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Jonathan: [00:00:00] That’s literally, I just gave you two, two new features, so it would be, um, you know, what’s, what’s trending, so you can find out like what’s trending across the nation are, what’s crossed to your area based off of your geographic location. Um, you know, if it’s something political, which I’m sure it probably will be given the current state, um, if, if there’s a Hashtag that maybe might be funny, who knows, maybe you can spark an idea, like that’s Kinda like what we want, right? Like, will you talk to somebody, you had a conversation and you’re like, oh my gosh, I need a t shirt about this particular topic, right? You probably wrote it down or send a message to yourself and then you came back home and you gave it to your va. Um, well that happens all the time, right? But we just don’t know about it. So we’re creating a tool where it literally helps yoU come up with the idea directly on png. So if you can’t think of something, we’ll help you come up with it.
Stephen: [00:01:02] 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: [00:01:49] 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: [00:02:32] And gay is better than anybody else I’ve seen. So I’m amazing. Freedom.com. Forward slash momentum will get you to the waiting list. Then hopefully we can get you in the group and then you’re going to see me in there and uh, 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? I didn’t put any listings up.
Stephen: [00:03:14] 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 save $50 and it’s a great opportunity to really, really build out your team with somebody you can trust. It’s why I recommend them. So solutions four ecommerce solutions. The number four e-commerce dot com forward slash momentum’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? Well, here’s why, and here’s what they can do.
Stephen: [00:04:02] 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, 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. You know, 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, 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.
Stephen: [00:04:55] 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 schell sellerlabs 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’s similar to this product and 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. That’s what you want to. You want to take advantage of that, right? I mean, it’s fair to see and so therefore you can take and apply it to your listing and immediately get that same benefit.
Stephen: [00:05:42] That’s what scope does for me. Sellerlabs.com, forward slash momentum. It’s going to save you $50 on the surface. 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 lights going to go on and you’re gonna be like, man, I can get my products out there. I just can’t wait. Can’t wait. So are lamps.com forward slash momentum. The other day I bought another domain. Yes, I bought another 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 it’s going to go pretty far and so what do I do? I go to try go daddy.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.
Stephen: [00:06:33] 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 go daddy because what I like is I can pop in an 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 and they’re right in. So try godaddy.com, forward slash momentum. Save 30 percent. also want to mention about grasshopper. Who was that? Just talking to somebody the other day. And they were like, oh yeah, use this company called grasshopper.
Stephen: [00:07:16] I’m like, dude, did you buy it through my link and save 30 percent? Hello? No, they missed that. So save 30 percent. It’s 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 signed 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: [00:08:15] Welcome to the ecommerce moment, didn’t bog gas where we focus on the people, the products, and the process of ecommerce selling today. Here’s your host, Steven Peterson.
New Speaker: [00:08:30] welcome back to the ecommerce momentum podcast. This is episode 326. Jonathan [inaudible] man up, man. I get so pumped when I do these interviews and I know I say it and you’re all like, I’ll come on steve, you’re saying again? I’m just telling you how can you not. It’s like it’s infectious when somebody else’s enthusiastic about what they do, when you can tell that they deeply love what they’re doing and I’m telling you, even him, I met him face to face so I could see it, but you’ll hear it in his voice. He deeply loves what he’s doing and what he sees himself as not doing design work for others. He sees themselves helping others solve problems they had and it just like spreads like a wildfire. And then that enthusiasm grows and then it’s catchy. And so guess what, I’m pumped up. So, uh, it is very encouraging to see somebody who understands what they’re supposed to do.
New Speaker: [00:09:20] It’s very encouraging to see somebody say that they’re having the best time of their life helping others because they figured out this is what they’re supposed to do. Man, I wish that upon you so much and if this is something you’re interested, if you’re interested in design and that’s what this is going to be about. Um, they do designs for print on demand, but not only print on demand. I seen applications for me in my blog and me and my podcast. There’s artwork in their logos, everybody’s looking for logos and stuff and so it’s a flat fee, which is awesome and you can then send up as many as you need and uh, there’s a, there’s a limit to what they can get done in a month, but it’s very, very cool. You can get revision. So when he comes back and you’re like, man, I just wish they made that a little bit bigger.
New Speaker: [00:10:03] And most designers, it’s like, it’s done. Well, no, in this case they will revise it for you all on their software. So you don’t have to have expensive software, you don’t have to learn that design and it’s really going to let you focus. Now I’m going to warn you that this is an affiliate link. I don’t do that many of them, but this one is. And so I’m just going to warn you, um, however you save 15 percent off. So if you go to [inaudible], g.co and use the code momentum, you’ll save 15 percent off your first month. And then they do pay me. So qualify you can not put in the promo code. And then I don’t get paid if that’s suits you. I’m cool with that. Um, again, I’m looking for somebody who is saying, hey, I’ve been dying. I just need this, this way to get my creativity out.
New Speaker: [00:10:42] I’m not a designer. Boom. I think this is an amazing company. And again, listen to the enthusiasm in his voice. That’s the people you want on your team, the people who care that are going to be with you long time, man. Love it. Love it, love it. Let’s get into the podcast. Alright, welcome back to the ecommerce momentum podcast. We’re excited about today’s guest. I’m going to try not to butcher his name. Jonathan [inaudible]. How do they do jonathan? Nailed it. Oh, I’m, I’m in the zone today. I mean, this kito diet and has got me focused on my mental clarity is, is right on. And jonathan’s one of the co founders of a company called png. And you’re thinking, wait a second, are they importing stuff from India? That’s what it sounds like. No, no. Uh, might be a connection there. I’ll be interested to find out where the name comes from, however they are in the business of designing art art that you can use for print on demand, which I imagine a lot of people are using for current amazon merge and teespring, t public and blah blah blah blah blah. Um, but also you do logos and other things to correct. It’s not just a for merged shirts. Fair.
Jonathan: [00:11:47] Yeah. Yeah. We have a whole gamut of things that we can, that we can do that. But I think the thing that that’s most relevant to this conversation is merchant and excited to talk about it. And, and the other thing would be, I want to give context for people. You guys aren’t only handling little sellers like steve who has a tier, a thousand. I’m seeing the names. Reebok pep boys, one 800 flowers, aeropostale, [inaudible]. So thAt means at some point you did work for some division of their business, correct? Yeah. So primarily I’m png can service. We say that we service like three, three, four types of people. So