
About this episode
Ramon Van Meer bought an ecommerce business doing $30k/mo. A few tweaks & months later, it was up to $400k per month.
Topics in Ramon's interview:
- What to look for in an underperforming ecommerce business
- How to quickly improve an ecommerce business
- The effect of turning on paid advertising
- The true nature of running an ecommerce business
- The power of niches
- User experience buying a digital business versus an offline business
- Who should buy versus build
- How to make money in content
- Growing a content site from scratch to a $9m sale in 2.5 years
- The dangerous temptation of buying too many businesses
- Buying a YouTube channel
- Decline of a YouTube channel business immediately after acquiring it
- SBA loan for a YouTube channel acquisition
- Buying a SaaS business
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- Ramon's viral Twitter thread: selling $35m of dog ramps
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