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371: Little Known Ways To Make Money On Amazon With Steve Chou

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In this solo episode, I teach you 9 different ways you can make money on Amazon without spending a lot of money. You’ll learn about the upfront costs and the revenue potential for each business model to determine if it’s worth your time.

Because the Amazon marketplace is so large, there’s a huge opportunity for anyone looking to start a small side hustle or launch a full blown ecommerce business.

What You’ll Learn

The 9 different Amazon business models
The revenue potential for each business model
How to leverage Amazon’s gigantic marketplace

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370: 6M Per Year Selling Hair Extensions Without Advertising With Vivian Kaye

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Today I’m thrilled to have Vivian Kaye on the show. Vivian is the CEO of KinkyCurlyYaki, a premium textured hair extension brand for black women that grew to $6 million without paid advertising.

Not only did Vivian grow to 6 million but she did so without outside funding and bootstrapped her business from the ground up.

In this episode, Vivian teaches us the secrets behind her success and how she scaled to 7 figures without paying for ads.

What You’ll Learn

The story behind KinkyCurlyYaki.
How to grow your brand without paying for advertising.
Vivian’s social media strategy and the secret behind her success

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369: How To Get Top Dollar For Your Business, FBA Rollups & More With Joe Valley

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Today I have my friend Joe Valley on the show. Joe is the co-owner of Quiet Light brokerage which is an online brokerage firm that helps you buy and sell businesses.

I asked Joe to come on the podcast to discuss the overall online business market, how to sell your online business, the typical valuations he’s seeing, and the Amazon FBA roll-up land grab that is going on right now.

What You’ll Learn

How to get top dollar for your online business.
The typical business valuations for Amazon businesses vs owning your own website.
How to become an “exitpreneur”

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The EXITPreneur’s Playbook: How to Sell Your Online Business for Top Dollar by Reverse Engineering Your Pathway to Success

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368: What Successful Amazon Sellers Do Differently To Grow With Jeff Cohen

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Today I have my friend Jeff Cohen back on the show. Jeff is the VP of marketing over at Seller Labs which is a company that specializes in Amazon tools and services.

I use many of their tools today to run the Amazon side of my business and Jeff is one of my go-to guys when it comes to the latest Amazon policies and news.

Today we’re going to talk about the overall Amazon landscape in 2021, what lies ahead and what seasoned Amazon sellers are doing to grow their sales.

What You’ll Learn

How Amazon has changed post COVID-19
What seasoned Amazon sellers are doing to grow their sales
The latest tools to sell on Amazon

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367: How To Use Instagram DM Automation To Grow Your Sales With Natasha Takahashi

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Today I have my friend Natasha Takahashi back on the show. Natasha is the founder of the School Of Bots and she is my go to when it comes to bots and automation.

In this episode, we discuss Instagram DM automation which is going to be a huge driver of sales for ecommerce. In fact, Instagram Automation is one of the main reasons that I’m building up my Instagram account right now.

What You’ll Learn

How Instagram automation works
How to use Instagram DM automation to increase your ecommerce sales
Practical examples on how to incorporate Instagram DM automation into your marketing flow

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366: How To Use TikTok To Blow Up Your Business With Keenya Kelly

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Today, I’m thrilled to have Keenya Kelly on the show. Keenya is the CEO of If You Brand It and she helps business owners develop multi-million dollar brands.

Keenya is a TikTok and branding expert and she helped me get started on the TikTok platform. This episode was recorded about 3 months ago and since then, my TikTok account has grown to 47,000 subscribers.

Today we’re going to talk about how to use TikTok to market your business.

What You’ll Learn

How to get started on TikTok
How to use TikTok to market your business
Keenya’s background and how she built her brand on TikTok
Keenya’s strategies on how to create viral TikTok videos

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365: 1 Second Page Load Speeds And 90+ Core Web Vitals With Steve Chou

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In this episode, you’ll learn how to get a 90+ score on your Google Core Web Vitals (desktop and mobile) and achieve a sub 1 second load time for an eCommerce store even if you use a lot of plugins.

Google Core Web Vitals are a set of factors that Google incorporates into the search rankings to measure the quality of the user experience and it’s important for SEO. Enjoy!

What You’ll Learn

What Are Google Core Vitals?
How To Fix Your Large Contentful Paint (LCP) And First Input Delay (FID) Problems
How To Achieve 1 Second Page Load Speeds
How To Lazy Load Your Javascript And CSS Code

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364: 6 Figures In 10 Months With No Money Selling Ebike Kits With Claire Carpenter

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This episode is extra special because it’s about a student in my Create A Profitable Online Store course. Claire Carpenter runs a site called EasiFitEbikeKit.co.uk and she sells kits that turn regular old bikes into electric bikes.

What’s amazing about Claire’s story is that she didn’t have any money to start yet she still managed to create a 6 figure business within 10 months and she’s nearly at half a million bucks right now.

