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Julie is such a strong seller. The thing is she doesn’t know what she knows! I love the innocence. So refreshing. In this discussion she shares some serious knowledge like the true veteran she is. Her experiences selling in the Canadian and US marketplaces can offer us all some perspective on our business plans. Expand into Canada with the right product lines? Why not?
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Julie: [00:00:00] There’s one person that called me for advice and actually went to meet for coffee and he actually taught me something I didn’t even know he was looking for me for advice and by talking he helped me as well.
Stephen: [00:00:26] 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 parsed 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: [00:01:12] 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 Slamon’s group. Amazing freedom.com. Forward slash momentum. And you’re going to get in to 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: [00:01:56] And Gaye is better than anybody else I’ve seen. So I’m amazing. Freedom Dot com. Forward slash momentum will get you to the waiting list. Then hopefully I 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.
Stephen: [00:02:38] 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, um, 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 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.
Stephen: [00:03:26] 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, read refund. I mean delete a, returned 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.
Stephen: [00:04:12] 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. 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 seller lambs 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 as well. Well therefore, if that product does well, they have the right key words, they’ve chosen things correctly. So guess what? You scope and you could see all that stuff. And that’s what the, the most powerful thing in the world is to copy somebody who’s done it right.
Stephen: [00:04:54] That’s what you want to. You want to take advantage of that, right? I mean, it’s, it’s fair, uh, to see. And so therefore you could take and apply it to your listing and immediately get that same benefit. That’s what scope does for me. Sellerlabs.com, forward slash momentum. It’s going to save you $50 on the 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, 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 is going to go pretty far.
Stephen: [00:05:44] And so what do I do? I go to try go godaddy.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 years. 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, 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 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.
Stephen: [00:06:24] 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. 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: [00:07:39] Welcome to the ecommerce momentum podcast where we focus on the people, the products, and the process of ecommerce selling. Today. Here’s your host, Steven Peterson.
New Speaker: [00:07:53] Welcome back to the ECOMMERCE momentum podcast. This is episode 328. Julie Rally. You know, I really love this interview because Julia is a person who’s going to show you what determination can do for you, right? Uh, not knowing anything about selling on Amazon, selling it dundee place. She put her head down and did the work. She figured it out. She figured it out without any of us, without the groups, without the experts, without buying time is I like to say without taking courses. She figured it out. She realized, Hey, one of her products went away, and so therefore I need to find it while I can’t, so I’m going to make it myself and bring it into the Canadian world and bring it to market. And not every time when she successful, but through grit and determination, she found success and that’s all cool. And it’s very, it’s very cool.
New Speaker: [00:08:45] And her life might’ve been good and maybe complete until she found the facebook world, until she put herself out there, until she realized there’s got to be more other people might be having some of the challenges I am. So therefore, let me put myself out there. Boom. Fast forward. She’s going to tell you how much her business has grown because of the relationships she’s developed. Now, in her case, we’re talking real relationships. But take that aside. Um, the benefits of getting to know others likeminded and the advancements it’s done for her business are mind blowing. And that’s what I just saw somebody else do it. I mentioned it in facebook to from Rocky Mountain. They made contexts and they think travis and Paul for that. This is what you gotta do and it’s uncomfortable. It’s not easy and not everybody’s going to be the right person for you.
New Speaker: [00:09:32] You got to find the right person, but the right mix. Make sure there’s trust established and you’ve got to give a lot to them. It can’t be one sided, but Julie will show you what’s possible because anything’s possible. If you really want it according to joy, let’s get into the podcast. All right. Welcome back to the ECOMMERCE momentum podcast for excited about today’s guest. All the way from the great north. I mean the Tundra. You might as well. They probably have snow right now. Julie Rally. Welcome Julie. Welcome. Steven. I think you do have snow. Is there when, when did this. When is the last glimpse of snow you had beyond just when was the last point you can remember?
Julie: [00:10:11] Uh, actually when I visited my mom, I believe in May. We still had snow over there. Now she’s in Quebec city. I’m in Ottawa, so we have a little bit like whipping. We have two months less of snow, but it’s still lingers way too long.
New Speaker: [00:10:27] It might as well be Alaska to me. I mean, it might as well be I, although I do, you know, it’s funny. I’ve been to Canada a couple of times, been to Toronto, beautiful city. Oh my goodness. I remember that. And Niagara Falls, of course everybody’s been there, but that’s about my frame of reference of Canada, yet it’s monstrous, right? I mean, it’s, it’s in each city. The way I understand it, it’s almost like a little country because you’re so far apart from anything. Is that right?
Julie: [00:10:50] Yes. Yes. Everything is far. Uh, we have a lot of land here. It’s very different from the United States. It’s beautiful country. Um, there’s a lot less. People I think were only like 35, 33 $35 million compared to a over 100. How many I was there?
New Speaker: [00:11:06] I think there’s almost $300 million now I think. And I might be way off. We know what, neither one of us or a story.
Julie: [00:11:14] We need to go online and Google.
New Speaker: [00:11:15] That’s what you have Google for it, right? Hey, how many people in the US? I will often. Do you need to know that right? This is once, probably in the last five years we’ve talked about it. Right? That’s so, so where is Ottawa? When I look at the United States are going up, I think of Detroit going to windsor. I think of Toronto being to the East Coast. I think of Vancouver on the far west. Where would audit would be?
Julie: