy who made over $15M in sales through the power of high ticket e-commerce.
Jared is going to break down high ticket e-commerce by teaching us how to find the right products to sell, how to find suppliers, and how Google ads can help us generate revenue for the stores.
High ticket e-commerce is different to lower ticket dropshipping because you only need to make a handful of sales to make a monthly profit. Instead of focusing on finding a winning product, taking the time to create the Facebook ads with all the ad creatives, ad copy, and targetting, Jared leverages Google ads which is much more straightforward as he will explain on the podcast.
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From making little to no sales on Etsy to getting her stock sold out by making minor tweaks to her store, Allison Bynum shares how she was able to scale her Etsy brand Blue Bear Pottery, which sells one-of-a-kind ceramics and candles.
Allison breaks down how she entered the ceramic product market on Etsy and utilized her personal brand to establish a community on Instagram and as result generate sales.
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We are going to dive into two separate eCommerce business models with Virshon Fleming. One model will go over how to make money on eBay dropshipping and the other on how to do high ticket eCommerce on Shopify.
I think this will give you a better idea of what business model you'd like to pursue as Virshon explains how he was able to make 5-6 figures through each venture.
Even though you principle of dropshipping in both models is the same, there are major nuances that one has to learn in order to be successful in each respective model.
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- Hollister launches ‘Social Tourist’ with D’Amelio sisters (Charlie and Dixie)
- Tik Tok most famous sisters partnered up with Hollister under the umbrella of Abercrombie & Fitch
- The clothing brand will launch in May 20th in Hollister stores
- There will be new drops every month featuring different categories, including swimwear, everyday essentials, and trend-driven designs.
- The D’Amelio sisters played a huge role in developing the clothing brand, Social Tourist, with product selection, design, branding, and marketing. Their dad Marc D’Amelio is a consultant to the clothing brand with his sales and design experience.
- Walgreens rolls out 2-hour delivery nationwide
- Shoppers can order 24,000 items from Walgreens
- Walgreens, which partners with Instacart, Postmates, and DoorDash for delivery can drive customers to its websites and app for delivery orders, retaining more shopper data
- Huge move to compete in the e-commerce space as they look to deliver shoppers with faster and more convenient services
- The new service will have Walgreens store workers pick and pack the orders and then rely on drivers from Uber, DoorDash, and other 3rd party firms for the delivery option.
- Looking to redefine omnichannel convenience offerings and data generated from new service which determines additional products and services customers want
- Live E-commerce goes mainstream
- Livestream e-commerce delivers an interactive experience for brands, influencers, or celebrities to promote and sell products, and for consumers to participate by asking questions and shopping during the event.
- You can start living stream shopping on Facebook and IG
Dropshipping on Shopify is a great way to validate a product and double down on it by creating a brand.
Dropshipping isn't dead. It might be more challenging to do dropshipping alone but it should be used to validate a product to then scale once you start getting sales.
We have Melissa Ng who is an e-commerce entrepreneur and Facebook Ads expert to break down how to find a winning product to create a brand around it.
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What looks good on sneakers? Dope shoelaces. We are here with MarLan Parker, the founder of Get Laced, a brand that sells shoelaces that compliments the sneakerhead culture of today.
We go over how MarLan came up with the idea of his brand, how he developed the product himself instead of dropshipping, how he leveraged influencer marketing to get more brand awareness, and why giving back to the community is so important.
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Freedom Doran is in the house today to talk about how he built two companies worth over $250k in one year!
He is currently the founder of 22 Impact and Netherial which is a management company and clothing brand respectively.
We dive into how Freedom managed to grow his companies and get insights on creating a clothing brand that dealt with the selling of other established brands in the marketplace.
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It would be ideal to have an audience ready to promote your product instead of launching your product to crickets rights?
That is why having a product launch is so important to build an audience, build up hype, and once you launch your product you have people to sell to.
We are with Tu-Hien Le, a 7-figure business owner, and coach, helping entrepreneurs with product launches. We are going to break down the steps of creating a successful product launch to get your businesses moving in the right direction.
- Tu Hien Le's product launch resource
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From being a firefighter to getting scammed to struggling in eCommerce, Bogdan Kosilov has persisted to become a 7-figure earner in eCommerce across multiple brands.
We break down how Bogdan finds a winning product and scales it into a brand.
But most importantly we talk about how vital it is to always be a student of the game of eCommerce. There is always room for improvement via courses and mentors.
Never stop learning!
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This is the second episode of the E-commerce News Show where we share news around the e-commerce industry.
We find these stories online and decide to comment and react to them. Here are the links to the articles where we've gotten the stories:
- Shopify e-commerce online sales are increasing and have gained market share
- Walmart has filed papers opposing a trademark from Kanye West’s Yeezy brand
- Retail stores need to be digital-first and become omnichannel
- Best online payment solutions
Youtube is a powerful way to grow your business. By creating content specifically for your target audience, Youtube can act as a middle and top-of-the-funnel play for your courses and products.
We are here with Liz Germain, an entrepreneur and Youtube marketer, who helps brands and coaches grow their businesses with Youtube. Liz is going to break down how to grow an audience on Youtube and how to plant a call to action to drive the traffic to your offer.
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With over 14 years in online advertising David Schloss is here to explain why paid advertising is vital to scaling your business.
David has managed $2M in ad spend per month across the brands he has been working with. We break down how to choose which ad platform to use (i.e. Facebook ads, Google ads, Tik Tok, Influencer marketing, etc) and dive into the power of Facebook ads to help you scale your business as it is the most common ad platforms to take one's brand to the next level.
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Is cold outreach or more specifically cold emailing dead. You might be asking this question if you are working on a B2B business such as a digital marketing agency.
Luke Voigt is here to tell you that cold emailing is not dead and that there are strategies to getting clients from a cold email.
Luke outlines how you can find clients to work within your agency by sourcing your target audience, writing the email copy, and what to do once you get them on the phone to close a deal.
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Instead of hunting for business, you can farm for business. When you provide so much value upfront, people will be asking you questions and potentially about your products and services.
We are with Sam Lister who is the founder of his social media agency Blank Slate Media where he makes video content for brands. We go over his story of creating content in his local hometown of Milwaukee, attracting locals to work with, the importance of creating content, how powerful LinkedIn is, and how to create content for your brand.
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I think it's fair to say that Shopify and Amazon have been the talk of eCommerce. Tons of entrepreneurs are making money off of these platforms but there are other low-key options that are also very promising.
We are with Michael Livingston as he explains how he made over $1M in sales by doing eBay dropshipping and how underrated eBay is.
Michael states that eBay is like Microsoft and Amazon is more like Apple. Just because Apple is more popular and sexy than Microsoft does not mean that Microsoft is useless.
Let's dive into how you can make a serious income on eBay.
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In the very first short-form format of Get The Bag Life's Ecommerce News segment, we go briefly go over some exciting e-commerce news you'll find interesting.
News Story #1: Small businesses are having a hard time paying their rent
- Source: Alignable
News Story #2: Amazon 3rd party brands are being acquired
News Story #3: Brick and mortar stores have a future?
News Story #4: Heinz and Ocean Spray Collaboration?
We are here today with Avi Rubin, the founder of Iron Lion Soap where he handmakes 100% plant-based soaps.
Iron Lion Soap was born in 2008 and there have been so many ups and downs that Avi has experienced but the journey, which is still be written, has brought him and the brand where it is today.
The idea of creating a brand with a community is everything and is built over time.
Today we will learn how important branding is when creating a business, how your brand can be worth a lot more in terms of equity, and the practice of working on a business for the long-term and not just for the money.
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From working at a regular job to making money selling books on Amazon and eBay, Chris Lyons breaks down his strategy.
When it comes to selling books it's all about volume because the profit margins are pretty low. Yes, there are big scores where you can make over $100 off a book but that is rare.
Chris goes over how to source books and the creative ways to source books to scale your book selling operation.
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Anyone wanting to get into e-commerce or already finding some success in e-commerce, this talk with Kathleen Booth is going to cover how to prevent revenue loss from coupon extensions.
Kathleen Booth is a startup marketing expert, has 13 years of experience in digital marketing, podcast host, and VP of marketing at clean.io.
If you're new to e-commerce then this can be important to take note of but if you're already making money with e-commerce then this will help you save money from any 3rd party coupon extensions.
You don't want the exclusive coupons that you share in your email list or targetted ads to be utilized by people who weren't supposed to receive those discount codes.
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They say that living a comfortable life can be dangerous if deep down inside you, something is telling you that you can do a lot more!
From making 6-figures as a registered nurse living a comfortable life, Ejay wanted to do more with his life.
He chose a more entrepreneurial route, got into podcasting with his podcast The Parables, and working on multiple projects.
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What does it really take to do Amazon Wholesale? We are with Carlos Rivera to explain the challenges and real factors that one has to encounter when embarking on this business, but the result can be so rewarding in the end.
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From working a corporate job to creating a sensational recreational game, CROSSNET, Chris Meade explains the journey of his brand from conception to ambitions.
CROSSNET is a four-square volleyball game and Chris Meade and his co-founder were surprised by the fact that this game didn't exist at all.
CROSSNET is so popular right now that it is in big box retail stores, is part of a physical education program across schools, and is becoming a headline for Crossnet tournaments!
Let's dive into how Chris made this all possible!
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There are multiple ways of making money off Amazon such as private labeling, retail arbitrage, Merch by Amazon, and wholesale.
Today we are with Quentin Whitehead to break down how he makes 6-figures with Amazon wholesale.
Now he has a different strategy compared to AMazon wholesalers that can give you the edge if you decide to embark on this model.
Quentin implements bundling in his products instead of selling single unit products. This extra unique value proposition has helped him scale his business after venturing into other Amazon business models including regular wholesale.
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Want to create a clothing brand? A brand that means something with raving fans? Today Sean Lowery is going to break down how he was able to generate 8-figures in revenue through his clothing brand United Monograms.
We go over how to find a niche, how to run a clothing brand properly, the importance of creating content, and how to create content with your merch.
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- Youtube
- Sean Lowery Show Podcast
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Want to create your own income? Well, this can be done by selling products on Amazon via online and retail arbitrage.
We have Jake Diego today, who is a 6-figure Amazon seller, to break down his story and process of making money on Amazon.
Before going all-in on Amazon, he was working regular jobs, but now he is his own boss. There is money to be made on Amazon even if you're just a beginner. You just have to start and learn the ropes because it's definitely possible to replace your 9-5 by selling products on Amazon.
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We have Salih Esa in the house to talk about how to make money off Amazon.
He is just 15 years old and has generated over $450k in sales. We break down how he finds his winning seasonal products, how to get ungated on Amazon, and what it takes to generate a real income off Amazon.
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We are with the 6-figure sneaker reseller Ryan Esbjerg to talk about you can start selling your own sneakers on online platforms like Poshmark and Mercari.
We break down what it takes to source and sell a sneaker online and how to scale this operation into a potential 6-figure business.
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We have Tom Bell, the founder of the print-on-demand platform Viralstyle, to talk about how you can start your own clothing brand without having to worry about the inventory and distribution.
After having the initial success of selling his own t-shirts, Tom decided to create a business where he helps other entrepreneurs create clothing brands a lot easier.
Now as a clothing brand owner in the print-on-demand space, one only has to worry about graphic designs and marketing.
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Do you think blogging is still relevant today? Can you still make money from blogging? That's so mid-2000s.
Well actually blogging is still a really valid way of making money online even in 2021. Within the blogging space, one can make money off ads and affiliate marketing like Louis Moore does with his keto blog.
The strategies to drive traffic to your blog to make money off ads and affiliate marketing are different with social media now. Louis will share his strategies of leveraging social media platforms like Pinterest to generate traffic to your blog and sell other people's products through affiliate marketing.
Towards the end of the episode, we also go over how he makes money through eBay and Amazon because Louis believes that entrepreneurs should have multiple streams of income in case of falls dead.
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- Youtube
- Extra Resources
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If you want to create an e-commerce business, you have to realize that it is more than just about selling a product.
Instead, you have to think of your business as a brand that can bring together a community of people that happens to sell a product.
We're with Lexi Buentello, the founder of Transcendance, a clothing brand that revolved around dance classes that help people transcend, transpire, and transform their lives.
One of the key things you will learn from Lexi is the idea of dominating your backyard. It will be much easier to establish a community in your home town which can help amplify your brand awareness as you start to scale.
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E-commerce is a growing space and there are tons of branches within eCommerce you can pursue to make money.
Today we have Mike Sieben to explain how he was able to generate 6-figures with Amazon Wholesale so you can too.
If you're in a position where you are working a full-time job, like Mike was as a mechanical engineer, you can certainly replace your income with Amazon wholesaling if you treat it as a business and not a side hustle.
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- Youtube
- Extra Resources
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Being productive and efficient with the 24 hours you have in the day is essential to getting work done as an entrepreneur.
We have Michael Grossman, who is a productivity and meditation coach, to explain what you can do in your daily routine to maximize your productivity that will amplify your business results.
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From working in real estate and corporate to making 5-figures a month helping entrepreneurs with growing their online presence, Giuliano Gonzalez shares how he was able to earn his own income and scale his business.
Being unsatisfied with how his life was unfolding, Giulius and his business partner decided to make a podcast where they interviewed 50 entrepreneurs in 30 days to get their skin in the entrepreneurship game.
Over time they decided to launch an agency, Elite Agency Growth, to help coaches, consultants, and online course creators build credibility and authority online.
Today we will listen to Giuliano's story and how he was able to escape the 9-5 life through his business.
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From serving time in prison to working unsatisfying long hour days to becoming a 6-figure earner selling booking on Amazon Matt Adolph shares his story and insights on how it came to be.
Matt is making tons of money selling books through Amazon and it seems outrageous that one can create a great income doing so but it's definitely possible.
Today he will break down how to make money selling books on Amazon. To the sourcing of the books, to the logistics, grind, and small nuances that will help you make money as well.
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From being laid off 3 times to being a 6-figure Amazon Wholesaler, Julius Buslon shares how he became an e-commerce boss during the pandemic when all aspects of his life were looking slim.
After using his savings and doubling down on Amazon Wholesale, Julius started to generate a real income and break away from the 9-5 life.
Today we are going to break down what Amazon Wholesaling is, how to get started, and the importance of leveraging courses and mentors to accelerate the process.
Additional Resources by Julius Buslon to get started in Amazon Wholesale.
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Amazon is the talk of the town when it comes to e-commerce. Maybe it's because of how big the marketplace is and how entrepreneurs can leverage Amazon services to make sales at scale.
Today we are with Mike Sancho, the CMO of Wealth Accelerators, where he helped generate over $20M in sales.
We go over the business of Amazon automation, how Walmart is directly competing with Amazon, and his marketing strategy to get high-ticket clients to join his e-commerce automation business.
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We have Billy Anderson today, who is the co-founder of Go Fresh, a direct-to-consumer meal prep service.
Billy shares his story and insights on what it took to grow Go Fresh.
In this talk, you'll learn how important influencer marketing is, the true hardships of entrepreneurship, how important innovation is to grow your brand and the importance of allocating time to build a brand experience for your business.
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We all have problems in life. Some people have it worse than others, unfortunately.
The people who go through dark moments in life and crawl their way to success each have a story to tell that can help their fellow peers who are going through the same thing.
Your ruin is your gift. If you have a unique story to share where you go through tough times and persevered, then that can mean the world to someone else.
We have Mike Ashabi today to talk about how you can share your experience with the world while providing a useful service to generate an income.
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- True Life Ventures
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Dropshipping is a great way to make money and there are so many skills that one will learn as you pursue this venture such as marketing, human psychology, sales, brand, etc.
We are with Yash Shah who is an eCommerce entrepreneur. He will provide us so dope insights on what micro-branding is and the importance of really taking the time to build a great website to not look spammy.
It's not as easy as it once was to create a crappy store with dropshipping products and make money. There are no shortcuts in this game.
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- Youtube
- E-Commerce Facebook Group
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Let's break down how this eCommerce entrepreneur makes money dropshipping.
Ninos Shamo is an eCommerce entrepreneur and today he shares insights on how to leverage a general store to find a winning product to later create a niche store. Ninos will break down how he runs his Facebook ads and still making money off saturated products in the marketplace.
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- Youtube
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What does it take to create a 7-10 figure eCommerce brand? Can the dropshipping model alone take you there? Well, maybe but something that is proven to work is creating an eCommerce business that has a considerable amount of brand equity.
Great examples of brands are Casper, Ikonick, Truff, and Snow, where Brenda was a partner and COO.
Brenda Ruby is going to share her insights on how she helped create a 7-10 figure brand such as SNOW and what it takes for new eCommerce entrepreneurs to do the same.
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- Youtube
- Extra Resources
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Looking to create your own marketing agency?
We have Alessandro Bogliari to break down how you can create a marketing agency while being different compared to the competition. Of course, there are thousands of marketing agencies, but that shouldn't discourage you. All you have to do is provide a service that is either better or make your own category within the marketplace.
Let me explain. Back when Tik Tok was on the verge of becoming the platform it is today, Allessandro took the lead of creating an influencer marketing service around the new platform where everyone else was focusing on Youtube and Instagram.
The fact that he found a new category, in this case, influencer marketing for the new platform on Tik Tok, he was able to be a market leader.
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- Influencer Marketing Factory
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What's one way to start a side hustle without initial capital? And all you need is time and inventory that you most likely have at home that is just collecting dust.
If you've guest clothes then you're right! If you have spare clothes in your closet, you can make some extra cash on online marketplaces such as Poshmark, eBay, and Facebook Marketplace. You can even take it a step further to sourcing more clothes and creating an actual business around reselling clothes or other fashionable items.
We are with Charlee Roundhill who is on her debt-free journey as she pays for her college tuition. She is going to give us the breakdown on how to start selling clothes from your closet to sourcing extra clothes from friends, family, and thrift stores, and how to utilize platforms like Poshmark to get more sales.
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- Personal Website
- Reseller Launch Pad E-Book (Get $10 with the code: GETTHEBAGLIFE)
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Let's break down how to create an eCommerce brand after testing a winning product.
We are with Trae Arnold aka Trae Racks to explain how he found his eCommerce brand Only Chug that enhances your drinking experience and adds excitement to any occasion.
Not too many eCommerce entrepreneurs are super transparent with their brand but luckily Trae explains how he found his product, how he beat his competition selling the same product, and what he did to make a brand experience that his competitors cannot replicate.
If you want to make a long-sustaining business, creating a brand around your eCommerce shop is the way to go.
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- Discord Group
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Want to get into eCommerce or already dipping your toes into the water and not finding success?
We are with Eduardo Rojas aka Ecom Eddie to talk about how to start and scale an eCommerce brand with the help of influencer marketing. If you've watched Youtube videos on dropshipping before, the go-to way to advertise would be Facebook ads and that's okay.
Eddie will explain why influencer marketing is a powerful marketing strategy to not only generate sales but to increase brand awareness and how it can be done step by step.
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Are you looking to create your own digital agency? Or maybe you already started but can't seem to get any momentum.
Luckily we have Jason Fox who is the founder of 4stepconsulting where he helps agency owners get more clients and keep them. He also had his experiences owning an agency of his own as Jason breaks down what is needed to truly get the ball rolling as a beginner.
One of the key things he mentioned was that there are many moving parts in creating a successful agency, but you need to focus on one niche market, one service, one traffic source with one single focus for an entire year.
As you start to scale you can add on more services and platforms in your arsenal but you have to stay focused in the beginning.
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- Youtube
- Join Facebook Group
- Free Training To Scale Agency or Consulting Business
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Anyone with a following on social media can monetize their page. The idea of having to have tens of thousands of followers to monetize your page can be thrown out the window.
We have Blaise Bowly, who runs a digital agency of his own, break down the idea of selling information to make money.
The best way for a new personal brand or influencer to start making money is to leverage their knowledge to serve a very narrow audience and price their services as a high ticket item. An example can be a fitness instructor helping busy moms between the ages of 30 and 40 to lose 10 pounds within two months in the comfort of their home.
And with personal 1 on 1 call, you can charge your services or even have Zoom video calls demonstrating your workouts.
With this narrow focus, you are marketing your knowledge to a very select group of people and therefore don't need a massive audience.
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- Additional Resources
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Making an income by selling t-shirts in the Amazon marketplace is real. In terms of logistics, it's pretty straightforward with a business model called Merch by Amazon where you upload your design for the shirt, and Amazon will supply, store, and distribute it upon a transaction.
This does sound easy though right? But it's not because you have to make designs that the market will like. The way to do that is to find very narrow niches that will make them want to buy your shirts.
Luckily we have RJ Martinez to share how he made over $150k with Amazon Merch and what it takes to do the same.
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- Youtube
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There is still a massive opportunity to make money off Amazon. Just because there are more and more players in the space does not mean that you cannot get your piece of the Amazon pie and then some.
What if I told you there was a way that you can find products through a supplier, send them to Amazon, and watch the sales come in? Sounds nice right, but it's not that simple nowadays especially if you want to scale into a brand that can one day be acquired.
We are with Andy Isom to break down the steps of how you can do make money off Amazon through private labeling and creating more value around it by creating a brand.
We go over how to find a product that has the potential to be a long-term player in the market, how influencer marketing can help scale your business, and the hacks to really make it work.
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- Youtube
- Additional Resources
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Dropshipping is not dead. There are always new products being introduced into the marketplace and winning products that you can capitalize on and make a brand around it.
We are living in the information age and one can learn dropshipping from tons of tutorials off of Youtube. Now, these videos won't be in chronological order that will show you the way to start and scale an eCommerce store from A-Z.
That is why investing in self-education via courses or a mentor is a must. This will enable you to reach levels of success much faster than you just scrambling to find pockets of information across Youtube.
We are with William Rivera to talk about how the criteria of a winning product, how to find it, validate it, and why it's worth investing in something that will save you time to learn a dynamic business model such as eCommerce.
Check out William Rivera here:
- Ecom Degree University
- Make money off e-commerce resources
- ED Elite Master Mind
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Facebook ads have been the bread and butter to many eCommerce entrepreneur's sales strategies. If it works for new eCommerce entrepreneurs or even experienced ones, relying on one advertising platform is not a good idea according to Carlos Portal, the Google Ads King who has generated $27M in client revenue.
Having a second form of advertising gives you two things. Saftey and extra revnue. If your Facebook ad account were to be banned then you would still have Google ads as a second means of paid ads. Second is the fact that you will be able to generate more revenue through the power of Google that Facebook cannot offer.
Google should not be underestimated and taken seriously as Carlos has provided crazy results for his clients.
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- Grow your eCommerce business with Next Level Digital Agency
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Entrepreneurship requires a lot of mental strength. Not only in terms of raw willpower to finding success, but on the emotional front.
Without a proper structure of the mind, one will not succeed. It is as simple as that.
We have Oliver Fehlandt, who is a Mind Body Spirit Life Coach, to talk about how we can build a deeper connection within ourselves to gain clarity and find success.
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How cool would it be to physically create your own products and create a business around them?
One might think you need hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions to make this possible, but in reality, there are people in the marketplace happy to fund your project.
With platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, people have been creating cool projects that have been fully funded to help the creators develop and distribute the product.
We are with Samit Patel, the CEO of Joopio Marketing, and he helps entrepreneurs fund and launches their product ideas. Creating a successful campaign is everything when trying to fund and launch a product and he gives un incredible insights on how you can do that. This is the guy who has raised over $43M in crowdfunding projects.
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- Personal Website
- Facebook Product Launch and Grow Strategies Group
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For any new entrepreneur trying to catch a quick score off eCommerce, you have to realize that it is not easy as it once was.
Ecommerce is still a very lucrative way to make money especially now because of COVID and the increase of online shopping. Right now would be the best time to enter, but one has to be realistic about the outcomes.
We are here with Scott Atwood to talk about how eCommerce has changed from the times of cheap Facebook ads, higher barriers to entry to an influx of competition, and what is needed to create a successful eCommerce brand for the years to come.
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- Level Up Resource
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Having the right mindset is arguably the fundamental thing that makes or breaks an entrepreneur.
We have Jack McCloskey to talk about how to tap into your mindset to help gain clarity in your life and business.
Without the right framework, it will be very challenging to succeed because entrepreneurship is all about highs and lows.
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From working in Subway to scaling multiple 7-figure businesses, Rashon Werts gives us insights on how new e-commerce entrepreneurs can do the same.
Rashon believes that getting products from suppliers in China and chasing the bag by selling winning products won't cut it.
Instead, you need to find products that are proven to be selling long-term so you can create an actual brand.
And the way to create a brand is to leverage influencers to drive social proof and grow your Instagram brand page.
Let's cut to the chase and learn about how this all goes down!
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From creating her own business at the age of 22 with no investors to making over 6-figures in her first year, Jess Williamson has been able to create make more businesses and help others along the way to find success.
Jess is also a business coach where she helps people get their own business to the next level.
In this episode, we go over the idea of utilizing your full-time income to fund your business, why building a brand is everything for an e-commerce business, how important influencer marketing is, and how mindset is the fundamental thing to becoming an entrepreneur.
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- Website
- Business Coaching Resource
- Couch Chats Podcast
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Do you have engineering or product design skills? Is it possible to create your own proper business with these skill sets? The answer to that is YES.
If you want to get into entrepreneurship and have a skillset in the STEM field then it is definitely possible.
You can always bootstrap it yourself and not always rely on investors to fund your business.
We have Christina Perla, who has a background in Industrial Design for Pratt Institute and is the co-founder and CEO of Make Lab, a 3D printing service to help with prototyping, production runs, or custom models.
She is also an NYC Ambassador and Board Director for Women in 3D Printing to help support, inspire, and highlight women in the 3D printing industry.
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From working 4 plus jobs, going to college, and being in an abusive household, Anna Urena was able to become a successful entrepreneur.
There is always a way to do more with your life and to find the levels of success you dream about you have to work for it.
In this story with Anna, we hear how she was able to overcome her life obstacles, how she found a mentor that led her into entrepreneurship, and how she has made money with Forex, credit repair among other side businesses she has.
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What is Walmart Automation and is it a better way of making money compared to Amazon?
We are with Logan Shippy who has experience in all realms of eCommerce including both in the Amazon and Walmart market places.
We go over how lucrative the Walmart Automation space is, especially because of how early this new model is compared to Amazon.
Although anyone can start an Amazon business, a Walmart business is a little more challenging, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a way in.
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- Walmart Automation Site
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We oftentimes hear that a market is too saturated and that can discourage any aspiring entrepreneur from making a business. And if you have that mindset then that can be your biggest downfall because there is always a solution to anything.
In the case of Ryan DeLesDernier, he was able to focus on video marketing in the DC area. Before embarking on his own agency Flix By Ryan, he saved 90% of his money working a minimum wage job to buy a camera.
With this camera and some entrepreneurial spirit, he was able to work with tons of businesses in his home city and make an income for himself. One way he was able to achieve this was doing free work, getting word of mouth, and getting more clientele as a result.
There is always a way to get work done.
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One thing you need to know before embarking on a CBD business is that you really need to be serious about it and think long-term.
We have Aaron Argueta, who is the co-founder of Baily's CBD, a CBD brand for pet owners for their pets. Aaron describes the reality of running a CBD business to get its products in retail shops, branding itself in farmer's marketing, social media, and establishing connections to provide premium CBD products that private labeled suppliers don't.
If you are thinking of creating a CBD brand, then tune in to get some insights so you can apply them to your business.
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- Website
Who said cold emailing is dead? If you're a digital marketing agency owner or looking to become one then cold outreach might seem daunting.
Hitting up hundreds of business owners via email will result in so many No's but you only need a few Yes'. But what if this whole process can be automated.
We are with Mike Anderson, who is a lead generation master, helping coaches and agency owners book 70+ qualified appointments a month.
He will give us insights into how he has built systems to help businesses generate leads so you can do for your business.
Check out Mike Anderson here:
- Mike's Lead Generation Mini Course
Today we are going to break down the steps for how to get started in SMMA so you can create your own agency.
We are with Logan Forsyth who has a marketing agency of his own, Lead Multipliers, and he talks about the importance of niching down on your service.
So for example, Logan positioned his agency as a lead generation service for general contractors to get 30 exclusive kitchen, bath renovation, and remodel referrals each month. If that isn't a narrow focus then I don't know what it.
It might be hard to focus on one thing at least in the very beginning as you may fear of losing out on potential business, but in Logan's experience, it is totally worth it as you'll hear later.
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Nowadays it is possible to work from anywhere in the world. Like how cool would it be to travel or live in a beautiful country like Mexico and make money remotely by profiting off your eCommerce stores?
This is an actual thing as we have Jessica AKA JessiDrop to talk about how she was able to do this.
Jessica gives us insights on why creating a niche store might be the best move, how to find winning products in the marketplace to dropship, and the importance of finding solutions to ship your products between 5-11 days and not the 30+ days as before.
Check out Jessica here:
Are you looking to create your own digital marketing agency? You've probably heard from many entrepreneurs that to get started you probably have to do free work, cold call, cold email, and do other cold outreach strategies to get work...but what if I told you there was another way where potential clients come to you?
We are with Ruben Alvarez, who has years of experience in sales, marketing, and branding prior to finding his advertising agency The Marketing Hunters.
Ruben goes over the idea of providing so much value on social media and as a result, people will reach out to work with you. One of the ways he does it is through his podcast In For The Kill but there are other methods of attracting clients.
Check out Ruben Alvarez:
- Youtube
- Personal Website
There are multiple business models within the Amazon sphere. You can do private labeling, wholesale, dropshipping, and Amazon automation.
Robert Del Grande gives us insights into how he made money through the different business models and has scaled his businesses to the point of having an Amazon automation business as well as his business where he helps people reinstate their suspended Amazon accounts.
Check out Robert Del Grande:
If you are making a ton of money or not, having a financial plan should be on everyone's radar.
We are with Jeremy aka Hipster Finance to talk about how important saving money is, how to budget, and how to gain financial freedom using the stock market.
If you stick towards the ends, you'll get insights on Jeremy's investment portfolio that is helping him reach his goal of getting a networth of multiple six figures!
Check out Hipster Finance here:
Extra resources to gain time and financial freedom:
- Hipster Finance Link
Jaiden Vu is with us today to talk about how to generate sales, the art of sales, and how to make money off eCommerce.
Jaiden Vu is a high ticket sales coach, mentor, and eCommerce expert.
We go over the idea of creating a general store vs a niche store and how to find products to sell through dropshipping.
Check out Jaiden Vu:
- Youtube
Extra Links:
- Launchers Academy
We are with Matt Wilson today, the CEO of Under30Experiences, which is a company that brings a community of young adults to travel around the world.
We go over how he developed the idea after selling a successful blog, how he scaled his company to venture out to other countries, and the changes he had to make during COVID.
Check out Matt Wilson:
If you want to travel but none of your friends and family aren't as adventurous as you are then you may have to go alone. But guess what? That's okay!
Matt Wilson has a solo travel guide to help you navigate your adventure alone!
What is the best way to start a business and make money for yourself over the summer instead of working for someone else?
We are with Matt McCoy to go over the best way to make your own side hustle and the steps needed to become more entrepreneurial.
Matt is the co-founder of Canadian BBQ Boys, which is a BBQ cleaning service that scaled to dozens of employees. He is also the founder of StartSmart which is a program for students to build a summer business. Not to mention he is in the process of making a video calling platform that allows startup founders to talk to other startup founders instantly.
He goes over each one which will give us an abundance of knowledge across the entrepreneurship spectrum in marketing, sales, app development, and branding.
Check out Matt McCoy here:
Let's learn how to make money off eBay and Amazon dropshipping with Cristian Trujillo.
Cristian gives us the strategy that led him to have time and financial freedom.
One of the ways he makes money is through eBay dropshipping where he will list items on eBay through products on Home Depot. Cristian used a clever strategy to make more money in the backend by buying the home depot products with cashback websites.
With the cashback websites he was able to save money on his initial purchases of the products and in addition he saved more money through these purchases with credit cards. In essence, he was making the actual profit in the backend instead of the front end in selling the product on eBay.
Check out Cristian Trujillo:
- Free resource on how to dropship
Resources:
- Cash Back Website: Rakuten
- Sourcing Products:
- Home Depot
- Overstock
The Amazon of real estate as Chris Thomas would like to call it! Airbnb is the most lucrative way of making money as an entrepreneur in the real estate space because you need little to no capital and you don't have any overhead of the real estate. In other words, you make money off real estate you don't own!
Now of course this is easier said than done because there are many nuances and tactical things you need to implement in order to make some money.
In this episode, we are with Chris Thomas who is an Airbnb mentor and went from being on welfare to running over 200 Airbnb listings!
Chris goes over his story from rags to riches and the break down of his strategy on making money off Airbnb.
Check out Chris Thomas here:
- Tik Tok
- Youtube
If you're a digital marketing agency owner looking to generate more leads for your clients then we have John Lewis on the mic today to help you with that!
John Lewis is the CEO of The Virtual Agency where he helps coaches, consultants, and agencies generate consistent leads and then close the deal for you.
One major thing to keep a note of in this episode is the importance of building systems. Systems and SOPs will be the way to help you scale your agency in the long run.
Check out John Lewis here:
Are you busy as a solopreneur and want to make content at scale to increase your brand presence? Or do you not know how to create content at scale?
We have Pascu Dragos on the mic today, who is a content creator and agency owner, to answer these questions. Pascu will also give us some tactical tweaks to our content creation skills to make our content a lot more engaging to our audience. For example, when recording video content do you make the mistake of not looking at the camera?
If you don't then there's already a disconnect between you and the audience.
Check out Pascu Dragos here:
- The Grateful Show Podcast
- Youtube
There is so much noise across social media, so it can be hard to be heard. And if you do get someone's attention on their feed, you need to respect their time by producing valuable content.
