The My Wife Quit Her Job Podcast With Steve Chou

The MyWifeQuitHerJob podcast is a podcast about entrepreneurs who quit their jobs to start successful online businesses.

Through a series of personal interviews, Steve uncovers the exact strategies that led to their success.

Unlike other business podcasts, Steve is known for digging deep and extracting out every last detail.

He's never afraid to ask the hard questions and he leverages his extensive knowledge running his two 7 figure businesses to get to the point.

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149: How To Make 6 Figures Selling Jewelry Online With Tracy Matthews

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Today, I’m thrilled to have Tracy Matthews on the show. Tracy is someone who I was introduced to by Andreea Ayers and she runs the popular site Flourish Thrive Academy where she teaches others how to sell jewelry online. Tracy has a ton of experience in this area and her jewelry line was sold in over 350 retail outlets all over the globe (ABC home, Sundance Catalog, Bloomingdales, Anthro) and she’s been featured in many magazines like Real Simple, InStyle And lucky magazine. Anyway, since Tracy specializes in jewelry sales I am very eager to pick her brain on tactics […]

148: How We Grew Our Ecommerce Store By 22% In 2016 With Steve Chou

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148: How We Grew Our Ecommerce Business By 22% In 2016 With Steve Chou

My wife just closed the books on BumblebeeLinens.com for 2016 and I’m happy to say that we had another year of double digit growth. In this episode, I go over in detail how we grew and what’s in store for 2017. What You’ll Learn Why it was a tough year for my shop Our revenue and profit numbers for the year The main contributors to growth for 2016 Why conversion optimization is so important Why you need to keep an open mind The importance of a mastermind group Other Resources And Books Sellers Summit BumblebeeLinens.com Sponsors Klaviyo.com – Klaviyo is […]

147: How I Made Over One Million Dollars Blogging In 2016 With Steve Chou

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My wife just closed the books on MyWifeQuitHerJob.com for 2016 and I’m happy to say that I hit 2 major milestones this past year. In this episode, I go over in detail how I managed to make over a million dollars blogging and what’s in store for 2017. What You’ll Learn The 2 milestones I hit this year Why I decided to quit my job Why it was so hard for me to quit The income report for my blog How I hit the million dollar mark this year My Facebook ads strategy Should you start a blog or an […]

146: How To Grow From A Company Of 1 To A Company of 1000 With Michael Gerber Of E-Myth

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Today, I’ve got an extra special guest on the show. He’s an author who I’ve followed ever since I started my first business. He is an amazing speaker, author, and business consultant who has coached more entrepreneurs than anyone I can think of. His book the EMyth Revisited is considered required reading for anyone wanting to build a business of their own and changed my way of thinking about small business. He’s the founder of the dreaming room, a 3 month program that introduces you to a new way of thinking about entrepreneurship. Now if you don’t recognize who I’m […]

145: How To Make 6 Figures With Network Marketing (MLM) With Rachel Holland

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Today I’m really happy to have Rachel Holland on the show. Rachel is someone who I was introduced to by a friend and she is killing it in the network marketing space. Rachel runs the popular site Surviving The Stores where she teaches others how to save money and live healthy on a budget. She and her husband Ryan run the site together and have turned it into a huge resource. Anyway up until this point, I have not had anyone doing network marketing before on the podcast and I’m very curious how it works. Enjoy the interview! What You’ll […]

144: How To Make 6 Figures Teaching People About Rideshare Services With Harry Campbell

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How To Make 6 Figures Teaching People About Rideshare Services With Harry Campbell Of TheRideShareGuy

Today I’m thrilled to have Harry Campbell on the show. Harry is someone who I just met at the financial blogging conference in San Diego and we actually met playing basketball. A few conversations later and I knew that I wanted to have him on the podcast. Harry has an interesting story. He started his site TheRideShareGuy.com in 2014 when he was a full time aerospace engineer and part time Uber and Lyft driver. And seeing as how ride share services were starting to take off, he decided to create the ultimate ride sharing resource. Today, Harry has quit his […]

142: How My Student Jen Makes 6 Figures Selling Shower Curtains Online

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Jen DePaoli is a student in my Create A Profitable Online Store Course and I’m really happy to have her on the show today. Jen runs ShowerCurtainHQ.com where she sells shower curtains online. What I love about Jen is that she hustles, she’s constantly finding new ways to expand her business and she’s not afraid to try a variety of different business models. Just like the other student interviews that I’ve conducted, this podcast provides a very realistic, in the trenches account of someone who just started their online store. Enjoy the interview as there are a lot of details […]

141: Ryan Deiss On How To Launch An 8 Figure Ecommerce Brand

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Today, I’m happy to have Ryan Deiss on the show. Now I’ve actually been following Ryan for quite some time. He is the founder and CEO of Digital Marketer and over the last 3 years, he’s invested over 15 million on marketing tests, generated tens of millions of visitors and sent over a billion emails. He is an expert when it comes to online marketing and brand building. He runs a major conference called Traffic and Conversions every year. And he recently started a new conference called Content And Commerce which I attended in Florida. Today, he’s going to teach […]

140: How To Bootstrap A 7 Figure Webinar Software Company With Omar Zenhom Of Webinar Ninja

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140: How To Bootstrap A 7 Figure Webinar Software Company With Omar Zenholm Of Webinar Ninja

Today, I’m really happy to have Omar Zenhom back on the show. Now Omar is someone who I met at a private mastermind meeting led by John Corcoran and he was actually a guest on the show already back in episode 88 when we talked about his award winning podcast, the $100 MBA. But along with his podcast, he’s been working on another project, Webinar Ninja, which is a software company that he founded last year which is already doing 7 figures. What’s also cool is that this project was self funded. If you follow my blog, you’re probably aware […]

139: How To Make 7 Figures Selling T-Shirts Online With Kevin Stecko

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Kevin Stecko is someone who I met at an ecommerce mastermind retreat earlier in the year. And as luck would have it, I got stuck on a ski lift with the guy and we were forced to chat. Anyway, Kevin runs an awesome site called 80stees.com where he sells tshirts from the 80s. I was on the site the other day and it brought back memories of youth. In fact, I used to watch Robotech when I was a kid and I was pleasantly surprised to find Robotech t-shirts! How cool is that? (my wife is shaking her head) Kevin […]

137: How To Get Free Traffic And Sales To An Ecommerce Store With Neil Patel

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Today, I’m excited to have the Neil Patel on the show. I’ve actually been following Neil for quite some time. In fact, I remember when I first discovered him back in 2008, I dropped him a comment on his main blog which was QuickSprout at the time. In fact, just for fun I actually went back through my archives to check. I emailed him on September 19, 2008 about his post on 10 timeless business tips. And he replied in like 10 seconds, checked out my blog and actually gave me some tips. Anyway, Neil is the founder of many […]

136: How To Sell An Online Business And Why Spencer Haws Sold Long Tail Pro

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Today I’m thrilled to have Spencer Haws back on the show. If you don’t remember him from Episode 54, Spencer runs the popular blog NichePursuits.com where he teaches others how to start niche online businesses. He was one of the speakers at the Sellers Summit talking about SEO. He’s also the creator of Long Tail Pro which is one of the best keyword research tools on the market today. But recently, he decided to sell that business and being the nosy guy that I am, I wanted all the details. Enjoy the show! What You’ll Learn Why Spencer decided to […]

135: How To Buy A Company And Use Amazon To Triple Your Profit With Dana Jaunzemis

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135: How To Buy A Company And Triple The Profit On Amazon With Dana Jaunzemis

Today I’m really excited to have Dana Jaunzemis back on the show. Dana is someone who I met through Andrew Youderian and she’s actually in a private group that I meet with on a semi monthly basis. If you don’t remember Dana, I had her on episode 85 of the podcast where we discussed her strategies for acquiring and growing existing businesses. Well since that interview Dana has acquired yet another company and we’re going to talk about how she’s already doubled its revenues. In addition, she was lucky enough to attend Amazon’s womens conference last month which we discuss […]

134: Email Marketing Best Practices For Small Companies With Susan Su

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Email Marketing Best Practices For A Small Company With Susan Su

Today I’m excited to have Susan Su on the show. Susan has worked with a bunch of well known entrepreneurs including Ramit Sethi of I Will Teach You To Be Rich and Noah Kagan of AppSumo. She has a ton of experience with email and content marketing specifically targeting small businesses and is a partner at 500 Startups today. Enjoy the interview! What You’ll Learn How to break through the noise given the average person gets 500 marketing emails per month Best practices for improving the open and click through rate Copywriting tips for maximum engagement How to improve the […]