In fact, the main thing limiting her growth is raising enough capital for inventory. You’re going to love this episode because it’s about hustle, grit, and ingenuity.

What You’ll Learn

How to grow a 6 figure business within 10 months with no money
How Claire sourced her first products
How to start an e-commerce store with a low initial cash outlay

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363: How To Make Email Your #1 Revenue Source With Chase Dimond

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Today, I have my buddy Chase Dimond on the show. Chase is the co-founder of Boundless Labs which is a top email marketing agency with a focus on CBD companies.

Chase lives and breathes email, and he has helped his clients send hundreds of millions of emails resulting in over 50 million in email revenue. If your email marketing is not driving at least 20% – 30% of your total revenue for your eCommerce store, then you’re leaving money on the table.

What You’ll Learn

How to run email marketing campaigns that generate 30% of your sales
How Chase started Boundless Labs and helped his clients secure 40% – 70% open rates
How to increase your email marketing open rates and run email marketing the right way for an online store

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362: How To Grow A 7 Figure Dropshipping Business With Pat Haggerty

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Today I’m thrilled to have Pat Haggerty on the show. Many years ago, Andrew Youderian sold his dropshipping business, Right Channel Radios to Pat. And since the sale, Pat has grown Right Channel Radios significantly.

In this episode, Pat teaches us what he did to grow his sales and how he’s improved the business dramatically since Andrew owned it.

What You’ll Learn

Why Pat purchased Right Channel Radios
How Pat turned Right Channel Radios into a 7 figure dropshipping business
Pat’s primary strategy for growth

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361: How To Find What Makes You Happy (Hint: It’s Not Financial Freedom) With Steve Chou

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It’s been a solid 5 years since I resigned from my day job so I wanted to take a moment to reflect on my experiences with unemployment and how to find out what makes you happy.

In this episode, we’re going to talk about happiness in the context of your career, your business, and your life and what it takes to feel fulfilled.

What You’ll Learn

The patterns I’ve discovered with successful entrepreneurs
Why great success comes at a sacrifice
How to achieve work life balance

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360: Idiotic Mistakes We’ve All Made As Ecommerce Entrepreneurs With Kurt Elster

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Today I have my friend Kurt Elster back on the show. Kurt runs the Unofficial Shopify Podcast which is one of the few e-commerce podcasts that I listen to.

In this episode, both Kurt and I discuss the 6 most common mistakes that we’ve all made as ecommerce entrepreneurs. We talk about the stuff that almost everyone gets wrong when first starting out including myself!

What You’ll Learn

Steve’s list of boneheaded mistakes
Kurt’s running list of blunders
How to avoid making these same mistakes with your store

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359: A Deep Dive Into Content Marketing Today With Corbett Barr

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Today I’m thrilled to have Corbett Barr back on the show. For all of you who don’t remember Corbett from episode 45, he used to run a VC funded start-up, got totally burned out, and then decided start a business that suited his lifestyle.

He’s started many successful blogs and an incredible online business program called Fizzle which he has been running for almost a decade now. In this episode, we’re going to talk about the creator economy.

What You’ll Learn

How Corbett started Fizzle.co
Why creators rule the world today
Which content medium is the best to start, a blog, a YouTube channel or a podcast?

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358: The Ultimate Website Audit Checklist With Ian Cleary

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Today, I’m happy to have Ian Cleary on the show.

Ian runs RazorSocial where he helps companies with their digital marketing efforts, and today we’re going to talk about website design, content marketing, and how to do a full audit of your site for SEO and conversions.

If you own a website of any kind, then this episode will improve your online sales!

What You’ll Learn

Why Ian started RazorSocial
Ian’s ultimate website audit checklist
Common mistakes that most webmasters make

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357: When To Shut Down Your Business Or Quit Your Job With Steve Chou

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Today, I’m doing a solo episode to answer yet another question that I get asked all the time.

Steve, how do you know when to quit your job? How do you know when to move on from your business?

Well here’s my exact framework. Make sure you have a pen and paper handy before listening and please let me know what you think.

Would love to know your score!

What You’ll Learn

8 questions to ask yourself before quitting anything
When to give up and when to suck it up
How to shut down your business without any regrets

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356: The Right Way To Setup Your Website Analytics With Chris Mercer

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Today I have my friend Chris Mercer on the show. Chris is the founder of MeasurementMarketing.io and he specializes in website analytics.

Analytics may not sound like the sexiest of topics but most people are doing it wrong. Most people don’t know how to use Google Analytics and most shop owners have no idea what metrics to focus on.

In this episode, Chris teaches us the right way to gather and analyze your data for an e-commerce store.

What You’ll Learn

Chris’s backstory and why he decided to specialize in analytics
The right way to setup Google Analytics for your store
How to analyze and draw conclusions from your data for an e-commerce store

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