Now, is there a way or basis of creating compelling content for your audience that both attracts them to stop scrolling, engage on it, and possibly make some money?
We are with Mo Ismail, who is a video strategist and content creator, and he will be giving us insights on how to:
- find your target audience around your brand to attract the right people
- hook someone to stop scrolling and watch your video
- tactics to make your audience consume more of your content
Check out Mo Ismail here:
- Youtube
Every business and personal brand needs to be on social media. It is imperative to be on it because if you're not showing your face then people will forget about you. We don't want that to happen if you can reach millions of people across the world and generate revenue by leveraging social media.
We are with Sebastian Garcia who is the founder of Spread Social, where he helps coaches stay relevant on social media through content marketing. Sebastian gives us insights on the economy of Instagram, how people make money from it, and how producing valuable content instead of promotional content can help generate more revenue.
Check out Sebastian Garcia here:
A lot of people might think that buying followers is a giant no-no when building a personal brand especially if you want to monetize it. I mean... if you buy followers then are they going to be the right people you want to engage in your content or even buying your products or services?
The answer to that is no according to Blake Taylor, but showing credibility on Instagram is key to selling. Would you rather buy a course from someone who has 15k or 150 followers? As consumers, we tend to gravitate to something that is most notable.
In this episode, we go over how you can grow your Instagram by buying followers among other strategies as well as how to monetize your Instagram.
Check out Blake Taylor here:
We are with Karim Tawfic, the founder of Upearance and Canvas Vibes, which is an advertising agency and print on demand canvas business respectively.
We go over how eCommerce brands need to advertise on platforms like Instagram, Google, and Youtube to really scale.
One of the most surprising things I took note of from this episode with Karim was how he makes and applies templates that work across different businesses. In other words, he found a cookie-cutter solution where he just plugs and chugs.
Can there be a template or cookie-cutter solution that you can apply to different businesses as an agency owner?
Check out Karim Tawfic:
The Credit Repair business is a very demanding and lucrative one. There are so many entrepreneurs doing it but as a collective, they still cannot meet the demand because so many people are struggling to fix their credit so they can potentially get a loan for their business, home, car, or anything else.
Banks will always ask for your credit score and if it's in the red then you won't get that loan that you need. This was something that Ruel had to learn the hard way when he moved from Ethiopia to the US. He had no idea was his credit score was and as a result, he couldn't struggling to transition to a new life here in the US.
It is fair to say that Reul got obsessed with Credit Score to the point of fixing his credit scores, his sponsor's credit score, and the people he knew. He would eventually establish a reputation as the credit repair guy and fast forward to today he has been killing it with his credit repair business Dajo Finance.
What makes Reul different from other entrepreneurs in the credit repair space is that he believes in the idea of providing value first. He constantly talks about giving people free information because it will help him and his brand in the long run.
In this podcast episode, we breakdown the steps needed to create a credit repair business if you want to hop on this grand opportunity.
Check out Reul Wodajo here:
- Personal Website
- Youtube
What if I told you it's possible to make money off Instagram? Do you need mad followers to make that money or do you just need the right audience?
We have Derek Videll, who is the host of the Social Bamboo Podcast, and he will guide us on how we can grow and monetize on Instagram.
One of the most revolutionary concepts to make money on Instagram is to leverage the email list that you got by doing celebrity giveaways. This concept has been applied by Derek. He will break it down on how that's done.
If you thought email marketing was dead then wait and hear what Derek has said about it.
Check out Derek Videll:
- Social Bamboo Resources
So you want to create your own service-based business such as a digital marketing agency? How do you start such a business? How do you find clients? Or better yet, How do you decide if you're going to be a full-stack agency or focus on one branch such as, say, SEO or social media advertising.
We are with Michael Lisovestky, the co-founder of Juice Labs and Peach NYC which is a digital marketing agency and web development service respectively. Michael is going to answer all of these questions so you can get some insights on creating your own agency.
Check out Michael Lisovetsky here:
Out of all the entrepreneurship business models, I feel that network marketing gets the most hate. People call it a pyramid scheme but is that really fair to say?
We are with Chris Berkling, who talks about the fallacy of network marketing being a scheme, how he got into the game, the 101 of network marketing, and how you can start making money from it.
Check out Chris Berkling here:
- Club House - @capitalize
Print on demand is such a popular business model for ecommerce business owners right next to dropshipping. Print on demand is the where one can sell products directly to the customer once they purchase it off your store and a supplier such as Gooten, Printful, Printify and countless of others can send it to them. So that means you as the store owner have no overhead.. but what makes Imprint Genius different?
Imprint Genius is print on demand business founded and operated by Isaac Hetzroni. What makes his business different is that he focuses on brands who have outgrown the traditional suppliers. So for example, if a print on demand business overtime is making too many sales, suppliers like Gooten or Printify can literally them to slow down.
In this podcast episode, we dive into how Isaac came up with this unique business because it is very demanding in terms of logistics, capital, teamwork, experience, and supply chain, and many other things needed to make such a business run successfully.
Check out Isaac Hetzroni here:
Sometimes you have to understand the game before you play the game. This was the case for Mike the RM plug before he made his first sale in luxury watches for over $80,000.
Mike was working for his mentor for an entire year for free before he sold his first luxury watch.
In episode we go over the small but lucrative business of luxury watches is and how you can get started too.
Hit up Mike Herman here:
If you are thinking about creating a digital marketing agency you are going to need to know that the start is going to be tough like any other business. Not only do you have to learn everything such as client communication, getting leads, Facebook ads, etc. But over time the ball will get rolling and momentum will start to build until you will be able to charge a higher monthly retainer.
We are with Benji Copeland to talk about his experience as a digital marketing agency owner and how he has been able to progress his business after experimenting with e-commerce. One of the key things that Benji emphasized is the idea of giving away free information to build trust and brand equity.
In reality, 99% of the people will take your information, run away with it, and execute it, but in reality, there are still so many nuances that one has to learn based on your free information so people can't completely execute what you're sharing.
Another cool topic that is up for debate is should your marketing agency be niched down to one industry or should you work across any industry? This is a question that Benji answers in this episode.
Check out Benji Copeland here:
- Extra Resources
Want to learn how to grow on Instagram? We have Brock Johnson today to talk about Instagram strategies that you can implement to start growing your account organically.
I initially thought that you had to pay to play to grow on Instagram, but you don't have to if you are thinking long-term! Brock recommends to:
- Use hashtags but it shouldn't be the ultimate strategy to grow your account
- Focus on quality instead of quantity
- Be consistent over the long-term
- Collaborating with other people within your niche and the keyword is niche
- Focus your content on a niche subject which was something that Brock emphasized a lot
Check out Brock Johnson here:
- Extra Resources
One of the most popular topics people have been talking about over social media is personal finance and investing.
Being financially literate is so important for one's future. Ignorance is not bliss when it comes down to not knowing about your finances and investment strategies.
We are with Freddie Finance, who has experience in the financial sector and is a popular financial literacy/investing Tik Tok creator, to talk about the fundamentals of investing. Some topics we touch on are:
- When to invest?
- How risk-averse should your investment strategy be with you're young?
- Long-term investment strategies
Check out Freddie Finance here:
- Youtube
- Tik Tok
Everyone has the potential to do something great. If you feel that you don't have a skill or a purpose in life, then that can be due to the fact that you haven't experienced enough things yet. The more you try, the more you discover about yourself.
We are with Chris Anderson today to talk about his personal journey amid his struggles of finding his purpose in life after a spinal injury to how he found his stride to helping and motivating others. One of the vehicles he used to help others his platform Pencil Leadership where helps others find their true potential and live their best lives.
After finding his love for communication and helping others through his podcast, Chris has also been helping podcasters produce content to free up their time. If you are a podcaster or even a content creator, you would know how time-consuming all of it is. We also go over some steps to save your time as a content creator, how to grow your podcast audience, and the importance of owning digital assets such as an email list or group.
Check out Chris Anderson here:
- Youtube
Creating a software as a service business can be a major challenge. You either have to be really good at coding or find a co-founder who is a technologist who is able to take responsibility on the engineering side of things.
If you're serious about building a SaaS business then it's not the best idea to outsource the coding, especially in the beginning. Loic Alix-Brown is the co-founder of Flick which is a hashtag tool to help find, manage, and analyze hashtags for Instagram.
In this episode with Loic, we go over some fundamentals in making a SaaS business, how Instagram hashtags are underrated, and how to use the write hashtags to get more traction on Instagram.
Check out Loic Alix-Brown here:
Instagram is not just a social media platform but THE business platform for personal brands and coaches to sell products and services.
One might think that you need tons of followers to really gets sales, but it's not about the number of followers but the quality of followers.
We are with Rob Nagy, who is a 6-figure agency owner, who helps coaches secure deals over social media, most specifically Instagram. We are going to find out how you can grow on Instagram and monetize it.
Check out Rob Nagy:
- Additional Links
Going into this interview with Mina Elias, I thought that creating a supplement brand is a logistical nightmare because of the extra element of having your products approved by the FDA and how you market it, but in reality, with research, hustle, and determination you can do it too.
Mina Elias shares his story of how he went from being a chemical engineer to creating his own supplement brand "MMA Nutrition" around his strong interest in MMA.
The cool thing about Mina is that he knows the best of the world of chemical engineering and MMA, so he is the perfect user to formulate his supplement. On top of that, he was obsessive with other brands and their ingredients, so with all of this knowledge, Mina found a gap in the market.
To fill this gap, Mina leveraged the Amazon marketplace and learned, brick by brick, how to grow his brand. Now he has formulated multiple products under his brand with different flavors and was able to quit his full-time job.
Check out Mina Elias here:
Mina Elias' Recommended Books:
- Be Obsessed or Be average
- Rich Dad Poor Dad
- Think and Grow Rich
- The Laws of Success
- The Power of Now
- Atomic Habits
- Peak Performance Elevate Your Game
- Millionaire Success Habits
Mina Elias' Recommended Podcasts:
- Serious Sellers Podcast by Helium 10
- Prime Talk
- How I Built This
Mina Elias' Recommended Youtube Channels:
- Travis Marziani
- Samer Brax
How did Mike Gee go from being just a strength & conditioning coach to being a brand manager at CHPTR-3 where he helps make Custom Shoe.
Now the shoes that he has made have gotten a lot of attention from many celebrities and brands. Mike Gee goes over how he decided to become an entrepreneur, how custom sneakers are made, how LA has become a hub of networking to get the shoes to the right people and his ambitions with CHPTR-3.
Check out Mike Gee here:
Check out some custom sneakers from CHPTR-3:
- The Dark Side Paisley Cortez
- Oreo Sneaker
- Dogtown All-Star
There are so many music artists because of social media. Think about it. Right now we have Instagram, Youtube, Tik Tok, and other social media platforms that you can blow up on.
Musicians nowadays don't only have to focus on their music, but on their personal brand as well. We saw how 24kGolden and Lil Nas X leveraged their social media pages to make it where they are today.
We are with Sean Taylor today to talk about how you as a musician can leverage social media to get your name out in the world.
Check out Sean Taylor here:
- Founder of CONTRABRAND Agency
Do you need to drive more sales or improve your B2B sales skills? We have Marcus Chan to go over how you can drive more revenue through social media platforms such as LinkedIn and Facebook, how providing value and not being "sellsy" is the way to go, and sales fundamentals that you need to learn.
Marcus Chan has been in corporate America for 14 years making his way to the top by winning plenty of prestigious sales awards and promotions.
Marcus could have continued his successful work in the corporate world, but he wanted to provide more value by creating his own business, Venli Consulting Group, where he helps businesses and anyone in sales skyrocket their results through high proven performance training and coaching systems.
Check out Marcus Chan here:
- Training Webinar
Marcus Chan's recommended book is High Performace Habits by Brendan Burchard.
It can be a monster strategy to use a proven framework that is being utilized somewhere else and apply it to your environment where it is untapped...let me explain.
Facebook ads is arguably the ultimate tool for businesses to drive business results to sell a product or service. Here in the US, it can be fair to say that Facebook ads are almost the go-to advertising tool for businesses.
In Australia however, it was a different story according to Liam Casey...at least in the real estate market not too long ago. Right now the idea of Facebook ads is popping off but when Liam first got started with it to help real estate agents get more leads, nobody was too aware of it.
Liam Casey shares how he created his real estate marketing agency, why niching down is important, and how he helps real estate agents get leads.
Check out Liam Casey here:
- Facebook Group
- Tik Tok
Sometimes you have to use the negativity in life as a spring to get to where you want to be. Channeling this energy into something more productive can be an answer to your life's meaning.
Amiri Paul, a mentor/coach for creatives and entrepreneurs, dives into the framework of improving one's mindset to become the person you want to be.
If you're struggling with finding meaning in life or in a really dark moment then Amiri is here to make sense of all of this and how you can use this as a catalyst to make your life better.
Check out Amiri Paul here:
- Personal Website
Who knew you can make a full-time income of multiple 6-figures by becoming a photographer?
Sunnie Heers is here to explain how she dabbled with photography in college, how she attended an expensive workshop after selling her stuff to fund it, and how little by little started to make a 6-figure income.
Sunnie is a wedding and elopement photographer which is a niche she decided to dive into. One of the best pieces of advice she gave to beginner photographers is to niche down and become an established figure within that niche and eventually come up with your own unique style.
Check out Sunnie Heers here to learn more about her and her business:
- Sunnie Heers Photography
We are with Jason Wojo who is a master advertiser helping entrepreneurs and eCommerce store owners run profitable ads.
Jason over the last 3 years managed over $3M on paid ads and in return creating over $11M in online store sales and lead generation for hundreds of entrepreneurs and brands.
In this conversation, we go over how Jason runs paid ads, his views interesting views on entrepreneurship, and the importance of mindset to become a successful entrepreneur.
Check out Jason Wojo here to direct message him or check out his content:
- Course - How To Build a Digital Marketing Agency From Scratch
- Wojo Media
If you are not on social media then your business will suffer. We have heard that before and it is certainly true.
As an entrepreneur, coach, or influencer you are going to want to be on social media so you can maximize your reach.
There are so many platforms like Tik Tok, Instagram, Youtube, Podcasts, Twitter, and now Club House to name a few.
If you want to learn how to grow on social media including the platforms just mentioned then you are going to want to hear what Ben Leavvit has to say.
Ben helps people grow their businesses on social media and has a dedicated social media agency Bunny Media just for that.
After listening you are going to want to check out his Youtube channel as he breaks down in multiple videos how to grow on the different platforms in more depth, which will be linked on the show notes.
Check out Ben Leavitt to learn more about how to grow on social media:
- Tik Tok
- Youtube
- Podcast - Passion Project
Is it possible to increase your business' revenue by investing in your social media content? The answer... is yes!
We're with Maxwell Muller, the founder, and CEO of Video Editing Experts where he strategically helps entrepreneurs 6X their awareness to drive more revenue.
Entrepreneurs are operators and it can be a serious challenge to work on content creation and the business itself.
So if you're a busy entrepreneur then you can save a lot of time by just shooting video and having Max's team handle the rest to make sure you get the awareness you need?
If you are a solopreneur and want to learn how you can do this yourself, Maxwell will provide us with that. In fact, you can literally learn his strategy on his website, which will be posted in the show notes.
So if you want to learn how to 6X your business with the right form of content creation and marketing strategies, stay tuned!
Check out Maxwell Muller to learn more about him:
Check out Video Editing Experts here:
- Youtube
- Resources
Social media has arguably become the biggest driving force for brands and businesses to spread messages, sell products and services, and connect with people at scale.
If you can leverage the mediums that can enable your businesses to grow at scale then that will be gold. This is something that Buster Scher has done with his media company Hoops Nation.
Buster was able to grow his media company with millions of fans with social media platforms and he lays down gems on we can do the same for our brands and businesses.
Check out Buster Scher hear and Hoops Nation here:
- Buster Scher Instagram
- Buster Scher LinkedIn
- Buster Scher Twitter
- Buster Scher Youtube
- Hoops Nation Tik Tok
- Hoops Nation Instagram
- Hoops Nation Twitter
- Hoops Nations Facebook
On this podcast we've might have been guilty of demonizing college to some degree. We don't want to say that college is a bad idea. Instead, we want to emphasize that it can be a bad investment depending on the circumstance.
If you're an athlete and thinking about playing a college sport then that can be a great opportunity to go to college with little to no cost with athletic scholarships. Either it's the incentive of playing the sport you're passionate about, getting a free education through athletic scholarships, or both you are going to want to hear how Reagan Rust was able to play D1 Hockey at Boston University.
In fact, she eventually played professional hockey overseas and has created a community called "Female Athlete Society" where she helps female athletes:
- Provide information on how to become a female athlete across school and professional leagues
- With mental health issues
- How to improve one's game and
- Connect w/other female athletes
Check out Reagan Rust to learn more about her and how to become an athlete:
- The Female Athlete Society
Nsenzi Salasini is a Digital Marketing Strategist and his company helps entrepreneurs get more customers with paid advertising.
Through his platforms and programs, he has taught over 20,000 entrepreneurs how to leverage online advertising and has been featured in some of the top publications like Thrive, Business Insider, and many more as one of the leading options for entrepreneurs looking to accelerate their growth with digital strategy.
We break down the steps on how to successfully create a Facebook ad that will attract high-value customers.
Check out Nsenzi Salasini here to learn more about Facebook ads to grow your business:
- Nsenzi Salasini Media
- Personal Website
- Free Training For Entrepreneurs to Attract High-Value Customers
Having your own digital marketing agency can be a great way to get into entrepreneurship. You can have the opportunity to work within a specific niche such as restaurants and gyms or you can expose yourself to multiple like Alex Quin with his own digital marketing agency, UADV.
Alex helps build multi-million dollar brands through online marketing and in this episode we go over his stages as a digital marketer, how he uses different advertising platforms to help grow companies, and how to deliver the right ads with the correct platform.
Check out Alex Quin and his work here:
- Youtube
- Personal Website
- Hustle Inspires Hustle Podcast
Instagram isn't just a social media platform. In fact, it's a platform where you can leverage your audience and monetize from it.
This can be done by having your own business where you offer your own product or service. of course, you will have to be responsible for the
logistics for bringing the product or service to life, but if you don't want that responsibility you can simply apply a different model.
That model is network marketing where people can simply be in charge of person to person sales and not hold any burden of the good itself.
If you grow your own network marketing team that can assist you with lead generation and closing sales, then that means more money for you.
We are here with Dani Mason who is an online entrepreneur who teaches aspiring entrepreneurs how to monetize their Instagram and building a network marketing business.
If you want to learn more about Dani Mason, you can check her out here:
- Personal Website
- Trading Facebook Group
Is it important to become more credible or become an authoritative figure in your respective industry? Well yes because if you have authority and attention then there will a lot of eyeballs on you. Witch attention you can leverage that to spread your message, promote your products or services, and provide more value.
We are with Lewis Schenk today who is an entrepreneur and the founder of Boost Media Agency where he helps you out-position your competition and become
known, liked, and trusted.
Check out Lewis Schenk here:
- Personal Website
Aaron Rentfrew is an adventure coach. What is an adventure coach? It's a term that Aaron coined.
Essentially it is a way for Aaron to communicate and coach people looking to find their true calling in a more meaningful and impactful way compared to just a keynote or speech.
Aaron has traveled around the world himself, and find a lot of answers, peace of mind, and clarity to better improve his life that regular coaches cannot output.
In a physical experience where you are put outside of your comfort zone, a message can stick and eventually help you find direction in life.
As of now, traveling has been a challenge due to COVID so as an entrepreneur should, Aaron had to pivot to something more digital.
Check out Aaron Rentfrew here:
- Website
- Turning Point Book
Kay Jenkins is a life coach, model, real estate agent, investor, and businesswoman. She believes that you shouldn't limit yourself to one thing and to express yourself as you please.
One of the key things I got from Kay is that at the beginning of your career, in her case real estate, you have to do the boring work and start from zero. But as you get more experience you will be able to be your own boss. However, in a lot of corporations or business environments, she wasn't allowed to fully express herself in and out of the office without someone saying anything negative.
It is her motto to unapologetically express yourself as your personality itself can be the core factor in your success.
If you want to work on what you love and put yourself out in the world without the fear of being hated on, then this episode will provide some gems for you.
Check out Kay Jenkins here:
- Exclusive Kay
We are with Khai Clancy who is Senior Credit Repair Specialists at ASAP Credit Solutions and we talk about the credit restorations, business fundings, and the importance of credit.
Check out Khai Clancy here:
Max Karg turns automotive enthusiasts into automotive entrepreneurs. He loves cars and bikes, so what better way to making living off your passion.
Max has created a business where he sells other people’s vehicles for a fixed fee or commission like in real estate. If you don’t know a lot about cars or don’t have the time to sell a car then it can be a real pain to sell your vehicle.
Instead of dealing with that, you can solve that problem by taking care of those tasks. To make the product listing of the vehicle appealing, Max went to great lengths to detail the car, take photos, market the car on 3rd party services, and close the sale.
The beauty of this approach of making money off other people’s cars is again… Max’s passion for cars. All the tasks stated previously can be done in other markets such as real estate, but if that’s boring then why would you want to do it.
Listen to the full episode with Max Karg to learn how to make money off your passion for automobiles:
- Youtube
In this podcast episode, we are with Avi who was able to make an income as a digital content producer, cinematographer, visual marketer, and director.
The hustle and stories and he discuss for any content creator trying to make it is truly inspiring.
One of the key things is that you have to ask for permission to do things. You can start creating content with low budget equipment for starters. If you give yourself excuses then you will not go anywhere. Sure it helps to have the best equipment but you can work your way to get the high-tech equipment once you can afford it.
Check out Avi's work here:
Aishah Mohamed & Shye Lee are the Co-founders of Elite Tier Academy and Elite Tier Marketing. They are social media experts who help entrepreneurs make 5 to 6 figures incomes, and have been able to do this on their own. On top of that, they have created an ecosystem to help others do the same.
In this podcast episode, we go over the importance of Tik Tok and how it drives business results. The idea of social media is to be in front of your audience at scale. Tik Tok has been a vital platform for Aishah and Shye among the business owners they’ve been working with to drive business results.
To learn more about leveraging social media to make an income, check out Aishah Mohamed & Shye Lee here:
- Shye Lee Instagram
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We are living in the information age and there are so many ways you can leverage your experiences and knowledge to make money.
Molly Ho is a digital product & course coach who has been able to make a full income by selling digital courses. In fact, she has made $80k in digital products in 2020 alone.
In this episode, we talk about how she struggled in the beginning but eventually found strategies to drive more traffic to her shop using Pinterest and her personal brand.
If you plan to sell digital products then Pinterest can be a major player for you. It is honestly a platform that isn’t given much attention compared to Instagram, Tik Tok, and Youtube, but it is something that can help with sales.
Come and check out Molly Ho to learn more about how to make money by selling digital products:
- Personal Website
- Etsy Shop
Brandon Ganske was in a bad spot after opening a retail store. He found himself over 100k in debt until he built a niche dropshipping store making 5 figures a month.
In this episode, we go over the importance of reinvesting in your dropshipping store to make it an actual brand. The way Brandon did that was by reinvesting in ad spend, creating a brand experience when customers opened his products, and building infrastructure.
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Simon Lerner is a stock trader and the founder of NetCon, which is a platform that unites entrepreneurs by providing online and in-person resources to learn about online business acumen and entrepreneurship
We talk about how Simon caught a break with cryptocurrency, how he used his winnings to reinvest in the stock market, the importance of building an online presence, and how he plans to reform the education business system by providing alternative ways to learn about business
If you want to learn more about how Simon Lener makes money on the stock market or his business NetCon, you can find him here:
Carlos Martinez is a speaker, serial entrepreneur, and sales & marketing consultant. He’s earned his experience at a very young age when he would put himself out there in conferences and events to network with people.
Carlos would eventually reach out for mentorship and sold himself to an opportunity where he eventually provided so much value to his team that it was time for him to fly and be on his own.
In this episode, you’ll learn about the power of providing value, how personal branding can help you get indirect business and insights on how to drive more sales.
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We are with Syed Aziz today to talk about his start in dropshipping to creating his social media marketing agency helping businesses and brands scale online.
In 2020, he has served over 4,500 clients!
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From sliding into the DMs to working with high profile individuals to getting experience to creating his own digital media agency Original By Default Brandon Barris has been helping entrepreneurs, influencers, coaches, and personal brands looking to scale their business.
What Brandon and his team do is help individuals provide all the marketing needs in one place to help create a brand.
We talk about why a personal brand is important and you’re the true reason why you want one. If there’s no ‘why’ then you won’t go far.
If you want to check out Brandon Barris or learn about personal brand building, you can check him out here:
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There are tons of products you can find from Alibaba and sell on Amazon. But the question is can you build a meaningful brand around it to build more brand equity?
Luke Wechselbürger lays out how he was able to get niche products from Alibaba to build brands in the Amazon marketplace and earn 6-figures.
With his experience of build brands and testing different products out with the minimum viable product method, he has been giving us entrepreneurs tons of value on how we can replicate his results if not better like a couple of his students.
To get more insight on how Luke Wechselberger makes a killing as a 6-figure Amazon, you can find him here:
- Youtube
- Amazon Seller Pro Course
- 1 hour FBA Coaching Call
- Facebook Amazon FBA Group
Tools that Luke uses to find products on Amazon:
- Helium 10
- Jungle Scout
Matan Gochman is the man behind Gochman Marketing Solutions where he helps companies win by getting them warm meaningful appointments each week.
He and his team are able to help companies grow through high-quality marketing processes that drive inbound appointments on a weekly basis by creating a predictable automated system that will save their client’s expensive time and close more deals.
Listen to the full episode to leverage the insights Matan has provided for us.
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We are with Trevor Oldham to talk about how he found his business, Podcasting You, in his college dorm back in 2017. Podcasting You works with successful entrepreneurs to get them booked on podcast interviews. Trevor has been able to make “Podcasting You” into a 6-figure business and pay off his over $91k in student loans!
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There are a variety of ways of making money on Amazon. You can do retail arbitrage, wholesale, private label, and dropship to name a few. Dropshipping items on Amazon has been the go-to strategy for Andrew Giorgi as he now has multiple 6-figure stores.
Andrew Giorgi was able to hit it off with one store, but one of the key things on Amazon is to diversify your portfolio because Amazon can easily ban your account, so if that one is down then Andrew still has other stores he can fall back to while he resolves the issues.
Andrew is a systems guy. He has a team of people helping him scale his Amazon businesses to the point where he is making passive income before he moves on to the next store.
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Ecom Dave is a 6-figure Amazon FBA seller and coach who specializes in private labeling. There are a lot of nuances when it comes to building a successful Amazon private labeling brand, but one of the key aspects that Ecom Dave points out is adding a value prop to your products.
You need to differentiate yourself as a seller on the Amazon market place. For example, if you see brands selling yoga mats then you need to find a way to sell yoga mats with a different color that nobody else has or add an extra product such as an accessory of some kind or even a digital product.
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Coming from humble beginnings in Queens, NY, Michael Barayev had a vision from an early age, to be part of something revolutionary, and determine his own destiny.
After spending several years as a D2D sales agent, Michael decided to start his own D2D marketing company at the age of 25. His company and his team of 150+ salespeople have seen massive success, and he has spearheaded a revolution in the D2D industry, taking the company well into the 7-figures in just a few short years.
Through his years of coaching and training sales agents, he has now focused his efforts on giving back to other entrepreneurs and teaching them the secrets of success he has personally used to take his company to multiple 7 figures in just a few short years. He offers his services to select clients interested in taking their sales and businesses to the next level, increasing their sales revenue, and building out teams.
Michael Barayev chops it up with us to talk about how you can close a sale and build sales teams. He has earned multiple 7-figures as a salesman but after a lot of experience, he has been helping people build internal sales teams and generate more sales through his processes.
If you want to check out Michael Barayev, you can find here:
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You can have that burning desire to do more in your life when you come in contact with a successful person, have an epiphany, or something alike. Scotty Huss was at one point working at a gym and he saw some kid roll up and dope car. This sparked his curiosity which led to an opportunity and then another.
After leaving his job to pursue Network marketing, Scotty was able to generate millions of dollars in sales and help other people do the same.
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You can either consume Instagram or be a creator. Not only can you create content on Instagram but you can monetize it.
Today we're with Nick Ravid to talk about his Instagram growth across his Instagram pages, how you can monetize it through sponsored ads, affiliate marketing, shout outs, and some strategies on Instagram growth.
Right now, there is no doubt that Instagram organic's reach is very low. That's why Nick Ravid, through his experience, believes that you have to pay to play or leverage Tik Tok organic's reach to drive traffic to your Instagram theme pages and grow it.
For an Instagram theme page, the best "pay to play" strategy is to have other pages in your niche or somewhat similar to do a paid shoutout. Doing sponsored Facebook ads isn't the best approach for Instagram theme pages, but having other pages promote your pages was key for Nick.
The Instagram economy is real. A page that has hundreds of thousands of followers can be worth 6-figures. Nick Ravid has an impressive portfolio of Instagram theme pages that has over 7 million followers. All of his pages are assets that can easily be worth 7-figures!
If you want to check out Nick Ravid, you can find him here:
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Can your business run like a large corporation with all its personnel, systems, and resources? Joshua Little John is the author of The Marketing Fallacy where he covers how any small business can look like a large corporation without the large costs.
That’s a crazy statement, but after this conversation with Joshua, it blew my mind how certain tools can be used to make your business run like a large corporation. As a matter of fact, Joshua is the founder & CEO of Norgress where he helps small to medium-sized businesses scale by building systems like large corporations.
For example, when Joshua is looking to hire someone, he uses a software tool that does all the work by creating “flows”. He describes that in a bit, but the point is that he and small business owners do not need HR to do this work.
This goes to show how powerful the internet really is. Nowadays you can hire freelancers from around the world that deliver professional work at a fraction of the cost.
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Imagine failing for 6 months in a row in dropshipping and seeing all your capital you’ve made from other business ventures go bust? But after trials and tribulations and testing 70 dropshipping products, Andy Mai finally got a breakthrough. Sales started skyrocketing and the rest is history as they say.
Andy Mai is a 7-figure entrepreneur who helps people replace their 9-5 income by creating an online business. His success in dropshipping has brought him to new ambitions of creating a teaching resource like that of Khan Academy and Udemy but with the addition of entrepreneurship.
This is an ongoing project and he shares his journey on his progress and how he is building it. One of the stories he shared was how he was able to acquire the domain name study.com which cost $300,000!
The reason for focusing his attention on his new online learning digital platform was because of a trip he made to San Francisco. He was working with a talented inventor and entrepreneur selling physical products, but he realized that tinkering and inventing products took time. It was better to invest one's time in digital products and selling them online. This was where the idea of study.com came about.
If you want to check out Andy Mai, you can find him here:
- Youtube
You can also check out his short movie on howanyone can build a business from 0 to 10k years to 10k months
Erick Alvarez is one of the most interesting entrepreneurs I've ever met. As I stated in the podcast I want to do a second part with him because he has an interesting story.
He is an Instagram mogul where he helps people turn their Instagram pages into income. Before he started his digital agency, he worked on multiple projects as a fitness coach and content creator. It was after a training program that he was able to generate sales via Instagram. Before he was struggling to make sales until he decided to invest in himself.
When he was in college, he decided to apply for an entrepreneurship incubator program as he had an idea. Unfortunately, his idea was put off to the side as he was never accepted and his friend was. In anger, he thought to himself that he was going to make his idea come to life without the incubator.
There was a lot of turn of events that made his initial idea turn into reality as he was living a poor lifestyle. Now Erick Alvarez is killing the game on Instagram as he gives us some insight on how we can monetize our pages.
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Robert Miller is the CEO of Scalewrx formerly known as Captify Consulting, which is a full-service digital marketing agency for e-commerce stores and entrepreneurs. In his Rober's agency, he applies the S.C.A.L.E Method to double your online business' revenue.
The first step of Robert Miller's method is systems. You need to do create systems in your business that will make your workflow more efficient and automated. For example, if you have an email list, you are going to want to integrate that into your sales funnel and make sure each independent email is sent automatically after a certain action.
Robert believes that there is no secret sauce to generating online sales. You need to have a strategy to meet your business objectives. One cannot simply wander around thinking about things to do day by day. Instead, you need to have an action plan and execute it.
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Pauly Long is the founder of MineSet, which is a community-based series of programs that help people live the life they truly want to live. He wants to help people escape the same struggles that he went through to get closer to live the life they want.
If you're in a toxic environment or have friends who don't have the right mindset, then you may fall into that as well. The key is to shift your focus to living a life that makes you fulfilled. In Pauly Long's case, he was hating his job at LA Fitness. When he would go on social media and look at young entrepreneurs in their 20s and even teens making money online he wanted in. His friends at the time were happy with their lifestyles and 9-5 jobs, which is fine but he wanted more.
Ever since then he started to venture off across the country, building a personal brand, and eventually MineSet. One of the first steps of being successful is having a positive thought process. You need to be optimistic and stay stuck playing as a victim no matter what your circumstance is because there's always a way out.
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Kristen DiCaprio is a graphic designer who is the CEO and Founder of Aspen Theory. Aspen Theory is a brand strategy and web design studio that specializes in creating intentional brand stories for conscious businesses.
Starting out as a freelancer and doing free work for people to get more experience, she eventually went all-in on Aspen Theory. One of the fundamental things that entrepreneurs and small business owners need to do is know the "why" of their businesses.
Kristen reminds us that without the "why", we are navigating the market without a clear pathway. In other words, we're doing business without core principles that can hinder the possibility of connecting with the target audience.
