The Online Empire Academy Podcast

Whats up Empire, Joshua Woodward here, I had the awesome opportunity to have Cynthia Stine on our show. She is an expert on suspension prevention in the amazon world. It seemed rather timely to have her on in the light of everything that has happened with big brother Amazon lately. She is going to share how to protect your Amazon seller account from suspension as well as giving us top tips to get back if amazon has already suspended you. If you have questions for Cynthia feel free to comment below. If you need to get your account reinstated go to, https://theonlineempireacademy.com/cynthia If you want to read Cynthia's book all about keeping you out of trouble on amazon go to, https://theonlineempireacademy.com/suspension Until next time Empire, Have a fantastic day! —Transcripts Below This Point— Joshua: What's up Online Empire Academy! I am Joshua Woodward, your podcast host. For those of you guys watching on Facebook, this is the first time we're trying this, we're really excited. For those of you on Youtube, hello, iTunes, what's up guys! For those of you who are listening maybe on a podcast platform, we wanted to let you guys know that there are videos; you guys can go check that out either on Facebook or on the Online Empire Academy on Youtube. I'm really excited. As most of you guys know, there's been a lot of suspensions lately, there's been some crazy stuff happening with Amazon and specifically around the region of UPC codes and so much changing with that. I thought it would be a good idea to have somebody on who's a professional in this field. Today, we have on Cynthia Stine and she is a reinstatement expert, everybody has referred her to me for this specific topic. I am so excited to have her on, how are you doing Cynthia? Cynthia: Great. I'm looking forward to talk to your audience. Joshua: I'm excited to talk about this, it's so timely right now and something that's been super irritating for me especially loving you guys, loving this community and wanting to make sure everybody is doing everything they can to build as much income as they can. When I find out that somebody's account has been shut down, that's such a heartbreaking moment, I don't ever want that. Cynthia what is your story? How did you even get started in this? Cynthia: I was a business consultant for many years and over twenty five I … A long time and I actually started selling on Amazon in 2010 because I needed extra income which is why a lot of people do it. I had ten hours a week to do it. I had no time and this turned out to be the perfect business for somebody who had no time and I only needed about fifteen hundred a month, it wasn't like I was going to build an empire at the time; I just needed a little extra money. That's how I got started in 2010 and I had so many people say, “Well, how's that Amazon thing doing?” Also wanted me to talk about it that I wrote a book about it in 2011, came out early 2012 and that was my Make Thousands on Amazon in 10 Hours a Week. Because of that book, it all led one thing to another, I did a little of consulting. People would hire me and they'd say, “Hey, tell me why I'm not making money here?” Or, “Why isn't this product selling?” Stuff like that. In 2014, what happened was I started to get people who were suspended saying, “Can you get me reinstated?” I thought, “Well, I definitely will try.” I had not done it before but I just dived into it as a business consultant , I do understand a lot of … I can read a contract for example … I understand a lot of these things. I know how businesses get in trouble and I know how they get out. I used to do turn around work and I've got crisis...

Whats up Empire, Joshua Woodward here, I had the awesome opportunity to have Cynthia Stine on our show. She is an expert on suspension prevention in the amazon world. It seemed rather timely to have her on in the light of everything that has happened with big brother Amazon lately. She is going to share how to protect your Amazon seller account from suspension as well as giving us top tips to get back if amazon has already suspended you. If you have questions for Cynthia feel free to comment below. If you need to get your account reinstated go to, http://theonlineempireacademy.com/cynthia If you want to read Cynthia's book all about keeping you out of trouble on amazon go to, http://theonlineempireacademy.com/suspension Until next time Empire, Have a fantastic day! —Transcripts Below This Point— Joshua: What's up Online Empire Academy! I am Joshua Woodward, your podcast host. For those of you guys watching on Facebook, this is the first time we're trying this, we're really excited. For those of you on Youtube, hello, iTunes, what's up guys! For those of you who are listening maybe on a podcast platform, we wanted to let you guys know that there are videos; you guys can go check that out either on Facebook or on the Online Empire Academy on Youtube. I'm really excited. As most of you guys know, there's been a lot of suspensions lately, there's been some crazy stuff happening with Amazon and specifically around the region of UPC codes and so much changing with that. I thought it would be a good idea to have somebody on who's a professional in this field. Today, we have on Cynthia Stine and she is a reinstatement expert, everybody has referred her to me for this specific topic. I am so excited to have her on, how are you doing Cynthia? Cynthia: Great. I'm looking forward to talk to your audience. Joshua: I'm excited to talk about this, it's so timely right now and something that's been super irritating for me especially loving you guys, loving this community and wanting to make sure everybody is doing everything they can to build as much income as they can. When I find out that somebody's account has been shut down, that's such a heartbreaking moment, I don't ever want that. Cynthia what is your story? How did you even get started in this? Cynthia: I was a business consultant for many years and over twenty five I … A long time and I actually started selling on Amazon in 2010 because I needed extra income which is why a lot of people do it. I had ten hours a week to do it. I had no time and this turned out to be the perfect business for somebody who had no time and I only needed about fifteen hundred a month, it wasn't like I was going to build an empire at the time; I just needed a little extra money. That's how I got started in 2010 and I had so many people say, “Well, how's that Amazon thing doing?” Also wanted me to talk about it that I wrote a book about it in 2011, came out early 2012 and that was my Make Thousands on Amazon in 10 Hours a Week. Because of that book, it all led one thing to another, I did a little of consulting. People would hire me and they'd say, “Hey, tell me why I'm not making money here?” Or, “Why isn't this product selling?” Stuff like that. In 2014, what happened was I started to get people who were suspended saying, “Can you get me reinstated?” I thought, “Well, I definitely will try.” I had not done it before but I just dived into it as a business consultant , I do understand a lot of … I can read a contract for example … I understand a lot of these things. I know how businesses get in trouble and I know how they get out.

