Start Yours

Launching a new project or business in the midst of the pandemic isn’t everyone’s idea of fun but serial entrepreneurs Shannah and Jeff Game saw it as their next big challenge, setting out to create the Money Mindset Journal - a journal to help cultivate a healthy money mindset, set intentional goals, and achieve your dreams. In this episode of Start Yours, we speak with Shannah, who is a Certified Financial Planner with an MBA and host of Millenial Money Podcast about launching a Kickstarter campaign to finding the right suppliers to make the product come to life.  We guarantee that you will feel motivated and ready to take the leap into your dream project or business after hearing Shannah share her story and what is next for her business and products.

Our guest this episode is British business owner Suhail Nurmohamed who began his e-commerce journey when he was just 16-years-old. A few years later, he’d made over £112,000 ($145,00 USD) in sales on his men’s wear store, AyWear. Suhail was featured recently on the Oberlo.com blog where he shared his top 6 tips that he thinks all aspiring e-commerce and dropshipping business owners should hear.  We know that when you’re just getting started in eCommerce, it is not easy to know which steps to take and it isn’t as straightforward as learning one skill – you need to know all aspects of running a business to succeed. It’s no wonder that it overwhelms many beginners to the point of quitting, so this episode is all about simplifying the process and getting ahead of the game when it comes to being organised and focused. Check out the Oberlo.com blog about Suhail and his 6 tips.

When it comes to running their dropshipping business, Yuliya Chernykhovskaya and Mike Pavlou are committed to doing things differently. This entrepreneurial couple from New Jersey are the owners of an accessories ecommerce store, built using the dropshipping business model. While building their business, they’ve made a point to ignore much of the traditional advice for dropshippers. And the results so far? Pretty exceptional. They’re only a year in, but so far they’ve had over 10,000 orders and built a band of 40,000 loyal followers across their social profiles. Oh, and I haven’t even mentioned the $200,000 they’ve made in sales revenue. It’s clear that whatever Yuliya and Mike are doing, it’s working. We hope you enjoy the episode!

This episode's guest is hoping to graduate with his engineering degree in the near future, but study isn’t the only thing taking up 22-year-old, Cole's time. He’s also managing an ecommerce store that’s made over two million dollars in sales since March 2019. After hearing about ecommerce and dropshipping when he was just 18, Cole quickly became obsessed with learning how to sell online. But his multi million dollar store was no overnight success, it came after some big failures and lessons learned.  Cole shares some of his winning techniques, the importance of mentorship and his plans for after graduation.

There probably aren’t many people in the world who have devoted more thought to dropshipping than this episode's guest, Mordechai Arba. In addition to running founding Ecomhunt.com, he is a serial store launcher, and he’s the first to admit that they’re not all home runs. Mordechai shares what makes his successful stores successful, and what makes his less successful stores, well... less successful. We also dig into what running Ecomhunt.com has taught him about finding winning products, how to scale a business and how to pick yourself up and keep going when things don't go as planned. Find more trending products to sell on our blog. If you want to reach out, shoot us a note at [email protected]

This episode of Start Yours, we are bringing you the ultimate tale of bartering and exchange. Our guest is Demi Skipper from the @trademeproject. Demi started her quest to exchange a bobby pin for a house (!) in May and very quickly dominated TikTok and Instagram with her regular updates on some of the crazy exchanges that she has been making to reach her house goal.  This is an evolving story that we look forward to following but as of the episodes air date in August 2020, Demi has made 16 trades which include margarita glasses, a camera, collectable sneakers, an iPhone and a car… this week she has a 15” MacBook Pro to trade and I can’t wait to see what she gets next! Check out the Oberlo blog all about Demi's journey so far - https://au.oberlo.com/blog/trade-me-project-tiktok

When Emma Reid first got into ecommerce, it reminded her of one of her favorite pastimes – video games. It was addictive, exciting, competitive, and tons of fun. Especially the money: One of her stores generated $500,000 in revenue in just 1 year. But then things fell apart. Emma’s supplier botched hundreds of orders, she was slammed with angry emails, and over the course of a month she lost $10,000. After that she was fried, burnt-out, game over. She shut down the store and hit pause on the whole thing. She joins us on Start Yours to explain what went wrong, the lessons she learned, and what she’s doing differently now that she’s back to running another online store.  We hope you enjoy the podcast. If you do, please consider subscribing.

In this episode of Start Yours, David Vranicar looks at how to keep the momentum going when building on your goals and hustling, without feeling the pressure to get sucked into the world of fake gurus and get rich quick schemes that often over promise and under deliver.  Our guest is Mario Nawfal who’s Instagram bio sums up his career in one sentence… ‘He has made and lost millions many times over’. Mario started his first e-commerce business when he was a finance student with $300 in his pocket in 2012. After going door to door selling blenders, he came up with the idea of ditching the in-person hustle and selling them online. From there, his first company, Froothie Australia was born.  Mario propelled Froothie to $1m in year one and over $10m in year two, all bootstrapped! Mario has a lot to say about so-called e-commerce gurus and investing in programs that can cost you time and money but not propel you in the direction you want to be.

This episode of Start Yours features two friends from Vancouver, Rodney and Kory, who were initially embarrassed to be launching their own business. So much so, before they found success, they were tiptoeing around the topic with family and friends. They’d politely decline offers to hit the bars and instead spend their nights lurking on Reddit and consuming hours upon hours of YouTube tutorials learning all about how to start their own business. But now after launching their fantasy games store and clearing a couple hundred thousand in revenue, they’re not being secretive about their strategies and ideas anymore! In this episode, Rodney and Kory share their best dropshipping and ecommerce tips, from choosing the best niche, to deciding their target audience they walk us through how their entrepreneurial mindset made them different.  You can read more about Rodney and Kory's journey on the Oberlo blog: https://au.oberlo.com/blog/business-no-one-expected There’s a lot to learn here, If you want to reach out, shoot us a note at [email protected]

How do you feel about risk? Are you a leap taker or do you teeter on the edge?  And as you will hear on this week's episode of Start Yours, when you’ve started over 20 businesses, most of which have been profitable, you’ve probably got a bit to say about risk. Our guest is Noah Kagan, Co-Founder/Chief Sumo at Sumo.com and appsumo.com where he helps entrepreneurs kick more ass! Noah shares his idea development strategies and some great tips about how to overcome hesitation that can often cloud initial leaps into businesses and new projects.  If you have an idea, business goal or side-hustle that you are keen to dive into but you don't know where to start, then be sure to subscribe to the show and catch up on past episodes of Start Yours.