Color pallets and the aesthetic of your business web page is nice and all, but having that aesthetic without a business objective is useless. It's very challenging to get a metric of how branding can give business owners an ROI, but in the long run, it is essential.
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Can you imagine running 2-3 businesses at a time, let alone 7? That must be a huge headache, right? Not really if you are able to establish each business before embarking on a new one and working with people who can help you do the job.
Giancarlo Aguilar has a skillset of creating a business with people and focusing on tasks that will move the needle. Instead of being an employee of each of his businesses, he is working in the background or doing things that move the needle.
To put things into context, he runs a fitness center, two bars, a social media marketing agency, and three supplement brands. You can find the brands he is working on here:
- Fitness Center - Peach Factory Fitness
- Bar - Booze Garden Wynwood
- Bar/ Lounge - Centro Wynwood
- Social Media Marketing Agency - Social Wolf Media
- Supplement Brand #1 - Simple Vitamins
- Supplement Brand #2 - Life All Natural
- Supplement Brand #3 - Royalty Supplements
Giancarlo Aguilar is actually an owner of a manufacturer that makes quality grade supplements where other entrepreneurs and brands can private label products. With the resources he has, he has been able to create 3 different supplement brands!
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Kerim Derhalli is the CEO of Invstr, an app that helps you overcome knowledge and financial barriers to become a better investor.
Being active on Tik Tok and Instagram, we're seeing how Invstr is becoming a financial app with gamification and social media like features. This is perfect for the Gen-Z/Millennial audience because we are getting to see how important personal finances and investing is to our lives.
Investing is not intimidating at all and Invstr has shaped its app to make it that way to allow the user to follow their peers and influencers. In fact, you are able to see what your peers are doing in terms of their investments so you can study why they did so. If you're not comfortable with investing yet, you can play Fantasy Finance.
Fantasy Finance is like fantasy sports. Instead of managing a team, you are managing a portfolio where you head to head with other investors to win real prizes.
If you want to check out Kerim Derhalli and his app Invstr, you can find it here:
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Eric Patel is the Founder and CMO of Edullo which is an affordable, flexible, and personalized learning service for college students. It's like the Fiverr or Upwork for college students. Say, for example, you are a teaching assistant for a college professor. You have a lot more value to offer than just teaching the college material to the student in the lecture hall.
What if you can capitalize your knowledge by putting it out in the market where college students around the world can learn from you. And if you're a college student this can be a great resource to learn the specific and personalized course sets you're taking in your curriculum. It is a platform for the students and by the students.
When discussing with Eric Patel about creating Edullo, we went over how he had to find software developers and how he needed to fill the website with content. It's a service that acts as a middle man to bring in both the students and the teachers into one market place.
Because Eric Patel is also a content creator on Tik Tok with over 270K followers, he is able to drive this traffic to Edullo. Providing as much valuable content that college students want to hear on Tik Tok has been a very marketable approach for Edulllo to get new users.
If you want to check out Eric Patel, you can find him here:
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Josh Pather is a serial entrepreneur, 2-time ClickFunnels 2 Comma Award Winner, and a CEO of 4 companies. In this episode, we talk about the photo booth business Joshua has called Photo Booth International.
In Josh's photo booth business he helps entrepreneurs start a business by selling unique photo booth products. In his origin story of how he made his success through his photo booth business, Josh Pather explains how he and his partner found a way to make their DJ gigs more valuable by incorporating the photo booth.
In their first gig, they sold their DJ and photo booth package for $500 at a local party. Even though the partnership was eventually broken up, Josh Pather continued to work on the business and serviced over 800 events in a single year!
If you want to check out Josh Pather, you can find him here:
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Mike Lawson is a brand strategist and Co-founder of Brainstorm Africa, which is a digital media agency in the country of Ghana.
We go over social media trends and dynamics in Ghana and how Facebook ads are a massive tool to help businesses get more awareness and sales. When talking about advertising and sales with Mike Lawson, he explains that it is always important to not be "sellsy". Instead, you need to be very informative and be in the customer's mind subconsciously.
When you run a retargeting campaign, you are targeting people who show some signs of interest, so they are more welcomed to the opportunity of buying your product or service.
In developed countries like the US, we are seeing huge social media trends such as Tik Tok and Instagram reels. In Ghana, however, it takes time for these trends to become mainstream. Facebook and Twitter are the hot social media platforms in Ghana, but Mike Lawson always has an eye on what is working in other countries so he can implement it in his business and personal brand.
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Gabe Kozel is an entrepreneur and wholesale real estate investor in Pennsylvania and Florida. Before embarking on his real estate journey, he created multiple businesses such as his own clothing brand with his partner. Unfortunately, they had to split due to personal reasons.
After being sidetracked by different business ideas, Gabe Kozel discovered wholesale real estate and stuck to that ever since he attended real estate conferences. One of the things that really helped him become a successful wholesaler was finding a mentor.
It was through his mentor that he learned about SMS marketing and CRMs to automate the workflow. Automation and having systems in place are important, but Gabe Kozel recommends to learn the manual way. Going through the dirt and being able to close deals without the assistance of automation processes is an important skill. It's only after learning the skills the hard way that it is okay to automate your workflow. If not you'll be vulnerable.
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From making a blog for his hometown of Sacramento, CA to creating his digital media agency Lead Chimp, Abe Elsayed has been working on making online businesses. As of this moment, his focus is on Lead Chimp, where he and his teams help businesses turn reach into revenue and customers into fans.
With the power of advertising tools such as Facebook ads, Google ads, and Twitter ads, Abe Elsayed has managed to make a name for himself and Lead Chimp. Abe is into creating systems to automate his workflow. This is the kind of thinking that engineers have. As a matter of fact, Abe enrolled at Arizona State University for two years studying Computer Software Engineering.
Even though he didn't finish his degree, he spoke highly of the methodology of engineering thinking combined with sales and finances. All engineers have the capability of being entrepreneurs if they knew sales, but they are more focused on creating products and services for the entrepreneurs.
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Vance Fundora is a best-selling author, marketing specialist, real estate investor, speaker, and podcast host.
Asking yourself how you can do more on a certain task was one of the key things that Vance did early in his entrepreneurial journey. There are always ways to improve, but the question is how. The fact that he was impatient and believed in the reward system, Vance Fundora always sought out for getting results now and getting compensated. With a closed-feedback loop of asking himself how he can do more, his skills as an entrepreneur improving.
If you want to check out Vance Fundora, you can find him here:
- Personal Website
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Mike Schill is a former student-athlete as he played football at FSU. Unfortunately, he got a knee injury which hindered his chances of making it pro. However, life has to go on and Mike has done just that.
Bringing the work ethic he brought with him to the real world as a student-athlete, Mike Schill eventually got into sales. After doing a really good job at one company, he eventually landed a job with Grant Cardone!
Grant Cardone is a sales master and Mike has learned a lot from him alongside his other sales job experiences. In this episode, you will learn about the following to improve your sales skills:
- How to get past the gatekeeper to reach your potential customer or client
- Why following up multiple times is so important
- Always keep in touch with your clients even after you do business with them because they will always have more problems in the future that you need to solve
- If there's a problem and you have a solution, there's no reason why you cannot make that sale
- Learn the difference between a sale vs a close
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Harry Needham is a 9-5 dropout when he found out that he can real money on his own as SMMA owner. The moment he made $200 of a retainer he left his job as an architect. One of the talents he found was personal branding and marketing. Businesses that needed to drive results or create a brand was something Harry was well equipped to do.
In fact, Harry was able to grow his Instagram page to 90k in a matter of 9 months! A big topic that we go over in this podcast episode is the trend of businesses blending with a personal brand. People would rather talk to a human face rather than a logo. With a personal brand, you have more freedom to post content that you want, and that reflects your interests.
You need to differentiate yourself in the market and a personal brand, to Harry Needham's experience, is the best way to do that. Getting indirect leads from content that doesn't have to do with your business is totally possible.
When Harry Needham went live on Instagram, he said he was able to get 10 leads. Posting quality content is important, but being consistent is vital as well.
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Sebastian Sanders is an author of the book "The Art of Giving", apublic speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of his non-profit organization Sander's Hand. Before finding success in these ventures, he actually wanted to be a rapper. Unfortunately, his rapping career never took off, but he still found use in using his voice.
Through his voice, Sebastian Sanders has been able to the youth in need of proper education. The Sanders Hand is a 501c3 non-profit founded in 2017 servicing over 2,000 youth from Texas to Oklahoma.
With 2 active programs; Education & Community, Sanders Hand promotes innovation, empowerment, diversity by preparing our next generation of leaders for success one student at a time.
If you would like to check out Sebastian Sanders you can find him here:
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Charlie Live helps entrepreneurs amplifying their impact and income by growing their personal brands. He is part of the iLegendz team where they all practice what they preach. Everybody in the team has a personal brand and one of the things that Charlie enjoys talking about is personal development.
In Charlie Live's story, he wanted to become successful as he tried different business models such as creating his own social media marketing agency. He believes that everything in the world happens for a reason and that if you have a flow of energy within you, you'll attract others with that same energy.
When Charlie met the owner of iLegendz, Marco Champion, he knew that he wanted to be on his team to learn and grow as an entrepreneur. Under his wing, Charlie is learning a lot more about business, marketing, and personal development. That's why it is so important to surround yourself with people who are successful.
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Cayden Phipps is the owner of LeadStream and the COO of Shop Accelerator. In this episode we talk about:
- Marketing
- Facebook ads
- What SMS Marketing is and how it works
Shop Accelerator has been helping automotive shops grow like wildfire for over four years. The automated marketing system has helped over a hundred shops across the world. Cayden Phipps and his team at Shop Accelerator continue to revolutionize automotive lead generation with advanced advertising practices such as SMS marketing.
Lead Stream is a digital marketing agency that helps businesses with social media marketing, SEO, content creation, and advertisement.
Cayden Phipps realized that he wants to drive business results for people while showing them raw proof. through Lead Stream. When advertising online, one can analyze the data and demonstrate how business is doing.
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Jeet Banerjee is a TEDx speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of Income Incubator. He realized when he was in high school that he didn't want to work for anybody because the feeling of being "replaced" by another person didn't feel right.
After dabbling with website development at his own company JB Media Force, Jeet Banerjee stumbled upon eCommerce. This business model of eCommerce gave him autonomy and ever since it has stuck with him.
Like many dropshippers, the game is to find a winning product from a manufacturer in Asia. However, Jeet took a different approach to use local manufacturers here in the US and offering great product delivery, which is something you cannot really do if you ship directly from Asia.
By communicating with manufacturers, Jeet Banerjee is able to deliver unique products to the market while creating a brand experience and having them become a distributor as well. In other words, Jeet has created a system around the logistics to make and deliver quality products to his customers.
In fact, Jeet Banerjee's model is so successful that he has over a dozen eCommerce stores and counting. His ambition is to grow this number by acquiring other eCommmerce brands because starting a new one from scratch can be a long process.
If you would like to check him out, you can find Jeet Banerjee here:
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Myke Metzger is an entrepreneur, marketing & branding expert, Co-founder of BRWLRZ, and author. His story on how he got into entrepreneurship is something else. From not having any direction in life to living an unproductive lifestyle to having a ton of negative influences in his life to eventually becoming a successful entrepreneur.
No matter how bad your current situation is or how bad your mindset is at the moment, Myke Metzger's stories can be something to fuel the burning sensation of becoming something greater.
In this podcast episode, we go over the importance of building a personal brand and how much influence it has on your businesses as a whole.
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Marco Champion was and still is hungry for success. His first brand was Motiv, a clothing brand that empowers people to be motivated for success. Some of his products in his store are skateboarding decks, as it was something he is very passionate about.
Unfortunately, he had a devastating incident where he was hit by a car. He was told by his doctor that he would be lucky to ever walk again. However, after a period of time, Marco was able to skate again, but not to the hardcore extent that he previously did. This story of his was the key motivation and reason why he created Motiv.
Motiv wasn't paying the bills and he was looking for a way to make serious money, so he ended up in the digital marketing space with one of his mentors. After gaining some experience, he eventually made his marketing agency, iLegendz, where he helps people grow their personal brands on Instagram.
Building a personal brand is so important nowadays and entrepreneurs can either be too busy or not have the know-how to build one. Marco Champion and the team at iLegendz does that through collaborations, content curation, PR, among other things to help people grow their Instagram pages.
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Dan Brag went to great lengths to build the digital agency he has today. One of the topics we covered was that when students learn a topic for a grade, that simply isn't enough. If you were to instead learn something to apply it in a business or project then that will be 100X better.
Learning and applying something, especially for a business, will help you in the real world. A simple letter grade will not suffice.
Dan Brag in that respect learned 7 different programming languages to build websites which he offers as a service. When asked why he doesn't use WordPress, it is because there is a lot of fluff that can make the site slow compared to making a custom one. In addition, he has more functionality and autonomy in making edits to the backend.
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In developed countries like the US (where this podcast is based) we may take things for granted, especially for entrepreneurs. We have access to awesome tools, the latest trends, and tech that other underdeveloped countries may not have.
How do we know this? In this podcast episode, we have Gent Huruglica who is a brand creator and the founder of Software Designs and Urban Clothing Line. Gent is from Kosovo, which is a country small country in Southeastern Europe with a population of about 2 million.
Gent Huruglica explains that all the new marketing trends and tools that start in developed countries have a delay effect in underdeveloped countries like Kosovo. As a result, the entrepreneurial know-how and opportunities are so strong like in the US, UK, Australia, Japan, etc.
Despite the hurdles of not having access to the latest tech, tools, and marketing trends, Gent Huruglica was still able to become a pioneer and entrepreneur in his home country of Kosovo. In Kosovo, entrepreneurship is completely foreign and the idea of creating a personal brand is non-existent. This, however, did not stop Gent from growing his personal brand and making money by teaching people design and branding.
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Danel Cabrera first encountered dropshipping as a side hustle when he was still a college student. Overtime as his experience and knowledge of dropshipping went up, he realized that he had to take this dropshipping "side hustle" as a legitimate business.
When Danel first got started he used Youtube as his main resource for learning dropshipping but it wasn't until he found a consultant that he real success. There was a lot of missing material from the Youtube videos that he had to learn by experience and the consultant he had previously hired.
One of the gems that he tells all aspiring entrepreneurs going into the dropshipping space is that you have to be resilient. You are going to have to spend money and suffer through bad times because things are not butterflies and rainbows. As a dropshipper, Danel Cabrera explains that one is going to go through some tough situations but you have to overcome them.
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Austin Gappelberg is the CEO and founder of Keyp. Austin has always had a passion for fashion and functional products. It was from this concept that he developed a minimum viable product (MVP) of a key holder that goes in the back of your phone to prevent people from losing their keys.
The problem of losing his keys and cards was a serious problem as a college student. One of the best things in business is to create a product or service that scratches your own itch, and that's what Austin Gappelberg did with Keyp.
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Jay Jay is an international speaker and helps people get famous online. Growing an online presence is so important nowadays because with attention comes opportunity.
Prior to being an international speaker, Jay Jay was a magician and content creator on Youtube will tens of millions of views. After a period of time, Jay Jay found his true passion for connecting with people and transitioned his path to public speaking.
Besides public speaking, Jay Jay helps others get famous online with his platform Jay Jay Winners. In his program, he helps entrepreneurs start their own IG business and create the cash and lifestyle they want.
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Nicole Cardinale is a social media influencer, former actress, and entrepreneur. In this episode, we go over how Nicole:
- Grew her Instagram account to 202K followers
- Grew her Tik Tok to 107K followers
- Hunt for business as an influencer
- Made money flipping sneakers with her little brother
- The power of having a social media presence
Nicole Cardinale is also the owner of her digital marketing company Cardinale Media Management, where she helps brands grow on online presence.
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Robert Murray helps small businesses and entrepreneurs with their brand identity. With over 10 years of brand identity design experience, he has been able to reverse engineer the core values of businesses to help them curate a strong brand.
Brands that focus on building brand culture and communities are the ones that people will resonate with the most. Instead of focusing on just transactions and advertisements with conversion and ROI, it is important to shift the attention to the brand.
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Andres Dale is a master of Amazon as he has experience with different Amazon business models which include:
- Amazon Dropshipping
- Amazon FBA
- Private Labeling
- Amazon Automation
In his entrepreneurial story, Andres Dale explains how he got his first start with eCommerce with Shopify. However, he realized that he wasn't a big fan of Shopify so he decided to experiment with Amazon. The rest as they say is history.
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Bridger Pennington is the founder of Black Bridge Holdings and has been helping other entrepreneurs get into the funds game. The requirements to have a fund back in the day were overwhelming. For example, you needed to get an Ivy League education, get 10 years of experience, and maybe you can open up a fund.
How can an entrepreneur get the chance to create their own fund without those requirements? Lucky for us, Bridger Pennington has access to this information as his father worked in this industry. In fact, a partner of Bridger's father told him about the secrets of the rich and how the real money is in funds.
After finding success in creating two separate funds, Bridger Pennington decided to find Investment Fund Secrets: a platform and podcast dedicated to helping you get into the game of creating your own fund.
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Bhavesh Primalani is an entrepreneur and traveler who got an early start in entrepreneurship. One of the first things he did was sales, as he got inspiration from Dan Lok, who is an advocate for selling high ticket items for commission.
People argue that cold emails, cold calls, cold walk-ins, or anything cold are not a way to get sales. Bhavesh Primalani disagrees with this notion as he promotes the idea of cold voice messaging while providing value.
Providing value in a sales pitch while believing in the actual product or service is essential. If you are selling something that you genuinely don't believe is valuable then it's going to be both ethically and challenging.
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Michelle Wintersteen loves brand design and helping businesses build a true brand around their core values. Branding has become an integral part of businesses being in the market in the long run. In fact, Michelle believes that the businesses that are surviving or even thriving through COVID-19 are the ones that have built strong brands.
In order to create a strong brand, there are has to be a sense of community. One of the things that Michelle Wintersteen strongly recommends businesses owner to do is create a Facebook group.
There are no other social media platforms where you can directly interact with your audience like Facebook. Just don't be too "sellsy" when using it.
If you would like to check out Michelle Wintersteen, you can find her here:
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Brett Knutson is a successful entrepreneur who has created 7-8 figure brands but came from humbling beginnings. Brett didn't know much about businesses and his very first experience of entrepreneurship was a horrible one as he lost tens of thousands of dollars on his business that was funded by his friends and family.
After a period of time, Brett decided to go back into entrepreneurship out of necessity for his mother. He founded the social platform Hive Social with no coding experience whatsoever. What makes Brett such a talented entrepreneur is that he is a great leader, communicator, and salesman. These skills have helped him fund his businesses either through bootstrapping or venture capitalists.
Right now, Brett Knutson is the president of Monopolize, which is a full-service agency with the world’s largest and most powerful influencer network. Monopolize has worked with huge brands such as Nike, Oreo, Coca-Cola.
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Jeremy Schneider lived off $36k for about 10 years while working on his start-up company RentLinx.com, which was a rental housing advertising business.
Jeremy had the opportunity to work full-time at Microsoft after his internship as he studied computer science and computer engineering at the University of Michigan. It is a decision that many people would have taken because it's a safe and stable position, but sometimes an entrepreneur wants to see how an opportunity can really turn out.
After 10 years of hard work, Jeremy Schneider sold his company for about $5 million dollars in 2014 as he held 70% of the company's shares.
Now Jeremy devotes his time to investing and working on Personal Finance Club, which is a community that helps educate individuals on personal finance and investing.
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Aaron Pursell is the credit card plug as he gives entrepreneurs and small business owners funding options that they would otherwise not have access to, no matter where they are in their business.
In other words, if someone needs capital with interest rates as low as 0% for 12-18 months, he can do that for you. Aaron talks about how he founded his companies Credit Fundr and Credit Sweepr, which are the businesses that offer these services.
The business model of helping people get loans was something that we never heard about, and fortunately for us, Aaron Pursell explains it in fine detail.
Another important conversation we had was the incentives and benefits of having a credit card. He believes that is something every young adult should have to build up their credit for the years to come.
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AJ Cartas is a first-generation dropout as he wanted to pursue his entrepreneurial journey working in the digital marketing space.
Prior to starting his company Syzygy Social he was a solopreneur helping other brands grow organically on social media. AJ Cartas had early experience on Instagram when it was just getting popular, and he had the skillset to grow over 1 million followers.
Growing a brand's reach on social media is instrumental nowadays and that's why brands are willing to work with him. However, there is only so much one person can do. That's why AJ decided to scale himself by making a team around him and finding his digital marketing agency.
AJ Cartas is a big advocate for racial, gender, and LGBTQ equality. His non-profit organization Our Damn Time supports the minority community to provide resources to empower, educate, and mobilize to enact deep structural change.
If you would like to check out AJ Cartas, you can find him here:
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- You can read his book Start-Ups & Start Downs here
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Jade Jonhson talks about graduating from a private university with NO college debt. How? She talks about how she got into the ROTC program and commitment to it.
A lot of college students will be graduating with tons of student debt and many high school students will too. Knowing about these opportunities alongside personal finance is essential.
Jade explains how she worked at multiple jobs to make money including a $70k job in Florida. Unfortunately, she had poor spending habits and by the time she quit her job, she was left with little savings.
Ever since then she put herself straight and decided to be more aggressive with her personal finances to provide for her future family and opportunities.
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Frank Ausler is a super chill entrepreneur who has a high skill set of sales and figuring things out. He always had an entrepreneurial mindset and created multiple businesses.
Right now Frank Ausler is killing it in real estate but just about a year ago, Frank Ausler was $70,000 in debt. A lot of people will hit the panic button and fold. However, Frank was able to get out of this hole by being a true entrepreneur and making moves.
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Sarah Ashley decided to not continue her path as a lawyer and took the opportunity to work for Jose Aristimuno at VIP Media with no experience in PR and branding. It was a huge decision in her life, but the right one in her mind as her experiences, knowledge, and creativity has flourished ever since taking the position.
In this podcast episode we go over:
- How Sarah Ashley decided to go against the grain to pursue an amazing opportunity instead of following her career path as a lawyer
- How VIP Media help entrepreneurs and businesses get more exposure through PR and marketing strategies
- How small businesses owners and entrepreneurs can get more exposure through social media and PR
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JT Barnett is a former professional hockey player who played all around the US and Russia. He eventually transitioned his 6-year hockey career to entrepreneurship as he built brands like:
- Reset
- Triple Deke Media
- Honey House TV
The cool things about these brands are that it revolves around his passions of hockey, digital media, and health/fitness. When you are doing something that you love, you never have to work a day in your life again. That is the power of working on your passion.
Prior to starting these brands, JT Barnett already had experience as an entrepreneur at a young age. He would flip things and sell candy for a profit among other side hustles. Going full time into entrepreneurship was the natural thing for him to do, even after his hockey career.
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Victor Munoz went through a lot of dirt during his entrepreneurial journey. Before embarking into eCommerce, Victor decided to drop out of college. In fact, he got a marketing certification on Udemy where he landed a job at a marketing agency.
After doing lead generation at the company he worked for, he questioned if he can do the same for an eCommerce business. Using the marketing tactics he learned at work into his new eCommerce venture he found himself failing. Lead generation was completely different than conversions via Facebook ads, so it was back to the drawing board for Victor Munoz.
Fast forward to now, and Victor has been generating tens of thousands of dollars across the ecommerce business he has been working on. However, there was a lot of dirt that he had to experience such as:
- Being scammed by mentors and business partners
- Payment processors not being able to handle the transactions
- Bad business partners
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Victor Munoz is also part of the Wifi Money Startup Live Ecommerce Event where you can learn everything you need to know about starting your own e-commerce business from home and advancing your current one.
Some of the topics covered include:
- Facebook Ads
- Google Ads
- Sourcing & Team Building
- Merchant Processing Secrets
- Video Ad Creation
- Brand Building
- Product Research
If you would like you can join on October 31st at 2PM-7PM Pacific Time!
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Omer Bloch went from working at Whole Foods, Uber, and dropshipping out of college twice to finally take control of his life.
As of this moment, he is now a Senior Adviser for Seven Figure Agency. His journey of not knowing to do with his life to becoming a sales monster and earning 6-figures was crazy, to say the least.
In this podcast episode, we go over how Omer Bloch:
- Went against his parent's wishes of him becoming a doctor or lawyer
- Worked odd jobs to getting sales experience as a car salesman
- Struggled to close client for the agency to getting over 100 clients in a matter of 3 months
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Ryan Magin is a multi-dimensional and experienced content creator and has been for over a decade. The interesting thing is that he thinks that it is through Tik Tok, the most recent popular social media platform, is where his career as a content creator has taken a monumental shift.
Creating short-form content has been the trend lately, and Ryan Magin has been on top of his game. In fact, he has been able to grow multiple Tik Tok accounts including his personal one.
One of his business models is to help brands build their Tik Tok pages from the ground up, and have an equity stake whenever a product or service is sold through the app.
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Ashley Olafsen is a public speaker, author, and entrepreneur who enjoys building meaningful communities.
Her first business that she worked on was Official Move, a program designed to empower young women to reach their maximum potential by giving girls the tools to become confident and active leaders.
After Official Move, Ashley Olafsen created Visionaria Consulting, a service company that helps entrepreneurs with content creation, SEO, website design, and more.
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Faiz Imran is a serial entrepreneur and a successful one too. At such an early age, he has gotten a masse of media attention for his early startup Everscent, which was a product launched on Kickstarter that helped people keep a fresh fragrance all day long.
His product was eventually bought up before the production stage developed. After that, he realized that he was good with influencer marketing and digital media so Faiz Imran decided to create the full-service media company, Fismma.
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Dillon Dull is a real estate investor, house flipper, and content creator. He currently resides in Richmond, Virginia. Through his videos on Instagram, we get insights as to how he flips a property for a profit.
The first couple of steps of entering the real estate game was difficult, but having a background in construction helped Dillon know a thing or two when it came down to hiring contractors and fixing up houses.
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Kobie James a.k.a Vollarti is a music producer and entrepreneur trying to create waves in the music industry. He's the man with tons of insightful business ideas in the digital media space and has a remarkable ambition as a businessman.
In this episode we go over:
- How Kobie got into music and the legality of the music game
- Kobie James' ambitions and goals
- Running Facebook ads to get more exposure
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Dean Pagano is an entrepreneur, digital marketer, and founder of his digital marketing agency True Lead Generation.
In this podcast episode, we are also visited by Dean's partner in crime, Alexia Katerina, who works on the branding side of things for the company.
Dean Pagano and Alexia Katerina go over:
- The start and inspiration for True Lead Generation
- How their college program prepared them for the business world
- The services that True Lead Generation for businesses
- How Dean Pagano manages his team of virtual assistants
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Logan Haskett is a real estate investor, AirBNB host, and founder of Triad Investments. Before diving into real estate, Logan was struggling in college as he got put into academic probation with his 1.80 GPA.
It was during that period of academic probation that he worked odd jobs and realized that he did not want to work for someone else. The idea of working for someone else to make them rich and not yourself turned a gear for Logan Haskett.
Eventually, Logan got into real estate and found a mentor to improve his skills. One thing that he believes is that one should find themselves a mentor to iron out as many unknown nuances. Getting guidance from someone who is extremely successful was one the key reason Logan Haskett is where he is today.
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Mikey Taylor was a pro skater as he was sponsored by DC Shoe Co, GoPro Cameras, and Alien Workshop while touring the world. He is currently the president of Commune Capital and was a Co-founder of Saint Archer Brewery.
Before his heyday, Mikey wasn't always the best skater when he started out. Out of the very small group of skaters he was in, he considered himself the worst. Practicing everyday for over a decade, Mikey Taylor eventually ended going pro.
Now how does a pro-athlete go from skating on a professional level to making a company that sold for 7 figures? Mikey Taylor and his partner thought of the idea of creating an alcohol beverage company, Saint Archer Brewery, and promoting it themselves with their personal brands.
They didn't know anything about creating a business plan or having an exit strategy, and the beauty of this story is that they took initiative with their idea and executed. Just because they had no previous business experience did not mean that their idea wasn't possible.
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Austin Huang is a Sustainability Major at the University of Austin in Texas and during quarantine, he decided to make a clothing brand.
Sustainability is not only Austin's major in school, but it is also his passion. He had many business ideas and ultimately decided to start his company Another Good Human.
Another Good Human is an ethical & sustainable streetwear company. Starting and scaling a clothing brand is very challenging, especially if you're trying to source products that are 100% sustainable. Austin Huang had to contact dozens of manufacturers to find 100% organic cotton and Fair Trade Certified shirts.
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Marissa Wehrer is a Lifestyle Blogger and Facebook ads coach. She provides a tremendous amount of entertainment and value through her social media marketing content on Tik Tok.
In this podcast episode we go over:
- How Marissa Wehrer went from creating a lifestyle blog to moving to Spain to work at a tech startup to eventually learning Facebook Ads
- The anatomy of a Facebook Ad and the objectives when running one
- The importance of installing a Facebook Pixel in your ads to have better insights
- A/B testing and the importance of it
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Jade Darmawangsa is a Youtuber and founder of X8 Media, which is a digital media company focused on educational entertainment. One of her biggest interests is helping people build their social media platforms as she has done across Youtube, Instagram, and Tik Tok.
Jade has been always been keen on creating businesses. In fact, by the time she was 19 years old, 4 of her businesses went bust.
Some might consider this a loss, but she has gained a massive amount of experience by running all of her ventures.
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Rinki Suri is a growth marketing manager and knows the ropes of running Facebook ads through her job.
Major brands spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on commercials and advertisements across social media platforms. If that's the case then how can small business owners even compete with that?
Rinki Suri goes over:
- How to find prime examples of ad creatives that you can also use without having to come up with something entirely from scratch
- The importance of getting data from your ads with Facebook Pixel
- Finding your target audience for your business
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Josh Ryan is a New Zealander entrepreneur who got his first taste in entrepreneurship by making Instagram pages and monetizing them.
He's made multiple pages and one of the pages that exploded was Millionaire Dream. In this podcast episode, Josh Ryan goes over:
- How he got started on Instagram and made one of the first motivational quote pages
- The organic reach of Instagram
- Having to use shoutouts, hashtags, and paid ads to grow
- Tips/strategies to grow an Instagram page today
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Jenny Jaucian, better known as Jenny J Fitness, is a fitness and weight loss coach. She encountered the health & fitness career path ever since she was told that she had to lose weight in order to become a dancer.
Having tried all the "short cuts" to weight loss to later find a healthy and long-lasting way of effectively losing weight, she eventually decided to get her certificates and become a fitness and weight loss coach.
In this podcast episode we go over:
- How Jenny J got into fitness & health
- Mental blocks that people face to losing (or gaining) weight
- How small changes in your lifestyle can make monumental changes in weight loss journey
- Her 8 Week Weight Loss Program
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Matt Gresia is a popular content creator on Tik Tok who makes videos on how celebrities and internet money is being made. He is also the founder and owner of his sock company Canswer Sock Co.
Matt left his corporate job after college to starting his sock company because he realized that he was not passionate about it. With no real plan, he took the leap of faith in leaving his job to go all-in on with his business.
After a short period of time, he discovered Tik Tok and decided to create content on the internet money. Fast forward a couple of months and Matt Gresia has gained thousands of followers. Today, Matt has over a million followers and is able to make an income for Tik Tok's creator fund alongside his sock company.
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Nick Kralle is the ESPN of Tik Tok. If you love sports then his content is right for you. His quick 15-60 second sports videos make it so informative and fun to know about the latest news across football, soccer, baseball, wrestling, fighting, and more.
We go over how he is going all-in as a content creator on Tik Tok, why he started, and his overall goal with his channel.
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Miles Longstreth is huge on online business and investing. He started by sneakers and other books on online market places like StockX, Goat, and Amazon.
Miles is a huge fan of long-term investments and funding his investment accounts with the profits he makes from reselling items.
If you would like to check out Miles Longstreth you can find him here:
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John Eringman, better known as JohneFinance, is huge on personal finance education.
He tries to help you achieve personal financial independence by providing value on long-term investing tips/advice (i.e. ETFs) and building credit.
The value he provides is essential to Millennials/Gen-Z because personal finance is not being taught in school. So John Eringman's quick 15-60 second videos on Tik Tok are a great way for us to learn these essential fundamentals of personal finance.
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Bryan Clayton is the CEO and founder of GreenPal, which is like the Uber of lawn services. Prior to starting GreenPal, Bryan had experience starting a lawn service company and scaling it to hundreds of. He ended up selling that business for 7-figures!
After earning his money after selling his company, he decided to retire and travel the world. It was fun but it didn't satisfy him after a while. He felt that he wanted to create more opportunities and so he decided to get back in the game of entrepreneurship.
With two other co-founders, Bryan was able to create a service like no other by creating a marketplace where homeowners can connect with professional lawn services efficiently. This was done through the mobile app and website.
If you guys would like to check out Bryan Clayton and GreenPal, you can find them here:
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- Bryan Clayton's email: bryan@yourgreenpal.com
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Jumali Sarvarov has the ambition of creating a clothing brand that can be as recognized as Nike. His aspiration of creating a clothing brand is to create a legacy behind his brand.
His clothing brand, Illicit Club, has quality athleisure clothing. Jumali has done his due diligence in finding manufacturers with great quality clothing and instruction to implement the ideas he has for his designs.
But what made him start and get extra motivated was when his cousin started a successful clothing brand and saw how people were wearing his clothes. Jumali wanted that same feeling his cousin got when he encountered a stranger wearing his clothes.
Jumali had no experience creating a clothing brand, but his goal and persistence have pushed him to learn. The most important thing for any aspiring entrepreneur is to just start and not overthink things.
From sourcing bad quality products to finding manufacturers that produced great quality clothing, he has learned so much along the way. There is still so much to learn, but he is definitely on track and has the right mindset to create an awesome clothing brand.
You can check out Illicit Club and Jumali here:
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Sam Primm has a rental portfolio of $25 million! He has 250 rental doors and aims to have 200 house purchases a year.
One might think that in order to have these many properties, you need to be mega-rich. Well if you're are not mega-rich then how can we apply the BRRRR strategy that Sam Prime breaks down for us?
What Sam does is use other people's money. Buy having a network of potential investors, he can apply the BRRRR strategy to add to his portfolio, increase the cash flow, and make an ROI for his lenders.
We go deep into each of the steps of the BRRRR strategy. To break it down here the BRRRR strategy is the following:
- B - Buy
- R - Rehab
- R - Rent
- R - Refinance
- R - Repeat
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- Blog
Michael Gardiner is a 6-figure digital marketer and entrepreneur who also travels the world. As a teenager, he would experience Bangladesh, and ever since then, he would hop from one country to the next.
He got his first taste of entrepreneurship making Instagram theme pages, selling shoutouts, and sponsors. He had a handful of theme pages making him money and later decided to sell them for a nice profit.
It was through that initial capital that he decided to create a marketing agency to help others to utilize social media as best as possible. This is done all the while Michael Gardiner is traveling around the world.
He has been to countries like:
- Bangladesh
- Thailand
- Vietnam
- Haiti
- Puerto Rico
- Aruba
- All over Europe
- And dozens of other countries (check his Instagram to see what we're talking about!)
If you would like to check him out you can find him here:
- Tik Tok
- Youtube
Check out Get The Bag Life and Hit us up!
- Tik Tok
- Blog
Lee Litvin has an extreme passion for business with a strong background in hip-hop.
Lee has the ambition of building systems and funnels to sell the beats that he produces for rappers. He eventually would like to get writing and singing songs every week on a consistent basis but has the goal of doing building up his business.
You check out Lee Litvin here:
- 15 Free Beats
- Spotify
- Youtube
Check out Get The Bag Life and Hit us up!
- Tik Tok
- Blog
Gerardo Perez is the founder and owner of his digital advertising business, Marketing And. His business focuses on advertising and branding to help online businesses grow. A cool thing is that we had no idea that one can create ads on the new hot platform Tik Tok, but it looks like you can!
During our conversation, we talked about brand names and color and how it can influence a business's trajectory in some shape or form.
Gerardo Perez has been providing tons of value on his Tik Tok page about branding and marketing (such as content on Facebook Ads). This can be a valuable resource to any entrepreneur running the ads for their eCommerce business.
He has worked with multiple eCommerce businesses and has acquired so much knowledge across different industries. It is something he is happy about and plans to create his own eCommerce business in the near future.
If you would like to check Gerardo Perez out, you can find him here:
- Tik Tok
- Youtube
- Website
Check out Get The Bag Life and Hit us up!
- Tik Tok
- Blog
Isaac Torres has an awesome story on how he was able to become successful in real estate.
From working his dream job at a shoe store as a teen to failing his real estate exam multiple times to finding a mentor to help him learn the real ropes of becoming a real estate agent, Isaac Torres has gone through a lot.
One of the key nuggets he mentions is that having a coach/mentor was so important in his life because his trajectory in the real estate industry has dramatically changed. Having individual guidance was key to his success among other important factors.
Check Isaac Torres out here:
Check out Get The Bag Life and Hit us up!
- Tik Tok
- Blog
Ed Stulak is a realtor in New Jersey who focuses on creating a personal brand to get indirect sales on real estate. Creating a personal brand has helped him network people within the real estate industry and potential homeowners.
Ed was actually a college hockey player with aspirations of going pro. However, his passion for hockey quickly died out as he felt that it became a job during college. The injury that he had obtained along the way was the final straw that made him quit hockey entirely. The plan of going pro was now thrown out the window.
The next venture was going into real estate, As they say...the rest is history!
If you would like to check him out, you can find Ed Stulak here:
- Website
- Tik Tok
Check out Get The Bag Life and Hit us up!
- Tik Tok
- Blog
Alana Parks went to school for psychology, got a job doing retail, and ultimately ended up pursuing the entrepreneurial route with her social media marketing agency.
She has done work around the city of Houston and other metropolitan areas of Texas such as Dallas. Her agency Post Inc Media specializes in advertisements such as Facebook Ads, Email Marketing, and Google PPC.
Getting your first client is one of the most difficult challenges for a new marketing agency. Getting your first client from your personal network will be key. Word of mouth and referrals are super important in getting more work, but they always start with working with the people you know.
If you want to check Alana out, you can find her here:
- Tik Tok
Check out Get The Bag Life and Hit us up!
- Tik Tok
- Blog
Cody Allen is a super fit guy who played college football. He enjoys staying fit and living a healthy lifestyle. In fact, he has built a personal brand around these core interests/passions that he has.
By being super authentic and knowledgable about fitness/health, he is able to leverage is social media personality to help sell products such as supplements, fitness trackers, and fitness accessories.
Cody Allen is also a co-founder of Digital Cartel, a marketing agency that helps develop online brands. If you guys would like to check him out, you can find him here:
- Youtube
- Website
Check out Get The Bag Life and Hit us up!
- Tik Tok
- Blog
Josh Otusanya is a standup comedian, former D1 soccer player, and a content creator.
The dream of becoming a soccer player wasn't realized, unfortunately, but he eventually got into standup comedy at nights after his full-time job. In the beginning, he struggled, but over time he got better and his confidence, as a result, was boosted.
On Tik Tok Josh Otusanya is known as the CEO of Life Advice.He currently has over 1 million followers on the platform where he goes over:
- How to be happier in life
- How to build up your confidence
- Dating advice
- And things alike
Josh is such a funny and charismatic human being. If you'd like to check out his content, you can find him here:
- Tik Tok
- Youtube
- Quora
Want that job after college? Is the job market really competitive right now? These are questions that a lot of college students and young adults are constantly asking themselves.
Getting a full-time job is the next big step after college if entrepreneuship is something you don't plan to pursue. There is a skill of marketing yourself through resumes, cover letters, social media, and even during the interview process.
Julian Parra is a recent college graduate himself who provides an added resource to young adults looking for jobs. On his Tik Tok and Instagram, you'll find how one can:
- Better prepare for an interview
- Write resumes & coverletters
- Improve your LinkedIn account
If you would like to check him out, you can find him here:
- Tik Tok
Andre Sampson is one of the most chill guys you'll ever meet. He is a very charismatic and confident guy who enjoys creating content on social intelligence on Tik Tok.
We talk about Andre's transition of moving to Chicago for work without knowing anybody. Making friends in a new setting is a challenge, but going to social events was something that helped a lot in his opinion.
Another interesting aspect of this episode was how to be confident in talking to girls and being prepared for any nerve-wracking moments.
If you'd like to check Andre Sampson out, you can check him out here:
- Tik Tok
- Youtube
Ashton Noland is a full-time swing trader. Before becoming a swing trader, Ashton was a day trader.
Ashton got a chemistry degree but ended up working in advertising! His full-time job was something he did not enjoy and after a while, he took the plunge of learning to invest.
The year was 2015 and he's had tons of experiences both good and bad. Either that is making thousands of dollars in a single day and losing it all the next, learning new strategies, or going from day trading to swing trading and making money.
It is from these experiences that Ashton is willing to help his audience via Instagram, Tik Tok, and now his chatroom to learn how to swing trade and make money.
If you'd like to check him out, you can find him here:
- Tik Tok
Charlie Mar is a value investor who enjoys analyzing companies to the full extent before investing in them. Instead of having a large portfolio of companies that day traders typically have, he only has a handful with his strategy.
Charlie makes a large sum of money when his investments go right, but it wasn't always like that. Before value investing he was losing a lot of money with day trading. Instead of quitting, he continued to do his homework to find a way to make a profit.
If you would like to check him out, you can find him here:
- Tik Tok
- Youtube
- Website
- Podcast
Peter Pru has multiple brands such as Ecommerce Empire Builders and Untapped Focus.
He has built and scaled multiple 6-7 figure businesses across multiple industries.
The majority of his sales on his online businesses have come from the mastery of Clickfunnels. In fact, he has been awarded multiple Clickfunnels 2-Comma Club awards.
If you would like to check him out, you can find him here!
- Tik Tok
- Youtube
Austin Glanzer is an entrepreneur, real estate investor, and content creator with the goal of helping people invest in real estate.
Austin has always been an entrepreneurial individual. One of his biggest breakthrough in his teenage years was when he and another partner created a T-shirt business. They've been operating for a couple of years until college and have processed hundreds of orders!
The business experience taught Austin a lot of things before enrolling in college and working in cooperate jobs. However, like any true entrepreneur, Austin wasn't completely satisfied and ultimately decided to invest in real estate.
Over a period of time, he finally went all-in with real estate and decided to call it quits with his 9-5 job.
Austin Glanzer shares his introduction into real estate, his current portfolio, stories, and goals as an investor.
If you'd like to check him out you can find Austin here:
- Tik Tok
- Youtube
Danielle Mignone is a realtor/real estate agent in Dallas, Texas, and marketer where she promotes products for It Works! Global.
Before working on these two things she embarked in nursing school but had to cut ties with the career path. Grades and the sight of blood did not help, so she had to find another career.
During this time she was already working on promoting products and earning money selling with her social media influence. Danielle Mignone eventually moved to Dallas, Texas where she was able to get her licenses and certifications to become an official realtor and real estate agent.
If you would like to check out Danielle Mignone, you can find her here:
- Tik Tok
- Website
Margot Ettedgui is an entrepreneur, educator on mortgages/real estate, and a general manager of Triangle Companies.
Before she got a taste of mortgages and real estate, Margot wanted to work around the fashion industry in fashion merchandising. In fact, she went to college for it but realized that she had to drop out as she didn't think that the fashion industry would fulfill her ambitions and goals.
Real estate and the mortgage industry have close similarities in terms of business to fashion merchandising.
Having a close relationship with her father, who is the CEO of Triangle Companies, brought her into the business. Margot has been working there ever since, moving up the ladder to general manager and expanding the business!
Margot Ettedgui has gained a lot of experience and knowledge, which he shares on her social media platforms like Tik Tok and Instagram. It is something that the younger generation should really learn and understand.
In fact, she has joined Team Tap as a Team TAP influencer to help provide value on mortgages and financing!
If you'd like to check Margot out, you can find her here:
- Tik Tok
- Financial Triangle
Nathan DeVaughn is a designer and founder of his business DeVoCustoms where he makes custom jean shirt jackets.
He started his business in October 2016 and has made custom jackets for many celebrities, athletes, and the family members of athletes. Nathan is a huge sports fan so creating designs around that is something that he loves to do.
You have to admire the hustle Nathan DeVaughn has because he currently works a full-time job at Adidas as an Assistant Product Manager (Graphics) and has a family to take care of.
When he is done with his priorities you can find him making dope custom designs on Tik Tok for his customers. For each jacket that he makes, he devotes his complete attention to make them as happy as possible.
The customer has a huge role in making the custom jackets and Nathan makes sure that the customer experience is always 100!
Check Nathan DeVaughn here:
- Tik Tok
- Website - DevoCustoms
- Youtube
It might be fair to say that Michael Khieu is that "Tik Tok guy" making tons of entertaining and informative videos on a whole list of topics. When we scroll through our Tik Tok feed, you've probably have seen at least one or two of his videos.
He has the skill to captivate someone's attention for 15-60 seconds at a time and through that, his Tik Tok now has over 1.1 million followers.
That's the Michael Khieu we may know behind our screens, but in today's podcast episode we focus on a whole list of topics and what his goals and interests are. Some topics include politics, philosophy, branding, social media, his brands, and of course Tik Tok.
I hope you guys enjoy this podcast and get more insight into who Michael Khieu. If you'd like to check him out, you can find him here:
- Tik Tok
- His clothing brand - Oni The Workshop
Hank Pimentel is an entrepreneur who loves to reward himself with awesome experiences when he accomplishes great feats within his businesses. However, it wasn't always like that.
Hank wasn't a big fan of college so he decided to drop out and move back in with his parents. When he made that decision he took on two jobs and started to dabble with trading stocks.
One day on Youtube, he found a video on making a business with dropshipping. The idea of making a business with very little capital with Shopify amazed Hank. Ever since then, he would watch videos all night about dropshipping and Facebook ads.
Now fast forward to today and Hank Pimentel was able to scale his business to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Whenever he thinks there's an opportunity to create an online store with a cool product he would take action and go for it.
What makes him so successful compared to other dropshippers is that he tries to find strategic advantages that nobody has really come across. The idea of finding off the wall solutions or advantages is one of the key components to doing product research.
If you'd like to check out Hank Pimentel you can find him here:
- Tik Tok
- Youtube
One day Basil Khan was chilling and decided that he wanted to do something productive during his college spring break. He was looking into dropshipping and it made him curious. After examining the business model he thought that it was something he wanted to pursue.
Basil would work 12-15 hours making random online stores but never thought his products would sell initially. Nevertheless, he was hooked and continued learning more about dropshipping.
In this episode, we go over:
- Facebook ads and how it has helped with conversions
- Basil Khan's goals and ambitions as an entrepreneur
- The ups and downs Basil's personal dropshipping ventures
- What dropshipping beginners need to know that gurus don't preach
If you'd like to check up on Basil or hit him up then you can find him here:
- Tik Tok
Taylor Jones has been through the dirt. After graduating from college he had a rough time figuring out what he really wanted to do in life. During that period between graduating college and going all-in on Amazon FBA was one of the hardest.
From working as a bellboy to traveling around the world and trying to make a living by blogging, to being a yoga instructor, to a salesman, and eventually a profitable Amazon seller, Taylor never doubted himself. He thought that he was fully responsible for his trajectory in life, and he sought out for success.
Taylor is a unique entrepreneur because he has that experience of going from the bottom to the top. But what is most impressive is that he still has that ambition and hustle to never go back to those times of hardship and pain.
If you'd like to check him out, follow him here:
- Tik Tok
- Youtube
Angelo Castillo in the summer of his freshman year of college was a huge transition into entrepreneurship. After watching Gary Vee's Trash Talk videos he decided to try it out. His first item was a Lilo & Stitch Bubble Maker for $1 and sold it for $15.
From that point forward, Angelo got more into entrepreneurship, investing, marketing, and business. He also got into Amazon FBA where he sold a lot of books among other items.
If you check out his social media, you'll be able to check his progress and value on how he makes a profit by selling items online:
- Tik Tok
- Youtube
Blake Alma is the founder of Coin Hub. His brand is all about coin collecting. He has a blog, Tik Tok, and Instagram where he talks about coins and precious metals.
We learn how Blake got introduced into coins and how one can make money by collecting silver. There are so many ways to make money, but this method is definitely something very unique.
To make things clear, Blake made sure that coin collecting or investing in precious metals is a long-term investment. This is not a get quick rich scheme. He's so passionate about collectibles and coins ever since he was a kid.
That is why he is still collecting coins to this day!
Check Blake's Coin Hub out on:
- Tik Tok
- Blog
Inikeya Wilson runs her own cosmetics brand The Makeup Plug where she sells lashes, UV liners, glitters, and pigments. Her unique makeup styles as a freelancer and part-time worker at Sephora helped her experiment with new looks.
Her new ideas caught the attention of many people to the point where she decided to make a business of her own without prior business experience. In a matter of 6 months, she has been able to generate hundreds of dollars a day and scale The Makeup Plug.
One of the biggest goals that she aims for is to have her business hit 6-figures, get her own warehouse, and hire a couple of people to help operate the business. Things have gotten so busy that she often needs her husband to help package orders.
It's really cool to see her hustle and grow a cosmetics brand that she feels so passionate about!
If you'd like to check Inikeya out, you can find her on:
- Instagram (personal)
- Instagram (The Makeup Plug)
- Youtube
Errol Coleman is a swing trader who started at just the age of 18. It wasn't about making money. Instead, it was the pure excitement and process of earning a living through day trading.
The first couple of months very challenging. There have been times where he had gotten many losses, but it is from those losses alongside perseverance that made him a better trader.
Errol Coleman has also blown up on Tik Tok, has a Discord membership with over 14,000 members and counting, a Youtube channel, and a podcast where he talks with other successful entrepreneurs.
Check Errol out on:
- Tik Tok
- Youtube
- Discord --> DM Errol first
Arturo Knight is a music artist and entrepreneur. His music career started at a very early age. He's been in a couple of bands including JESSIKILL, where he currently plays with now.
Arturo dropped out of college after his first semester of college. That was the biggest decision of his life as he had to make money to support himself because he decided that he wanted to be completely independent and not move back in with his parents.
After working for someone else and helping them acquire more wealth, Arturo decided to dive into entrepreneurship and dropshipping.
As of right now, Arturo Night has dozens of businesses where he sells multiple products. He loves automation so he can manage everything and save more time.
By having a team of virtual assistants among other important members on his team, he is able to scale his businesses and think of new ideas.
Check Arturo Knight on:
- Tik Tok
- https://arturoknight.com/
Sebastian Paredes is an entrepreneur, trader, and marketer. The business that he enjoys working on the most is his digital marketing agency. He helps businesses all across the US increase their brand awareness, sales, website functionality, among other things.
Check him out on his social media:
- Tik Tok
Jon Torres is an entrepreneur, digital, and affiliate marketer. He currently has multiple affiliate marketing businesses where he is able to sell products/services for a commission.
If you would like to check out his guide on how he does check it out on his blog here.
In this podcast, he goes over how he got introduced to affiliate marketing, some of the tactics of running a successful business, and the reality of running one.
Compared to other business models, this one requires a lot more time and patience because a lot of the traffic to sell a service. Social media is a big driver to push traffic to sites, but another big element that Jon advocates is search engine optimization (SEO).
With SEO, your website or blog can be ranked high on Google which will result in more traffic. More traffic = more potential conversion = more potential commissions.
Jon Torres is in the process of making a course on affiliate marketing. He plans to go in-depth in the process of making the website from scratch, producing content, and finding the products/services to sell. The date of his course is TBD. Check out his blog if you'd like to learn more.
Check Jon out on:
- https://jontorres.com/
- Tik Tok
- Youtube
Taylor Price is a Gen-Z entrepreneur, investor, CEO & Founder of TAP Intuit.
TAP Intuit is a financial education platform that provides financial literacy to students so they can take control of their personal finances and make their money work for them.
Her educational platform first started out as a blog in 2019. Now she has scaled it with a team of young like-minded individuals who are pushing to teach students topics that schools do not prioritize.
It's really cool hearing how Taylor was able to scale and her business so rapidly and create a community of people who want to take control of their personal finances.
Check Taylor Price out on:
- Tik Tok
- Youtube
Look more into TAP Intuit:
- Trainings Hub
We talk with Camilo Vasquez about our favorite podcasts such as:
- The Joe Rogan Experience (talks with highly talented and intellectual individuals)
- The Tim Ferriss Show (talks with highly talented and intellectual individuals)
- The Gary Vee Audio Experience (entrepreneurship, motivation, and business talk)
- How I Built This (learn the stories of how businesses were made)
- WSJ Tech News Briefing (a fast way to catch up on the tech news)
- The How My Wife Quit Her Job Podcast (e-Commerce tips, advice, and businesses)
- Planet Money (talking about money, economics, business, etc)
- Land Of The Giants (a series of stories on big companies like Netflix and Amazon)
- StarTalk with Neil Degrasse Tyson (learn about science, physics, and the universe)
- Shopify Masters (e-Commerce tips, advice, and businesses)
- Smart Passive Income w/ Patt Flynn (e-Commerce tips, advice, making money, and businesses)
Humphrey Yang provides a lot of value on personal finance and investing through his Youtube channel and social media accounts. We've asked him multiple questions about investing in the stock market, day trading, businesses, and about having multiple sources of income.
In this episode, he briefly goes over his poster business that generated $1.7 million in revenue with his business partner!
Humphrey does plan to create his own poster business called "Map Your Night" which he is currently working on.
Check out Humphrey on:
- Youtube
- Tik Tok
Skylar Cunningham is a graphic designer, entrepreneur, videographer, and a college student. She has two businesses:
- SkylarGrace Co.
- Skylar Cunningham Videography
In April 2020, she started SkylarGrace Co. but at the start, she started an Instagram page where she would publish her graphic design creations. In fact, in order to make a little money, she would turn people's photos into digital art.
Skylar decided to start an Etsy shop because she was doing really well on Instagram. Creating and selling stickers on Etsy was another product she decided to work on.
As she started to expand, she decided to make her own official online shop to add more new designs and products. One of the key reasons why she started to scale up so fast was because of Tik Tok.
Some of her Tik Tok videos went viral! Soon afterward, her following rapidly increased and so were her orders on her shop!
Check Skylar and SklarGrace Co. on:
- Instagram (Skylar)
- Instagram (SkylarGrace Co.)
- Tik Tok
Eddy Soto AKA "Fade" is an East Coast Hip-Hop artist currently living in Stamford, CT. We talk about his start in music, his influences, and how far he'd like to take his music career.
Like entrepreneurship, becoming an artist is no easy task. There are so many talented artists like Fade, but what makes him uniquely different is his exposure to different cultures and scenes. His family is from the beautiful country of El Salvador. Before moving to Connecticut, Fade lived in California and Georgia.
Having being exposed to different environments, Fade has been able to use different ingredients of music and hone them into his own style.
Even though Fade is making music as a hobby, he still has ambitions of outputting more projects. As of this moment, he currently makes music with his group, YBL.
Check Fade out on social and his features:
- https://soundcloud.com/yblmiro/sets/cloud-9/s-NwB82
There is so many entrepreneurship, investing, and personal development type of books. In this conversation Camilo Vasquez goes over two of his favorite books:
- The Richest Man In Babylon
- I'll Teach You To Be Rich
He believes that these books helped him build some of his personal finance fundamentals.
Check Camilo out on:
Hip-Hop and sports culture are huge in the United States and across the globe. Reagan Harrell launched his fashion brand, Goat Fashion, that represents exactly that.
What was so awesome about this talk with Reagan was that we went over his business:
- How did he come up with his brand? His logo?
- Where does he outsource his products with no overhead?
- How he markets and brands Goat Fashion
Not too many founders or CEOs are very open about their business like Reagan is. He provides a ton of value on his business that can potentially help anyone working on their own.
It's going to be very exciting to see how he goes forward with his brand as he just launched in June 2020. Check out his dope collection from Goat Fashion and social media:
- Goat Fashion
Follow Reagan's process and lifestyle on his social:
Collin Castrina was always an entrepreneurial type of person. He's created many businesses where some have failed and others have succeeded. It was through early exposure and failures of starting businesses that made him a better entrepreneur overall.
There are so many markets and solutions that entrepreneurs can explore. A new business that Collin and his team are cooking up is "Platform Pros". It launches on August 1, 2020, and its focus is to help entrepreneurs launch books. Entrepreneurs who are legit through the lens of the Platform Pros team will have the opportunity to launch books.
It is going to be really exciting to see how Collin and his team do with this unique business. If you'd like to check out his social media you can check him out here:
- Tik Tok
Who remembers the huge cryptocurrency hype back in 2017? So many people were pouring in money to try to 5X or even 10X their initial investment. To be fair a lot of people got rich overnight, but the majority of people lost.
Camilo Vasquez was fixed on the crazy cryptocurrency opportunity in 2017 that he decided to invest $1,000. He explained how he did his due diligence in picking out his coins, but he was still very inexperienced and foolish to dive in right away.
Looking back he thinks he would have been better off he put his money in a Roth IRA. The investment is a long-term one and definitely a more conservative move.
We live and we learn :)
Monica Silva is a teenage entrepreneur who started her own cosmetics brand, Audacity Cosmetics, from the ground up.
Starting a cosmetics brand from scratch was very challenging as Monica had to:
- File for an LLC
- Get licensing to make and sell cosmetics products
- Work on the marketing and branding of the business
- Making cosmetics products such as her popular lip gloss
Being the face of the brand, she was able to obtain a large fan base through Tik Tok. People love to see how she makes her lip gloss products, packages her products, and ships them out to her happy customers :)
The authenticity of her brand has allowed her to help other aspiring entrepreneurs achieve the level of success she has. Monica hosts virtual meetings that help people make their own income. Tons of fans would DM her to ask for help or advice on starting a business, and due to her nature of wanting to help people, she provided this awesome opportunity.
If you guys would like to check out her content you can follow her here:
- Tik Tok
- Youtube
- Audacity Cosmetics
Jesus Corona came from humble beginnings as he and his family moved from Mexico to the US. His parents believed in the "American Dream" so that their son, Jesus, can receive a proper education and start a respectable career. However, Jesus had more ambitious ideas of his own.
In elementary school, Jesus had some entrepreneurship DNA as he sold candy to his classmates. Another business venture that he tackled as he got older was dropshipping where he was able to scale his business to $10,000/month in profits. Unfortunately, things got very tricky with dropshipping so he had the opportunity to dive into Tik Tok later on.
After dabbling with Tik Tok for 3-4 months he was getting millions of views and hundreds of thousands of followers! One day he decided to message a very successful entrepreneur who he knew very well to help him start and grow his very own Tik Tok account for free. The result? The very first video that Jesus helped him make had 10 million views! Jesus was on to something!
Helping people grow on Tik Tok and monetize it is what Jesus specializes in. He has multiple clients and students where he provides the expertise to help them grow and make money off their respective accounts.
If you'd like to see his content, his social, or Tik Tok class...check him out here:
- Tik Tok
- Tik Tok Course
Shayla Terkalas has a brand, How to Grow on Tik Tok, which helps people increase their awareness on the wildly popular platform, Tik Tok.
She has provided tons of value for anyone who has taken her tips and tricks on Tik Tok. Her clients are happy to consult with her on strategies to grow their respective accounts.
If you'd like to learn more about Shayla and her brand you can check her out here:
- Tik Tok
- Instagram (Brand)
- Instagram (personal)
- Facebook Group
Andres Vasquez interviews Camilo Vasquez about the basic question of investing like what is a brokerage? Which one should new investors pick?
Camilo goes over how he automates his investments and saving accounts. Automating everything will make your investing workflow much more efficient as it allows you to focus on the pure investments instead of the tedious processes of transferring from one account to another.
Check us out on:
- Blog: http://www.getthebaglife.com/
- Instagram: @gethebaglife
- Twitter: @Gethebaglife
- LinkedIn: Get The Bag Life
- Tik Tok: @getthebaglife
Andres interviews his brother Camilo Vasquez about his next step after paying out his student loans in full.
Camilo didn't really have a plan but he has started the process of opening savings accounts and a brokerage to invest in his Roth IRA.
Tune into the journey of how Camilo budgets his money and plans to invest.
List of Books/Videos mentioned:
- I Will Teach You to Be Rich
- Our Rich Journey
Andres Vasquez from Get The Bag Life talks to Oliver Dominguez about his day trading journey.
Day trading is something that is extremely difficult as he has lost money but is slowly getting back up with a little bit of patience, persistence, and strategy.
We had a little set back this week, but not something to worry about too much. Trying to make a team to amplify the Just Retro Waves brand has been challenging so far. Finding friends/family who you can trust, share your vision, and teach them on how to create content for all our social media platforms is not so intuitive as we thought.
Fiverr sent us a 2nd violation for not writing a descriptive job request, and this a little worrying because it will suck to be banned from this really cool service.
Nevertheless, we are communicating with our new team members and sharing the vision with them. In a couple of weeks time, we hope to be more established and creating more content at scale :)
Check our Print on Demand brand progress:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justretrowaves/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JustRetroWaves/
Tik Tok: @Justretrowaves
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JustRetroWaves
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/64652798/
Shop: https://www.justretrowaves.com/
Victor Sanchez is a young, easy to talk guy. He currently runs two businesses, Kiovic and FVL entertainment in Stamford,CT. In this podcast, we talk about his digital marketing company, Kiovic, and how he first started working with local businesses in Stamford.
FVL entertainment is a production organization that produces music videos and implements digital marketing strategies to maximize exposure and results for music artists.
Ruan Marinho is the founder of an established internet marketing company, DeveloMark, based in Southington, CT. His business helps other businesses build predictable systems to get new customers.
After going to college and working in sales, he managed to start his business from scratch with the help of online courses. Ruan was able to pull himself out of a hole after a crisis by deciding to take a chance of creating his own internet marketing company. The chance has paid off in the span of 30 months as Ruan has been making a killing with Develomark. In 2019, Ruan and his team generated about $700k in revenue, and are expecting to reach the million-dollar mark in 2020. He was also featured on Fox and has 89k subscribers on his popular youtube channel.
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Camilo Vasquez fell into the student debt trap thousands of young kids fall into. It wasn't that college was a bad investment. It was just that he simply wanted to get the hell out of his hometown, Stamford, and go to another state. Looking back, Camilo thinks that maybe staying into his home state to save money or pursuing another venture rather than racking up about $100k in student loans was best.
Camilo shares his story of how ignorant he was about his student debt but was ultimately able to see his way out after years of hard work and determination.
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I sat down with Danny Aguilar who is passionate about making films. One may think that people are in the movie industry to make it into the big screens, but for Danny, he has a different motive. For him, it is all about capturing a feeling and expressing that through film.
This episode brings value to anyone trying or thinking about working in the movie industry as well as anyone trying to find their true passion in life.
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Carlos Fajardo is a young self-made millionaire from Stamford, CT. In middle school and high school, he hustled to make money. One of his first businesses in his early days was to burn songs into CDs and sell them to people who wanted a custom mix. Carlos is technology-driven and with his computer skills, he would fix people's computers that had viruses and things of that sort.
During Carlos' Senior year at the University of Connecticut, he got a summer internship doing actuary science for an insurance company. He absolutely hated it. He wanted out because he did not want to be trapped in a 9-5 job. Having to work in a cubicle like a slave for the next 40 years was not in his plans.
That same summer, Carlos dabbled with Instagram when it was extremely new, and not what it is today. He learned how to buy, sell, and flip pages to make money. Having gotten scammed or making his money back in a couple of investments on Instagram, he decided to make a page of his own. A funny video meme page. His pioneering idea of publishing funny footage from the internet directly from his phone ultimately made him millions.
Gareyng CastroDelRio is a humble guy who moved to the United States from Colombia at the age of 11. He takes his bike everywhere he goes, and enjoys riding it around the urban town of Stamford, CT. Riding his bike became an absolute necessity after he got his first job in Greenwich, which was 8 miles away from his home. Not having a car or efficient access to a train or bus to work, he was forced to learn how to ride a bike and get to work promptly.
After a period of time with his bike as his main form of transport, he decided that he was happy with this simple vehicle that takes you from point A to point B. Gareyng does not have a driver's license because he has no need for a car. He currently owns two bicycles and a moped.
He is a happy and simple guy who loves biking and has a passion for teaching.
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Frank Miharbi was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone and moved to Stamford, CT at the age of 16. With his roots and background, he adds a unique flavor to the music industry in the rising town of Stamford near the Big Apple.
In this podcast episode, Andres and Frank talk about Frank's roots in Sierra Leone, how he got into music, current and future projects, the music industry, personal branding, and most importantly...making a positive impact to his home country Sierra Leone with his music.
Frank's story is unique and worth taking note of. We can all learn from his journey of making it big in music and trying to generate a positive impact.
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Sound Cloud | https://soundcloud.com/frank-miharbi
Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/artist/0HN3BhaIhaXcKWnKZ4NCJM
Youtube | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxHLKpwI0DYg0dYn17DDV1g
iHeart Radio | https://www.iheart.com/artist/frank-miharbi-32057996/?autoplay=true
Deezer https://www.deezer.com/us/album/104573932?autoplay=true
Play Music| https://play.google.com/music/preview/Av63kdaplfeqc3pfmknu2ha3z6m?play=1
Frank Miharbi Social LinksFacebook | https://www.facebook.com/frank.miharbi.9
Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/frank_miharbi/
Twitter | https://twitter.com/Frankmiharbi
Oliver Hoyos Dominguez, 28, is a hard-working individual with 2 jobs at the moment. He has an entrepreneurial mindset and aims to be more financially independent with his business ideas and endeavors. Outside of work, he creates content at Generational Waves with Andres as the content creator. His favorite topics are business, personal development, and health.
In this episode, Andres and Oliver talk about making money in the short term by selling products on eBay. Oliver's journey into selling on eBay lasted about a year, where he generated $2,000 net profit over a 6 month period. He explains the hardships of selling on eBay, how he ran the numbers, the time commitment, the process of how he bought and sold products, and his funny story on how he almost got arrested for selling a stolen Microsoft Surface Pro.
Jonathan Boiteux (guest) and Andres (host) talk about debt, mistakes made in the 2010 - 2020 decade, side hustles, poker, and random facts.
Even though Jonathan does not have a huge influential following on Instagram and Facebook, he does have helpful insights on finance and lifestyle. Jonathan (Jon) was able to secure his first bedroom apartment in his early twenties with a goal of saving enough money for a home by 2030. It is fair to say that many people will like to be more independent by living in their own proper space, but with so much debt that college students are collecting it is a challenge.
We interview Andrew Switz of RopaNa, which is a CBD business based in Vermont. Andrew works with his spouse and partner Rachel Henne. RopaNa is a Sanskrit word that means “to heal oneself” and they aim to help people do just that with their holistic CBD products and educational services.
Andrew and Rachel travel across New England to educate people on CBD and its benefits. Take a look at their products and educational content!
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In this episode, we hear about Andrew's trip to Nepal, RopaNa, his CBD products and services, and the challenges of marketing CBD. Enjoy!
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