267 : Barry "Treebeard" Mark – Part one of a two part deep dive of an evolving Ecommerce seller

Okay I do like to talk, I admit it. Good news is that so does Barry and we spend some real time (long time!) breaking down the evolution of Barry's business and what went right and what went not so right. Barry let's it all out there and his candid honesty will help you understand everyone makes mistakes, everyone has their challenges and life still goes on. This is part 1 of 2 with some real perspective from someone who had built up a large ecommerce business and lost it all. Then reinvented it again but smarter and more within his control this time.

 

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Barry's Facebook contact

Barry's email

Sponsors:



Gaye’s Million Dollar Arbitrage List

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Scope from Sellerlabs

GoDaddy

Grasshopper

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               If you're a subscriber of my e-mail newsletter you would have seen a note from me mentioning that yes I will prep your product for free and I've gotten a bunch of questions about that and are like wait wait what do you mean you'll prep it for free. So

Stephen:                             00:00:15               here's the deal. You know Andy Salomon's an amazing freedom their sponsor of my show and their courses launching and it's all new open for a week or two. Just about that and Andy pays me I mean that's quite frankly if you sign up for his course he pays me. We all know that. I've been very clear about that. And to entice you to come through me which doesn't cost anything additional. We have offered my wife my son and I will prep your first private label product that you develop through his course. Now his course is phenomenal. I'm

Stephen:                             00:00:48               in there so you'll get to see me. You'll get to consult with me and we can talk about you know what the prep is going to require you'll send it to our warehouse at our location. We do have a loading dock so that's going to save you some fees. You don't have to get a lift gate or any of those things. Your first order up to a thousand units. I am going to qualify it and say you've got to do it within six months because I want you to take action.

Stephen:                             00:01:09               But here's the deal. No fees whatever. Know labels bags whatever. That's your responsibility but outside of that we'll actually do the work for you. We'll do a cursory inspection for you and we will absolutely ensure that your product gets there the best way it can. And you know I'm excited about that because I want you to focus on developing a product and then launching it. That's where the hard work is and that's where the road is going to help you the most is launching a product don't worry about packing it up and getting it in there. We can help you with that. And again I'm going to do the first thing for free. How do I make money on it. Well Andy pays me. So I just want to be clear about that and offer that to you. The only way you're going to get that we are not a prep center.

Stephen:                             00:01:53               The only way you're going to get that is if you joint through my link and it's on this...