Whats up Empire! Joshua Woodward here your podcast host. Welcome to the podcast. Most every Monday at 3pm Pacific standard time Dean and I hop on for a live show to talk about the happenings of the Amazon world. This week we are talking the all to present question, Has Amazon Become A Monopoly? Here are all the links as promised in the show, Trum Vs. Jeff Bezos http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2016/05/19/bezos-trump-duke-it-out-over-taxes-free-speech.html Amazon video direct – https://videodirect.amazon.com/home/landing Amazon private label food – http://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-expand-private-label-offeringsfrom-food-to-diapers-1463346316 – “According to Market Track, 88% of customers say they buy private label products due to lower prices. This trend fits perfectly for Amazon, which will be rolling out new offerings, including foods and baby care products.” – “The new brands with names like Happy Belly, Wickedly Prime and Mama Bear will include nuts, spices, tea, coffee, baby food and vitamins, as well as household items such as diapers and laundry detergents,” How long will it take for Amazon Essentials to become, Amazon only? Raising FBA fees this Holiday Season – http://www.pymnts.com/amazon-delivery/2016/amazon-fulfillment-fee-hike-merchant-reaction/ – “Come November 1 – and through January 1 , . In fees jump to $2.25 per cubic foot for standard-size products and $1.15 per cubic foot for oversize products, up 212.5 percent and 101.8 percent.” “Amazon has not yet commented on the change.” UPC Codes and Inauthentic Claims for USED Media at Amazon – http://snip.ly/pvf81#http://onlinesalesstepbystep.com/411-upc-codes/ – Amazon seems to be saying that they suddenly need a very expensive UPC code and that they have to have permission from the manufacturer/rights holder in order to do it. – What Amazon is doing now is automatically checking Product IDs against the GS1 database. So if you are selling a product where you have added a UPC code that you purchased from eBay or some online dealer, basically, it won’t show up in the GS1 database as belonging to you or any other brand. – If this product is YOURS – a private label or manufacturer – you’re fine because you can register these with Amazon or even ask for an exception to have a barcode. In fact, they will give you a universal number for your unique products through the brand registry so you can sell them worldwide on Amazon’s platforms under that one number. http://snip.ly/pvf81#http://onlinesalesstepbystep.com/411-upc-codes/ In conclusion Amazon shifting things is not necessarily a bad thing. It show the massive value that can come from the Drop shipping mode, wholesaling and private labeling. If you want to know more about these subjects you can go check out, (just a disclaimer if you choose to purchase anything from the links below the Online Empire Academy does get a small affiliate income. this helps us keep the lights on but if it at all bothers you please message us and we will be happy to send you the unaffiliated links) Private Label – https://theonlineempireacademy.com/jumpstart

Whats up Empire! Joshua Woodward here your podcast host. Welcome to the podcast. Most every Monday at 3pm Pacific standard time Dean and I hop on for a live show to talk about the happenings of the Amazon world. This week we are talking the all to present question, Has Amazon Become A Monopoly? Here are all the links as promised in the show, Trum Vs. Jeff Bezos http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2016/05/19/bezos-trump-duke-it-out-over-taxes-free-speech.html Amazon video direct – https://videodirect.amazon.com/home/landing Amazon private label food – http://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-expand-private-label-offeringsfrom-food-to-diapers-1463346316 – “According to Market Track, 88% of customers say they buy private label products due to lower prices. This trend fits perfectly for Amazon, which will be rolling out new offerings, including foods and baby care products.” – “The new brands with names like Happy Belly, Wickedly Prime and Mama Bear will include nuts, spices, tea, coffee, baby food and vitamins, as well as household items such as diapers and laundry detergents,” How long will it take for Amazon Essentials to become, Amazon only? Raising FBA fees this Holiday Season – http://www.pymnts.com/amazon-delivery/2016/amazon-fulfillment-fee-hike-merchant-reaction/ – “Come November 1 – and through January 1 , . In fees jump to $2.25 per cubic foot for standard-size products and $1.15 per cubic foot for oversize products, up 212.5 percent and 101.8 percent.” “Amazon has not yet commented on the change.” UPC Codes and Inauthentic Claims for USED Media at Amazon – http://snip.ly/pvf81#http://onlinesalesstepbystep.com/411-upc-codes/ – Amazon seems to be saying that they suddenly need a very expensive UPC code and that they have to have permission from the manufacturer/rights holder in order to do it. – What Amazon is doing now is automatically checking Product IDs against the GS1 database. So if you are selling a product where you have added a UPC code that you purchased from eBay or some online dealer, basically, it won’t show up in the GS1 database as belonging to you or any other brand. – If this product is YOURS – a private label or manufacturer – you’re fine because you can register these with Amazon or even ask for an exception to have a barcode. In fact, they will give you a universal number for your unique products through the brand registry so you can sell them worldwide on Amazon’s platforms under that one number. http://snip.ly/pvf81#http://onlinesalesstepbystep.com/411-upc-codes/ In conclusion Amazon shifting things is not necessarily a bad thing. It show the massive value that can come from the Drop shipping mode, wholesaling and private labeling. If you want to know more about these subjects you can go check out, (just a disclaimer if you choose to purchase anything from the links below the Online Empire Academy does get a small affiliate income. this helps us keep the lights on but if it at all bothers you please message us and we will be happy to send you the unaffiliated links) Private Label – http://theonlineempireacademy.

