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I love what Helen said: “I have been successful because I am interested in improving”. So simple and so clear. After talking to her for a while it became very clear it has worked. She clearly has found her lane for this time in her life. Thinking about this, you too need to find what YOU need for now, not forever. When you really let this set in, you gain some perspective about your life. If you can find happiness , remember for what you are doing now. Not forever, then move to the next segment of your life and find happiness there. Wash, rinse and repeat. Boom… a well designed life.
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Gaye’s Million Dollar Arbitrage List
Transcript: (note- this is a new tool I am trying out so it is not perfect- it does seem to be getting better)
Stephen: [00:00:00] I’m excited to talk about my sponsors today, Gaye Lisbey’s million dollar arbitrage group. Amazing, amazing group. This is a teacher. This is Gaye, she was a teacher. She is a teacher. Still. You need to learn. This is the type of environment you want to be in because she’s going to help you understand why, and I think that’s the hardest part of this business is understanding why. Why is the red one popular when the green one isn’t? Well, there’s usually a reason and what Gaye does is probably parse that better than anybody and she’ll explain the reasons for those things. I think that’s really powerful. Yes, she puts out a list. You’re going to get a good use of that list if you get in the group. Now here’s the deal. The group isn’t always open, right? So you get on the waiting list and you can join the waiting list through my link.
Stephen: [00:00:46] Doesn’t cost anything to get on a waiting list and if you like her service, which I find that most people do that, that’s why there’s not so many openings. Um, you’ll be with her for a long time. And so it’s amazing freedom.com. She’s part of Andy Slam. It’s group amazing freedom.com. Forward slash momentum. And you’re going to get in the waiting list. That’s all I can get you on right now. You can use my name and see if that gets you anywhere. But what I like about in the uh, what I like about what they teach in that group or the things that are going on, you know, the current things. I’ve seen a lot of stuff going on about stores going out of business. Well here’s where an opportunity is, here’s why you want to do this. Hey, be cautious about this, you know, with toys r US coming out, you’ve got to think about this and that’s the learning that you need to do.
Stephen: [00:01:30] And Gay is better than anybody else I’ve seen. So I’m amazing. Freedom Dot com. Forward slash momentum will get you to the waiting list. Then hopefully I can get you in the group and then you’re going to see me in there and we can chat anytime you’re ready. Karen lockers, group solutions, the number for ecommerce solutions, four ecommerce.com, forward slash momentum. It’s going to save you 50 bucks. Karen’s our account manager. We recommend her to everyone because she’s done so well for us. I mean that’s quite frankly the reason we’ve been paying her for last few years, but she’s become an important part of our team. Her and her team are so involved in our account. I just see the emails coming back and forth, hey, we did this for you. I just saw two listings today. I’m like, wait a second. Why did they show up?
Stephen: [00:02:09] I did put any listings up. They got a. They got a set off to the side by Amazon and they reactivate them for me. You know what I mean? That’s the stuff that just happens when you have a strong team and I can’t recommend Karen enough if you use my code. Momentum. Karen pays me. I don’t want to hide that. Of course we all know that, but you’re going to say $50 and it’s a great opportunity to really, really build out your team with somebody you can trust. That’s why I recommend them. So solutions four ecommerce solutions, the number four e-commerce dot com, forward slash momentum. It’s going to save you $50. Oh, and by the way, she’s going to do an inventory health report. Why is that important? Well, guess what fees are going up. Is your inventory health number declining like ours is?
Stephen: [00:02:57] Well, here’s why and what they can do. What I like is I get a spreadsheet from them and it says, Hey, here’s a bunch of inventory. Here’s what we recommend. And I’m like, Yep, read refund. I mean a delete a return to us, blah blah, blah, whatever it is and it’s or destroy and it just happens. That’s what I like. The other thing that I have Karen helped me with a lot is creating new listings. We do a lot of the research ourselves. We upload our images and then boom, magically the listing goes live and I don’t have to worry about it. Those are the services that Karen offers. CanNot recommend her enough solutions. Four ecommerce.com forward slash momentum. Save 50 bucks. Use My code. You save $50 a month every single month and it’s a great service. Plus you get that free inventory health report. I think it’s a really powerful way, so I can’t.
Stephen: [00:03:45] I’m so excited how many people have been joining her because I see it and I’m excited because the messages I get from people saying, hey, this is great. I finally feel like I can focus on something else because Karen and her team are watching this for me and I highly recommend her. Next up is scale a seller lambs and scope and we’ll set it wrong. It’s, it’s amazing. I mean, it really is amazing when you sit back and think about, hey, I want to get this product up and it similar to this product and that’s, that product does well. Well therefore, if that product does well, they have the right keywords, they’ve chosen things correctly, so guess what? You scope and you could see all that stuff and that’s what the most powerful thing in the world is to copy somebody who’s done it right.
Stephen: [00:04:28] That’s what you want to. You want to take advantage of that, right? I mean it’s, it’s fair to see and so therefore you can take and apply it to your listing and immediately get that same benefit. That’s what scope does for me. Sellerlabs.com, forward slash momentum. It’s going to save you $50 on the service. Oh, by the way, it’s free to try. So sign up, try it and say, oh, this is how it’s done. Boom. And then you’re going to. The light’s going to go on and you’re going to be like, man, I can get my products out there. I just can’t wait. Can’t wait. So are labs.com forward slash momentum? The other day I bought another domain. Yes, I bought it the other domain. It’s almost like A. I’m admitting guilt, but it’s because I had an idea and it was something that was a pretty good idea I think is going to go pretty far.
Stephen: [00:05:18] And so what do I do? I go to try Godaddy.com forward slash momentum and save 30 percent. So domains aren’t very expensive. You get a few services, it adds up a little bit and I usually buy three years. I usually by privacy, by the way, I recommend that to buy that, you know, it’s not that much money, but when you can save 30 percent it makes it that much sweeter and it makes it easier when you’re buying domains and especially if you buy a bunch of domains. I am a domain collector and so I do tend to do that, but that 30 percent makes it a lot easier and I use godaddy because what I like is I can pop in and address, I’m thinking and it’ll say nope, nope, could try this version or try this extension and then boom, there it is. Hey, you better hurry before it goes away.
Stephen: [00:06:00] And the right, you know. And so try Godaddy.com forward slash momentum save 30 percent. Also want to mention about grasshopper, who was just talking to somebody the other day and they were like, Oh yeah, use this company called grasshopper. I’m like, Dude, did you buy it through my link and save 30 percent? Hello? No, they missed that. So save 30 percentage, try grasshopper.com forward slash momentum. No surprise there, but you’re going to save 30 percent and what the real cool part about that is they’re using it for their private label business and it gives them virtually a second phone on their current phone without having to get another number. They can make up a vanity number. They don’t have to go and do all the grief and sign loan contracts. Pretty easy stuff, and so if you’re creating a brand that you want to identify, you want to look professional, you want to look like a real company. Grasshopper is a great tool. It’s an app you put on your existing phone and boom, you now have a customer service to. You now have a sales department. You’d have a manufacturing division. You could forward it to somebody else. You can have it go to different voicemails, different departments, and it’s all included. So try grasshopper.com, forward slash momentum. Save 30 percent.
Cool voice guy: [00:07:13] Welcome to the ecommerce momentum thought jazz where we focus on the people, the products, and the process of selling. Today. Here’s your host, Steven Peterson.
Stephen: [00:07:27] Welcome back to the ECOMMERCE momentum podcast. This is episode 317, Helen Kensen man. Oh Man. Just listen to the sounds of the waves. The wind, the seagulls. Yes, we’re going to the beach. Helen is on vacation. She is looking at the ocean. Imagine she’s up on the roof, uh, looking at the ocean and the wind’s blowing. And so part of the conversation does get cut out a little bit and I’m not editing it. I didn’t, I was going to. And I’m like, no, because I want you to go to the beach in your mind. I want you to get there to understand that this opportunity of merch by Amazon, um, they closed a million dollar opportunity and most people would say no chance. It’s, they’re skeptical. There’s not another opportunity, but the listen to what Helen explains when you think about it, you know, we’re only talking merchant by Amazon, which is the most dominant marketplace.
Stephen: [00:08:19] However, there’s more than 20 other marketplaces. And there are now you can sell on instagram. You could sell on pinterest. You can, uh, you don’t, you can print coffee monks, yes. Not on merchant by Amazon, but on teespring or t public and all the rest. There’s a zillion opportunities if that’s what you want to do, and then you can go to the beach like Helen because that’s what she wants to do and I think that that perspective, that opportunity, if that’s your thing, and I’m not saying give up Fba or give up Ebay or whatever you’re doing, I’m just saying if that’s your thing, just don’t walk away from these businesses. You’ve learned a great skill and this opportunity is here too and I’m not saying to do it, but I’m not saying not to do it. Figure out what your lane is. Let’s get into the podcast. Hey, welcome back to the congresswoman and podcast. We’re excited about today’s guest because she is way more relaxed than I and she is chilling, literally chilling at a beach and I’m very envious. Helen Kinson. Welcome Alan.
Helen: [00:09:20] Thank you. I’m so honored to be here today. I really appreciate it.
Stephen: [00:09:23] Wait birthday. Thank you very much. Very Kindi. Think, describe what you see because what we, you know, you can always hear sounds so I asked her to move a little bit and she moved up to the roof so you’ll hear some wind, which I love because then inspires me even more. But describe what you’re looking at.
Helen: [00:09:40] I am looking at the ocean. We’re right on the ocean and I’m up on the roof of a four story house on the roof. Beautiful view from side to side. So I can’t take credit for this house though. My uh, my parents rent this every year. I’m the oldest of eight children and they, they have this big reunion every year of all of us and all of our families and there’s over 30 people here right now.
Stephen: [00:10:09] So it sounds awesome. And your parents sound awesome. How important is that for you to go? I mean, you know, every year you described it and you’re 29, I’m sure. And so I’m going to hold that one. And so how important is it to you?
Helen: [00:10:26] It’s very important. I, my whole family lives in New Jersey. I actually live in northern Virginia, so it’s, it’s only four hours away. It’s not too bad, but it does feel FARC because everybody else’s is that peers. So I definitely try to make sure I always go and I go to as many other things that they can as well. And it’s really nice with merge. Uh, you can, you can still work. I mean I do a couple hours of work even when I’m up here and I can do it from my laptop though.
Stephen: [00:10:54] Well that’s where I was going to go with it because it was like you’re making money literally. And let me ask you this. And so you’re gonna be like, dusty, of course. How inspiring is it to be sitting up there thinking about your business last year. First. Second. Okay. So I didn’t lose you, but how inspiring is it for you on that roof to be thinking about merge? I mean, does it give you a chance to refresh and just clear the slate and now I can
Helen: [00:11:18] you, I don’t have to miss anything. You know, like a lot of my brothers and sisters had to go back to work and for me, I don’t have to, I can just stay here all week and uh, you know, I don’t have to miss things. I can just bring my work with me and fit it in if I can and go to everything. So it’s nice.
Stephen: