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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124: How To Prevent Your Amazon Account From Getting Suspended With Cynthia Stine

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Today I’m thrilled to have Cynthia Stine on the show. Cynthia is someone I met at the Import Summit last year and she runs a site called OnlineSalesStepByStep.com where she offers a variety of very unique services related to Amazon. She’s has worked with hundreds of Amazon sellers over the years and she specializes in helping companies get out of the Amazon penalty box. If you’re ever suspended, Cynthia will help you get unsuspended. If a dirty seller is purposely trying to sabotage you, Cynthia can help. If want to know all of the tips and tricks on how to keep […]

123: How To Raise 9.1 Million Dollars On KickStarter With Zach Smith Of Funded Today

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Today I’m thrilled to have a very special guest on the show, Zach Smith. Zach is the founder of a company called Funded Today and he’s helped hundreds of startups achieve success with their crowd funding campaigns. For example, he helped raise over 9.1 million to launch the popular travel jacket from Baubax. And chances are if you are on Facebook, you probably saw an ad for it because it was a pretty cool product. In fact, this jacket became the most funded clothing project in the history of crowdfunding and one of the top 5 most successful Kickstarters of […]

122: How To Make 600K Selling T-Shirts On TeeSpring With Derek Pankaew

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Today I’m happy to have Derek Pankaew on the show. Derek is someone who I met at the Ecommerce Fuel Live conference and it was pretty random how we started talking. I was sitting directly behind him during a session and I couldn’t help but peek at his screen. And I found that the screen saver on his computer was a running count of his age. I took notice and we started chatting. And as luck would have it, Derek was selling t-shirts at the time and making a killing doing it. Now if you’ve followed my blog for a […]

121: How To Start A Successful Ecommerce Conference On Your First Try With Steve Chou And Toni Anderson

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Today’s episode is a little different in that I’m not interviewing anyone on the show. Instead, I brought in my partner Toni Anderson to talk about how we launched The Sellers Summit, our ecommerce learning conference! This was my first event ever and I discuss all of the little things that were involved in planning and running the event. If you plan on launching your own conference someday, our mistakes and successes may help you out! I really loved every minute and I met so many new awesome people as well. Right now, we are selling virtual passes to the […]

120: How To Rank In Amazon And The Right Way To Solicit Reviews With Jeff Cohen of Seller Labs

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How To Rank In Amazon And Get Legit Reviews With Jeff Cohen of Seller Labs

Today I’m thrilled to have Jeff Cohen on the show. Jeff is someone I met at the Import Summit last year and he’s the director of business management over at Seller Labs. Chances are if you are selling on Amazon, you’re probably using one of their awesome tools. For example, Feedback Genius which is a tool I use heavily, is a must have tool that automates the acquisition of customer reviews. And they have other awesome tools like Snag Shout which help you gather additional reviews and discover profitable products to sell on Amazon. All of these tools have tens […]

119: How To Create A 7 Figure Ecommerce Store In Just 4 Months Selling Coloring Books Online

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Today, I’m thrilled to have Michael Jackness on the show. Mike is someone who I met on a recent ecommerce mastermind trip and after hearing about his successes, I knew that I had to have him on the show. Mike runs a bunch of ecommerce websites which include Icewraps.com, CuttingBoard.com, ColorIt.com. And he also runs his own business blog at EcomCrew.com Anyway Mike is a gold mine of information and what I like about him is that he’s constantly trying new strategies to boost sales. For example, his most recent store ColorIt.com is only 4 months old and is on […]

118: How To Transition From Amazon To Your Own Ecommerce Store With Kurt Elster

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Today, I’m thrilled to have Kurt Elster on the show. Kurt was introduced to me by my good friend Nick Loper who I had back on episode 80 of the podcast. Kurt runs EtherCycle.com where he helps private label sellers launch their own ecommerce websites. Specifically, he’s a Shopify platform expert who helps Shopify users uncover hotspots in their designs to improve their conversion rate. Anyway, I’m a firm believer you really need to own your own platform in addition to Amazon which is why I brought Kurt on the show today to discuss the transition. What You’ll Learn How […]

117: How To Create A 20M Dollar Company With Only 2 Employees Selling Vacuum Filters With Chad Rubin

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How To Make 20 Million Per Year With Only 2 Employees Selling Physical Products Online With Chad Rubin

