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Below is the video transcript from the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzOAAJUiSO2uyu1xyxw__2Q" target="new" rel="nofollow">Nick Loper - Side Hustle Nation</a> YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkPHE5Xk2lg" target="new" rel="nofollow">video</a> for your reading reference. __________________________________________________ _____________________________________ Transcript: 00:00 let's go pick up profit how to make 00:02 money reselling stuff 00:03 on amazon 00:06 [Music] 00:07 what's up what's up nick loper here 00:09 welcome to the side hustle show because 00:11 there's profit everywhere you just have 00:13 to know where to look 00:15 one surprising and i think exciting 00:17 place to look for that profit is just in 00:19 nearby 00:20 retail stores where my guest today has 00:22 found more than a million dollars worth 00:24 of stuff to resell 00:25 specifically jessica larue and her 00:27 husband make money 00:29 buying low locally and selling higher on 00:32 amazon 00:32 they take advantage of amazon's fba or 00:35 fulfillment by amazon program 00:37 so they don't have to ship anything to 00:38 the end customer and they've built a 00:40 pretty substantial business 00:41 doing this they've even got their 00:43 eight-year-old son in on the action and 00:45 you can learn more 00:46 about them at the selling family.com 00:48 hustle 00:49 stick around in this episode to hear how 00:51 jessica sources profitable inventory to 00:53 flip 00:54 the tools and buying criteria she uses 00:57 and how you can literally get started 00:58 with this 00:59 today i'm a fan of this side hustle 01:01 because it's so 01:02 simple to understand it's repeatable and 01:04 you can see results from it 01:06 quickly notes and links from this 01:07 episode plus the free downloadable pdf 01:10 highlight reel 01:11 are at sidehustlenation.com jessica 01:14 i'll be back with my top takeaways from 01:16 this call with jessica after 01:18 the interview ready let's do it 01:22 [Music] 01:24 what we do is we go to a store and then 01:27 we don't have any idea what we're gonna 01:29 find when we get to a store because 01:30 it's gonna be new and different every 01:32 single time that we get there 01:34 for example say that we go to big lots 01:36 it's one of our favorite sourcing stores 01:38 and we tend to rotate 01:40 because we will go through a store pick 01:42 it clean 01:43 and then we'll let it be for a few 01:44 months we'll go two big lots 01:46 and it will be the first time that we've 01:47 been there in a few months and we're 01:49 gonna start 01:50 to look in all of our favorite areas so 01:52 for us 01:53 we're going to look in the household 01:54 cleaning section we're going to look in 01:56 the health and beauty section we're 01:58 going to look in the groceries 01:59 and we're going to start looking for 02:01 things that we recognize 02:03 so brand recognition right we want our 02:06 buyers 02:06 also to recognize the brands that we're 02:08 picking and what do we see 02:11 that's at a great price versus what we 02:14 would pay at a normal store 02:16 like target and then what 02:19 looks unique what is it something that 02:21 maybe we haven't ever 02:22 seen before when we've been sourcing or 02:25 just shopping in a regular 02:27 section so that may mean air freshener 02:29 and a special holiday scent 02:31 or cookies that are limited edition 02:34 things like that we're we're looking for 02:36 something special now the next process 02:38 is 02:39 we scan the heck out of the products 02:41 that are on the shelves in front of us 02:43 so we have an app on our smartphone 02:47 and we literally take the product 02:50 we scan the barcode just like they do 02:52 when you're checking out 02:54 we scan the barcode and it tells us how 02:56 much that item is selling for an amazon 02:58 and what the rank is now the rank is our 03:01 only 03:01 criteria that amazon gives us or our 03:05 only indicator of how well something is 03:07 selling 03:08 so we're looking at those two things 03:09 we're looking at what is it selling for 03:11 an amazon 03:12 and what is the rank i will tell you 03:14 it's 03:15 not like we pick up a product and 03:18 that's the winner and we head on to the 03:20 next store we scan 03:22 20 30 40 products in an aisle 03:26 and then we move on to another section 03:29 it gets 03:30 easier for us because of the time that 03:32 we've been doing it 03:33 but the reality of a retail arbitrage 03:35 business is 03:36 a lot of time is spent scanning products 03:39 and realizing that they're selling on 03:41 amazon for just as much as they are 03:43 selling for in the store 03:44 which means there's no money left for us 03:46 yeah after 03:47 shipping and fees and all this stuff you 03:49 gotta find something at a pretty steep 03:51 price difference or price spread what's 03:53 the app that you're using 03:54 to scan the stuff we're using the amazon 03:57 seller app most of the time 03:59 that is the one that i recommend for 04:01 everybody who's just getting started 04:03 and to be honest it's the first one that 04:05 we use whenever we're scanning too 04:07 it's quick it's directly linked to 04:10 amazon so there's no question on 04:12 okay is this actually something i can 04:14 sell or not 04:15 and are these fees correct so we don't 04:17 have to question that when it's coming 04:19 directly from amazon 04:20 okay gotcha yeah that's the one that i 04:22 was using when i was out scanning for 04:24 stuff as well and it's free 04:26 just link up your seller account yeah 04:27 now the caveat with that 04:29 nick is that you do have to have an 04:31 amazon seller account 04:33 in order to use the app so that's kind 04:35 of one of those catch-22s for a lot of 04:37 people 04:38 is they want to get started with retail 04:39 arbitrage and they want to just test the 04:41 waters 04:42 out but they can't do that without 04:44 actually signing up for an account and 04:46 so it feels kind of backwards because 04:48 you would think if i'm going to test the 04:49 waters i'm just going to scan some stuff 04:51 but i don't want to commit to amazon 04:53 that i'm going to be a seller 04:55 well really in order to see all of those 04:57 details you do have to have a seller 04:59 account in order to do that 05:01 when somebody is signing up and again 05:03 this is sellercentral.amazon.com 05:05 to create that seller account would you 05:07 have them just log in with their 05:09 regular amazon shopping account or would 05:11 you have them create 05:12 a separate business like reselling 05:14 business as a seller 05:16 it's gone different ways over the years 05:18 there was a point in time where amazon 05:20 said that they recommended that we use 05:22 a different email address and create a 05:25 completely separate account 05:27 in the beginning when i started there 05:29 was no mention of that and now today 05:31 they don't mention that at all so what i 05:32 recommend is that just people 05:34 sign up with the account that they 05:35 already have it keeps things simple 05:38 and you don't have to worry about okay 05:40 which login is this for seller and which 05:42 one is this for buying and 05:44 which one is this for my s3 account and 05:46 all this stuff so 05:47 for me everything's just lumped into one 05:49 account yeah especially at the very 05:50 beginning 05:51 if you just want to scan some stuff and 05:52 see what is out there in your 05:54 town what profit might be in those 05:56 aisles do it the easy way 05:58 do they still have a free trial on the 06:01 professional 06:02 seller plan because it's 40 a month to 06:04 be a professional amazon 06:06 seller and they do have a free plan as 06:08 well i'm just curious your take on the 06:09 difference between the two 06:10 they no longer offer the free trial like 06:13 they used to 06:14 and that's a big bummer but they've also 06:16 made it easier 06:17 to use the individual selling account 06:20 which is the free account 06:21 it used to be that if you didn't have 06:22 the professional selling account you 06:24 couldn't create listings on amazon you 06:26 couldn't use 06:26 scanning apps because they didn't have 06:28 one and so 06:30 in order to use a third-party scanning 06:33 app 06:33 you would have to have that professional 06:35 level account which is forty dollars per 06:37 month but because we're recommending 06:38 that you 06:39 just try things out with the amazon 06:41 seller app you can do that on the free 06:43 individual account 06:45 yeah and if you find yourself starting 06:46 to sell it says if you plan on selling 06:49 more than 40 items a month you should 06:51 upgrade because there's a dollar 06:52 per item fee right so at that point 06:56 you're losing money if you don't have a 06:58 professional seller account and it's 07:00 really a simple process of upgrading and 07:02 downgrading 07:03 if you get to the point where you're 07:05 selling 40 items per month it's a click 07:07 of a button to upgrade to the 07:08 professional selling account 07:09 and then if you find that oh i haven't 07:11 sourced in a while or i'm going to take 07:13 a little break you just click a button 07:14 and downgrade your account 07:16 it's a simple process of going up and 07:17 down does it show your 07:20 name so if somebody is shopping on 07:21 amazon for this 07:23 product that you found at big lots and 07:25 it says 07:26 sold by jessica but fulfilled by amazon 07:28 is that a field that you have to fill in 07:30 in the seller account sign up process to 07:33 say this is my company name or this is 07:35 my 07:35 seller name yeah it's your storefront 07:38 name and 07:39 you make that up it can be whatever you 07:41 want it to be 07:43 and the nice thing is is you can change 07:45 that with the simple click of a button 07:47 as well 07:48 i know a lot of times when people are 07:50 creating their amazon seller account 07:52 they get caught up in that they're like 07:53 i don't know what to 07:54 name my story i can't move forward and 07:57 you can name 07:58 it whatever you want and then if in 08:00 three months or 08:01 two weeks or whatever it is you decide 08:03 no that doesn't quite match what i want 08:05 you can change it the thing with the 08:07 amazon storefront name 08:09 is to be totally honest it doesn't even 08:12 matter 08:13 you want to make sure that it's 08:14 something that's appealing 08:16 because it is shown to buyers and people 08:19 may be listening to this and go 08:21 i've never even seen a name on amazon 08:23 and now they'll notice it they'll see oh 08:25 it does say 08:26 fulfilled by amazon sold by this person 08:29 and now they know those are people like 08:32 you and me 08:33 what i just recommend is that you make 08:35 it something professional that you don't 08:37 make it personally identifying 08:39 i'm not going to be jessica larue's 08:41 store and i'm also going to be 08:43 not do something like discount mart 08:46 because i don't want people to look at 08:47 my products and associate that with 08:49 being cheap 08:50 something professional some people do 08:53 you know my cat's corner 08:54 or mom of three i've seen 08:57 really creative ones too that make you 08:59 want to 09:01 support them like my adoption fund or 09:04 something like that where it kind of 09:06 tugs at you emotionally and you're like 09:07 oh well i'll choose this person 09:09 over this person but when we're being 09:12 really really honest we're choosing the 09:14 person that's the lowest price and 09:16 the easiest to buy from right yeah mine 09:20 was called i think seymour smiles 09:22 products 09:23 it was and it was just like totally 09:25 generic but 09:26 hopefully sounded fun or sounded legit 09:29 sounded fun but 09:30 yeah like i said most people never even 09:32 see 09:33 the sold by whenever we talk to people 09:36 about retail arbitrage or 09:38 any type of selling on amazon they're 09:39 like i thought it was just amazon that 09:41 sold all the stuff it comes in amazon 09:43 boxes 09:43 yeah half of their inventory is 09:45 crowdsourced from sellers like you and 09:47 side hustle nation 09:48 absolutely there's no way that amazon 09:51 could 09:52 even think to have access to all the 09:55 products that we have access to 09:57 and why would they want to when you 09:59 really think about it 10:00 we're taking all the risk as a seller 10:02 and they just 10:04 get to make money off of it so it 10:06 doesn't make sense for them to try and 10:07 carry every single thing in the world 10:10 but they want to be the everything store 10:12 so they that's why we come into play is 10:14 we get to provide the everything that 10:16 they can 10:17 yeah the world's largest consignment 10:19 store they built this 10:20 really truly world-class logistics 10:23 network and said hey 10:24 you can tap into it for a fee and we're 10:26 happy to do that for you 10:27 and it helps their customers and it 10:29 allows you to build a business so 10:31 that makes sense so don't overthink the 10:33 seller application thing is 10:35 i guess the long and winding point of 10:36 that part yes okay so you're in 10:39 the store you're in big lots you're in 10:41 wherever 10:42 walgreens you're scanning the stuff with 10:44 the amazon seller app 10:45 you're looking at the best seller rank 10:46 you're looking at the price spread is 10:48 there 10:49 a minimum profit per item or minimum 10:52 margin that you're looking at for for 10:54 each purchase 10:56 yes absolutely now i'll be honest that 10:59 my husband cliff and i we have varying 11:01 perspectives on this 11:03 whenever we look at an item together we 11:05 may one of us may say oh this is great 11:07 and one of us may say well this sucks 11:09 we're not going to sell it 11:10 i'm kind of on the more i want to make 11:13 more money 11:14 he wants to sell more items so we try to 11:16 find a compromise 11:17 our compromise really has become that an 11:20 item has to make at least 50 percent 11:22 return on investment 11:23 meaning if we spend ten dollars on a 11:25 product after amazon's fees and our 11:28 costs we need to clear at least five 11:30 dollars 11:30 so if that doesn't happen then we're not 11:32 gonna buy a product 11:34 so if we're gonna buy something for ten 11:36 dollars and we're gonna make three 11:37 dollars it's not going into our store 11:39 our other second part of that is that we 11:42 also 11:43 don't want to sell anything that we're 11:44 gonna make less than five dollars on 11:46 now it's kind of stuck sometimes because 11:49 we may find something for 11:51 say seven dollars that we're gonna make 11:53 four dollars on so 11:54 that beats our 50 criteria 11:57 but it's not five dollars and so if it's 12:00 just one or two items we're going to 12:02 completely skip it 12:03 and most of the time we'll choose to 12:05 just skip it no matter 12:07 if there's a hundred or if there's 20 12:10 the caveat on that would be if it's 12:11 ranked 12:12 super super low and we know that as soon 12:15 as we send them into amazon 12:16 they're going to sell so if i could sell 12:18 a hundred of something in a month 12:20 and make four dollars a piece well 12:22 that's still four hundred dollars so 12:24 we may be convinced to do that otherwise 12:26 we stick 12:27 pretty tightly to the 50 roi and 12:30 five dollars i recommend that when 12:32 people get started that they do the same 12:35 maybe even try for a higher roi like a 12:38 hundred percent 12:39 because when you have less money to deal 12:41 with 12:42 and you are trying to just really get 12:44 your feet wet and try 12:45 the system out you want to be a little 12:47 stricter because you want those items to 12:49 make you good money so that you have 12:51 more money to 12:52 invest and more important though 12:55 than just roi is the rank 12:58 that's the biggest criteria and one of 13:00 the biggest mistakes that i see people 13:02 make when they first get started is that 13:04 they don't think about the rank or they 13:06 don't consider it at all 13:08 and they say okay well i found this item 13:10 for ten dollars 13:12 and i'm gonna make fifty dollars which 13:14 talking about our criteria of 13:16 fifty percent roi well now we're talking 13:19 500 13:20 roi right like it's a great return but 13:23 the rank may be 300 000 or 500 13:26 000 so they spend their money to buy a 13:29 product 13:30 thinking it's going to be this huge 13:32 return but then the product just sits 13:34 there 13:35 so for beginners people who are just 13:37 getting started buying inventory what we 13:39 recommend is that they 13:41 keep a really tight restriction on their 13:44 rank 13:44 of at least 150 000 maximum 13:48 and the lower they can get the better so 13:51 if they can find products that are 13:52 ranked 50 000 13:54 or 25 000 even 100 000 13:57 then that's okay as long as it also 13:59 meets the roi and profit 14:01 criteria but not to get loose on the 14:04 ranks because that's one of the biggest 14:06 mistakes that we see people make is 14:08 they've 14:08 bought a bunch of really profitable 14:10 inventory but it just 14:11 ends up sitting there okay so you 14:14 mentioned toys are there any other 14:16 product categories that you like for new 14:17 sellers for me personally 14:20 i like grocery is like one of my 14:22 favorites because 14:23 it's consumable right people eat it and 14:25 then they want to buy it again 14:27 then health and beauty products so 14:29 things like it always sounds weird but 14:31 things like shampoo and conditioner 14:33 face creams lotion stuff like that and 14:36 the reason that's one of my favorites 14:38 is because people are super particular 14:41 about their health and beauty products 14:43 so maybe it's not the same for guys i 14:45 know my husband has like this shampoo he 14:47 really likes 14:48 and is willing to pay more on amazon but 14:50 i know for me and a lot of my 14:51 girlfriends if we have a favorite 14:54 type of makeup or hairspray that works 14:56 perfectly if that 14:58 thing gets discontinued we're willing to 15:00 spend 15:01 way too much money on it so i love 15:04 finding discontinued health and personal 15:06 products 15:07 and then household items and toys which 15:10 is a really really broad category 15:12 so it covers a lot but it's really fun 15:14 because 15:16 people get interested in finding like 15:18 really unique stuff for their house 15:20 or if they're decorating their kid's 15:22 bedroom and 15:23 for example my son's all about fortnite 15:25 right now so it's really hard to find 15:28 fortnite specific stuff but i'll look on 15:30 amazon all day and see oh there's this 15:32 new 15:32 comforter out or there's this new wall 15:34 decal or something like that 15:36 i really like to get into niches but i'm 15:39 not 15:39 gonna only do that my eyes are open to 15:42 everything 15:43 but in as small of categories as i can 15:45 if that makes sense 15:47 yeah that was surprising for me when i 15:49 was doing this baby's rs was a great 15:51 stop for me so i was going there anyways 15:53 for baby stuff and 15:54 then he was like well let me swing by 15:56 the clearance section and it was these 15:58 bed sheets that they had like these big 16:00 bulky quilt packs i guess 16:02 they were big and bulky to ship but they 16:03 would be on clearance and they would 16:05 sell for like 16:05 180 bucks or something on amazon and 16:09 i was really pleasantly surprised by 16:11 that 16:12 if i'm a brand new seller can i sell 16:13 grocery items i'm assuming like 16:15 non-perishable stuff 16:16 yeah totally non-perishable and there 16:18 are a lot of rules 16:19 your dates have to be as a general rule 16:22 of thumb at least 16:23 three months out from the time so that 16:26 does cut 16:26 a lot of things out of the category like 16:28 you're not going to be selling bread 16:30 or hostess cakes usually aren't going to 16:33 fall into the category 16:35 but think of things like right now 16:37 there's these oreos 16:39 that are the most stuffed two double 16:42 stuffs 16:42 in one and they're limited edition and 16:45 in our stores they're completely gone 16:48 and cliff's saying can we just order 16:50 a couple boxes on amazon for 10 bucks 16:52 now that seems pretty crazy right 16:54 i mean 10 for a box of oreos but those 16:57 are the kind of things that we're 16:58 looking for when we talk about 17:00 groceries is those things that are hard 17:02 to find maybe they're limited edition 17:04 special flavors that are only out 17:06 seasonally a lot of times cookies 17:09 candies baking mixes that are limited 17:12 flavors so 17:13 during halloween we could find a lot of 17:16 flavors like pumpkin pumpkin 17:18 spice during those holidays right but 17:20 now if you go to target you're not gonna 17:22 find pumpkin spice anything 17:24 so where do you go you go to amazon so 17:26 i'm thinking about like the girl scouts 17:28 girl scout cookies in particular do 17:29 people sell that stuff 17:31 on amazon or is it does the girl scout 17:33 have a monopoly on that how does it work 17:35 actually they do end up on amazon and 17:37 for quite a bit more money than the four 17:39 or five dollars that you pay in front of 17:40 the store 17:41 because you can only find them for a 17:42 couple of weeks maybe a month yeah 17:45 manufactured scarcity yes you mentioned 17:47 before why aren't the manufacturers just 17:49 selling right on amazon 17:50 so i'm thankful that they're not because 17:52 i need them to have that scarcity of 17:54 course 17:55 but across the board a new seller can 17:58 sell groceries in amazon i'll just give 18:00 this little caveat is that amazon does 18:03 change from time to time there was a 18:05 time where 18:06 groceries was completely closed and then 18:08 there was a time where you had to 18:10 only be approved in it and so in two 18:13 weeks this may be 18:14 inaccurate amazon always gives a list 18:16 though of what categories are 18:18 available to be sold by new sellers see 18:20 what you can sell at the time and 18:22 and really get into that but for new 18:25 sellers i say grocery 18:26 home items and toys and toys is one of 18:30 those ones that opens and closes 18:32 and during the fourth quarter 18:33 specifically they 18:35 sometimes completely close the category 18:37 to new sellers so as long as you've been 18:39 selling for a while you're okay but if 18:41 you 18:42 are listening to this and it's in 18:43 december you may start to can't scan 18:45 some 18:46 toys and go every single thing says it's 18:48 restricted well it's just a seasonal 18:50 restriction and then sometimes there's 18:53 also sub-category restrictions 18:55 and i hate to get too technical i don't 18:57 want people to be like this doesn't make 18:58 any sense but as soon as you scan those 19:00 first items it'll all of a sudden 19:02 make sense my favorite category like i 19:05 was saying about the health and personal 19:06 care that is pretty much closed to new 19:09 sellers right off the bat 19:11 and you have to get approved to sell in 19:13 that category 19:14 so that may mean that you have to buy 19:16 from a wholesaler and 19:18 provide amazon with invoices it may mean 19:21 that you have to have 19:22 certain things from specific 19:24 manufacturers like a 19:26 letter saying that you're okay to sell 19:27 that that's why i don't recommend it for 19:30 somebody just getting started it's 19:31 because you want it to be as easy as 19:32 possible and you want to have as much 19:34 in stores that you can do without having 19:36 to go and buy from a manufacturer 19:37 because that just makes the whole 19:38 process 19:39 another step ahead yeah you kind of want 19:41 to get out there 19:42 prove to yourself that it can be done 19:44 and then worry about some of these other 19:46 categories later i'm curious have you 19:49 ever done anything 19:50 with books because there have been a few 19:52 people posting in my instagram feed and 19:54 in the facebook group 19:55 about their success and kind of finding 19:58 used 19:59 books and then reselling those i 20:01 actually got started on amazon 20:04 years ago in the book category it was my 20:06 very first introduction into 20:08 how amazon worked and at that time i 20:11 mean that was pretty much all people 20:12 were talking about was selling used 20:14 books on amazon 20:15 things like college textbooks that 20:18 students are done with and then they 20:19 just throw them to goodwill 20:21 they don't resell them back to the 20:22 school or anything and then the next 20:25 year of students they want to get them 20:27 cheaper than they cost at school so 20:29 they'll go on amazon and pay 200 20:31 for a textbook that we could find at 20:33 goodwill for five or ten dollars 20:34 oh it's such a racket yeah it's crazy 20:37 books is an awesome category 20:39 it can be frustrating to new sellers 20:41 because it's so wide 20:43 but there's a few things you can do if 20:44 you want to look at books is you really 20:47 look at the niches with books it's 20:49 usually used books right it's not 20:51 new books and so you're going to places 20:53 like goodwill 20:54 different types of thrift stores and 20:56 you're looking to see 20:58 what type of niche books you can get so 21:01 you're not going in and looking for like 21:03 this 21:03 twilight series because those are mass 21:05 produced and there's just hundreds and 21:07 hundreds of thousands of them so they're 21:09 not going to be worth any money 21:11 but if you go in and you look for rabbit 21:14 cage for a home farmer 21:17 right like that's a niche book so those 21:20 type of items 21:21 have a better chance of being worth more 21:23 on amazon because they're not super mass 21:25 produced 21:26 and they're harder to find and so it's 21:29 surprising sometimes like we've sold a 21:31 book on how to build a bird cage 21:33 for like forty dollars that we bought at 21:35 a yard sale for 50 cents 21:37 what's cool about books is that the 21:38 margins are so high 21:40 so it's really good for people who are 21:42 getting into amazon 21:43 that have very very little capital to 21:46 get started with 21:47 if you only have 10 bucks to start with 21:50 and you go to a yard sale and you find 21:52 some books for 21:52 25 cents 50 cents maybe even a dollar 21:55 you can walk out of there with 20 books 21:57 and then possibly sell them 21:59 for a few hundred dollars now it's not 22:01 going to be super fast 22:03 but it does start to get your money 22:04 flowing yeah absolutely that's a 22:07 that's a tremendous return on investment 22:09 there was a guy who came to one of the 22:11 side hustle nation meetups in seattle a 22:13 few years ago 22:13 he told me i forget the app that he was 22:15 using but he had it hooked up 22:16 to a bluetooth headset he had his buying 22:19 criteria 22:20 for the books in the app whatever the 22:22 sales rank is whatever the price point 22:24 it we had all these different metrics 22:25 that he was looking for 22:26 and as he would go down the aisle it 22:28 would be like 22:30 as he's scanning these barcodes and he 22:32 puts it in his cart 22:34 it was just like made it super simple 22:36 just auditory feedback on like yes i'm 22:38 buying this no i'm not buying that 22:40 yeah and that's done usually through a 22:43 palm pilot type of a device like a pda 22:45 they're really cool because you download 22:47 the whole entire amazon book database 22:49 to that program or to that device it's 22:52 not pulling it up from the internet 22:54 when i scan using my phone it's pulling 22:56 the information direct from the internet 22:57 so that's why there's a little bit of a 22:59 delay 22:59 but with those book scanning softwares 23:02 it's all downloaded so it's pretty 23:04 instant on how fast it can do it 23:06 that's pretty cool stuff do you ever get 23:08 any 23:09 weird looks when you're in the store 23:12 doing this or like hey why does this 23:14 lady have 23:15 17 of this particular item in her cart 23:17 or 23:18 any stories like that it always causes 23:21 fomo 23:22 if we're putting in all that they have 23:24 of something into our cart 23:26 then all of a sudden everybody else who 23:28 walks by feels like they must be missing 23:30 out on this great thing 23:32 they probably had no desire 23:35 to purchase chex mix but all of a sudden 23:39 because 23:39 we have a hundred of them they need to 23:42 know 23:42 what they're missing with the chex mix 23:45 that's what we get a lot and that's kind 23:46 of frustrating because 23:48 for us when we're sourcing we're working 23:50 so 23:51 we want to be able to just get what 23:53 we're getting and then move along but if 23:55 all of a sudden you have five people 23:56 standing around you and they're trying 23:58 to touch it and they want to look at the 24:00 back and 24:00 really they're just trying to figure out 24:02 what the big deal is maybe we'll step 24:04 away for a minute 24:05 or we'll just hand it to them and be 24:08 like here you go 24:09 and then it usually is followed with a 24:10 question like oh is this on sale 24:13 or something oh we're just planning a 24:15 party we just need a whole bunch of them 24:17 or 24:18 all the kids are getting the same thing 24:19 yeah my kids really love checks 24:21 same story with the cashiers they'll buy 24:23 off on that or do they not care 24:25 even if they know that you're reselling 24:26 it they don't care that's where i was 24:27 actually gonna go next that's funny 24:29 the cashiers often have more to say than 24:32 another customer will 24:33 because customers don't often say 24:35 something to another customer 24:37 about what they're buying i've had that 24:39 happen once and i was actually really 24:41 frustrated about it 24:42 because i had a bunch of candy and the 24:44 lady commented about it and i was like 24:46 i'm not asking you about what you're 24:48 buying why are you buying so much soda 24:51 but with cashiers that's their job right 24:54 to talk to the people that are checking 24:55 out 24:55 and so they often have a lot more to say 24:58 and 24:59 my rule of thumb is whatever question 25:02 they ask 25:02 i pretty much agree because they always 25:05 usually will say something with an 25:07 assumption 25:07 so it's not like a general open-ended 25:10 question it's more of a yes or no 25:11 question 25:12 if we're buying a bunch of pajamas oh 25:14 wow your kid must really like 25:16 toy story yep or wow it's so nice that 25:19 you're donating all these toys 25:21 oh thank you because they're not 25:23 actually asking 25:24 are you donating all of these toys or 25:27 why are you buying 25:28 so much of this it comes with an 25:29 assumption of 25:31 what they think or you must have a whole 25:32 bunch of kids 25:34 yep because i don't want to get into 25:36 that conversation 25:38 and there are stores who aren't reseller 25:40 friendly and one of the ones that 25:42 been in the media a little bit about it 25:43 is target they've 25:45 made a public declaration that they 25:47 don't sell to resellers 25:49 well the only way that they're going to 25:51 know that your reseller is if you're 25:53 one saying that you're a reseller and 25:54 two if you're trying to use a resale 25:56 certificate 25:57 so i'm going to let the employee think 25:59 whatever they want to think 26:00 because it doesn't really matter to me 26:02 what they think about what i'm buying 26:04 does any of your stuff end up on ebay or 26:05 is it exclusively amazon 26:07 we do use ebay as well it's very little 26:11 but there's a program called joe lister 26:14 that we use 26:15 and what it does is it will take the 26:18 amazon listing 26:19 and build you an ebay listing and then 26:22 it uses what's called 26:23 third party fulfillment to take our 26:26 inventory from amazon 26:28 and then it will ship it to our ebay 26:30 customer 26:32 so it works in a couple of different 26:34 ways 26:35 sometimes we buy something to sell on 26:37 amazon and 26:38 maybe when we bought it amazon wasn't in 26:40 stock 26:41 and so when the item gets there if 26:43 amazon comes into stock they're very 26:44 difficult to compete with 26:46 so we can have that item listed on ebay 26:49 and we're no longer competing directly 26:50 with amazon as a seller 26:52 and so we can sell that item on ebay and 26:54 still never touch it oh cool 26:56 yeah it is actually really neat when you 26:58 list it there's this calculator and 27:00 it'll say okay if you sell this item on 27:02 amazon you're making twenty dollars 27:04 and if you list it on ebay in order to 27:06 make the same exact amount this is what 27:08 you need to sell it for 27:09 and they take into consideration the 27:11 cost that amazon is going to charge you 27:13 to ship that item to the customer 27:15 it's really just like a click of a 27:17 button and then some tweaking on the 27:19 listing because when it pulls in from 27:20 amazon it's not 27:21 perfect but it pulls the image and 27:23 everything and they know exactly how 27:25 much you have in stock 27:26 so if you have five in stock on amazon 27:28 they'll list five in stock on ebay if 27:30 you sell one on ebay your stock goes 27:32 down on amazon 27:33 if you sell one on amazon then your ebay 27:35 stock goes down so it's really nice 27:37 yeah that's really cool to be able to 27:39 cast a wide net or target buyers on both 27:41 markets when you're out shopping so the 27:44 app will help you estimate 27:45 the fees and then you kind of have to 27:47 add on a plus or minus nine ten percent 27:49 for sales tax 27:51 do you have any rules of thumb for 27:52 estimating shipping 27:54 this stuff into the amazon warehouse 27:57 yeah 27:57 i recommend when somebody's first 27:59 getting started that they use a dollar 28:01 per pound 28:02 to estimate their inbound shipping costs 28:05 because we do 28:06 pay for shipping to amazon we don't have 28:09 to pay 28:10 shipping from amazon to the customer so 28:12 that's good 28:13 and we get a really discounted rate by 28:15 using amazon 28:17 because they're shipping so much stuff 28:19 so if i was to send something directly 28:21 to you it's probably gonna cost ten 28:22 dollars 28:22 but i could send that same package to 28:24 amazon it may cost a dollar 28:26 it's highly highly discounted but your 28:29 stuff goes all across the united states 28:31 so it's easier to estimate higher at a 28:34 dollar per pound 28:35 and then once you've been selling for 28:37 about three months you can go through 28:39 and see okay how much did i actually 28:41 spend 28:41 per pound on my shipping because there's 28:44 warehouses in california that are very 28:46 close to where we live 28:47 if we send to those warehouses we may be 28:49 only spending 25 cents per pound 28:51 but if i have to send a inbound shipment 28:54 to new york 28:55 or new jersey then it's going to cost a 28:57 dollar per pound 28:59 in the app there's actually a setting 29:01 when you go into your settings 29:02 where you tell them what your estimated 29:04 cost per pound is 29:06 and they will calculate that out as you 29:08 scan the item and it will be taken out 29:09 just like the amazon fees are 29:11 okay cool and i imagine you stack up 29:14 this stuff until you have a bulk 29:16 shipment to send in and you're not 29:17 sending in items onesie twosies 29:20 right our goal is to be able to send at 29:22 least one 29:23 complete box so that we can capitalize 29:27 on that discounted shipping because of 29:28 course there's minimums 29:29 they're not going to allow us to send a 29:31 box for a dollar 29:33 like i was giving in that example 29:35 because it doesn't meet their minimum 29:37 so we're going to spend at least say 29:39 five dollars 29:40 to send a shipment in so it's better for 29:42 us and it actually lowers the cost per 29:44 pound 29:45 the bigger the shipment is and the 29:47 closer that it is to 50 pounds 29:49 but for me as long as i can fit like a 29:51 home depot medium sized box then that's 29:54 enough for us to send one shipment in 29:56 okay home depot medium sized box yeah 29:58 that gives a good example of how big it 30:00 is 30:00 i was blown away with how cheap amazon's 30:03 negotiated ups 30:04 shipping rates were which you would take 30:06 to the post office they'd be like that's 30:07 45 30:08 do you want insurance they're like it's 30:10 seven dollars and 85 cents you're like 30:12 all right amazon let's do this i know 30:15 it's crazy 30:16 and that also helps with the ebay thing 30:19 like i was saying 30:20 because we still get amazon's discounted 30:22 rates for them to ship the product for 30:24 us 30:25 so you actually get to make a little bit 30:26 more money than if you were shipping it 30:28 yourself to the customer 30:29 yeah are any of your students doing this 30:32 in canada in europe outside of the u.s 30:36 we have a lot of students who do amazon 30:39 through 30:40 canada and they sell on the us platform 30:43 there is also 30:44 amazon.ca that they can sell on and 30:47 there's also 30:48 students from the us that sell on the 30:50 dot ca 30:51 platform and then there's also people 30:53 from the uk who sell 30:55 on the us platform a lot of times what i 30:58 find is that 30:59 people who are international that they 31:01 will do more of an online arbitrage 31:04 approach and they're buying from 31:06 us-based 31:08 retailers and then they're using a prep 31:10 center 31:11 in the united states so they're buying 31:14 from say canada 31:15 from target.com having it shipped to a 31:18 prep center 31:19 in tennessee and then they're shipping 31:21 it to amazon for them 31:23 so the products don't actually go 31:26 international 31:27 and then into the us they're basically 31:30 from the united states and then resold 31:32 in the united states but the seller 31:34 is living outside of the united states 31:36 does that make sense 31:37 yeah yeah yeah do you ever do any of the 31:40 online arbitrage stuff 31:41 yeah there's a lot of tools that make 31:44 online arbitrage 31:45 easier i'm kind of old school it depends 31:48 on what kind of a mood i am in 31:49 if i want to go through and just 31:50 manually look for stuff but it's the 31:52 same process of 31:54 looking for something that's selling for 31:56 less at the store 31:57 than it is on amazon and then figuring 31:59 out what the difference is and how much 32:01 profit you have left 32:02 for me it's easier to have the product 32:04 in front of me to touch it 32:06 compare it with what's in the listing on 32:09 amazon 32:10 versus online especially getting started 32:13 because sometimes 32:14 you're looking at a listing online and 32:16 you think it's exactly the same 32:18 but then when you get it home it's not 32:20 quite exactly the same as you thought it 32:21 was 32:22 that's why i like to have it in front of 32:23 me plus looking in a store 32:26 narrows down the field a little bit so 32:28 you don't have as much to look at 32:30 because if i go to 32:31 walmart.com there's hundreds of 32:34 thousands of items 32:35 it's pretty much unlimited what i could 32:37 find and then 32:38 funny thing about walmart now is that 32:40 they also have third-party sellers 32:42 so you're trying to figure out okay am i 32:43 buying this from walmart or am i buying 32:45 this from a third-party seller 32:47 and what's the actual real price but 32:50 online arbitrage is really great for 32:52 people who 32:53 maybe hate shopping because if you don't 32:56 like to be in a store 32:57 retail arbitrage isn't for you yeah that 33:00 sounds like me for sure 33:01 yeah there's definitely people who are 33:02 like i buy all of my own stuff online 33:05 why would i go into a store for an hour 33:07 to look at stuff when i don't even want 33:09 to be there and maybe if you don't like 33:10 to shop you're not familiar with even 33:13 the layouts of the stores you're not 33:14 familiar with how the discounts work 33:17 and so there's just people who are much 33:18 more comfortable buying stuff from 33:21 online they want to have that stuff 33:23 shipped to them and if you buy stuff 33:25 online and have it 33:26 shipped to you it's cool because then it 33:28 comes in nice 33:29 boxes it's packaged well and then you 33:31 can just put your label on it and send 33:33 it to amazon 33:34 a lot of times you can get more stock 33:36 than you can if you get it from the 33:37 store 33:38 if i find something in the store maybe i 33:40 only find five but if i was to buy it 33:42 online i could find 33:43 10 or 20. it does also mean that other 33:46 sellers can also find 33:48 that many usually two so it's a little 33:51 bit more competitive if you buy online 33:54 we find that the roi that we talked 33:56 about earlier 33:57 is a little bit lower than it is in 33:59 store but that's just 34:01 one of those things where as you sell 34:04 it's easy to decide okay 34:06 how do i want my business to look what 34:08 are the things that i'm okay with having 34:10 be one way versus another way for me if 34:13 i only want to get 100 34:15 roi maybe that means i only buy stuff in 34:17 front of me 34:18 and if you're okay with having a 50 roi 34:21 but you want to really go 34:22 for getting more volume then online 34:25 works great 34:25 yeah absolutely so tactical arbitrage 34:29 was one software tool that had been 34:31 recommended in the past 34:32 and it looks like they currently have a 34:34 free trial 34:36 version any other tools that you like 34:38 for the online stuff 34:39 yeah i use source mogul it's very 34:42 similar to tactical arbitrage 34:44 except for me i found it much more 34:47 user-friendly the interface 34:49 just makes more sense to me the way that 34:51 my brain works 34:53 i started using that one and that one is 34:56 pretty strictly 34:56 for scanning specific stores 35:00 and then it will spit out a list of all 35:03 the items that it matched up on amazon 35:05 what the price is at the store and what 35:08 the price is on amazon what the 35:10 profit is and tactical arbitrage has a 35:13 lot of 35:13 extra bells and whistles that source 35:15 mogul doesn't have right now 35:17 but for ease of use i've found that 35:19 that's just easier so that's what i use 35:21 okay cool thanks for sharing that you 35:24 mentioned 35:24 putting your label on the product after 35:27 you get it in your house 35:28 before you send it off what label is 35:30 that because that apparently was a step 35:31 that i 35:32 skipped or just never did or if there 35:34 was a box to check like let amazon label 35:35 that for me 35:36 that's what i always did so what's the 35:38 prep that goes into it before 35:40 sending these products in so there's a 35:43 couple of things that have to be done 35:44 with the items before they can be sent 35:46 to amazon 35:47 i'll just go over the whole process so 35:49 when we buy something we bring it home 35:51 and then what we do is we scan it in or 35:55 we tell amazon 35:56 what the item is that we're selling and 35:58 we're going to be 35:59 putting that into our inventory at that 36:01 time as a listing 36:03 and we're using the listings that are 36:04 already on amazon so we don't have to 36:06 create our own listings for anyone who's 36:08 familiar with ebay yeah so you punch in 36:10 your barcode amazon says 36:12 how many do you have just add those to 36:14 my account yeah 36:15 and then you tell amazon what do you 36:17 want to price that item at 36:19 and then you put it into a shipping 36:23 plan at that point and amazon will ask 36:26 you questions about the item like is it 36:28 possibly hazardous flammable does it 36:31 have an expiration date 36:33 things like that at that point you can 36:35 say 36:36 do you want to label the item yourself 36:38 or would you like amazon to label the 36:40 item for you so that sounds like that's 36:42 what you've done 36:43 what that means the label is what 36:45 identifies your product as your product 36:48 so nick if we both sent in a box of chex 36:51 mix 36:52 and mine has a label on it and yours 36:53 doesn't have a label 36:55 mine will go in and when the buyer buys 36:58 it 36:58 they're going to get the exact package 37:00 that i sent in 37:01 when they buy yours they'll get whatever 37:03 package 37:04 is closest to them it can't be done with 37:08 all of the categories so grocery can't 37:10 be 37:11 what's called co-mingled right because 37:12 your inventory is with other people's 37:14 inventory 37:15 it has to have a label on it because of 37:17 the expiration dates 37:18 and then there's a couple other things 37:20 that can't be coming gold like if 37:21 there's two listings for something 37:24 and you have to tell amazon which 37:25 specific listing you want you wouldn't 37:27 be able to not have a label on it 37:29 so for me it just makes it easier to 37:30 label all the products 37:32 so then i know that the customer is 37:34 getting exactly my product is that just 37:36 a barcode sticker that you're throwing 37:37 on it or 37:38 what does it look like yeah it looks 37:40 like a barcode 37:41 and it's called an fn sku which is like 37:44 fulfillment network 37:45 sku and it scans as a barcode and we 37:49 cover 37:50 up the upc code on the product so then 37:52 when it gets to amazon 37:54 they're scanning their barcode rather 37:56 than the manufacturer's barcode 37:58 and that just identifies us as the 38:00 seller after that 38:02 you tell amazon all the different items 38:04 that you have you print out your sheet 38:06 of labels so they go on 38:07 avery address labels which are like if 38:10 you were sending a letter 38:11 and you're printing out addresses on 38:13 them it's that label 38:15 and then you put those right on top of 38:16 the barcode if your product has 38:18 any type of open face on it so say that 38:21 you are selling 38:22 a lamy toy it's a stuffed animal that 38:26 needs to be 38:26 bagged because it needs to be protected 38:28 because the warehouses are dirty 38:30 they're open to all the elements that 38:31 are in a warehouse and so that product 38:34 needs to be 38:34 protected so it needs to be poly bagged 38:37 and then 38:38 your poly bag needs to have a 38:40 suffocation warning on it to make sure 38:41 that 38:42 kids know it's not a toy and then the 38:45 label would actually go on the outside 38:46 of that 38:47 once you've labeled and packaged your 38:49 product 38:50 another example would be say that you 38:52 were selling a candle 38:54 well that's breakable so you would need 38:55 to bubble wrap that to make sure that it 38:57 was gonna 38:58 end up able to arrive safely to the 39:00 customer 39:01 once you've done all of that amazon says 39:03 okay now your stuff is ready to send in 39:06 here's where you're gonna send it then 39:08 you box it up nice and neat 39:10 tell amazon how big that box is how much 39:12 it weighs 39:13 they'll tell you how much it's going to 39:14 cost you say yep i'm good with that 39:16 and then send it in put the label on top 39:20 have ups pick it up and then you're good 39:21 to go yeah i don't know if this has 39:24 changed but so i wouldn't sell anything 39:26 perishable so i didn't have to put my 39:27 own 39:28 barcodes on there and every now and 39:30 again you'd get this error message that 39:32 would say 39:33 this thing needs a label or it needs a 39:35 bag no need something 39:36 we'll do it for you for a dollar like 39:38 yes please i don't want to deal with it 39:40 just do that 39:41 is there a service that you like for 39:43 generating those 39:44 fn skus we prefer to just do it right 39:47 inside of amazon 39:48 just inside the platform itself oh and 39:51 then you can print it on the little 39:52 label stickers yourself 39:54 yep there is a program called inventory 39:57 lab where you can create shipments as 39:59 well 39:59 and that's something that i recommend 40:01 people try eventually but it's not one 40:03 of the very first things that i 40:04 recommend people 40:05 start with because there's so many 40:07 different things that you can use 40:10 in your business that make it a lot 40:11 easier but they add to the monthly cost 40:14 i try and get my students able to get 40:17 started with amazon with as 40:18 little going out as possible and then 40:22 add on things that help them in their 40:24 business later on 40:26 yeah absolutely same thing with blogging 40:28 you know don't buy all this software 40:29 that you don't need at the onset and 40:30 just add it on as 40:31 as the business justifies it i was going 40:33 to ask and i'm sure you have over the 40:35 course of 40:36 the last several years and selling a 40:37 million dollars worth of stuff 40:39 any purchases that you put down a decent 40:41 sized bet on 40:42 that didn't pan out too many 40:45 that i've that i'd like to admit to 40:49 we like to go all in on stuff sometimes 40:53 and so i have something sitting in my 40:56 garage right now even 40:58 that is we bought it thinking it was the 41:00 greatest thing 41:01 and then it turned out to be a complete 41:03 bed this one it's 41:04 a seasoning packet like a marinade it's 41:07 like a liquid 41:08 packet and we thought when we scanned it 41:12 that it was ranked a thousand in grocery 41:14 which a thousand in grocery means it's 41:16 just flying off the shelf 41:18 and on amazon it was selling for 12 and 41:21 we were able to buy them 41:23 for a dollar if we bought them in bulk 41:25 so we're like sure we'll buy a hundred 41:26 of them 41:27 which thankfully isn't that huge of a 41:30 investment 41:31 got em home went to list them and 41:34 realized 41:35 that it wasn't a thousand in grocery 41:38 it was a thousand in a sub-category 41:42 in another category hard to explain 41:45 what that actually means but it means it 41:48 was a crappy product 41:49 it means nobody was actually buying 41:51 these nobody was actually buying it so 41:52 it's like 41:53 a subcategory ranking means nothing and 41:56 a thousand in a subcategory is not even 41:58 good 41:59 so it was oh well let's just try a 42:02 couple anyways so we sent some in 42:04 and they just sat there they haven't 42:05 done anything so those all 42:07 just get donated okay thankfully only 42:10 100 bucks so not the end of the world 42:12 but 42:12 it happens right and we've had those 42:14 experiences 42:16 multiple times over the years where 42:18 we've bought 42:19 items and we just thought for sure it 42:21 was a winner 42:22 we always say usually worst case 42:25 scenario is that we break even on 42:27 something 42:28 if we send in say a toy during the 42:30 holidays and 42:31 it was selling for three times as much 42:34 as when we bought it in the store 42:35 and then all of a sudden it gets to 42:37 amazon and the price just 42:39 drops there's a whole bunch of sellers 42:40 on it usually we can still make our 42:42 money back it's very 42:44 rare that we completely lose out 42:47 on the product like on these ones where 42:49 we actually are not even going to 42:50 bother selling them because we could 42:52 probably wait it out 42:54 and sell one or two a month and make a 42:57 dollar but at that point it's like 42:59 just let the hundred dollars go and find 43:01 something else 43:02 yeah when you're adding inventory to 43:04 amazon 43:05 and they ask you to input the price that 43:07 you want to sell it at do you 43:09 just match the current price or do you 43:10 try and undercut that a little bit 43:12 what i like to do is look at the listing 43:15 and when you look at the listing on 43:17 amazon there's 43:19 a couple of places it's hard to say when 43:22 we're just talking instead of showing it 43:23 on the computer 43:24 but there's a spot that we call the buy 43:26 box which is 43:28 where as a customer amazon gives you 43:29 those two options where you can either 43:31 add it to your cart or you can buy it 43:33 now 43:33 and that's our featured seller that's 43:36 the price that they're recommending that 43:38 you buy it for 43:39 and that may not be the lowest price 43:41 which will surprise a lot of the 43:43 listeners because now they're gonna look 43:44 at their 43:45 next amazon purchase and go hey why are 43:47 they telling me to buy this when i can 43:48 buy it for five dollars cheaper 43:50 from a different seller so we look at 43:52 what's called the buy box 43:54 and we say okay this seller is who 43:57 amazon's suggesting 43:58 so they're our first price 44:01 recommendation 44:02 first thing that we're going to try and 44:03 match in price and then the second thing 44:06 that we'll look at 44:07 is are they an fba seller or not because 44:10 if 44:10 the buy box happens to be a merchant 44:12 fulfill seller meaning they're sending 44:14 it from their house they're not using 44:15 the prime program 44:17 and a prime buyer doesn't get to buy 44:19 from them at their free shipping 44:21 then we will actually price above them a 44:24 little bit 44:25 sometimes that's five dollars above 44:27 sometimes that's 44:28 a couple dollars it just depends on the 44:30 base price of the 44:31 product because somebody who has a prime 44:33 membership is 44:34 always going to choose a prime seller 44:37 versus somebody who's merchant fulfilled 44:39 even if it costs a little bit more 44:41 if it's another fba seller we will match 44:44 their price 44:45 or go a few cents above so that they 44:47 don't try and lower their price to be 44:49 below 44:50 us and then if it's a merchant fulfilled 44:52 we go 44:53 up the cool thing about pricing on 44:55 amazon is that 44:56 it doesn't matter if you're the lowest 44:59 price 45:00 amazon rotates that buy box through 45:02 everybody who 45:03 qualifies for the buy box gotcha well 45:06 very interesting stuff this has got me 45:08 energized to take another look at this 45:10 side hustle 45:11 lots of juicy details in this one thank 45:13 you for sharing that stuff 45:14 what's next for you and the selling 45:16 family for us 45:17 it's really just gonna keep finding 45:19 deals and see 45:21 what new things we can sell our son's 45:23 getting more and more into it now he's 45:25 eight 45:26 so right now after we get done with the 45:27 call we're actually gonna go sourcing 45:29 and he's gonna come with us and he's 45:31 got a hundred dollars he saved from he 45:33 did a flip a couple of months ago 45:35 where i think he sold four oxycleans 45:39 that he bought for five dollars each and 45:41 they were selling for 55 45:43 and so he made 130 bucks 45:46 he spent 30 dollars and he's been saving 45:48 this hundred dollars 45:50 so that when he can go sourcing with us 45:52 he can buy more inventory 45:54 it's always a new adventure and then 45:56 really focusing on our students and 45:58 making sure that they can turn the side 46:00 hustle into something 46:01 that means the same to their family as 46:03 it does to ours that's really what's 46:04 important to us is 46:06 it's just been such a blessing to us 46:09 and that it means so much to us when we 46:11 can see that same thing happen for other 46:13 people that is so cool getting your son 46:15 involved teaching him how to multiply 46:17 money and he's going to be 46:18 a third grade mogul that's awesome yeah 46:21 he says can we go pick up profit yes i'm 46:24 like 46:25 yeah sure that is super cool with the 46:28 sellingfamily.com is where you can learn 46:30 more about jessica and everything she's 46:32 got going on over there 46:34 the sellingfamily.com hustle will get 46:37 you access to 46:38 a free seven-day course if you want to 46:40 learn more about 46:41 this amazon fba business see what profit 46:44 you can go pick up this afternoon i love 46:45 it 46:46 let's wrap this thing up with your 46:48 number one tip for side hustle nation 46:50 doesn't have to be 46:51 fba related whatever entrepreneurial 46:54 wisdom you want to impart 46:55 i'll keep it fba related i say the 46:57 number one thing 46:58 is really to give it enough time 47:02 to see fruit from it one of the biggest 47:04 mistakes that we see people make when 47:05 they first get started is they go 47:07 outsourcing one time 47:08 and they don't find anything and they're 47:10 like you know what this is done 47:11 i can't do it it's not going to work for 47:13 me and we always feel like people quit 47:15 right before their big moment of aha 47:19 there's times we go out and we don't 47:20 find anything and so in the very 47:22 beginning 47:23 it can take three or four trips before 47:25 you find that thing 47:26 but once you do it's like oh this does 47:29 work it is real 47:30 just make sure to give it enough time i 47:33 like it jessica 47:34 thanks so much and we'll catch up with 47:36 you soon 47:38 [Music] 47:39 as you've seen from hundreds of side of 47:42 social guests at this point 47:43 a common trait is that they never stop 47:46 learning 47:46 and jessica is clearly no different she 47:48 wasn't born knowing how to do this stuff 47:50 but she's figured it out step by step on 47:52 both the retail arbitrage side 47:54 and the online business side at 47:56 thesellingfamily.com 47:58 practicing just in time learning as she 48:00 goes 48:01 all right my top three takeaways from 48:03 this call jessica number one 48:05 don't overthink it if you're getting 48:06 hung up on what to name your amazon 48:08 seller account 48:09 you're doing it wrong pick something get 48:11 access to the app 48:12 and start scanning just try it as part 48:15 of your next 48:16 shopping trip you might be surprised 48:17 like i was at what's out there at deep 48:20 discounts relative to 48:21 what amazon is selling it for don't 48:23 overthink it take away number two 48:24 is to start lean there are a million 48:27 different 48:27 tools and software resources to make 48:30 your life as an amazon 48:31 seller easier these are the companies 48:33 selling shovels into the amazon fba gold 48:35 rush right i'm totally for it 48:37 but at the beginning all you need is 48:39 that amazon seller app 48:40 my recommendation is going to echo 48:42 jessica's start lean 48:43 and then add complexity and tools and 48:46 expenses 48:46 as your revenue justifies it takeaway 48:49 number three 48:50 this is the important one is to pay 48:51 attention to the seller rank because i 48:53 got burned 48:54 by this in the past two and remember the 48:56 lower the number 48:57 the better when i was sourcing i found a 48:59 couple screaming deals that 49:01 mysteriously the app didn't show a sales 49:04 rank for at all 49:05 had good reviews so i figured it must 49:07 have at least sold a few times 49:08 but it just sat and sat and sat in the 49:10 warehouse earning 49:12 storage fees for a long time before it 49:14 eventually did sell 49:15 but what do you think are you excited to 49:16 get started with this one i might take 49:18 another crack at this next time i'm out 49:20 shopping 49:21 that's it for me thank you so much for 49:23 tuning in until next time 49:25 let's go out there and make something 49:26 happen and i'll catch you in the next 49:28 edition of 49:28 the side hustle show where we're diving 49:31 into some entrepreneurial 49:33 physics and learning how to get unstuck 49:35 in your business 49:36 i'll see you then hustle on 49:44 [Music] 49:53 you via Drewry News https://www.drewrynewsnetwork.com/forum/business/entrepreneurial-upliftment/2557-buying-and-selling-on-amazon-how-this-couple-achieved-sidehustlemillionaire-status-buying-from-thriftstores
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Ever wondered if you had a bright future after graduating from college hoping to be recruited by a top fortune 500 employer? Ever wondered if you'll be able to work yourself to reaching the top of a company? Ever wondered if you'd be able to not only work yourself to the top of the company, but also retire with a healthy pension? If you often wondered "what if," perhaps you may have a different path with a different calling to adhere to. This young bright gentleman use the side hustle in college by creating a useful tool for scientists. He was still working on his college degree at the time. Nevertheless, he did the transformation work and looked to the future. Lo and behold, not only did he prosper in his side hustle, but he allegedly became a billionaire along the way. He's an everyday person just like you. What does it take to succeed in entrepreneurship? In life, negative motivation has a subliminal tendency of bringing out the best in ambitious entrepreneurs in transition from employee to entrepreneur. Life is a daily fight inside your mind and achieving supremacy over adversity. If he can do it, so can you. Why? He's an everyday person just like you moving forward in the uncertain game called life. And, he believed enough in himself to start his own business and not wait until after graduating from college to look for a job in his field of expertise. He carved his own path and forged ahead, even when some people possibly didn't believe in him. Related content on "side hustles":
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Below is the video transcript from the Forbes YouTube channel discussing the toll for scientists in the battle against Covid 19: 00:00 I'm the CEO of a company called bench 00:02 Ling and our mission is to accelerate 00:04 the pace of life science research and to 00:06 do that we build software I was in 00:08 school I'm studying computer science 00:10 being programmed in my first love but I 00:12 did a lot of wet lab biology research 00:14 and I thought I was gonna go combine 00:16 them and find a home at a biotech 00:19 company the drug discovery you know I 00:21 realized that wasn't the path for me you 00:23 know and that's when I started 00:24 reflecting on why that was I wanted to 00:26 immerse myself in a more collaborative 00:27 industry and you know I started working 00:29 on benching as a side project it was 00:31 something that I wanted to exist when I 00:33 was in the lab so it's kind of building 00:34 for myself at first I realized that the 00:36 brightest minds were tackling some of 00:38 the world's most pressing pressing 00:39 challenges cures for cancer drought 00:42 resistant crops you know and they were 00:44 being slowed down by archaic tools that 00:47 made it really hard to work together I 00:48 think that's something I realized that 00:50 was done really well in the software 00:51 industry it felt like it was very easy 00:53 to work with a team of people who might 00:54 be all around the world it felt very 00:56 collaborative I think many people will 00:59 still don't realize that despite how 01:00 large the life science industry is most 01:02 scientists are still operating with 01:03 paper and notebooks and spreadsheets and 01:06 email and really disjointed ways to work 01:08 together on really complex work you know 01:10 that's gonna stifle the potential you 01:13 know of the scientific of scientists 01:15 everywhere and I think so much critical 01:17 research time is wasted on busy work 01:19 hunting for missing data 01:21 unnecessarily repeating the same 01:22 experiments so we really create 01:24 adventuring with the vision of making 01:26 life science research what it's meant to 01:28 be a very collaborative process to turn 01:30 ideas into scientific progress and 01:33 improve the lives with people all around 01:34 the world it was incredibly hard to 01:39 raise money 01:39 most software investors were like oh 01:41 like what's biology they didn't really 01:44 understand it which is I think very 01:45 different from what you're seeing today 01:46 today you're seeing this kind of 01:48 convergence you know it comes to 01:49 investors who want to be involved at the 01:51 forefront of both technology and life 01:53 sciences and then all the biology 01:54 investors were like Bailey this is cool 01:56 but we invest in drugs not software and 01:59 so because life science R&D is so 02:02 incredibly complex it also took us years 02:05 to carefully craft the product while 02:07 listening to customers before we were 02:08 able to hit our stride and so the first 02:10 lines of code for benching were written 02:11 in 02:12 summer 2012 but we didn't start really 02:15 taking off from a commercial perspective 02:16 until the end of 2016 that's that's kind 02:19 of four years wandering in the desert in 02:21 some senses and so keeping a team 02:22 together working on the same product and 02:25 really maintaining conviction that's 02:26 gonna work but that long is this tough 02:28 it helped us really prepare though for 02:30 the ups and downs that come with scaling 02:32 a business and I would say our target 02:35 customer are their scientists and by 02:37 definition scientists are going to be 02:39 very skeptical and data-driven which is 02:41 a really great quality and so we've had 02:43 to kind of cross a high bar already in 02:45 order to command their attention and I 02:48 think if you talk to anyone at our 02:49 company you know all 200 some bench 02:51 things we have now they'll probably say 02:52 the same thing is is you know there's a 02:55 lot of great opportunities to work on 02:56 cool software and cool products you know 02:58 in in our industry but the reason they 03:01 chose bench lingos because the impact 03:03 that's going to have on our customers in 03:04 the world 03:08 [Music] <iframe width="550" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YDFJ5GXJ87M" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> Sick and tired of working for minimum wage and want to start your own <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/emiliearies/2017/05/30/the-5-big-benefits-of-a-bridge-job/" target="new" rel="nofollow">side hustle</a> working from home and need a little side hustle motivation? 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<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddomzalski/2018/01/18/make-75000-per-month/" target="new" rel="nofollow">Alex and Lauren</a> are side hustle blogging millionaires. They worked low wage jobs like many everyday Americans. They did the transformation business work out of inspiration or desperation and earned close to or possibly more than $160,000 in their 1st year of blogging. They inspire people online to let their full entrepreneurial potential out, and coach people to get in the side hustle millionaire online marketing mindset. They offer Pinterest traffic building courses, how to get started online blog courses, and more. Drewry News Network recommends you to subscribe to their YouTube.com/CreateAndGo channel to learn more about starting your affiliate marketing and blogging side hustle. Alex & Lauren sent out an e-mail today to permission based e-Mail subscribers inviting them to learn more on the topic of getting started in the field of "online coashing." The following information-content below is from the CreateAndGo.com e-mail newsletter to opted in subscribers: "The world is changing -- constantly, but 2020 in particular has been FULL of changes. With these changes, we’re all figuring out how to respond, work, and earn a living. There are many challenges ahead, but also tons of new possibilities to explore! Online businesses have been on the rise in recent years -- that probably comes as no surprise. But specifically online courses and coaching have been on a HUGE upward trend in 2020. Our course sales have risen considerably this year and everyone I know was taking some kind of online course or training while in quarantine -- whether that be related to business, personal hobbies, whatever. I've personally been taking a course on how to learn German! On this note, I wanted to share something exciting with you today. One way that a lot of bloggers start earning their first bit of income with their blog is through online coaching. It's a GREAT first step to start earning some income to cover your expenses when you aren't quite ready to take that full step towards creating an online course yet. It's also a great way to learn more about your audience and how to help them -- before you start creating a full-blown product to sell to them. Teachable, the platform that we sell our online courses on, has just released a brand new way to generate revenue with the tools you already have: your experience. It’s called “Coaching," and it allows you to easily set up and sell 1-on-1 live sessions with your audience in minutes. It’s super simple and it's probably the quickest way EVER to launch a profitable business online. Teachable has created a <a href="https://bit.ly/3fvBaDt" target="new" rel="nofollow">free masterclass</a> that covers all the basics and action items you need to get started. In this <a href="https://bit.ly/3fvBaDt" target="new" rel="nofollow">free masterclass</a>, you’ll learn:
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Below is the YouTube video transcript from the video for your reference. 00:00 hey friends welcome back to our channel my name is Lyn Allure if you are new 00:03 here hi hello welcome on this channel we talk a lot about personal finances 00:08 self-improvement making money saving money entrepreneurship overall just 00:12 unlocking the better version of you so if you enjoy conversations like that 00:15 definitely subscribe and join the party due to the unexpected rise of covid-19 00:22 love and positivity will not cancelled conversations of substance is not 00:27 cancelled and securing the bag is definitely not canceled let's be 00:32 realistic unfortunately because of this a lot of people have lost their security 00:36 and a lot of people have lost their source of income it sucks 00:40 this pandemic came out of nowhere and just altered our lives when we were 00:43 working on our 2020 vision boards we didn't see this coming but it's okay 00:47 it's going to be alright we're doing our part as much as we can we're controlling 00:51 what's in our control and we're focusing on solutions so as long as you have 00:56 Wi-Fi which I'm pretty sure you do because you're watching this video you 01:00 are not gonna be broke during this time you are going to be securing the bag you 01:04 are gonna be financially okay you've got this okay so if you're unsure on what 01:09 kind of side helps you can start click the link down below and I'll send you a 01:13 guide on how to find the perfect side hustle idea for you I also have a few 01:18 other side hustle videos and making money online videos that I will link 01:22 down below where I talked about a lot of other different types of side hustles 01:26 I'll leave a link to those videos down below cuz those videos right now can 01:29 actually be very helpful now let's get into these at home jobs and careers now 01:34 a little disclaimer some of these you'll be able to get money from right away 01:37 starting to date and some of these you're gonna need to build over time and 01:41 it's gonna be delayed gratification but if you're investing in yourself now and 01:45 you're designing your dream life you're strategizing you're planning and you're 01:47 executing you're only going to see results so let's get into okay so 01:51 idea number one is to become an online tutor so there are various different 01:55 online tutoring sites out there I'll leave a link down below for you 01:59 specifically I want to get into VIPKid shout out to the VIPKid thank you guys 02:03 so much for sponsoring this video VIP kid is an online teaching and 02:07 educational platform they employ approximately 600,000 teachers our online 02:12 tutor when I was younger I used to hear a lot 02:14 about people who went overseas to tutor students in English or other subjects in 02:19 third world countries or just other countries in general so the IP kid is 02:22 basically that but online and so you're able to work from the comfort of your 02:25 home or wherever you are in the world and help to tutor younger students tutor 02:30 kids on particular subjects so before I work with a company I always do a lot of 02:35 research on the company and what other people are saying about it with people 02:38 who work there saying about it and I read a lot of great reviews about them 02:43 paying their teachers on-time paying their teachers accurately and fairly so 02:47 I would definitely say check out an online tutoring a company there's other 02:52 companies out there I'll leave a list down below but VIP kid is the one that 02:55 I've been doing my research on and I would 100% recommend it based off of the 02:59 reviews that I heard from their teachers and it's something that you can get 03:03 started with right away as well online it says that their workers make anywhere 03:07 from 22 to 24 dollars per hour and upwards as long as you have a four-year 03:12 degree in any subject at all whether it's in health science language 03:16 geography ok English it doesn't matter what your degree is in as long as you're 03:21 able to work in Canada or the u.s. and as long as you have one year of 03:25 experience teaching any sort of subject at all it doesn't necessarily need to be 03:30 teaching in school it could be tutoring of some sort 03:33 it could be teaching a sport and piano you're definitely a great candidate to 03:37 work as an online teacher on the edge kid so I'll leave a link down below for 03:40 you guys if you are interested in signing up for VIP kid and I'll also 03:44 leave some other sites that you can tutor on that don't require you to have 03:47 a four-year degree so the next online job that you can do is to become an 03:51 online transcriber you don't need a degree you don't need a whole lot of 03:54 experience if you know how to type you can be a transcriber so what you do is 03:58 you transform videos into written words there are sites that will ask you to do 04:02 a typing test to find out your wpm your words per minute or you can search on 04:07 sites like indeed and Amazon also another option is for you to seek out 04:12 clients on your own you don't need a fancy website you don't need a whole lot 04:16 of experience since starting YouTube I've received a few emails from people 04:20 who have asked to do my transcribing which is basically when you see that 04:23 closed captioning at the bottom of video closed captioning 04:26 helps people who are hearing impaired or people who are not fluent in the 04:30 language that's being spoke and prefer to read out what's being spoken so in 04:34 this video I'm speaking English but I'm speaking very fast and so maybe someone 04:38 who's hearing impaired or someone who doesn't understand my accent would 04:41 prefer to just read it out it's a very valuable tool to have so you can picture 04:46 services to people who have presence is online via video so youtubers for 04:50 example or you can reach out to people who have any sort of social media videos 04:54 so not only YouTube but people who do things maybe on Instagram or Facebook 04:57 and they just have those little captions down at the bottom you can offer your 05:01 services to people like that also there are places literally on indeed or Amazon 05:06 that you can put resumes in for to apply for those jobs 05:09 now the next idea is honestly a big big blessing because it's amazing for saving 05:14 money and also making money and that is using Rakuten Rakuten used to be 05:19 Ebates now I have made thousands off dollars on Rakuten and since I shared this on my 05:24 social media last month crazy right I know but okay so this is 05:28 how it works it's a cash back online service so whatever you're gonna buy 05:32 online you just use rakuten and you make a percentage of that money back so 05:37 if you're buying something from Sephora you're buying something from Walmart 05:41 you're buying something from Amazon so when you first sign up you get $10 off 05:45 of your first purchase when I used to hear about Ebates before I just didn't 05:49 understand it and it kind of sounded a little scammy to me I'm not even gonna 05:52 lie I was like why would a company pay me for spending money at their company 05:56 like it doesn't it doesn't make sense to me right but Rakatan makes money off of 06:00 the companies and not off of the customer and so if you were gonna spend 06:04 $100 off of Sephora you just sign into your racket in and then you buy it from 06:09 Sephora and you get a percentage of that money back they do pay back currently 06:13 it's February May August and November that you get your money back 06:16 also you're given an invite link and you don't have to have a huge social media 06:20 following to have an invite link you don't have to have any social media 06:24 account at all to get an invite link you can share it with anybody that you know 06:28 who shops online so put it in your group chat and tell your friends hey ladies I 06:32 know we all inside due to Corona due to the korone due to rona and you 06:38 might be shopping online if you do use rackets and you get $10 off of your 06:41 first purchase when you sign up with Rakuten so let's say they're buying 06:45 something off of Amazon and it's $100 they use your sign up link they're gonna 06:50 get $10 off of their purchase as well and then you get $25 for inviting 06:56 someone to use your link so right there use me $25 just by sharing a link you've 07:02 also saved money because you've got that $10 when you first signed up and so 07:06 you're saving $10 you're also making $25 now if just two people use your link 07:11 that is $50 that you've just made without having to do anything so when 07:17 you get those paychecks every three months it's amazing because it's like 07:19 you're getting money back for doing that thing just for shopping and buying 07:23 things that you were already gonna buy you know during this coronavirus 07:26 nobody's going outside I'm not going to the mall to go buy organizers I'm buying 07:30 it on Amazon I'm buying it online so many people are making purchases online 07:34 so you can really take advantage of this time and share this link with anybody 07:38 that you know who shops on line so it's a win-win situation the person who uses 07:43 your link gets $10 off of their first purchase and you get $25 for inviting 07:49 someone and this $25 is not a credit that you can use only to shop online 07:53 it's $25 cash you can get your payment through PayPal or through cheque however 07:58 you prefer but it's $25 cash that you can use towards anything you can use it 08:03 towards gas towards your light bill - where's your phone bill whatever you 08:07 want and so it's just a great platform to make money off of purchases that you 08:11 were already gonna buy and also make money like actual cash for referring 08:15 people to use the program and it's awesome because you don't need to have a 08:18 huge following to see some sort of reward back or return the next online 08:23 job idea is to become a translator now if you are a fluent in any other 08:28 language other than English your services can definitely be of use to 08:31 people who have online presences of any sort now this doesn't need to be only 08:36 videos this can be blog sites this can be service based websites any website I 08:41 all can use your services because it helps them to reach an audience that 08:45 understands the language that they're not presenting information and we can 08:49 also put your services once again as a translator to anyone who has any sort of 08:54 online presence a website job posting literally anything at all it really 09:00 doesn't matter what the Nisha's may be reaching out to local dentists office is 09:03 where health centers just anyone who would like to reach different audiences 09:08 who understand different languages the next idea is to become an influencer 09:12 talent agent now this is one that I didn't actually realize how much of a 09:16 great side hustle it is until I started having influencer talent agents reached 09:21 out to me and I realized wow this is actually an amazing side hustle where 09:25 you are the middleman between the influencer or 09:28 the talent and the brand so as an influencer or some sort of talent you're 09:34 constantly getting emails daily of people who would like you to promote 09:37 their products and you just don't get the chance to reply to everyone it can 09:41 also be very time consuming as well to constantly be following up with these 09:44 brands and negotiating prices and things of that nature and so as the middleman 09:48 your job or responsibility would be to pitch that influencer or talent to these 09:53 brands and in exchange you get a commission of how much that brand is 09:57 willing to pay the influencer now I'm telling you that brands paid thousands 10:03 of dollars for influencers who don't even have a super large audience micro 10:07 influencers are currently well sought-after because their audience is 10:11 super engaged it's a very tight-knit community and family of sorts and so a 10:15 lot of brands prefer to reach out to micro influencers as opposed to reaching 10:19 out to influencers with millions of subscribers or followers oftentimes when 10:24 an influencer is already at a million they've kind of already built their team 10:28 a lot of the times and so influencers who have a smaller closer knit community 10:33 but are still growing and still very active they're still getting tons of 10:37 emails a day of brands wanting to work with them and so they just don't have 10:42 the time to respond back to all those emails or to even pitch to brands that 10:47 they're interested in and so if you get a percentage let's say you get even 10% 10:51 of every brand deal that you bring an influencer and these brand deals are 10:56 let's say $5,000 and you get $500 for simply sending out an email and securing 11:02 a brand deal for an influencer or a talent that's 11:05 five hundred dollars that you made without having to spend a single dime 11:09 upfront so what you would do in order to set this up is you would send an email 11:12 to the influencer or a talent that you were interested in working with if they 11:16 agree and they say yeah I could actually use your services you sent off a 11:19 contract to them and you make sure that you let them know that it's a 11:22 non-exclusive contract and so their lot to work with any other people that they 11:26 want to that's more enticing for them because no one would like to sign an 11:29 exclusive deal with someone who they haven't been able to see brings in 11:33 enough business for them you know if I've never worked with you before why 11:36 would I want to sign an exclusive deal with you and you haven't ever brought me 11:40 in a single dollar of income and so when you have a non-exclusive contract with 11:45 them now once you have that in writing you're able to pitch on their behalf to 11:48 certain brands as their talent agent and it makes them look super official as 11:53 well so the incentive for them is that they're able to get brand deals that 11:56 they don't have to actively pitch to they don't have to actively send emails 12:00 to and it gives their business a sense of looking official or looking 12:04 professional and it kind of sets them up that much more of a notch because it's 12:08 like I have an agent you know it just seems like more serious business you 12:12 know what I mean as long as you're articulating your emails and your 12:15 communications with the talent they'll be comfortable with signing on with you 12:18 and once you have their okayed you can bring in brand deals on their behalf and 12:23 receive commissions for that some people call their agents their managers as well 12:27 so you can become a influencer talent manager or an influencer talent agent 12:32 whatever you'd like to call yourself or whatever you'd like to market yourself 12:36 as you can set up a quick website with something like Shopify Wix Squarespace 12:39 things like that or you can just use your social media use your Instagram 12:43 because those two things can kind of be a digital resume for you so try looking 12:49 into that try becoming an influencer talent agent or an influencer talent 12:53 manager it takes zero dollars to start up and you can start making money within 12:57 weeks the next idea is to write an e-book and sell your ebook online a lot 13:02 of people don't actually realize how much money you can make with ebooks it's 13:05 amazing to look into you can use sites like canva to build yourself an e-book I 13:08 can sell your ebook on Etsy you can set up a quick Shopify store Shopify 13:12 actually released something saying that their trials are now 90 days instead of 13:16 14 days due to the coronavirus and so if you've been 13:19 making about starting an online site of any sort now would be a great time to do 13:24 so so if you've been thinking about creating an e-book you can also self 13:26 publish your book with things like Kindle and I'll leave a list of sites 13:30 that you can self publish your book but it's an amazing source of revenue it's a 13:34 digital product and so it's also a passive income stream like me book the 13:38 next idea is to create a course of course is something that actually might 13:41 take quite some time to build but once you do it's another passive income 13:45 stream because it is a digital product and you can pitch it to an email list 13:48 that you start you can market yourself on Pinterest you can sell it on Etsy 13:52 creating online courses is an industry that's constantly growing and online 13:57 education is becoming one of the largest industries it's a booming industry 14:02 because people are realizing that online education can teach you things that 14:07 universities and colleges cannot so if you have a skill that you are competent 14:11 in think about teaching other people what you know and what you've learned 14:14 alright so the next thing that I want to talk to you guys about is Amazon jobs 14:19 Amazon jobs is similar to indeed or were clop elasaur those other online job 14:25 portals but what I really love about Amazon jobs is that they have a section 14:29 that's specifically for virtual jobs so I'm gonna walk you through it really 14:34 quickly I'm gonna leave a link down below for both amazon canada and 14:38 amazon.com for the u.s. so when you scroll down to the bottom you go to 14:43 careers and then it's gonna bring you to a page that is amazon jobs and so it's 14:49 really dope because they have student programs they have fulfillment center 14:52 hiring and then they have their remote career opportunities and this is 14:56 basically a virtual jobs that you can do anywhere in the world but specifically 15:00 at home and so right now there's currently 1187 jobs that are listed 15:05 full-time online jobs that are listed in several different categories and I just 15:10 wanted to leave that there with you guys because I think it's something that a 15:13 lot of people don't know about and these shops are constantly being updated like 15:18 this one was just posted six hours ago and with online entrepreneurship 15:21 becoming more and more popular more people are looking for online support 15:26 they're looking for people who are able to work remotely and so I just wanted to 15:29 leave this here with you guys so that you guys know that there are tools and 15:32 resources there for you to look into on several 15:36 different industry and a lot of these are looking to hire ASAP and so I would 15:41 definitely urge you to look into Amazon jobs I'll leave the link down below for 15:45 both Canada and the US through every period of adversity there's always a 15:49 silver lining in sinning everybody lots of love lots of positivity and as many 15:54 feel-good emotions your way as possible if there are jobs or opportunities to 15:59 make money online that Eisenman mention I would love for you guys to drop it 16:03 down in the comment section let's get the conversation going let's share 16:07 because sharing is caring it would be super super helpful to our friends who 16:12 are looking for ways to make money online I would just say to keep an open 16:15 mind there are tons of opportunities out there you just have to find them in 16:20 order to find them you have to be looking for them and if you're looking 16:23 for solutions you're gonna find solutions if you're looking for problems 16:26 you're gonna find problems so look for things with a solution based mind I wish 16:31 you guys nothing but the best nothing but prosperity more love more life more 16:36 happiness and more health most importantly that's it for this video I 16:41 love you guys so much love you to the moon and back be true to you bye via Drewry News 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Facts: The world we live in today has much uncertainty. Uncertainty in terms of having family members switch up on you in taking sides with another family member who wrongfully slanders you. Uncertainty in terms of achieving a healthy pension. Uncertainty in terms of what lies in store for you tomorrow or next year. Uncertainty in terms of where your next everything will come from. Believing in yourself by doing the transformation business work out of inspiration or desperation by starting a side hustle in the midst of challenging times will bring positive things hidden within out of you. <iframe width="600" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8do_STCBuqQ" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> The Covid-19 pandemic indirectly challenged many people living in uncertain times today to see what they’re made of entrepreneurially. While the coronavirus is a negative thing, the disease affecting almost the entire world and people’s financial status have inspired many subliminally to start a side hustle. If you’re still in the dark as to what a side hustle is, it’s basically a path you create for yourself to build and retain financial security in the midst of much uncertainty. Truly, uncertainty has a unique way of bringing out the best in aspiring entrepreneurs and positioning them in the near future to benefit from being “side hustle millionaires.” 5 Sincere Truths About Side Hustling to Financial Freedom: 1. Do it From the Heart: Any business you start should be online. Starting a business-side hustle online enables you to position yourself to potentially make money online 24 hours a day. Moreover, it should be a side hustle business that you firmly believe in. Working on your side hustle by building your online business from the ground floor up should be a labor of love doing it from the heart. Why? Well, most people start businesses online and off-line looking for instant rich quick profits. While you won’t get rich quickly on the Internet with any type of side hustle, it’s important that you do something not only that you believe in, but doing it from the heart without looking at how much you’re not making right now. Building a side hustle online by doing it from the heart will open your eyes and mind to seeing things others can’t in your business, opening your mind entrepreneurially to the point of making unique improvements that’ll quietly command increased conversions. When you build and operate a side hustle from the heart working from home or remotely from your laptop anywhere, your heart is involved to the point, whereas you’ll strive for excellence tirelessly to get organized by improving your business online while on the go. <iframe width="600" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h6LxXZOxeA4" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> 2. Work on Days You Don’t Make Money: In the infancy of your side hustle, there will be many frustrating days and months whereas you won’t make sufficient money to make the successful transition from employee to entrepreneur. This is the bumpy road you must be willing to journey down. That is, if you don’t want to stay working on your cushy job for the next 25 to 30 years and retire at a small percentage pension or 401(k). If you believe in nothing yourself to do the transformation business work as an aspiring entrepreneur during this coronavirus epidemic, now might be your perfect time and Golden opportunity to take a dive into the abyss of uncertainty by trying your hand at side hustle entrepreneurship. Starting a side hustle online is the simpler way to go in terms of making money potentially 24 hours a day and here’s why. For starters, the only bills you have to pay is your server, annual domain fee, and other online related costs (if any), to ensure your side hustle Internet-based venture runs smoothly. If you’re an affiliate marketer-blogger and resort to making money online through content marketing, you probably won’t earn a full-time income from doing so until your second or third year in business. Many of today’s successful online entrepreneurs will achieve side hustle millionaire status started out from the bottom-humble beginnings. They do the transformation business work and believe enough in themselves regardless. They understood that side hustle millionaire status wouldn’t come easy, forging ahead in times of uncertainty by doing the transformation business work. They believe enough in themselves that when things got extremely tough, they saw hidden opportunity in their entrepreneurial potential others don't see and press on faithfully. They understood that financial freedom doesn’t come overnight and requires “thinking outside the box,” sometimes being seen as a weirdo by others and unable to fit in. These types of people who use visionary mindsets to forge ahead in times of uncertainty don’t look at how much money they’re making or not making in the infancy of their side hustles. This is why it’s important to believe in yourself before and after starting a side hustle to achieve more than “financial freedom.” Lastly, it’s about “mind over matter.” <iframe width="600" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tA5Jn8-QTOI" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> 3. Look at Everything as Hidden Opportunity Using Positive Thinking: When situations arise in your life whereas it challenges your confidence, that’s not a time to allow Debbie downers to disrupt your positive thinking. When others see you in a certain light as a potential failure or someone that just doesn’t fit in with their culture, it’s a hidden opportunity to use your inner strengths to see what you’re made of entrepreneurially. Positive thinking, a business plan, looking to the future, and retaining faith arm you with the spiritual, entrepreneurial, and physical muscle to achieve more than building and succeeding in “the side hustle.” When challenges present itself to you and sometimes leave you wondering how you’re going to get over the challenge lying dormant before you, that’s when you dig deep inside yourself, pull yourself up by the bootstraps, and do the transformation business work. It’s an ironclad fact that adversity opens doors of spontaneous opportunity. It’s not the end of the world for you because one thing didn’t work. When you have a backup plan and are confident in yourself, you’ll look at every adversity as a unique way to profit financially, and laugh at those quietly made numerous attempts to hinder your life progress. Be thankful for good and bad times because it has a way of keeping you in a positive mind state, and in the driver's seat to prosper in your side hustle by potentially making money online 24 hours a day when least expected. <iframe width="600" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cmmg0UghsUQ" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> 4. Look to the Future and Not What You’re Making or Not Making in the Moment: Some aspiring entrepreneurs get discouraged in the infancy of their side hustle online-based career because of the money they’re not making at the moment. The Internet provides a way for anyone who starts an online side hustle to build their business from the ground floor up to reach an unlimited earning potential. There’s virtually no way for anyone to start an online business-side hustle earning a six-figure income right away. Looking to the future and not in the moment is a good way to reprogram your thinking for success. While you start slowly earning revenues from either promoting affiliate programs on your blog, running paid online advertising campaigns pushing affiliate links, or selling things either through your blog or through online virtual stores known as e-Stores, you’ll start to gain a greater respect for entrepreneurship by going through the process of building your business and learning patience along the way. Going through the process of building and operating a successful online side hustle will take your mind off of the money you’re not making in the beginning of your Internet based side hustle career. If you look to the future will you desire your side hustle to be your full-time business and 100% cash cow-based portal, you’ll be appreciative of experiencing the ups and lows of operating a business, additionally to putting your creativity to work at full strength, with the hope of increasing your online profit potential. <iframe width="600" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q1kq058zfLo" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> 5. Build and Culture Relationships Without Trying to Sell Products and Services: Many aspiring side hustle entrepreneurs tend to make the mistake in the infancy of their online marketing career to promote as many affiliate links “affiliate products and services” as possible on the strength of “cold selling.” Cold selling is a process of promoting a sales squeeze page or paid online ad campaign with an affiliate link included without trying to build and maintain rapport in a business to consumer relationship. In other words, the side hustle marketer just wants to sell online without talking to people. When you create content for your blog or try to promote a product or service online through an affiliate link or products you directly sell yourself, it’s imperative to strive to build and maintain a relationship with your target audience. An example of building and culturing a relationship would be taking the time to respond to your blog readers that leave blog comments after you’ve posted fresh content and a new blog post. When a blog reader leaves a comment on your blog, this is the introduction to building and maintaining a relationship between the blogger and the blog reader. Responding to your blog readers comments is one of many ways of building and culturing a relationship without trying to sell something, despite that you possibly have ads from affiliate programs on your blog. Taking time to respond to blog comments left on your blog posts shows people that not only are you a real person, but concerned about the feedback they leave, and appreciative of blog readers taking the time to leave blog comments. Blog comments actually do justice for the blogger because they add to the rich content of the blog post and help to improve natural search engine rankings. When you build and culture a relationship with your target audience without recommending them a product or service to purchase from your blog, you most likely end up getting more sales from your blogs than hoped for. This is why building and culturing relationships with your target audience is crucial to the success of your online side hustle. If you focus on building and sustaining a relationship through helping your blog reader or customers solve a problem they have, you’ll likely benefit from them being a repeat customer and getting free word-of-mouth positive reviews from them, resulting in increased online affiliate revenue potential. Relationships are almost everything online. <iframe width="600" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T6r4fb2EgVY" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> 'Believing in Self During Transformation' Starting a side hustle is never easy, but definitely worth doing the transformation business work. Transformation can be challenging and roughy; paving a unique way for you to emerge as the victor-champion in the minutes of adversity. Grandfathering in the power of positive thinking is already taking the first initial action step toward overcoming anything obtuse. Be thankful for adversity because in the long run, it’ll do more than help you achieve the near future status of side hustle millionaire. 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Truth: Every unrepentant thief must give an account one day to The Creator! What a sad thing. New Yorkers of various ages continue to rob Macys.com Manhattan, looting the store of goods that doesn't belong to them. Repaying evil with evil is not the answer. If these thieving New Yorkers had spiritual nutrition, they would deploy spiritually mature and wise judgment, and not allow the evil within them to wrongfully steal what's not theirs. Video provided by Bloomberg.com. via Drewry News https://www.drewrynewsnetwork.com/blogs/news/2551-opinion-new-yorkers-who-continue-looting-macys-demonstrate-no-home-training-whatsoever
