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Such a profound statement from Joe. So right. What happens when you make it? Are you going to sit down and watch Jerry Springer (still on?) all day? No, you will want to do it again, do more, get more, be more. You see you thrive on the process. So maybe you can forget the end and enjoy the process, maybe it never ends, maybe you do a reboot like Joe and find out that is where the fruit of your labor really is? Maybe you find happiness?
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New Speaker: [00:00:00] Brought him my situation, I’m sitting out at his house and we’re having a fire and a kind of sitting out back and I’m talking for hours about this whole problem with Amazon and everything and every I my latest, my latest massive failure and very quietly he just looked at me and he goes, do something even if it’s wrong, and that’s the key right there, and I thought that was.
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New Speaker: [00:01:08] 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 Dot 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 and gay is better than anybody else I’ve seen, so I’m amazing.
New Speaker: [00:01:55] Freedom Dot com. Forward slash momentum will get you to the waiting list. Then hopefully we can get you in the group and then you’re gonna. 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? I didn’t put any listings up. They got a. They got a set off to the side by Amazon and they reactivate them for me.
New Speaker: [00:02:40] 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 trust. It’s why I recommend them. So solutions four ecommerce solutions, the number four e-commerce dot com forward slash momentum is 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. What I like is I get a spreadsheet from them and it says, Hey, here’s a bunch of inventory.
New Speaker: [00:03:27] 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.
New Speaker: [00:04:15] I finally feel like I can focus on something else because Karen and her team are watching this for me and you know, I highly recommend her. Next up is a sellerlabs and scope and we’ll set 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 product does well. Well, therefore, if that product does well, they have the right keywords, they have 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 could take and apply it to your listing and immediately get that same benefit.
New Speaker: [00:05:01] That’s what scope does for me. Seller labs.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 gonna the light’s 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 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 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.
New Speaker: [00:05:53] 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 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 and they’re right, you know, and so try Godaddy.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.
New Speaker: [00:06:35] 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 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 or 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: [00:07:35] Welcome to the ecommerce momentum podcast where we focus on the people, the products, and the process of are selling today. Here’s your host, Steven Peterson.
New Speaker: [00:07:49] Welcome back to the ECOMMERCE momentum podcast. This is episode 325 Joe Rooster Fan man. Oh Man. This is a great story. It’s a story that weaves. I’m ebbs and flows, goes in, goes out, there’s a lot of couches involved and I’m not exaggerating a lot of couches, but they’re so critical to the story and I know I don’t know a good metaphor to use for couches other than to think about these, these turning points in your life and then the advisors and the people that you trust, the people that you love, that you go to and sometimes the people that you respect and then you lose some respect because there’s a lack of the ability to ebb and flow for you. Right? You can ebb and flow for them but doesn’t work the other way around and that stuff, it’s doesn’t sit with you well and you’re going to hear some examples where that doesn’t sit well with Joe and um, it’s very cool to me his story.
New Speaker: [00:08:48] He’s very humble. He’s so approachable. And at the end he gives his email, he likes to questions because he was where you are, meaning me and you and everyone else listen else listening. And so, you know, take advantage of that. If you got real good questions for him because he’s done it, he’s been there, but he’s done it and you’re going to hear how he’s pushed through it has not been easy. It will not be easy for you, but the other side is so bright when you take and look at the process. Let’s get into the podcast. Alright, welcome back to the ECOMMERCE momentum podcast. Very excited about today’s guest because it’s time. We have some fun on this podcast. We need to up the fun level. We need to go a whole nother. I mean, it is another level with joe is different. Welcome Joe. How are you? I’m not as good as you. You are like the happiest toy guy I’ve ever met in my life. I mean you are meant. I mean when you sit back and you’re honest, this is where you’re supposed to be. Is that true? Absolutely. One hundred percent. I mean, are your. Is your parents like say you were always a kid. You’re never going to grow up. Is that what they say?
Stephen: [00:09:59] Now they do. They questioned and whole adventure, but now they look and I always say that they say that’s, you know, where it belongs or that’s what he, that’s what he was talking about all these years. So yeah,
New Speaker: [00:10:12] but that’s actually, that’s funny that. But the whole time of your life, they were looking at you like, what the heck is wrong with this kid? What’s he gonna do with this life? But you know, here’s, here’s a question for this is an honest question. When your kid does the same thing, are you going to look at them different?
Stephen: [00:10:29] Not yet. Right now that you understand it and see a looking gets easier to connect those dots, right?
New Speaker: [00:10:35] It sure is easier to connect those dots because in your parent’s generation, Oh no, you got to get a job, Joe. You’ve got to get a career. Thirty years, go to the salt mines, right? Absolutely. And you know, you can’t do your own thing. What are you talking about? Toys who does toys? You know, you can’t compete...