Today I have Chad Rubin with me on the show. Chad is an ecommerce veteran who has been selling online for quite some time. He’s the founder of Crucial Vacuum which is a company that is worth 20 million dollars with only 2 employees. He’s also the creator of Skubana which is software that will pretty much manage your entire ecommerce operation. What You’ll Learn How Chad got into ecommerce and why he decided to sell vacuum filters. The challenges of selling on his own site. How he exponentially grew his business by leveraging other marketplaces. How he established a […]

116: How To Rank Any Website In Search With Brian Dean Of Backlinko

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Today, I’m thrilled to have Brian Dean on the show. Brian runs the incredibly awesome site Backlinko.com where he teaches others how to get their sites ranked in search. And unlike other SEO gurus out there who make ridiculous claims, Brian totally walks the talk. He’s got an amazing array of articles (and by array I mean 30 or so) that go into incredible depth and he ranks for super competitive keyword terms on the front page of search. For example, just now, I typed in “how to generate backlinks” and guess who popped up? Now I actually have never […]

115: How Ankur Created Teachable, An Easy To Use Platform To Create And Sell Online Courses

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Today, I’m really happy to have Ankur Nagpal on the show. I met Ankur after being introduced to him by my buddy Jeff Rose who recently started his own online course. Anyway Ankur runs the company Teachable.com which is a platform that allows you to create your own digital courses online without any technical hassles whatsoever. If you’re into ecommerce, you can think of them like a Shopify or a Big Commerce except for digital courses. Anyway, since I make a lot of money off of selling digital courses online, I thought that I’d bring in Ankur today to talk […]

114: The Right Way To Outsource And Scale Your Business With Chris Ducker

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Today I’m happy to have my buddy Chris Ducker on the show. Chris is someone who I met at FinCon a few years back and we got a chance to hang out while we were there. If you don’t know Chris, he is the CEO of VirtualStaffFinder.com where he helps business owners get matched up with virtual help. He’s also the author of the popular book Virtual Freedom. In fact, as many of you probably know from mywifequitherjob.com, the blog portion of my online business doubled in the past year and I was able to hit $700,000 in revenue for […]

113: How Andrew Warner Created Mixergy And The Secrets Behind His Successful Show

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Today I have my buddy Andrew Warner on the show. I met Andrew at an entrepreneurial mastermind in San Francisco last year run by John Corcoran. And then he had me on his show Mixergy where he grilled me, asked me all sorts of tough questions, made me uncomfortable and basically tried to make me cry. Fortunately, I held it together and now it’s payback time. Anyway, I’m really excited to have him on the show because while he does a ton of interviewing of other entrepreneurs, he rarely gets interviewed himself. Enjoy! What You’ll Learn If Andrew were to […]

111: How To Make 190K In Your First 7 Months Selling Jewelry Online With Toni Anderson

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Today I’m really happy to have Toni Anderson back on the podcast. Now this is isn’t the first time I’ve had her on the show. Way back in episode39, we talked about how Toni manages to run a 6 figure blog, a conference, consult on the side and home school 7 kids. Now a lot has changed in the last year. For one thing, she decided to stop consulting and then reached out to me wanting to try opening an online store to replace the income from consulting. So she signed up for my Create A Profitable Online Store Course […]

110: How To Source Anything From China And Establish Good Vendor Relationships With Dave Bryant

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110: How To Source Anything From China And Establish Good Relationships With Dave Bryant

Today I’ve got my buddy Dave Bryant on the show. Dave and I met when he randomly reached out to me via email and we’ve kept in touch ever since. And what’s cool is that we finally met face to face at the Ecommerce Fuel conference last year. Dave runs several online stores selling boat equipment but I think his most successful site sells boat anchors of all things:) Big and heavy boat anchors that he imports from China. Talk about niche. Dave also runs the popular blog ChineseImporting.com where he teaches others how to import goods from China. He’s […]

109: How To Make 7.5 Million Per Year Selling On Amazon With Will Tjernlund

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Today I’ve got someone really special on the show, Will Tjernlund. Now I met Will at the StartupBros conference and I’m really glad that I did. He and his brother Andrew made about 7.5 million dollars from Amazon and their own stores last year making him one of the most successful Amazon sellers that I’ve had on the podcast so far. And the best part is that his business is just a 2 man operation with him and his brother. Today, we’re going to go into depth on how he got started. What You’ll Learn How Will got into ecommerce […]