Ecommerce Paradise: Recent Episodes

Trevor James

A daily eCommerce podcast with tips for starting, growing and outsourcing your eCommerce drop shipping business so you can live the life of your dreams.

This is a guest podcast about email marketing for e-commerce with Jon Warren of EasyEcommerceWins.com

Jon is the VP Marketing & Digital Strategy at Easy Ecommerce Wins. Jon started his ecommerce journey as a way to escape the 9 to 5 grind and never looked back. Bitten by the e-com bug Jon has sold everything from home lighting to streetwear online and even grown his own ecommerce marketing agency. Jon is passionate about helping ecommerce business owners find the freedom that he enjoys.

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In this episode, I talk about what I learned listening to Neil Patel’s talk at the AWA 2017 conference in Bangkok, Thailand.

Are you prepared to make some big changes in your life? Becoming an ecommerce professional is no small feat. In this episode, I discuss all the lifestyle changes and sacrifices you’ll need to make to reach financial independence.

Are you wondering if you can make a living with eCommerce?

Ecommerce is a multi-trillion dollar per year industry (credit: https://www.emarketer.com/Article/Worldwide-Retail-Ecommerce-Sales-Will-Reach-1915-Trillion-This-Year/1014369)

The one thing the big sites like Amazon and Walmart will never have is expertise in one product line

The best place to buy expensive products is a niche-specific site because you are dealing with experts

Anybody who has a computer, an internet connection, and a credit card can start a niche site

Building a site is the hard part and can take a long time to optimize for conversions, but driving targeted [...]

Have you ever thought about what your life would be like if you would have been doing what you know about now 5-10 years ago? In this episode, I talk about the 7 things I wish I would have been doing when I first started with ecommerce 7 years ago.

It was incredible to get to have Ecommerce giant Earnest Epps on the podcast! Earnest is the man behind Built To Sell and the Clarity with Commerce live events.

In the interview we discuss what lead him to where he is now as well as his best tips on conversion optimization, choosing the right products to sell online, and the secrets to getting drop ship suppliers to give you a dealer account.

Take notes because this episode is full of value bombs!

You can find Earnest here: Http://www.earnestepps.com Https://www.builttosell.us Https://www.claritywithcommerce.com

The first day of the Affiliate World Asia 2017 conference was incredible. I got so much value from the speakers and got to meet up with my mentor and friend Earnest Epps. In this podcast, I talk about what my key takeaways were.

You can learn more about Earnest here: www.EarnestEpps.com

The biggest asset you can build is your brand. This means your businesses character. In this video, I discuss ways to build a brand that stands out from the pack.

It’s super important to separate your personal finances from your business finances so you can do your bookkeeping and accounting with ease. There are some legal ramifications if you don’t, especially if you have an LLC.

It’s important to understand the foundations of a successful ecommerce business. They aren’t just products and traffic. If you really want to build a sustainable long-term business, you need to focus on content marketing, email marketing, and paid traffic as an entire sales funnel.

The truth is that ecommerce isn’t easy. It’s an awesome lifestyle, sure, but it takes a lot of heads-down work. In this episode, I go over what it took me to go from nothing to a full-time income online.

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Setting a goal is the process of planning your achievements. You need to plan your goals, milestones, and achievements so you can reward yourself consistently.

Depending on how much money or how many assets you have, you have a few choices

If you don’t have much money or any assets, you can start as a sole proprietor.

You can start easily and cheaply, but you are going to be personally liable for any business debts.

If you have lots of money or a house, large brokerage account, or another investment asset, you should consider an LLC taxed as a sole-proprietor or taxed as an s-corp.

LLC is the easiest protected business structure to form and still protects you from being sued for business debts.

You need to make some important mindset switches before you start an ecommerce business. In this episode, I go over what those are.

If you’re struggling to finish what you start, you’re not alone.

Entrepreneurs all have one thing in common, their Achilles heel: the next shiny object.

Before you get whisked away by what you think is “the next big thing,” consider finishing your last project first.

Show notes:

Do your research!
Plan everything out!
Take action every day, baby steps!
Have a deadline
Have a reward like a vacation or excursion to celebrate finishing your project
Be prepared for the next steps and daily tasks for marketing and promotions
Create a system you can outsource

This is a great episode to listen to no matter which stage of your journey that you’re in because, no matter what, the fundamentals are what matter the most.

Here are the show notes:

A niche isn’t just a line of products, its a segment of people. Those people have many different needs and desires. But, you do need to super focus your niche in order to start.
Getting suppliers is as easy as making a phone call. You are working with other entrepreneurs. You’re talking to people who are business owners. Have fun with it.
Building a full website and sales funnel includes many moving pieces. There are lots of little things you can do to improve your site, so make sure you do all of them to ensure the best likelihood of converting leads into customers.
1. Social proof
2. Scarcity/urgency
3. Trust
4. Risk revers [...]

In this episode, we sit down to talk with Alain Walder about his journey to becoming a location independent entrepreneur and all the crazy adventures along the way.

Have you been working non-stop on your eCommerce business for over a week and getting burnt out?

In this episode, I talk about why you need to unplug from the web and how it helps with scaling your e-commerce business.

Show notes:

Clear your mind and meditate
Digest all the information you’re learning
Talk with people about your ideas and get some more ideas from them
Enjoy your life and do the things you wanted to do when you first started out on this journey
Observe the marketing messages around you all day long like advertisements, and hack the great ones to figure out what makes them so great and how you can replicate their greatness in your own ads.
When you come back to your business, you’ll be fired up to grow it more
You will have more ideas to experiment with.

Do you want to make a real difference in the world by being an entrepreneur?

You’re not alone. Almost every entrepreneur begins because of a burning desire to help others.

In this episode, we talk about our mission to provide jobs to people in the Philippines and India by outsourcing.

In this episode, I sit down with Patrick Farrell to talk about his journey to becoming a digital nomad. His story involves zig-zagging across the world, helping 4-5 star resorts get amazing pictures of their hotels while enjoying week-long stays for free, meeting awesome people and networking with people who would help him get to the next level in life.

This is the perfect podcast for anybody thinking about becoming a location independent entrepreneur but not sure if you want to make the leap yet.

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