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Sounds like great advice from a well seasoned seller. Well you see… Jerry is really young. But it is awesome that he has the right perspective already. He knows that gratefulness trumps all. Great focused seller with a plan and no doubt he will be successful!
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Jerry: [00:00:00] Seller that I previously purchased from and I was like, Oh, do you remember me? I bought $8,000 worth of stuff when any last time it was like, yes, yes, I remember you. And I’m like, alright, point me to the good stuff. I know you saw on Amazon too because I see you’re still on every listing online.
Cool voice guy: [00:00:15] Welcome to the ECOMMERCE will focus on the people, the products, and the process of ecommerce cylinder. Here’s your host, Steven Peterson.
Stephen: [00:00:29] He wanted to talk a few moments about some sponsors scope from sellerlabs. Um, when’s the last time you created a listing? Right? And when you create that listing, you’ve got to come up with the keywords, right? It’s all key word dependent. I don’t care if it’s a private label or wholesale. You’ve got to get it right. Well, what’s the best way to get around if you’re selling a similar product that’s really successful, you go and you take and use their keywords and that’s what scope does for you. So phenomenal tool brought to you again by seller labs. The leaders in technology, when it comes to Amazon right now, they are just crushing it with all their products, but scope allows you to get that listing right, get ranked for those key words as fast as possible. Therefore you get the sales, so go to sellerlabs.com, forward slash scope.
Stephen: [00:01:18] Use the code word momentum, save a little bit of money, get some free key words to test, try it out and see if you see an improvement. If you don’t adjust, what’s cool about what I love about seller labs is that you then message and say, Hey, I didn’t get this right tyler. Hey Jeff, this isn’t working right. What am I doing wrong? And Boom, you’re going to get the help you need and that’s what you’re going to get from seller Lamson. And it’s a very special group that had been very. I’ve been very fortunate to be connected with them and again, I look over time they’ve delivered every single time. You know, same thing I can say for Karen from solutions for ECOMMERCE. I mean, she’s been carrying my account for a couple years now and our account, my wife and I, and she really does handle things for us.
Stephen: [00:01:59] Um, I mentioned, uh, just last week we created a new listing with, I forget how many variations, but again, all the flat files uploaded done as I needed. I pop in, so she’ll send me a template, I pop in some information and then boom, it’s handled, await. These pictures weren’t done right, blah, blah, blah. This UPC, Nita poom modified, adjusted and again, the communication been phenomenal too. I get an email back saying, hey, this was done or this, you’re missing this, Steve. Hey, you gotta do this. So, you know, we have those challenges too and that’s why I like working with somebody who’s been doing it. I’ve been doing it for a long time to do, you know, Karen also does listings for Ebay. Yep. Lots of them. So if you want to build out that channel, which of course you should, it’s q four. You should be selling everywhere.
Stephen: [00:02:44] You can, um, Karen can help you with that too. So you gotTa tell her I’ve sent you, so you’re going to go to solutions four ecommerce forward slash momentum. You’re going to save 50 bucks every single month. You’ve got to save that $50. But more importantly, you’re going to get an inventory health report. Um, did you just get hit with monthly longterm storage fees? Well guess what? If you haven’t, they’re coming. You want to get that inventory right and she can help you with that. You’ve got to tell her I sent you again, solutions. The number for ecommerce forward slash momentum will get you into that. Save the 50 bucks. Get that inventory health report though. That’s really, really important. Get that going right away and I don’t want to miss my coach when it comes to retail arb or online or when I have a question and I do.
Stephen: [00:03:23] Not that we don’t, we don’t really do much of it anymore, but when I do have a question, I go to gay lesbian because why? Because she’s really. She is a coach. I mean, she’s really phenomenal, but she also puts out a daily list and you’re going to get that list five days a week. You’re going to get tons of leads, the number of, uh, agreed to amount that you’re supposed to get at least usually gets to those in the four days. And then the fifth day seems to be a bonus most of the time. Phenomenal Group, small amount of buyers where this list is going to end, the best thing is the nuggets that you learn. Hey, why is the red one better than the blue? One? Gay can help you with those questions. I saw. Hey, I got, um, I got to the dreaded letter about a brand.
Stephen: [00:04:02] Here’s the, here’s the way you approach it. Hey, receipts. Um, how do you, what’s the best practice? I saw her leading instructions, teaching me the accountant how to do a better job with it. And it’s phenomenal. So it’s Gaye Lisby made a million dollars selling. Um, I’ll have the link in here. You’ve got to use the, my, my link and it does help me. I don’t want to say it that way, but it’s part of amazing freedom with Andy, slam inslee, Ron Hirsch, corn, and nate’s lamins so you know you can trust. Okay, so come out to the website, take a look at it, and you will get a savings and you can get two weeks free right now only through my link. You get two weeks free. Try it. You don’t like it? I get it back off, but right now is the time to make money.
Stephen: [00:04:46] Get cash flow going right now, and so join you. Get two weeks free. The only way you’re gonna get the two weeks for these. If you use my link, it’s on this episode. Come on out and give it a try. You will not be disappointed. Again. You’re going to see me in there, so reach out if I can help you too. Let’s get into the podcast. Welcome back to the ECOMMERCE momentum podcast. This is episode 342, jerry ballot. I’m very, very cool. Very inspired, man. This kid is a hustler. I’m calling him a kid. Yes, I can call the kid because he’s young. You’re going to be blown away when you hear how young wait to hear how much money he’s spending. Way Too here, whose money he was spending all your parents hold onto your wallets. You know, like this episode. What I I really appreciate is the education he’s getting when he’s talking through terms that, you know, I went to college to learn and here he is not and he’s learning.
Stephen: [00:05:36] He’s learning like in the real world, not some stupid textbook that doesn’t really work anymore. This old model that was back from the thirties. He’s learning it in the streets and he’s learning it and he’s applying it. I think that’s it. His execution. I think that’s the thing I’m taking away from it. This mindset comes up a whole bunch of times. We finally get to this one word which really explains why he’s having so much success. It’s something that we all know we need more of. It’s something we need to do. I want you to hear it in there or I’m going to mention at the end if you didn’t figure it out, but pay attention to how much he knows and where he’s learned it. Love it. Let’s get into podcast. Alright, we’ll come back to the ECOMMERCE momentum podcast. We’re excited about today’s guest. His name has come up so many different times by so many different people. Um, and what’s interesting is I think I’ve got kids older than them. Jerry Ballup. Welcome Jerri. Steven. I am really well. You have your name has come up a bunch of different times from a bunch of different people just saying, you know, they’re impressed me. First off, how old are you?
Jerry: [00:06:38] All right now I’m 19.
Stephen: [00:06:40] Nineteen. And they were all like, he gets it. I mean, just for some reason there’s a whole bunch of people that are following you. I’m like, you’re the leader and yet you’re 19. Cherry and Kelly loge will appreciate this. I have socks older than you, Jerry. Oh, well happy birthday. No, I’m not. I’m just teasing you. I mean, that’s, that’s pretty cool when people are calling you out and noticing you. I mean that’s gotTa make you feel pretty good. Especially as 19.
Jerry: [00:07:11] I’m on the come up.
Stephen: [00:07:12] Oh yeah. Well, you know, why? Why are you in this world specifically? I mean, why reselling?
Jerry: [00:07:23] Well, it all started out in freshman year of high school. I was into collecting old Danish Gamecube era, Super Nintendo, Nintendo, and a certain point I started realizing, oh, I have doubles and triples, are some games because I was buying them from goodwill’s for two or $3 each. I was like, all right, what can I do with these extra game?
Stephen: [00:07:41] So what you were buying them just for yourself. You’d see him and they were a deal. You just buy him. Boom. I just want them. I want them on them. Okay. So you end up with a whole bunch of video games. Okay.
Jerry: [00:07:52] Yeah. And then one day I was looking up on youtube, like how to make money at my age and I think I came across some college pickers, Don Reagan and bonafide hustlers. The videos,
Stephen: [00:08:03] the green room guys.
Jerry: [00:08:05] Yeah. The green guys, I was like, oh, Amazon, I buy off Amazon, but what about selling? So after looking everything up and seeing how you’re supposed to ship out on everything, I listed my first item and attended a game cube and within the first night it’s old
Stephen: [00:08:21] now. Wait a second. You’re not even 18 years old at this point?
Jerry: [00:08:24] No, I was 14 or 15 at the time.
Stephen: [00:08:26] Well first off you’re not supposed to be selling. You’re only 14 or 15. So when you went to your parents and say, Hey, sign up an account for me, I want to sell on Amazon. What did they say to you?
Jerry: [00:08:36] Oh, they are okay with it. They rotate. Like you paid the taxes out of it.
Stephen: [00:08:41] Okay. So they didn’t think anything of it. They just thought, oh no big deal.
Jerry: [00:08:45] Yeah, the sign some stuff on the side.
Stephen: [00:08:47] Okay. All right man. You know, I guess there’s a dad. I would sit back and say, cool, that’s good if you’re not using anymore, this is utility. Especially if you’re going make your money, you spend $2, as long as you make two bucks, I’m happy. Right?
Jerry: [00:08:58] Yeah. The, they’re just like, all right, get rid of some stuff in the house and go ahead.
Stephen: [00:09:04] So what did you pay for the game cube? Do you remember?
Jerry: