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Chris does a great job of breaking down his plan to earn x. (x is a pretty big number) Chris uses Internet Marketing to supplement his FBA business and honestly he loves the learning. I also like how his mentor is younger than him. Yes that is a sign of the times. You can and must learn from the marketplace users to understand the marketplace. (Ecommerce users are younger)
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Stephen: [01:26] Yes you’ve heard me say a bunch of times but I mean it because our Q4 was spectacular because of all the variations for a particular line we had that Karen entered. Seventy eight of them I believe and now I’m adding a bunch more because we’re not done. I mean it’s Tom a year going to sell right into January February and March. So she’s getting ready to add a bunch more. That’s the power of having that team member. That team works overnight. Quite frankly they work different hours than I do. She sends a file she’s XTI fill in these particular fields shoot it back to me and boom they get it done and you get it and fast and it just as allowed us to grow. It’s that silent team member that don’t call of sick they just handle things solutions.
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Cool voice guy: [04:34] Welcome to the e-commerce board will focus on the Habibollah the products and the process of e-commerce selling your host Steve Peters welcome back to the e-commerce momentum podcast. This
Stephen: [04:50] is episode 264. Chris Grant I’ve had Chris on the show before Episode 120. Way back then I’ll have a link in this episode and he can get his backstory there. But what’s so cool for me is to watch him continue to evolve as the e-commerce world changes and evolves. Chris has put his head down and did the work. He’s still NFPA. However he’s also an Internet marketer and he wears that badge with courage. Because I still think that him and I think Nate McAllister there are two good examples of people that offer tools that people want. You know it’s kind of kind of funny like you actually want something and somebody actually puts it together for you. They charge for it but they actually do it and I think that that’s a skill set the execution piece of it I think the follow through.
Stephen: [05:44] We all have a million ideas. Most of us can’t get out of our way to get it started and Chris will tell you. He’s never coded a line of programming so therefore he has other people do it. But the ability to have other people do what you want and understand it. That’s a skill set and he’s able to charge for it. So it’s a really good example. Let’s get into the podcast I think it’s great for 2018 planning. All
Stephen: [06:06] right welcome back to the e-commerce MMN podcast very excited about today’s guest because in our preshow we are talking about it. It’s been a long time since I’ve talked to Christopher Grann. Welcome Chris.
Chris: [06:18] Thank you sir for having me I appreciate it.
Stephen: [06:20] I appreciate you coming back on. It was August of 2016. Episode number 1. Number 120. It’s
Stephen: [06:29] incredible to me that we’ve more than doubled that since that year’s story is there so if somebody wants to go hear a great story about drop shipping on eBay and how you get going and what you can do with it and what it’s led to. And at that time we were talking about that you were looking to create residual income that was your model.
Stephen: [06:50] Let me ask you this is Nate older or younger than you.
Chris: [06:55] Nate is younger than me.
Stephen: [06:57] And is this fair. He’s been a mentor to you.
Chris: [07:01] Absolutely. That’s something I find absolutely fascinating in the Amazon world. People may not remember I come from an insurance background. And you know it is kind of like you think it’s corporate it’s stuffy and the kings of the hill are elder statesmen as well.
Stephen: [07:24] So do which. Yes I can relate to that somewhat.
Chris: [07:29] And you know in internet business in Amazon in e-commerce you know these guys who are out there crushing it are 20 21 27. And you know I’m 32 and I think of guys like you know Tyler Nelson and Sky brands. You know these guys these guys are kids and I have so I used this line is a truth though I have socks older than both of you know and and these I can learn from these guys. I can learn from from guys like yourself you know guys in between. And I mean you’re really you’re really need to be open to not allowing age to be a barrier to who you learn from especially in this kind of internet. You know e-commerce 2.0 world that we’re living in now.
Stephen: [08:26] There’s no doubt. And so you know I would say Nejd is an outlier. I mean I there’s no doubt in my mind he’s an outlier. I mean he’s very good at a lot of different things. And when you have an outlier you know how rare an outlier is right. You’ve got to you know they can teach you an enormous amount of things. Now you know does he know about basket weaving or what. I don’t know. But in this world and in marketing or whatever he’s into he really does very well with it. So why not learn from a 20 something year old or he’s probably getting close to 30 now. But I mean why not. To me that’s the beauty of it right. You know you don’t only have to learn from Warren Buffett although let’s face it you could.
Stephen: [09:08] It’s incredible. But I think you can learn a little bit from like Mark Zuckerberg or a Gary Vaynerchuk right. Younger guys. And so I think it’s I think it’s a very good statement. It fascinates me that he is a mentor to you. You have definitely adopted a lot of what he’s done and emulated it to a lot of success.
Chris: [09:28] Fair I would say that’s fair Absolutely. The
Stephen: [09:32] other thing that I would say that I notice is that you’re willing to partner up a lot with well with Knape but with others too. And
Stephen: [09:42] I think that that is another strength was that easy for you to do.
Chris: [09:48] It is. I think that I think that we all have different strengths and.
Chris: [09:56] I am I will be honest I don’t believe that I’m the best idea guy. You know I do have ideas and occasionally they are their home runs but but I find my strength the B is execution. And once we have a plan in place making that plan happen. And so that’s why I actually like to team up with people because I can kind of specialize and focus on what I’m really really good at.
Stephen: [10:30] I think execution is ninety five percent of it. The idea is you know everybody has ideas right. Think of all the ideas that you didn’t execute and somebody else did. And then all of a sudden you’re like wait i thought of that before right. But you didn’t do anything with it or you couldn’t do anything with it. And so the fact that that is your skill set. I think that’s 95 percent of the role ideas. I’m half a million of them I’ve got 2 million domains from all the ideas that I have and yet have I pulled the trigger on them now. And so execution I think is the biggest challenge. How does that.
Stephen: [11:05] Mean. Is that a develop skill or is that something that you’re just born with specific to you.
Chris: [11:14] For me I would say that it’s a developed skill.
Chris: [11:19] I was I was a shoot from the hip you know kind of guy when I was selling insurance and I was here and I was there and when I when my income became solely independent upon the amount of work that I put into my business I knew that I had to buckle down and put in the put in the work execute the plan to make sure I have an income and my family eats next month. What
Stephen: [11:51] you mentioned is specific skills that you’ve developed and the thing that I heard in there was a plan is that the place where somebody needs to start. I mean think about you know you’ve been able to execute and build this skill set if execution is 95 percent success and I absolutely believe that that you know define.
Stephen: [12:11] You get lucky once in a while. Right. I think I think Mark Cuban is a good example of somebody who put in the time but then got lucky when he sold to Yahoo. Because Yahoo is in a crazy buying mode at the time and it’s a net. He was one of those lucky guy who did a lot of work. Don’t
Stephen: [12:25] get me wrong but he got lucky. Our bench replanning and that’s a that’s probably it isn’t it.
Chris: [12:34] I think so. And it doesn’t have to be. It doesn’t have to be this broad wireframe it doesn’t need to be you know a complete 30 page business plan. It really you at least need have something that’s that back of a cocktail napkin and ready for you to execute on.
Chris: [12:55] You know I think people over think it and I’m pretty active in the groups and I think people asking question after question and taking every single course they’re looking at every single youtube video but then never pulling the trigger on something.
Chris: [13:11] And you need to have a plan. But that plan has to. Coincide with the action for you to be able to move forward.
Stephen: [13:21] Well is it then let’s take it a step further. Is the plan. Does it need to be broken down or their little little winds right little milestones. I always feel good about like when I’m on a diet it’s like oh I’ve lost a little bit or I made it through that week. You know I’m trying to break my my my diet down in a daze now literally I can eat well for four days. That’s better than not eating well for four days. Right. And so I’m trying that module is that’s something that somebody can use to if especially if their their privacy is right if they’re just analyzing forever.
Chris: [13:53] Absolutely. Now I saw a bad piece of advice the other in a Facebook group that if you if you kind of spend a little bit it turns into a good piece of advice. And it talked about spending a dollar a day on product and spending two dollars tomorrow on other maps was completely off. But the concept is a good one. You have a pretty good broke down there. You know I’m going to watch six hours of youtube videos and I’m going to read books and then I need to go out and I need to pay some tuition and put some skin in the game. To actually practice what I’m learning. Because there are two ways to really cement what you learn. One is by doing and two is by teaching. And so you just have to do it.
Stephen: [14:53] I agree with the teaching method for sure. I always whenever you know it’s almost like reassuring when I’m saying it over again and I’m helping somebody else and they’re having success. It’s like it gives me that little bit