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Image: <a href="https://mashable.com/article/facebook-employees-speak-out-zuckerberg-trump/" target="new" rel="nofollow">Mashable</a> Some people feel Facebook.com founder or co-founder Mark Zuckerberg allegedly kowtowed or "bowed down" to Donald Trump. In some recent Facebook posts, Mr. Trump, known to some people as their president or a president of something, allegedly wrote and posted some potentially violent Facebook posts. While posts that encourage hate or some type of physical harm are normally censored by the social network giant, Zuckerberg nor the FB content review team allegedly didn't do a thing to take down the post, leaving Mr. Trump to post anything of his heart's desire anytime of the day. Some Facebook employees stood up to Donald and Mark by voicing their thoughts along with their names, making it known they do in fact work at Facebook. Zuckerberg's inaction to censor Trump's alleged violent Facebook posts send a message that Mark doesn't want any problems from Donald. Despite that Trump's posts are possibly inciting violence and possible hatred, Mark's refusal to stand up to the person they call president makes Mark look like a virtual coward with an invisible yellow back spine in an open display of "cowardness." Moreover, Zuck also sends a potential message to Facebook employees and others that Mark is possibly only in it for the money and could care less about what others think or feel now toward him. Does Mark Zuckerberg really care about the people who work for him, or just gaining more profits from Facebook ads regardless if Trump allegedly writes offensive Facebook posts in violation of FB company policy? Now that some Facebook employees voiced their opinion loud enough not just to speak out against Donald Trump and to be heard by the news media, but also for Zuck to know who they are, they also know quietly in the back of their minds that their employment with Facebook is n longer on stable ground. Not on stable ground? Yes. Their employment will possibly stand on shallow grounds, as Zuck will possibly and allegedly find a way to oust those from the company who speak against Mark and Donald. No one looked at as a coward wants to continue employing people who speak against their employer and pay employees who speak their minds freely before the world. With wrongful termination and the unemployment line possibly right around the corner for the FB employees who spoke their minds against Mark and Donald, it leaves terminated employees in limbo waiting to be ford where their bread and butter, or $ gUaP $ will be coming from next. How Facebook Employees Potentially Targeted for Future Termination Can Best Trump and Zuckerberg at Their Own Game To Facebook employees who didn’t have a care for letting your face be seen by the mainstream news and your names published… <center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I work at Facebook and I am not proud of how we’re showing up. The majority of coworkers I’ve spoken to feel the same way. We are making our voice heard.</p>— Jason Toff (@jasontoff) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasontoff/status/1267318891203530752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center> <center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Today I am participating in a virtual walkout over Facebook’s recent decisions not to moderate posts that we believe violate our platform standards.</p>— Margo Very Stern (@wordstern) <a href="https://twitter.com/wordstern/status/1267489181632086017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center> <center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As allies we must stand in the way of danger, not behind. <br>I will be participating in today's virtual walkout in solidarity with the black community inside and outside FB.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >#BlackLivesMatter</a></p>— Sara Zhang (@superrrsara) <a href="https://twitter.com/superrrsara/status/1267488277797322752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center> <center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/Facebook?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Facebook</a>'s recent decision to not act on posts that incite violence ignores other options to keep our community safe. The policy pigeon holes us into addressing harmful user-facing content in two ways: keep content up or take it down.</p>— Sara Zhang (@superrrsara) <a href="https://twitter.com/superrrsara/status/1267488278598479872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center> You better believe your name is allegedly placed on a list for getting fired in the future. That’s right. Your employment with their social networking giant is now in jeopardy. Those long hours you’ve been putting in for the company, whether you work in FB advertising, Facebook technical server side maintenance, Facebook coding, Facebook games, Facebook product development etc. means nothing to the head person (Zuck). You’re keeping him rich. And while you’re most likely taking home a “healthy Facebook salary,” that’s only “temporary.” If you don’t yet have a plan B or alternative plans for keeping some type of $ gUaP $ coming in, it’s a wise choice to “get organized with no delay,” and improvise your alternative plans into transformational action, starting now. Are you a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/01/tech/facebook-employees-twitter/index.html" target="new" rel="nofollow">Facebook employee</a> who spoke up against your employer and Donald Trump openly? Your employment is not only on the rocks starting now, but you should consider taking your skills elsewhere. Elsewhere? Yes, to like starting your own side hustle business. Side hustle business using the internet is the way to go in today’s age of the Coronavirus, information technology, and “politricks.” If you have a love for doing what you do such as sales and marketing, Web server maintenance, building and sustaining business to customer relationships, blogging, or know how to write videogame cold or have knowledge for server-side coding, you can definitely start your own site online and do what you do as a labor of love. Millions of dollars quietly wait to be earned online from partnering with online advertisers and making money from a process known as “<a href="https://bit.ly/2BhRZmk" target="new" rel="nofollow">affiliate marketing</a>.” If you spoke up against your Facebook employer or Donald Trump and now feeling the back of your mind your employment is in jeopardy because you opened your mouth, your future potential termination from Facebook may be a possible bid an opportunity in disguise. It may also be the perfect time for you to start a business on the side working from the comfort of your home, apartment or laptop. Starting now. Working for someone else is only going to keep your employer rich. Not you. While you possibly take on good money now working for Facebook, think to yourself if this is something you truly want to do for the next 20 or 30 years “working for someone else at what they think you’re worth.” Starting an online business now doing what you do for Facebook as an employee is probably something you would do for yourself. Even if you don’t feel you’re the target of a future potential termination after you’ve spoken up against Mark and Donald, it’s still a good idea to get your side hustle online business going today. Regardless of your college education, no job is permanent. You know how they tell you when you’re working a temporary assignment that you can go from “temp to perm?” Guess what? Perm does not mean permanent. If you do something wrong in the eyes of the employer, shift manager, vice president, assistant vice president, or operations coordinator, chances are they’ll see you in a certain light and possibly discuss your future termination, even if you have a college degree. This is why it’s important not to put all of your eggs in one basket working for someone else because just the thought of you in their mind and you doing something displeasing in their eyes will possibly contemplate your future termination as a Facebook employee. Even if you have five cents left in the bank today as a Facebook employee, take that five cents out and invest in starting your online side hustle, by getting organized without further delay. If you write code as a Facebook employee, sites such as Fiverr.com, UpWork.com, TopTal.com, DevelopersForHire.com, and BetterTeam.com have some of the best online talent-web coders. You could join the site as an experienced freelance coder and build up your clientele to the point of working from home for a 100% online profit, becoming less dependent daily on your Facebook paycheck. People from across the world are always looking online to hire freelance web coders to do custom work. This could be your grand opportunity to earn handsome online income from your coding expertise. ‘Affiliate Marketing and Blogging as the Employee to Entrepreneur Solution’ Blogging is another great way to make money online potentially 24 hours a day. If you’re a Facebook employee and love engaging with people online and off-line, this is your opportunity to tap into quiet and hidden profits. There’s a ton of money to be made from blogging alone and partnering with advertisers. Partnering with an online advertiser and placing their advertisements on your blog is a process known as affiliate marketing. With your blog, you can or will partner with an advertiser to market their ads of products and services. When a blog reader clicks on an advert from your blog and completes a purchase, you learn something called an “affiliate commission.” Consistent blogging and repeat engagement with your blog reading audience in providing valuable blog, and feedback builds rapport, increases affiliate income potential, relying less on your Facebook employer for a paycheck. Affiliate marketing has turned everyday people “those ambitious enough to keep going” online millionaires, never returning to the cushy corporate day job scene a day in life. Achieving “side hustle millionaire” status is possible if you see yourself as a standalone entrepreneur who doesn’t see themselves working for Facebook for the rest of their lives. If you feel censored and your employment allegedly in jeopardy because you spoke up against Mark Zuckernerg and Donald Trump, it’s a good idea to get that side hustle blogging gig going now before they drop the “you’re fired” wrongful termination ask on your neck and send you to the unemployment line. Believe in Yourself Are you a Facebook ad sales representative and have a love for selling? Are you a Facebook ad sales rep that spoke up against Mark and Donald and everyone knows who you are now? Guess what? Not only is your employment possibly in jeopardy now, but now may be the right time for you to start your own online ad sales agency. Those skills you have selling all those Facebook ad slots could be skills you use in your own ad sales business tactics promoting your company. Why not take a stab at striking out on your own after your employment at Facebook potentially gets terminated and start your own web advertising sales agency? You just might make it big and feel thankful later down the road your job was nixed for speaking up against Trump and Zuck. Fight Back Against Zuck and Trump and Win How do Facebook employees fight back against Zuck and Trump and win? Don’t look at their status of how much money they have or positions they currently hold. These two people are no better than the average everyday working American. Trump and Zuck can both be defeated through the power of positive thinking. Transforming negative thoughts and adversity into positivity and tapping into hidden opportunities. Starting a business and doing what you do with a labor of love-passion will truly change the history of your human thought. Starting a business in the midst of political chaos and employment uncertainty will bring out positive thinking quality traits in you. Starting a business in the midst of this pandemic and corrupt cop era is more than just starting a business. It requires faith in self and going the extra mile when people don’t believe in you. It requires staying the course and doing the transformation business work out of inspiration or desperation, regardless how many miles you’ve jogged or ran in a marathon in the uncertain game called life. Starting a business requires believing you can achieve greatness if you only get started today, by initiating the first initial action step of investing it in yourself. ‘Profiting Off of Trump and Zuckerberg’ Be happy if you end up getting fired from Facebook. Be happy if Trump allegedly continues posting negative things on Facebook and you end up parting ways with the company. You have set a new standard for yourself Trump nor Facebook to meet. When it’s time for you to part ways with the company, you’ll feel good about yourself that you refuse to settle for sloppy seconds and made the ultimate decision to rely on your entrepreneurial ability to start a business and go all the way by doing the transformation business work. When you succeed in your side hustle business endeavors, you can look back on your past employment with Facebook and your refusal to settle for less and pat yourself on the back for being a true “transformation champion f or life.” via Drewry News https://www.drewrynewsnetwork.com/blogs/news/2550-commentary-and-opinion-how-facebook-employees-can-fight-donald-trump-and-mark-zuckerberg-on-their-own-turf |
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