How To Make Money In E-Commerce
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1 hour and 18 minutes
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150.88123
Summary
Samir is an expert in ecom and dropshipping. He started at the age of 16, dropped out of high school, and made $10k the first year he started his ecom business. He has since gone on to make millions of dollars over the past few years.
Transcript
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You guys have been asking for this for a minute, man.
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So definitely going to give you guys a lot of value.
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Got an expert here that generates quite a bit of money, millions a year.
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At a young age, welcome, Samir, to the Fresh and Fit Podcast.
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A couple nights ago, I was with some friends from France for F1.
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And what happened was is I saw a friend of mine cross the table.
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And then he's just like, bro, here's some wands, bro.
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But it's funny because he came in just mad cool.
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So the first question is, bro, how'd you get into e-commerce?
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How'd you start your process and your business?
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So I've always been wanting to be an entrepreneur when I was younger.
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At the time, it was a lot of money, like 10 racks.
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I thought Amazon was like, this is how I'm going to make it.
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And to be honest, sticking with it is the only reason why it's working now.
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And eventually, after testing so many products, I found one that worked.
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What made you want to not quit the first year losing all that money at 16?
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Like, the thing is, like, in the e-com game, you're testing products, right?
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Looking back, obviously, you got 2020 hindsight.
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What was the main contributing factor to why you failed and lost that 10K?
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I was just throwing shit out the wall, hoping it sticked.
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Bro, we were testing products from, like, couches, trying, like, the high-ticket dropshipping to products, like, skincare devices and stuff.
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Now I only do supplements, which I'll talk a little bit about later, but back then it was just like, whatever I thought was cool, I would test and throw it up.
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So, you know, it's funny because, didn't KT say beauty supplies, hygiene, and supplements do really well?
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Alright, so you start with that, and you said you lost 10k, but how much did it cost you to get things going?
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Yeah, so like to order inventory, you get the Amazon set up like a couple grand.
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So that first product on Amazon I did, it was like an incense dragon burner.
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It was like you put like a little incense thing on it and it burns the flame.
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Our listing kept getting taken down because it was like the little candles were flammable and like all these issues came up that...
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And the business model just didn't work for me, too.
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Amazon gave us a hold before we even processed our first sale.
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They were just like, okay, we're putting a reserve on your account.
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Okay, so you invested like 10K in and just lost it all.
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So I guess you're 16 years old, massive failure at the very beginning.
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What made you win, or at what point did you start winning?
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The site we ended up selling later on, which was like my first exit.
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And then the thing that made you fail was the incense, right?
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It was like, yo, if you're going to smoke weed, we put the leaf emoji and stuff so our ads don't get banned.
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We were doing TikTok, a little bit of TikTok ads.
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But the fact that everybody was home just made things 10 times easier.
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When you said you did TikTok videos, was it you talking or someone talking about the actual product?
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So I did some with me talking and then I'll get other people to do it.
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You know, that's how I got my first couple of sales was me recording the videos.
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And I actually have a great story too because I had some friends at the time that that video popped up on their FYP and they're like I think I know who this is and they'll hit me up like oh, is that you in the video?
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I'm like, yeah It's me and they're like what the fuck are you doing bro?
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Yeah, so so that's funny, bro So were you kind of nervous to get on camera yourself?
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My hatred for school was so great that it was like, that's going to spark me to do entrepreneurship.
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And when I was making those videos, I didn't think it was going to get to the point where people I knew were going to see them.
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And obviously when they saw them, it became the laughing stock.
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Like, yo, look at this guy recording videos, selling lighters.
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You're not going to be able to buy a house selling lighters, right?
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I made over a quarter million profit on that business.
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And I was like, well, I can buy a house now with that.
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I hope you smashed her and then never talked to her again.
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Currently, people are looking to make money online.
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I compare dropshipping to, like, owning a gas station, right?
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The Indian guy comes up with owning a gas station.
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That's like, yeah, yeah, like a fried chicken spot.
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We'll fail at dropshipping, just like people will fail at owning a gas station.
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Obviously, there's certain types of gas stations that do better.
