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Charles definitely has a positive vibe about him. To hear him say it: He has been weak, broke, overweight and a quitter. Not anymore. See as Dave Ramsey says: “You have to get sick and tired of being sick and tired” to really change. Well Charles has that down pat. Great story of getting things done. (Even when you don’t want to!) Great advice, great small goals and tracking methods. Btw.. He does coaching for health, nutrition and weight loss. Check out his website if you are looking for help.
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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 Lisby’s million dollar arbitrage group. Amazing, amazing group. This is a teacher. This is a Gaye, 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 one? The green one isn’t? Well, there’s usually a reason and what gay does is probably parsed that better than anybody and she’ll explain the reasons for those things. I think that’s really powerful. Yeah. She puts out a list. You’re going to get a get 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 and you’ll be with her for a long time and so it’s amazing. Freedom [inaudible], she’s part of Andy’s Slamon’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 anywhere, but what I like about it, 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. While here’s where an opportunity is, here’s why you want to do this. Hey, be cautious about this, you know, toys r us coming out, you’ve got to think about this and that’s the learning that you need to do and gay is better than anybody else I’ve seen.
Stephen: [00:01:31] So amazing. Freedom Dot com. Forward slash momentum will get you to the waiting list. Then hopefully it 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 e-commerce solutions for e-commerce dot 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 the 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. They got a.
Stephen: [00:02:13] They got 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 for ecommerce solutions, the number for 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? 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.
Stephen: [00:03:05] Here’s what we recommend. And I’m like, Yep, re refund. I mean delete a return to us, blah blah blah, whatever it is, and it’s are destroyed 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 researchers solves, 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 run offers. Can’t recommend her enough solutions for e-commerce dot 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 here because I see it and I’m excited because the messages I get from people saying, hey, this is great.
Stephen: [00:03:52] 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 solar lamps and scope. We’ll sit it wrong. 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’s what 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, it’s fair to see and so therefore you can take and apply it to your listing and immediately get that same benefit.
Stephen: [00:04:39] That’s what scope does for me. Sellerlabs dot [inaudible] forward slash momentum. It’s going to save you $50 on 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 get the lights 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 dot [inaudible] forward slash momentum. The other day I bought another domain. Yes, I bought another domain. It’s almost like 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 it three years.
Stephen: [00:05:31] I usually buy privacy by the way, I recommend that to buy that. 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 used to go down 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 the right, you know. And so try go daddy.com forward slash momentum save 30 percent. Also want to mention about grasshopper. Was that just talking to somebody the other day? And they were like, Oh yeah, use this company called grasshopper.
Stephen: [00:06:13] I’m like, dude, did you buy through my link and save 30 percent? Hello? Know 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, grasshoppers, 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, didn’t 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: [00:07:12] Welcome to the e-commerce momentum podcast. We focus on the people, the products, and the process of selling. Today. Here’s your host, Steven Peterson.
Stephen: [00:07:26] Welcome back to the e-commerce momentum podcast. This is episode three, Charles Leslie. OK, this dude, I like his vibe. That’s what attracted me and I love a positive person. I love positive approach. I love somebody who’s willing to admit they aren’t right all the time. They’ve got challenges, they work through them. And that’s the story. That’s the rest of the story. Um, I just think that that’s just a cool place to get to in your life. I’m just imagine Charles and his wife rocking at the tunes in their warehouse and their three year old son sitting in there say, what are my parents doing? That’s a kid who’s going to have it figured out later on in life. Let’s get into the rest of the story. All right. Welcome back to the e-commerce momentum podcast. I’m very excited about today’s guest. I’m just, I love the vibe. I love somebody who has figured out who they are, what they want, and you know, kind of taking away the excuse something Casey Neistat did today about excuses and Charles. Leslie has no excuses. Welcome Charles. Thank you very much. Thanks for having on the show. You’ve got a vibe, dude. I mean, I, I catch a vibe like at night just about positivity vibe, I mean, is that, is that you, were you always that way?
Charles: [00:08:48] Um, I mean I definitely went through a personal transformations that helped me get to kind of the mindset that I have now, but over the last several years I definitely have always been kind of like the optimistic one of everyone around, especially when I got into like Fba communities coming from a health and fitness background. It’s a very positive community and that when I came into Fba I saw there was a little bit of a difference. So I wanted to be kind of that positivity that came into the community.
Stephen: [00:09:12] So. So you’ve gone through transformations, you’ve got to walk us through a couple that because I think a whole bunch of people face them and they don’t know what to do. They don’t know how to push through them because they think it’s. They think it’s only them.
Charles: [00:09:28] Yeah, a hundred percent. And I, that’s something I’m very, very big on. I’m not really the type of business owner that comes in. Like, I’m going to give you the best tactics to grow your Amazon business, like that’s all good and fun, but for me it’s more much more of a personal thing. And what I mean by that is one, one phrase, I don’t know where I heard this from one time, but it just always stuck with me is when you feel your best, you give your best. And I know that my businesses were slacking the most when I felt like crap all the time. And so when I took personal control of just simple things, right? Sleeping, sleeping a little bit more, eating better, moving my body on a daily basis, I started to feel better and that gave me more energy to put into my business, my clients, my friends, every, everyone.
Stephen: [00:10:10] So what does that do for your relationships with your, your spouse and um, your family specific stem, seeing you in a positive way?
Charles: [00:10:21] It’s just a domino effect. Rights. It’s the ripple effect. They see me in a positive mindset and especially when I’m around them, I have the typical family background where, you know, it’s, I have two siblings. I’m the oldest and of course we have like that sibling rivalry. We’re always kind of nit picking at each other and that’s what we grew up with and now that I kind of had that mental transformation when I’m around my family now it’s much more engaging, productive conversations and not so much like the typical family dynamics that we, that we saw growth.
Stephen: [00:10:49] So they see you differently and do they treat you differently?
Charles: [00:10:54] Not necessarily treating me differently. I think they understand and accept the fact that I’m in a much different mind space than I ever was. And that’s just something that, um, you know, we’ve, we’ve had our own conversations [inaudible] and we definitely have much deeper relationships. Ever since I came, came to be who I am now.
Stephen: [00:11:13] That’s a pretty cool place to get to because the alternative is you never, you never. You never arrive as an individual. Right. And that’s, that’s terrible. Yeah. All right. So walk us through. So you went into fitness, was that was, were you an athlete? Was that going to be your thing?
Charles: [00:11:29] Absolutely not. I, I basically, I have the background. I quit every sport I ever started when it came to middle school and high school, um, basketball,
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