RE: Can a Real Person Make Money and Support Themselves with a Shopify Store or Amazon FBA Product
Hey buddy thanks for the thoughtful comment. That's awesome your doing well with the Share a Sale stuff. I actually got a call from the CEO of another merchant processing affiliate program I'm a member of. It was actually to tell me they didn't have a 1099 on file for me lol, however we did chat for a minute and told me he appreciates all the business I send their way. One funny thing about this program is that they still send out paper checks. I find that so funny now that everyone has moved on to either Paypal or ACH. Some months I'll have a couple checks a week show up for $100 maybe $200 or even $400 on a good one , they'll show up every couple days. Then I could go months without getting anything. I'm actually glad I just commented on this as it reminds me I have to fill out that 1099 lol.
I also get frustrated by a lot of the nonsense in the marketplace. I know I should probably not hate and just be concerned with myself but it almost pisses me off seeing people who are motivated and hardworking be taken advantage of.
Kind of a funny related story. I saw this dude who made a video about attenting a Damon John seminar. He was obviousl motivated but maybe a little bit off track on how to effectively go about hustling. At the end of his video he talked about how he saw an opportunity to stuff envelopes and was going to send in $250 to try it. Stuff like that just makes me sad, someone trying to make a better life for themselves but who's a little less saavy who gets taken.
I also find it hard to believe anyones course is worse $997 or even thousands of Dollars. I just bought Tim Ferris book Tools of Titans, a huge book almost as big as the bible, full of great knowledge, as well as a book which is physically printed and it sells for $30 or so. How a digital course is worth $4900 is beyond me. Especially when most of them are very cursory vague products that really don't delve into what someone needs to know.
I think I'm especially critical of myself to the point I'm not willin to sell something unless I'm giving people like 1000x the value so that's probably something I'm a little overly crazy about but to see people sell $500 courses that are slapped together just makes me sick and also embaressed for them to put their name on something like that.
I completely know where you are coming from. This is part of the reason I never ended up coming out with my own coin or ERC20 Token yet. I have the technical capabilities to get a project started and assemble a team but I want people to really feel good about the fact that there will be a real product produced and not all hype.
Also why I haven't come out with some sort of course talking about affiliate marketing or eCommerce related stuff.
I really think your YouTube channel could really be a great platform to sell a course or even host an event in the future because you have proven yourself over and over again that you are providing real value. I like what David Hay and some of the Crypto guys did having an event where it was about $60 for tickets. Very reasonable in my opinion.
Have you thought about going to some of the big Crypto events / conferences?
Hey buddy, funny you mentioned confrences. I actually attended my first meetup last night. Not a huge one or a convention just a local thing but that's something I've been wanting to do is get more involved in the communities and meetup with people in real life.
It was actually very cool to sit down across the table and talk crypto with people in person. Cool to see other peoples backgrounds and experiences. Something we talked about doing is all investigating ICO's and then getting together and sharing notes.
Another interesting thing to see was how much people were diving into the space. There were several guys who'd only been into crypto for a month or a few months who'd already been to a confrence in Miami or San Fran, one guy was going to Singapore here in thenear future.
I have thought about putting together some type of local event as we don't have much here in Chicago but it's also a city I think people wouldn't mind traveling to for a weekend to hit up a confrence as well as checkout the city and maybe turn it into a mini vacation over a long weekend. I was thinkiing about doing the same thing making something pretty reasonably price or at least as much as could be done while still trying to have a decent venue and get some speakers and such.
I really want to roll out a course, honestly I'm not too organized and lack the attention span to do so, also everytime I sit down to do it I'm never happy enough with the product to actually put my name on it and charge money.
I think I am going to roll out my first real course here soon. I'm actually going to keep it very introductory. Moreso than become a shopify expert it's probably going to be more big picture and an introduction for people looking to start creating additional revenues online but who don't know where to start or even what options are available to them and then maybe briefly touching on each of those, however to try to cover everything would be crazy as I could probably make a 10 hour course on one single topic.
I also would like to charge something reasonable, not gonna charge $997 probably more like $9.99 to maybe $29.99. I want to make a little bit of money but don't want to take advantage of people and also want people to have some money to throw into FB ads or hiring some freelancers or whatever else to get started.
If you ever do wind up rolling out a course I'd be happy to promote it or have you on for an interview to talk about it.
In regards to ICO's I have kind of a funny story. I have a buddy who wanted to create an app in the crypto space. Then it turned into creating a coin. He is completely clueless in terms of how to do this. I have along the way tried to help him a little bit even though in the grand scheme of things I know he's creating a garbage coins that adds no value and does nothing unique, so I totally get wanting to actually do soemthing unique to enter the space as it's already kind of filled with enough nonsense and money grabs.
If you do roll out a coin lemme get in on that founders early investor sale ;)
The part you said about your buddy wanting to create a coin rings a familiar bell. It is very odd but I run into a lot of people who don't know the first thing about how to create a coin or anything and they are the ones acting like they want to do it the most. It is very strange to me.
lol yeah totally. He was calling me today asking for advice/help. I'm like dude I'm not a technical guy, I've never rolled out a coin or an ICO, I don't really know what you want from me. I've tried to tell him he's really not in a position to roll out a coin nor is his coin really going to add anything to the crypto space but he's dead set on doing it and tells me it's going to be a billion dollar coin blah blah blah.
On an interesting side note, I met a guy at this Bitcoin meetup the other day who is rollin gout his own coin, I was meaning to ask you if you've ever heard of it, it's called Dnotes?
The guy seemed very knowledgeable about SEC issues and from what I can gather he's trying to raise money an IPO as opposed to an ICO. He didn't speak great English so I had a hard time wrapping my head around what he was doing but I will say he seems pretty accomplished, he's gotten numerous multi hundred Dollar million contracts from the Department of Defense, he has one of the largest lilly growing companies in the country, he created one of the first tablets back in the early days of tablets and writes for a lot of different publications. I'm curious to chat with him more at future meetups but was meaning to ask you if you'd ever heard of Dnotes?
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dnotes/
Hahah, That is pretty funny. Well maybe we should give him what he wants!
Is he trying to bootstrap the whole thing or does he actually have money to invest in getting the coin rolled out?
I can get him his own coin and the seed nodes to support the wallet and all that for 100 Litecoin
In regards to the guy who has Dnotes..... I haven't heard of that and initially I was thinking it was one of the early cryptonote coins but I looked at it and it is a Litecoin clone from 2014.
The one thing I will say for my buddy is he's not scared to put his money where his mouth is. He's paying thousands for sponsored articles on various Bitcoin and crypto sites.
he also put up billboards all over the southwest for his app and coin and actually caused a bit of a controversey and got some media coverage.
I don't want to talk shit about his coin and then post to him so I'll have to hit you with a pm on youtube or something with the news clip as its pretty funny.
I guess the problem is his coin just isn't going to do anything unique or add anything to the space and also to some extent I feel it's nothing more than a self enriching money grab, but not really trying to do anything unique for the community.
If he actually rolled out his app, the app itself isn't a terrible idea and a coin could be a utility coin for the app and I could see some use case there but he's kind of moved on to being all about the coin and the ICO and I told him dude your coin is a utility coin, without the app there's no purpose for it.
Gonna try to help him get on the right track but I have a feelling its just going to be a big waste of time and money for him that's not going to end up going anywhere.
If he comes to me for help again I'll mention that 100 litecoin offer, it's potentially something he might be interested in doing and he does have the money.
Oh wow, I'm kind of blown away he is spend all types of advertising money and putting up billboards when he doesn't have a set plan for the actual coin and all that.