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You can have that 7-Eleven at a good location, and you're going to print.
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So when it comes to dropshipping, it was like...
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It'll be like 10 out of that going on the 7-Eleven, and they just have portions of...
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The point I'm trying to make is with dropshipping, our little edge was doing the branded approach.
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That's what we teach people, and that's what we made 20 mil last year with, right?
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Was that branded approach, and that was like...
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I just turned 21, but I was 20 last year, so...
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Yeah, and I can pull it up and show you guys too.
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Hold on, at 21 years old, what were you doing at 21?
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Dude, I was coming to America with no job, trying to find a way.
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It's crazy the amount of opportunities on the internet now.
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Growing up, I remember, because I'm 35, growing up as a millennial, if you didn't go to college, when Obama was in office, they considered you a loser.
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They're like, oh, you go to college, you're a idiot, you're a scam.
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But my generation, if you didn't go to college, you would look at it as a failure.
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But now with the ability to make money on the internet.
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Unless you're going to a top school and you're majoring in something that will actually get you a job after, college is one of the biggest finesses and scams ever.
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So I'm going to hide the store just for the safety of people not stealing my product.
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Hey, I don't know too many of you guys want to show the actual results, bro.
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I want to do it at the beginning, too, because I know it gives credibility to some of the stuff I say, which I get.
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You can cover it with your hand if you need to.
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Just cover up whatever you need to and then they'll see it.
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So, that's last 365 days, 9 point something million on one floor.
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You can move it, even flick it up and down, just so they know.
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So that's the 8 mil on our store, the last 255 days.
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Did you want any other bio info or into how he does this?
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Because I think you're into dropshipping, right?
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So the issue with dropshipping nowadays is if I go on YouTube and I look up how to dropship, there's going to be so many videos.
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Because there's a lot of people here that have no idea what this is.
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We'll go like, Super simple, like, they have no idea what it is.
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Yeah, so dropshipping is really just a method of fulfillment.
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So, to be, like, technical with you, I do e-commerce.
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We own e-commerce businesses similar to, like, Fabletics, similar to, like, Skim, similar to, like, Blendjet, brands that everyone knows.
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Dropshipping is just a method of fulfillment to where we don't have the old inventory, right?
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So if I wanted to sell a portable blender today, I don't need to go and buy inventory, hold the inventory and do all that BS.
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I can literally just hit on my supplier and be like, yo, how much is it going to cost per unit?
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And as I get sales, they invoice me and they send out the product.
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So there's really no cost except your marketing.
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In the beginning, do you pretty much have to make this a one-man when you're starting out by yourself?
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Are you able to kind of have that middleman even early on when you don't have as much capital?
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Even in the beginning when you don't got capital.
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Even in the beginning when you don't got capital, yeah.
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I teach people how to do content and stuff off the bat.
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Because a lot of people wonder, like, okay, if I'm going to sell this product, where do I get the content from, right?
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With AI and stuff, that's why our results last year...
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And the good thing is, like, on YouTube, you're not going to find anyone talking about that because it's so recent, you know?
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And the reason I say that is because with AI, right?
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Because I know I sound like a geek saying that, like AI, AI, AI, but trust me, dude.
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On a micro standpoint, we've had ads for our dropshipping business generate us millions of dollars with fake...
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Like, for example, anyone dropshipping, creatify.com.
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That's one right there that we've made millions with because we go on there.
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You can use one of the AI creators to make the ad.
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You can build a store in like fucking 30 seconds.
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Yeah, your product pages, your product description, your ads.
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If I show you some of the stores, it looks like it took years of production for the ads in the store.
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So you're telling me, I can create an AI, I guess, creator, have them in a video, million dollars, and I'll speak a word.
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How does someone get started in e-commerce branded dropshipping?
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I'm not going to sit here and say, this is what you want in your product.
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What type of products do you guys want to sell?
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We do like men's gummies, stuff like that, right?
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You see a product that's doing well, like a supplement's doing well.
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There's a lot of AI tools you can use to do it.
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But the first thing is just finding that supplement.
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And let's say, for example, give us three products that you think would be good for people watching right now.
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So first product would be like a weight loss supplement, right?
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The second one, I would say, would be like a hair oil, right?
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Any sort of hair oil, hair cream, hair mask, anything that someone can put in their hair to make it look better, that's game.
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And the third one, just to end it off, I'll do an oddball, actually.
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The only clothing I would prefer to sell is shapewear.
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Like, women actually have an issue with their hair.
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So they need products they always buy when they come here.
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I mean, the thing is, you gotta realize, when people are buying, the whole business is off of ads, right?
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So much better or so much profitable than everyone else is it because they can't be I remember KT saying like you want to get products that can't be returned for us the reason why I make so much money is impulse bro If a fat girl is on tik-tok and she's scrolling and she sees a video of someone like yo You don't need to be fat anymore if you just wear this bro She's buying it even if it's like 80 bucks.
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You know he did he saw the delusion of women and see you know what I'm gonna peel to their wants and needs here you go That's smart, bro.
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He's paying them back for all the finessing they do to the guys.
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Y 'all should be taking this guy right now, bro.
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And I'm teaching them how to finesse them, too, bro.
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So, I guess, what's the best part of all of those three you think people should start with?
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I know we joke about it like, yeah, women are fat.
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No, bro, this shit has made me a millionaire, bro.
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And I get a lot of heat for saying that, but who cares because that's how I made my millions.
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We've seen the most success, the best profitability, the best metrics off weight loss to women.
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Exploit that shit, bro, because God knows they'd be finessing us, bro.
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They'd rather put their life on the line in fucking Brazil.
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These chicks don't want to lift or actually train.
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They're like, I just want to body without doing shit.
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So I guess for someone watching right now, let's say they're...
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18 years old, 20 years old, and they want to get into this.
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And for all you guys out there, listen up because he's going to give you, literally for free, how to get started right now.
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He's going to give you guys a crazy amount of value.
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So this is the part where you pull out the pen and the paper and he's going to go step by step how to start for someone that has...
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Let's start with someone that maybe got less than a thousand bucks.
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Do they have money coming in or do they just have like...
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Even though, as someone who has a program, I'll make more money saying, yo, you don't need that much money.
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I'll never scam people out of thinking that they can just boof, right?
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For me, to be completely honest with you guys, I was trapping.
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It was a gram and a little bit of Old Spice, bro.
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So that's how I had some active income coming in, bro.
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So let's say I'm a guy just working a regular job.
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Because I want to get these guys at the poorest.
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What is the bare minimum they need saved and or coming in to start with literally nothing?
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Because you don't want to be spending all your money, bro.
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Really, all your expense is going to go to your ads.
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Because the way the business works is when you have a...
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Just so I make sure we really give him this value.
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Basically, you could put all that $3,000 into it, you would say?
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Okay, so for the young guys, there's probably a lot of y 'all.
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If you live with your mom and dad, that number goes down to $1,000.
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So if you have $3,000, $5,000 set up, you have no expenses, you can get into it.
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Because I'm not going to tell people to not eat to do this.
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1k if you live with your parents, you got no expenses, you could get started.
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Now, typically speaking, whenever you do a product or service like that, you have a mentoring space that can help you right away.
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How should they start getting to, I guess, that specific?
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So let's say you found that product, callodata.com.
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I'm going to give people the websites, too, because I know a lot of people have their pen and paper out.
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You can go on there, and it's like the best product research tool.
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And they're not paying us for this, by the way.
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We're giving you all this literally for y 'all so you guys can literally get started today if you guys got some money coming in or live with your mom.
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And as you guys can tell, the top products, mascara.
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The instant tea powder, that's a weight loss, right?
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If you sign up to Calidato.com, I have no affiliation with them.
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I forgot how much it is, but it's not that much, like $20, $30.
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You can actually see how much money these guys are making, too.
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And they give you videos on the right that you can use for inspiration.
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You can put it into AI, get the same type of videos, or you can mash them up, mix it together, add AI to it to make it your own.
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Yeah, I think they got Dana White in one of the products, right?
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Okay, so let me pretend to be the guy that's trying to get this started, right?
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I'm looking at the top products that have the, I guess, best resale value?
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The products that fit the demo that I explained, which is like weight loss, skincare, hair care, anything that solves insecurity.
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What we were laughing about earlier is honestly, like, that's game, bro.
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Because there's been other websites, I remember KT showed us, for other types of products.
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So this is specifically for your niche, which is supplements, beauty, that type of thing.
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Yeah, this is for what we do, and this is what's making the most money right now, period.
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So this gives you a list of what you can start.
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So let's say I want to start with number three.
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Number two is an easy one, because I know that one hits.
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So right now, since he doesn't have the actual software, like he hasn't signed up, it just puts a bunch of numbers on there.
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But let's say, assuming he signed up, it would show him how much they're actually making, right?
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So you know, like, for example, these guys make like $2-3 million a month.
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If we sign up on an account, I'll show you, but it'll take like a second.
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So if you scroll down, it's all blurred out because obviously this is a software they're going to charge you.
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They'll show you what's working, what isn't working.
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You can go ahead and next step is create a website.
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Why would another company show what's making them a bunch of money?
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Doesn't that fuck them up for their competitiveness?
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They literally skimmed all of TikTok's shop and put all the data on there.
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It's good for beginners because beginners have all the data right there for like 30 bucks a month.
00:53:25.000
So would it be fair to say that what differentiates you from a beginner when they have the same exact advantage is probably, I'm assuming, relationships?
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I would say relationships is not as important as other businesses like real estate, for example.
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But for this, I would say it's just a skill set in marketing, dude.
00:53:41.000
So I've launched so many ads in my lifetime of doing e-com.
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So now we're on step, it appears to be three here.
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So you want to go and create a website on Shopify, right?
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What I showed you guys earlier, that was a Shopify dashboard, right?
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You go to Shopify, and I'm going to give as much free game as possible.
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For all our stores, we use one software called Atlas.com.
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So it's going to build that store for you in like a minute or so, right?
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And all you have to do is literally just put the product that we picked.
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You have to put like a little description, like maybe like less than a paragraph.
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Now you have a store that in, let's say, 2022 would have taken me days to build.
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I don't want to make money off of shit like that.
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And you gave the software, what was it called one more time?
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Do you start purchasing the product or what do you do next?
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They're, like, if you really just Google, like, dropshipping supplier, people come up, right?
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So the great thing about China is, as we do use China, is...
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When you have a dropshipping agent, you can message them any time of day, and they'll tell you how much each product costs, and they'll fulfill it for you.
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So the thing is, there's a lot of softwares out there.
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These are all websites people can write down and go to.
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There's dropshipping agents there that can source that product, exact product, similar products to that.
00:55:57.000
So let's get that up there and we're going to keep giving you our crazy value.
00:56:04.000
So, okay, let me go through this because I really want the audience to understand this.
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Roughly $3,000 coming in if you live by yourself.
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You can get started at $1,000 if you have no expenses.
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Step two, get on that website and look at the products that we showed earlier.
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After that, you decide on, let's say, product number three, which, what was it called again?
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Yeah, let's say it was like a tea, like a fat-burning tea.
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Then, with that product in mind, you go and you go on Shopify, make an account, use the AI software Atlas to build your store.
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And you gave a bunch of websites for that where they can get the supplier.
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Now you have the whole back end of the business done, basically.
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So from here, now you need to run some ads, right?
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And that's where a lot of the teaching comes into play.
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It'll be hard to teach someone in a 20, 30 minute little pod.
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Create a business manager, just like any other, like if you had a marketing agency, if you had any other product, service, you need ads.
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Go to facebookads.com or TikTok ads, either or.
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Let's stick with Facebook for simplicity stakes.
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Go to Facebook ads, and now it's time to launch your ads, right?
00:57:23.000
So that's step four, going to Facebook ads, right?
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So to give people some websites they can go to to making the ads, it's, let's see, Creatify, the one I gave earlier.
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Those are three websites you guys can go to to make AI ads.
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So you're telling me, back in the day as a creator, I'd have to go outside, get a cameraman, find some lighting, find some good backdrop with the product, make that commercial.
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Every week, I'm like, I'm finding a new one that is like a game changer for making content online.
00:58:09.000
So when you get your ads done, that's the hard part.
00:58:12.000
Can you show us an example of what these AI ads look like?
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Because like, you know, a lot of us aren't maybe as tech savvy or CA.
00:58:20.000
We think it's like some deceptive, you know, technology.
00:58:26.000
Yo, I don't want to hear that we don't bring sauce on the podcast, bro.
00:58:41.000
The thing is, bro, you can't scam people on the internet anymore.
00:58:43.000
If you scam people, you're going to have a very short career.
00:59:15.000
As a creator, bro, that's kind of scary because now...
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You guys have probably been deepfaked a lot, by the way.
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Like, there's probably some e-com kid, some jeet that was like, yeah, let me make a bad.
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Someone's using our videos to promote their coin.
00:59:39.000
I mean, if I don't stutter, Nick, you know it's real.
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Now I'm assuming that 3K that they have comes into play.
00:59:50.000
So up until this point, you really haven't spent any significant amount.
00:59:54.000
Because you haven't even bought the product yet, right?
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You don't even need to buy the product until you get the sale, right?
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So up until this point, there's literally been no expense.
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You go to, let's say you use CaloData, let's say you use the AI platforms, like max, max, you're spending like $100 there, right?
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I want to basically have all the software to run this thing.
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So you've essentially created a business out of thin air.
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You're going to launch the creatives you made, right?
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And this is the part that gets a little complicated, and I'm going to lose some of the beginners here, but I'm going to do my best to break it down because in 2025, our marketing is very, very simple.
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Even if you're selling a woman product, you don't even need to target women anymore.
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Meta, these platforms got so smart where back in the day, you would have to do all this targeting, interest, bidding, all this bullshit I had to learn.
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Nowadays, bro, you just literally put the campaigns up.
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You just follow the tutorial that Facebook gives you when you sign up.
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And if the creatives are good, if the product is good...
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And the more sales you get, the more you can spend on ads and the more sales come in.
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When you're doing like dropshipping or e-commerce, for example, you're running ads, there's one metric you need to look at.
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So if I put $1 into Facebook ad and I get two back, that's a two ROAS, right?
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So hypothetically, if I'm putting $1 and I'm getting two back and I'm profiting 50 cents, I put $100 in, I get 200 back.
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So for our brands, for example, let's say we made $20 million, right?
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We spent, let's say, around $10 to $11 million on ads.
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Out of that $20 million, we probably profited like around 30%, 25% or 30%.
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So we took home, I don't know what the math is on that, like over $4 million, right?
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And the great thing about it, it's a machine, bro.
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If a creative is working at $5 spend, it's going to work at $100 spend, so on and so forth.
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It's about finding the right ad and just pushing money into it.
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The thing I love about Shopify, unlike Amazon, there's no reserves.
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So when you're running your ad, let's say you put in $100, you get $200 back.
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It's one of the few businesses to where you can scale the $100K profit very quickly if you get something to work.
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So half the game, to me it seems like the two most important things here are, one, identifying the product, and then two, getting the ads going.
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And if you could figure that out, at that point, successful recipe, just scale that recipe.
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It's not a walk in the park, because then everyone would do it, right?
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It takes some consistency and persistence to find that.
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But once you do it, it's the fastest scaling business I've found.
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I was going to say real fast, you put in this 3k, how much time do you think they're going to need?
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Time and money is going to have to go until they hit something.
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So I would say without a mentor, it's out there.
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Because there's a lot of shit you've got to learn too.
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I'm really breaking it down as much as I can for people.
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And by the way, anyone who's really interested, we have free videos.
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I'm not even going to tell people to sign up for the program.
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We have videos out there, three-hour videos, two-hour videos.
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But I would say without a mentor, depending if you're, like, actually pushing it, like, you're actually putting in products every week, you're trying, you're trying, it could take up to, like, let's say, like, four months, four to five months if you don't have a mentor, you don't have someone holding your hand.
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With, like, an accountability coach, someone holding your hand, someone really helping you out, having better ad accounts, better suppliers, like, the best connections possible, that could probably take, like, let's say 90 days.
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Yeah, to get something that's actually working, getting like 5, 6, 10k profit a month.
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And the main reason I set that up too is actually for investment purposes.
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We've invested in a decent amount of people that have succeeded with our strategies.
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I got it at a young age, which I'm really grateful for.
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I won't say his name because he's a very low-key guy.
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He was like, okay, you got cash flow, bro, but the next play in entrepreneurship is equity.
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I got a Lambo, though, but that's not real equity.
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And obviously, we're not going to do it for free, right?
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And we're going to invest in the people that do well, which we have.
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We have some people absolutely crushing it, and we invest in them, and we get a part of their business, and they're happy.
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We're trying to build a huge play and make a whole bunch of people rich.
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Are these people basically just paying you, and then you run everything for them, and they just get a percentage of the profit?
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So these are people that, for example, that's to the best case scenario, someone that would come into Brandify.
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They did really well, and we came to them with like, hey.
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I can't say the exact amounts because that's not fair to them.
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But let's say we give you this amount of money.
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We basically come in like investors, basically.
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Everything you just described, from getting the money, figuring out what product you want to use, getting Atlas, and then building up the Shopify store.
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I want them to be able to be on their own feet, right?
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Do they have to be showing sales for them to...
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So that's why we're vested in our students, the people that come in with us.
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Because it becomes an investment for us, right?
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And she was ripping like 20, 30K days on her store.
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Like, okay, Lauren, let's give you this amount of money.
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Can we get involved on this story and we can build together?
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And that's the story of the people we invest in.
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They come in, they learn it, they start to crush it because they're actually motivated, right?
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Because let's be honest, a lot of people here will take notes.
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But the people that actually follow through with it, we want to make sure we reward them and we get a piece out of it.
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Well, no, I mean, you're not snake oil salesman.
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You're telling them, like, you've got to have it built first.
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And then the mentorship is you have to be at least in a position where your store is up and running.
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The thing is, the mentorship comes into play if somebody is serious about it, right?
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We teach people for free, and a lot of people have just watched my content and made a bunch of money, and that's it.
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I actually don't mind that because I wish I had more of that when I started.
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But the people that come in, invest in Brandify, they learn, let's say they fast track, they get to where they want to be faster.
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We give the opportunity of investment of like, okay, hey, like you have a brand now.
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Let's turn it into like a real econ brand because that's a beautiful thing about dropshipping.
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If you have a dropshipping store that's crushing it, why don't you just order inventory and make it a real econ brand now?
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You know, like Rise, the Mushroom Coffee, you have a brand like that, Javi Coffee, like these type of brands that make millions a month, you can have that from e-com.
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No, I mean, that's very, I mean, guys, if you've got questions, you know, I think you gave a really good bird's eye view of how the operation works.
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We're going to do a Zoom call with the Castle Club after this.
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So, my final question is here for you, brother.
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She wants to be a nurse, so, you know, support that.
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So you're going to change your mind and say doctor?
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Well, I know you're Indian, but, like, where are you guys from in the States?
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Well, I'm actually half Indian, half Pakistani.
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I moved to Miami about two and a half years ago.
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I do have flashy shit, like a nice car and whatnot.
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I think every young guy, you gotta experience it, right?
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My first two, three years in business, I prefer...
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All you need is internet connection to run that kind of business.
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The only place that was open during COVID was Bali and Mexico.
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It's like the only places that didn't get shut down at all.
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Well, for me, it fucks up my streaming schedule.
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What's the best place you've been to, in your opinion, to live?
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It has all the shit that Miami has without the danger.
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Yeah, I mean, there's no niggity in Dubai, man.
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That's my biggest complaint, actually, with the UAE.
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If you're on the Palm, that's where they're all at.
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But if you're in a regular area, it's not all escorts.
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But yeah, I think for the safety alone, I think it's superior for raising a family.
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Okay, so if you can go back in time, would you change anything about your life so far?
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Okay, I was trying to get into NFTs at one point in my career, and it distracted me from e-com.
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I think that's one thing that I think I would want to remove if I could in my past.
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Because the thing is, I always tell people this too.
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I know a lot of people that might be watching this are now contemplating getting into dropshipping, getting into what I do.
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So if you have an agency, if you're trying to start a podcast, if you're trying to do crypto, and you've put time, money, and energy into that one thing, just do that.
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I don't know if you know that, but it's like every time the girl in the red dress goes by, you look.
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Because the only reason that a retard like me can make this much money is because I stuck in one industry for a long enough time.
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And look, that's very transparent of you to say, look, guys, this might not be for a lot of y 'all.
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But I think nowadays, what's happening with the economy, if you don't have an actual plan, this could be a plan.
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Different topics, different genres you can hop into.
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I think everybody- In today's day and age needs to have a plan.
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Especially if you're working a nine-to-five, bro.
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Yeah, I mean, as you guys know, here's the thing.
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I think it's very important people understand this because, you know, as you guys know, I do a lot of political commentary.
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And J.D. Vance, basically the reason why he got selected as vice president by Donald Trump.
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All these guys who are lifelong Democrats, Obama supporters, Hillary, came in and switched their tune.
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So, that's why cryptocurrency is getting favored.
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So, for everybody, you know, that's like wondering, like, oh man, you know, fuck AI, fuck tech, like, you know, I'll just keep doing what I'm doing.
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It is going to be the future of cryptocurrency.
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Just understand, guys, that with this presidential administration, it's going to be expedited.
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I wanted to talk about AI because we're doing a lot of it now.
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And it's not by, like, I'm not trying to make it sound like flashing shit.
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Girls nowadays are not using Google for assistance.
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Where to live, how to dress, how to lose weight.
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Listen, Samir, you dropped the sauce today, bro.
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Yeah, we're going to do a Zoom call where you guys can literally, you know, he's going to, you know, go deeper.
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And all of his stuff is in the description, by the way, guys.
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We're going to put his YouTube, Instagram, all the social media.
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Did this guy buy any Snap soap and deodorant with the income he made?
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No, I'm just making sure that I didn't know why.
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That's why I said another nigga smell good, man.
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Grandma's at the Microsoft Call Center for quality assurance.
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Now you're going to have to spray the whole studio with deodorant.
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Dude, this is actually a really fucking good question.
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Given what's going on with China, what, they got like 125% tariffs?
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I thought when it was all happening, like, we're gonna have to deal with a lot of shit that I wouldn't be used to.
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But, like, let's say we got a product for $7 before dropship.
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Now it's only gone up to, let's say, like $8.50, right?
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And the thing about branded dropshipping, too, I forgot to mention, is we like to...
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And these are China products, to be clear, right?
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Like, they'll move it to another country and say it came from there to get around it, but okay.
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That's why I recommend the suppliers I gave earlier, because they don't scam.
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But, like, for example, with branded dropshipping, we charge a lot more for our products.
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So if you have, like, a branded website, you can get a product for $7 and sell it for, like, $50.
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That's why we're able to consistently make so much money is because we have such a good markup.
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So even if our cost of goods rise by a dollar, we're still chilling.
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Okay, so you don't even buy, like, a dollar, two dollars, that could potentially...
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Be tens of thousands, but you look at it like, I'd rather get the volume than increase the price.
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So that you could be competitive with other people selling the same product.
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By the way, I think people might have not caught this, but you told us some websites just now, even though dot shipping are amazing.
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Just using that for business-wise and common sense, that website you mentioned before with the website maker?
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Bro, is Wix and Squarespace even still in business?
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I don't know how because with that software, bro, and that actual AI advancement, bro, you don't need nobody.
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Like this, you can at least make your own shit.
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So with that information alone, you start business and do whatever you want.
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Unless someone wants to learn from you, how do they get started?
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Yeah, or just DM me or click on the link and you'll see us.
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We'll be able to go into more details for all you guys.
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We're gonna keep the stream going on Castle Club, so come on over, guys.
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The stream's gonna continue on, though, obviously, on Castle Club.
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Just take a quick pace and everything like that, and then reset, and we'll be back here in about two minutes, guys.