What’s up empire, Joshua Woodward here your podcast host. Today we have on the show Brian Burt and Brian Johnson. They are the experts on Amazon’s sponsored product campaigns. If you have not heard about this amazing amazon service and what it can do for your organic ranking; prepare to be dazzled. If you want to learn how to optimize, scale and master your amazon sponsored product campaigns go to, https://theonlineempireacademy.com/spa Until next time Empire, Have a fantastic day! — Transcripts Below This Point— Joshua: What's up, Online Empire Academy? I'm your host, Joshua Woodward. Today we have on Brian Burt and Brian Johnson, from Sponsored Product Academy. If you haven't heard about what they're doing, Brian and Brian have gotten together and created a course teaching you guys how to optimize scale and master your Amazon sponsored product campaigns. I think it's absolutely an amazing tool and I wanted to have them on just to kind of talk through the basics of why we need to do Amazon sponsored product campaigns. Why is it important to do that? Why can't I just list my item? What does it do for my business? We recently did a survey. Thank you, all of you who responded to that survey, but we did this survey asking you guys what you wanted to learn more about and this one of the top things we heard back from you guys. We wanted to bring on the experts in this field. We wanted to see what they had to say about that. Thank you, guys, so much for tuning in and let's hop in. All right, guys, we are here with Brian Burt and Brian Johnson. They are the Amazon sponsored product campaigns experts and I want to dive into this idea. As I talked to you guys before, this really is a subject that's needed within our community. It's something not a lot of people are talking about, which I find really irritating as I'm wanting to go out and do stuff with my Amazon brands and just kind of the private-label industry. I'm finding that there's a huge gap in the market. Whether it's PPC or even driving people to your site and making sure that you're keywording correctly, there's not a whole lot out there and when it is out there, you have to be a genius to go through it. I'm really excited because we have these guys on, Brian and Brian. I'm going to refer to them as their last names because it would get a little confusing to go through it. You guys, introduce yourself. Brian Burt, introduce yourself first. We'll do that. It's a little easier that way. Brian B.: Yeah, sure, Josh. Thanks for having me on. This is fun, man, now that we've got the audio situated. I'm not using my big microphone anymore. Pushed that guy away. Yeah, my name is Brian Burt. I've been an online seller for almost 10 years. I've been in the Amazon game for just over a year and in that time I was able to grow from about 0, well exactly 0, to over $150,000 a month and that's going up quite a bit. I have a goal: a million dollars a month. I'll show you my whiteboard at another time, but it's on there. The one thing that was holding me back here was really my sponsored product campaigns. I had no idea, just like you mentioned, what was going on. That's how I found Brian Johnson. Joshua: Brian Johnson, introduce yourself now. Brian J.: Okay, so I'm Brian Johnson. My background is actually I've been in e-commerce for probably about a decade. Part of that was eBay. I did pretty good as far as selling office and banking equipment and that kind of stuff on eBay. Then I got pulled over to the Amazon side of the house about 3 years ago through a friend of mine. I started with my own private labeling and launching products of my own. Got asked to start consulting for some other brands that were off Amazon to try and help them with everything end-to-end. About a year ago is when I switched over and just de...

What’s up empire, Joshua Woodward here your podcast host. Today we have on the show Brian Burt and Brian Johnson. They are the experts on Amazon’s sponsored product campaigns. If you have not heard about this amazing amazon service and what it can do for your organic ranking; prepare to be dazzled. If you want to learn how to optimize, scale and master your amazon sponsored product campaigns go to, http://theonlineempireacademy.com/spa Until next time Empire, Have a fantastic day! — Transcripts Below This Point— Joshua: What's up, Online Empire Academy? I'm your host, Joshua Woodward. Today we have on Brian Burt and Brian Johnson, from Sponsored Product Academy. If you haven't heard about what they're doing, Brian and Brian have gotten together and created a course teaching you guys how to optimize scale and master your Amazon sponsored product campaigns. I think it's absolutely an amazing tool and I wanted to have them on just to kind of talk through the basics of why we need to do Amazon sponsored product campaigns. Why is it important to do that? Why can't I just list my item? What does it do for my business? We recently did a survey. Thank you, all of you who responded to that survey, but we did this survey asking you guys what you wanted to learn more about and this one of the top things we heard back from you guys. We wanted to bring on the experts in this field. We wanted to see what they had to say about that. Thank you, guys, so much for tuning in and let's hop in. All right, guys, we are here with Brian Burt and Brian Johnson. They are the Amazon sponsored product campaigns experts and I want to dive into this idea. As I talked to you guys before, this really is a subject that's needed within our community. It's something not a lot of people are talking about, which I find really irritating as I'm wanting to go out and do stuff with my Amazon brands and just kind of the private-label industry. I'm finding that there's a huge gap in the market. Whether it's PPC or even driving people to your site and making sure that you're keywording correctly, there's not a whole lot out there and when it is out there, you have to be a genius to go through it. I'm really excited because we have these guys on, Brian and Brian. I'm going to refer to them as their last names because it would get a little confusing to go through it. You guys, introduce yourself. Brian Burt, introduce yourself first. We'll do that. It's a little easier that way. Brian B.: Yeah, sure, Josh. Thanks for having me on. This is fun, man, now that we've got the audio situated. I'm not using my big microphone anymore. Pushed that guy away. Yeah, my name is Brian Burt. I've been an online seller for almost 10 years. I've been in the Amazon game for just over a year and in that time I was able to grow from about 0, well exactly 0, to over $150,000 a month and that's going up quite a bit. I have a goal: a million dollars a month. I'll show you my whiteboard at another time, but it's on there. The one thing that was holding me back here was really my sponsored product campaigns. I had no idea, just like you mentioned, what was going on. That's how I found Brian Johnson. Joshua: Brian Johnson, introduce yourself now. Brian J.: Okay, so I'm Brian Johnson. My background is actually I've been in e-commerce for probably about a decade. Part of that was eBay. I did pretty good as far as selling office and banking equipment and that kind of stuff on eBay. Then I got pulled over to the Amazon side of the house about 3 years ago through a friend of mine. I started with my own private labeling and launching products of my own. Got asked to start consulting for some other brands that were off Amazon to try and help them with everything end-to-end.

Whats up Empire, Joshua Woodward here. For all of you private labelers out there listen up. If you have spent any time building a private label company this podcast is going to help you strengthen, develop and boost the traffic around your brand. A few months back we had our good friend Daryl Weber on the show to share the 101 version of his branding teaching. He is back this week to give us his second portion to this teaching and man oh man was it packed with gold. If you find just as much value as I found from this podcast and the previous podcast Daryl has since put out a book titled Brand Subduction. You can find out more on his website at, http://www.daryl-weber.com/ You can find Our last podcast at, If you want to know more about us and all we are doing go to, http://www.theonlineempireacademy.com Until next time Empire, Have a great day! Joshua Woodward and the O.E.A. team — Transcripts Below This Point— Joshua: What's up, online empire academy? Joshua Woodward here. Today we have Daryl Weber on and this is the 2.0. We had him earlier on just to talk about branding, to get this idea started. He recently put out a book called Brand Seduction. It goes through the idea of how neuro science can help marketers build memorable brands. Yes I'm reading that because I couldn't remember all of it. Daryl, how are you doing, man? Daryl: I'm doing great, man. Thanks for having me back. Joshua: Absolutely. I'm excited. If you guys hadn't watched our last live show with Dean and I, both of us are getting passionate about branding, especially with some of the things that Amazon's rolling out and some of the things that we're doing as a team. Branding is becoming more and more relevant and more and more important with becoming an ecommerce seller. We talked about how important it is to set your future up to develop a brand. I think it's so timely and so exciting to have Daryl on again, especially with his book coming out that's all about branding. I think it's a really timely thing. Daryl, will you just give a little background about this book and how you got started with this concept? Daryl: Sure. It started out, I was fascinated by how the brain works and how the mind works in general. In undergrad I studied psychology and focused on cognitive neuro science. Just out of that fascination for wanting to understand how people work. How we tick. I started working in marketing over 15 years ago now. Advertising in a brand strategy consulting firm. All through that time, I was always curious about how the psychology of it fits into this whole thing. A lot of marketers are thinking about these different ways of reaching people and connecting with consumers but it felt like they weren't truly understanding how they were connecting to the consumers minds and brains. It felt like they were making a lot of assumptions. The science wasn't quite there. Just because of that I wanted to dig more deeply into it and say, “How do consumers minds operate? How are we getting them to buy one thing over another? How does consumer loyalty work? How do we get someone to be habitually buying our brand or product?” These are things that have been studied. There's a ton of research on consumer psychology and consumer behavior. There's academic journals and people who study this but it wasn't getting communicated over to the marketers that I thought could benefit from it. With my book, I was fascinated by that stuff. I was reading it, I was interested in it. I found that all the people I was working with weren't aware of it. I wanted to write a book that could really translate it over and bridge that gap. Do it in a way that was insightful, fun to read, hopefully entertaining and interesting. Also just easily applicable. Especially the creatives in marketing.

Whats up Empire, Joshua Woodward here. For all of you private labelers out there listen up. If you have spent any time building a private label company this podcast is going to help you strengthen, develop and boost the traffic around your brand. A few months back we had our good friend Daryl Weber on the show to share the 101 version of his branding teaching. He is back this week to give us his second portion to this teaching and man oh man was it packed with gold. If you find just as much value as I found from this podcast and the previous podcast Daryl has since put out a book titled Brand Subduction. You can find out more on his website at, http://www.daryl-weber.com/ You can find Our last podcast at, If you want to know more about us and all we are doing go to, http://www.theonlineempireacademy.com Until next time Empire, Have a great day! Joshua Woodward and the O.E.A. team — Transcripts Below This Point— Joshua: What's up, online empire academy? Joshua Woodward here. Today we have Daryl Weber on and this is the 2.0. We had him earlier on just to talk about branding, to get this idea started. He recently put out a book called Brand Seduction. It goes through the idea of how neuro science can help marketers build memorable brands. Yes I'm reading that because I couldn't remember all of it. Daryl, how are you doing, man? Daryl: I'm doing great, man. Thanks for having me back. Joshua: Absolutely. I'm excited. If you guys hadn't watched our last live show with Dean and I, both of us are getting passionate about branding, especially with some of the things that Amazon's rolling out and some of the things that we're doing as a team. Branding is becoming more and more relevant and more and more important with becoming an ecommerce seller. We talked about how important it is to set your future up to develop a brand. I think it's so timely and so exciting to have Daryl on again, especially with his book coming out that's all about branding. I think it's a really timely thing. Daryl, will you just give a little background about this book and how you got started with this concept? Daryl: Sure. It started out, I was fascinated by how the brain works and how the mind works in general. In undergrad I studied psychology and focused on cognitive neuro science. Just out of that fascination for wanting to understand how people work. How we tick. I started working in marketing over 15 years ago now. Advertising in a brand strategy consulting firm. All through that time, I was always curious about how the psychology of it fits into this whole thing. A lot of marketers are thinking about these different ways of reaching people and connecting with consumers but it felt like they weren't truly understanding how they were connecting to the consumers minds and brains. It felt like they were making a lot of assumptions. The science wasn't quite there. Just because of that I wanted to dig more deeply into it and say, “How do consumers minds operate? How are we getting them to buy one thing over another? How does consumer loyalty work? How do we get someone to be habitually buying our brand or product?” These are things that have been studied. There's a ton of research on consumer psychology and consumer behavior. There's academic journals and people who study this but it wasn't getting communicated over to the marketers that I thought could benefit from it. With my book, I was fascinated by that stuff. I was reading it, I was interested in it. I found that all the people I was working with weren't aware of it. I wanted to write a book that could really translate it over and bridge that gap. Do it in a way that was insightful, fun to read, hopefully entertaining and interesting. Also just easily applicable.

Whats up Empire, Joshua Woodward here. There is A New Strategy for Expanding Your Amazon and eBay Business I have used a similar strategy as the one we are talking about today for getting Product at a steep discount but Mike Hadad has taken this idea and super sized it. One of the greatest problems in the ecom community is product. When you dont have product you dont have sales. The more quality product coming in the better quality sales you will be getting. I had had enough of the garage sales. Waking up at 6 in the morning on a Saturday began to feel like a sin. So I thought to myself how in the world can I get these quality products im finding at garage sales without the hassle of the garage sale search. Thats when it clicked. Craigslist that you will buy peoples goods so they dont have to go through the hassle of a garage sale. I had fixed prices, fixed rules and a truck. Within a week I had 3 hits and a solid amount of sorting to be done. This has continued to be one of the best and most lucrative ways to optimize my time, energy and resources….until I heard about what Mike Hadad was doing with his business iSold It. He has a business that basically consigns peoples goods for them on his top rated ebay account. this was one of those OH MY GOSH moments for me. Why had I not thought to do this? I am all about partnering. Empire you know that, and what better way to optimize my time than have people coming to me to sell there stuff on amazon and eBay. Now i know you are probably thinking, Im not going to make as much money as i would if it was my own product or if i bought the item outright. See thats what I thought but think about it. If you already are listing, packing and shipping all day anyway why not leverage one more thing and start making an extra 30% for almost no upfront cost. I love this model and I have definitely been inspired. I would highly recommend going and checking out what mike has built. It is a beautiful business and something I have some mad respect for. If you want to check out Mike and iSold it go to, http://www.isolditmd.com/ If you want to know more about us and all we are doing go to,http://www.theonlineempireacademy.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/EIDMastermind/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJtNGg7PaK-fsdTDHUp5BQ itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/online-empire-academy-podcast/id379874674?mt=2 Stitcher Radio: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/entrepreneur-ideas-podcast/entrepreneur-idea-dads-podcast Until next time Empire, Have a great day! Joshua Woodward and the O.E.A. team — Transcripts Below This Point— Speaker 1: You’re listening to the Online Empire Academy Podcast where you’ll discover some of the best and most creative ways to provide for your family and get started on your journey to entrepreneurship. No crazy get rich quick schemes, no living in a van down by the river with your family while you build your business. If you want real, actionable, and proven entrepreneur ideas that you can use right now, join us for free at the OnlineEmpireAcademy.com. Now, get ready for the Online Empire Academy Podcast. Joshua: What's up Online Empire Academy, Joshua Woodward here. Today we have on Mike Hadad. He's got this crazy idea and had developed this crazy business that a lot of us have probably thought of doing but haven't taken it to the next step. First,

Whats up Empire, Joshua Woodward here. There is A New Strategy for Expanding Your Amazon and eBay Business I have used a similar strategy as the one we are talking about today for getting Product at a steep discount but Mike Hadad has taken this idea and super sized it. One of the greatest problems in the ecom community is product. When you dont have product you dont have sales. The more quality product coming in the better quality sales you will be getting. I had had enough of the garage sales. Waking up at 6 in the morning on a Saturday began to feel like a sin. So I thought to myself how in the world can I get these quality products im finding at garage sales without the hassle of the garage sale search. Thats when it clicked. Craigslist that you will buy peoples goods so they dont have to go through the hassle of a garage sale. I had fixed prices, fixed rules and a truck. Within a week I had 3 hits and a solid amount of sorting to be done. This has continued to be one of the best and most lucrative ways to optimize my time, energy and resources….until I heard about what Mike Hadad was doing with his business iSold It. He has a business that basically consigns peoples goods for them on his top rated ebay account. this was one of those OH MY GOSH moments for me. Why had I not thought to do this? I am all about partnering. Empire you know that, and what better way to optimize my time than have people coming to me to sell there stuff on amazon and eBay. Now i know you are probably thinking, Im not going to make as much money as i would if it was my own product or if i bought the item outright. See thats what I thought but think about it. If you already are listing, packing and shipping all day anyway why not leverage one more thing and start making an extra 30% for almost no upfront cost. I love this model and I have definitely been inspired. I would highly recommend going and checking out what mike has built. It is a beautiful business and something I have some mad respect for. If you want to check out Mike and iSold it go to, http://www.isolditmd.com/ If you want to know more about us and all we are doing go to,http://www.theonlineempireacademy.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/EIDMastermind/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJtNGg7PaK-fsdTDHUp5BQ itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/online-empire-academy-podcast/id379874674?mt=2 Stitcher Radio: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/entrepreneur-ideas-podcast/entrepreneur-idea-dads-podcast Until next time Empire, Have a great day! Joshua Woodward and the O.E.A. team — Transcripts Below This Point— Speaker 1: You’re listening to the Online Empire Academy Podcast where you’ll discover some of the best and most creative ways to provide for your family and get started on your journey to entrepreneurship. No crazy get rich quick schemes, no living in a van down by the river with your family while you build your business. If you want real, actionable, and proven entrepreneur ideas that you can use right now, join us for free at the OnlineEmpireAcademy.com. Now, get ready for the Online Empire Academy Podcast. Joshua: What's up Online Empire Academy, Joshua Woodward here. Today we have on Mike Hadad. He's got this crazy idea and had developed this crazy business that a lot of us have probably thought of doing but haven't taken it to the next s...

Whats up Empire! Joshua Woodward here, how many hours do you think you have spent shipping products out of your house? I could never count it. What if there was a better way? If you have been in the industry for a while im sure you have heard about fulfillment centers or packing warehouse. For those of you who have not, let me break this down. When you find goods with online arbitrage and or you are ready to ship over your newly produced private label products you need somewhere to drop these products off too. If you are anything like me the last thing on earth you want it 3,000 brand new units being dropped off on your driveway. Fulfillment centers start by giving you a place to drop these goods off too. The next step is getting the products out of the manufacturers boxes or out of the Walmart boxes, stickers taken off, then FBA stickers on and put into their correct boxes to be shipped. Yup you guessed it Fulfillment centers do that all for you. Next you will need to ship those boxes out. I have a truck but i still end up making multiple stops. That is the beauty of a fulfillment center all of these incredibly frustrating and time consuming processes are completely taken care of. Empire…..stop wasting your time shipping boxes to Amazon, just let a fulfillment center do it for you. If you want to know about Brenden and his fulfillment company go to, http://primezeroprep.com/ And to let them know you heard about Prime Zero Prep from our show use the promo code – empire Thank you so much for tuning in and until next time, Have a great day! – Transcription below – Joshua Woodward: What's up Online Empire Academy? Joshua Woodward here. Today we're talking to Brenden Sullivan from Prime Zero Prep, and I'm really excited. I just got a chance to talk to Nate McAlister. I hope you guys listen to that podcast. It's awesome, if you haven't. He had talked about kind of the use of online arbitrage and a prepping company. This is a concept I've heard about before and something that I've looked into, but I haven't done it yet. I wanted to have Brenden on just to kind of talk through what it is that they do but also why it's going to help our businesses. First, I want to hear your story, man. How are you doing? Brenden : I'm doing great, man. I appreciate you having me on today. Joshua Woodward: Absolutely. I'm excited. I'm excited to learn more about this. Tell me your story and how you got started with this. Brenden : Sure. I've always been involved in the … Well, I don't want to say always, but for a while now I've been selling online prior to jumping into the prep side of the world. Before we started Prime Zero Prep, which was early last year, I sold online in various platforms; eBay was where I started. I was doing that for about. I was doing that for about ten years part-time. I always had a full-time job while juggling eBay. About three and a half years ago I transitioned into Amazon because I was just fulfilling too many items on the eBay platform by myself. It became a struggle to balance that plus my full-time job. I wasn't ready to jump in with two feet at this point in my life. FBA seemed like the perfect transition to kind of scale my business in the direction it was going without dedicating myself full-time to the business. I ended up taking a few courses, and it's funny … I actually took a course that Dean was part of. That was one of the first courses I ever took that was in relation to Amazon FBA. It's funny because I haven't talked to or heard about Dean in a while because I've kind of gone away from the pulse of Amazon because I'm doing the prep side of the business now. It's kind of interesting to see it come back full circle and be interviewed by Dean and his team, obviously, knowing that you guys are a partnership on this academy...

Whats up Empire! Joshua Woodward here, how many hours do you think you have spent shipping products out of your house? I could never count it. What if there was a better way? If you have been in the industry for a while im sure you have heard about fulfillment centers or packing warehouse. For those of you who have not, let me break this down. When you find goods with online arbitrage and or you are ready to ship over your newly produced private label products you need somewhere to drop these products off too. If you are anything like me the last thing on earth you want it 3,000 brand new units being dropped off on your driveway. Fulfillment centers start by giving you a place to drop these goods off too. The next step is getting the products out of the manufacturers boxes or out of the Walmart boxes, stickers taken off, then FBA stickers on and put into their correct boxes to be shipped. Yup you guessed it Fulfillment centers do that all for you. Next you will need to ship those boxes out. I have a truck but i still end up making multiple stops. That is the beauty of a fulfillment center all of these incredibly frustrating and time consuming processes are completely taken care of. Empire…..stop wasting your time shipping boxes to Amazon, just let a fulfillment center do it for you. If you want to know about Brenden and his fulfillment company go to, http://primezeroprep.com/ And to let them know you heard about Prime Zero Prep from our show use the promo code – empire Thank you so much for tuning in and until next time, Have a great day! – Transcription below – Joshua Woodward: What's up Online Empire Academy? Joshua Woodward here. Today we're talking to Brenden Sullivan from Prime Zero Prep, and I'm really excited. I just got a chance to talk to Nate McAlister. I hope you guys listen to that podcast. It's awesome, if you haven't. He had talked about kind of the use of online arbitrage and a prepping company. This is a concept I've heard about before and something that I've looked into, but I haven't done it yet. I wanted to have Brenden on just to kind of talk through what it is that they do but also why it's going to help our businesses. First, I want to hear your story, man. How are you doing? Brenden : I'm doing great, man. I appreciate you having me on today. Joshua Woodward: Absolutely. I'm excited. I'm excited to learn more about this. Tell me your story and how you got started with this. Brenden : Sure. I've always been involved in the … Well, I don't want to say always, but for a while now I've been selling online prior to jumping into the prep side of the world. Before we started Prime Zero Prep, which was early last year, I sold online in various platforms; eBay was where I started. I was doing that for about. I was doing that for about ten years part-time. I always had a full-time job while juggling eBay. About three and a half years ago I transitioned into Amazon because I was just fulfilling too many items on the eBay platform by myself. It became a struggle to balance that plus my full-time job. I wasn't ready to jump in with two feet at this point in my life. FBA seemed like the perfect transition to kind of scale my business in the direction it was going without dedicating myself full-time to the business. I ended up taking a few courses, and it's funny … I actually took a course that Dean was part of. That was one of the first courses I ever took that was in relation to Amazon FBA. It's funny because I haven't talked to or heard about Dean in a while because I've kind of gone away from the pulse of Amazon because I'm doing the prep side of the business now. It's kind of interesting to see it come back full circle and be interviewed by Dean and his team, obviously,

What’s up Empire! Joshua Woodward here, One of your largest assets in life is your time. As entrepreneurs we need to maximize our time to the best of our ability. Today we have Tim Nash on to talk us through concurring your work load and developing good boundaries around your time. Tim is an expert in this field. He is a consultant and coach for business professionals all over the world. A while ago he had written an article about the strategic approach to setting clear boundaries and managing your work load. I dont know about you but this is an area I have definitely need some help in. If you want to go check out Tim's Blog post go to, http://thepathtopeakperformance.com/4-step-approach-to-set-boundaries-manage-your-workload-now/ To get more involved with what we are doing go to, http://www.theonlineempireacademy.com For those of you wanting more information about our podcast sponsor follow the directions below, Step #1. Go to Amazon.com Step #2 Type in “address labels” into the search bar Step #3 Click on “perfect peel address labels” Step #4 Purchase “perfect peel address labels” with the online empire exclusive promo code given at the end of the podcast. Until next time Empire, Have a great day! —Transcripts Below This Point— Speaker 1: Now get ready for the Online Empire Academy Podcast. Joshua: What’s up Online Empire Academy? Joshua Woodward here, your podcast host. Today’s sponsor is the Yorba Label Company. They’re giving us 25% off of 3,000 address labels. If you’ve ever shipped Amazon FBA, you know that you need those address labels. It’s a great deal, guys. Here’s how you get it. Go on to Amazon.com, type in “address labels”, select “Perfect Peel Address Labels”. In the checkout, you’re going to use the promo code labels25. That’s going to get you the 25% discount. It’s time to hop in with our guest. Thank you so much for tuning in, and enjoy the podcast. Today, I have on a very special guest. It's my uncle, but more than anything, Tim Nash is a coach, and has been coaching for a really, really long time. He's been coaching professionals all over the world, and he actually lives in Munich. We are talking to him from Munich live today. I'm super excited. Tim, I wanted to ask you your story. I wanted to introduce you, and I wanted you to just tell people what you've been up to and your back story on how you got there. Tim: Sure. Well, first of all, thanks for having me, Josh. Yeah. Well, like you said, I'm in Munich now. I'm originally from Los Angeles, but probably for about the last 21 years or so, I've been, for the most part, living outside of the states. My story is not a traditional one. It's taken a few twist and turns. After 3 years of working in the financial services industry in the Los Angeles area, I decided to do something completely different. I'm talking you back a long time ago, probably a few years after you were born, probably. Tim: A couple of years after you were born. I decided to … I have never been out of the country. I was 23 years old. I've been working at a bank, and I was working at mutual funds house. I was 23, but I felt like I was going on 63, and wanted to do something different. I got a passport. I sold or I gave everything away that I owned, and I went over to far east Asia to teach English. Didn't know anything about teaching or South Korea, but there was an opportunity, they were looking for English teachers, so I went and did that sort of on a whim. While I was there, I had a chance to visit Japan, fell in love with Japan and that area of the world, and ended up staying there for over 3 years, teaching and traveling around Japan and Southeast Asia. More than anything,

What’s up Empire! Joshua Woodward here, One of your largest assets in life is your time. As entrepreneurs we need to maximize our time to the best of our ability. Today we have Tim Nash on to talk us through concurring your work load and developing good boundaries around your time. Tim is an expert in this field. He is a consultant and coach for business professionals all over the world. A while ago he had written an article about the strategic approach to setting clear boundaries and managing your work load. I dont know about you but this is an area I have definitely need some help in. If you want to go check out Tim's Blog post go to, http://thepathtopeakperformance.com/4-step-approach-to-set-boundaries-manage-your-workload-now/ To get more involved with what we are doing go to, http://www.theonlineempireacademy.com For those of you wanting more information about our podcast sponsor follow the directions below, Step #1. Go to Amazon.com Step #2 Type in “address labels” into the search bar Step #3 Click on “perfect peel address labels” Step #4 Purchase “perfect peel address labels” with the online empire exclusive promo code given at the end of the podcast. Until next time Empire, Have a great day! —Transcripts Below This Point— Speaker 1: Now get ready for the Online Empire Academy Podcast. Joshua: What’s up Online Empire Academy? Joshua Woodward here, your podcast host. Today’s sponsor is the Yorba Label Company. They’re giving us 25% off of 3,000 address labels. If you’ve ever shipped Amazon FBA, you know that you need those address labels. It’s a great deal, guys. Here’s how you get it. Go on to Amazon.com, type in “address labels”, select “Perfect Peel Address Labels”. In the checkout, you’re going to use the promo code labels25. That’s going to get you the 25% discount. It’s time to hop in with our guest. Thank you so much for tuning in, and enjoy the podcast. Today, I have on a very special guest. It's my uncle, but more than anything, Tim Nash is a coach, and has been coaching for a really, really long time. He's been coaching professionals all over the world, and he actually lives in Munich. We are talking to him from Munich live today. I'm super excited. Tim, I wanted to ask you your story. I wanted to introduce you, and I wanted you to just tell people what you've been up to and your back story on how you got there. Tim: Sure. Well, first of all, thanks for having me, Josh. Yeah. Well, like you said, I'm in Munich now. I'm originally from Los Angeles, but probably for about the last 21 years or so, I've been, for the most part, living outside of the states. My story is not a traditional one. It's taken a few twist and turns. After 3 years of working in the financial services industry in the Los Angeles area, I decided to do something completely different. I'm talking you back a long time ago, probably a few years after you were born, probably. Tim: A couple of years after you were born. I decided to … I have never been out of the country. I was 23 years old. I've been working at a bank, and I was working at mutual funds house. I was 23, but I felt like I was going on 63, and wanted to do something different. I got a passport. I sold or I gave everything away that I owned, and I went over to far east Asia to teach English. Didn't know anything about teaching or South Korea, but there was an opportunity, they were looking for English teachers, so I went and did that sort of on a whim. While I was there, I had a chance to visit Japan, fell in love with Japan and that area of the world, and ended up staying there for over 3 years, teaching and traveling around Japan and Southeast...

What’s up Empire! Joshua Woodward here, If you have been following our Facebook page im sure you have heard the buzz about dropshipping. When Dean first told me about this idea I was supper skeptical. Last I had heard this method was not okay to do on the Amazon platform and there was word that peoples accounts had been shut down due to it. Well Dean being the wizard he is, not only did he find a legal way to dropship on Amazon he found an incredibly lucrative way to do so. If you want to know more go to, http://theonlineempireacademy.com/dream-dropshipping/ If you want to know more about us and all we are doing go to, http://www.theonlineempireacademy.com For those of you wanting more information about our podcast sponsor follow the directions below, Step #1. Go to Amazon.com Step #2 Type in “address labels” into the search bar Step #3 Click on “perfect peel address labels” Step #4 Purchase “perfect peel address labels” with the online empire exclusive promo code given at the end of the podcast. Until next time Empire, Have a great day! Joshua Woodward and the O.E.A. team —Transcripts Below This Point— Joshua: What's up Online Empire Academy? Joshua Woodward here, your podcast host. Today's sponsor is the Yorba Label Company. They're giving us 25% of three thousand address labels. If you've ever shipped Amazon FBA, you know that you need those address labels. It's a great deal, guys. Here's how you get it. Go on to amazon.com, type in “address labels”, select “Perfect peel address labels”. In the checkout, you're going to use the promo LABELS25. That's going to get you the 25% discount. It's time to hop in with our guest. Thank you so much for tuning in, and enjoy the podcast. Today we're going to be talking about drop shipping. We just shot an email, if you guys got it, thank you so much for responding, but we got a ton of response on the subject of drop-shipping. This is, obviously I've heard of it before. I've been talking with Dean about it a lot, but I wanted to get the nitty gritty from the guy who is kind of heading this up, and it is my one and only homeboy, Dean Soto. What's up, man? Dean: Hey, what's going on? What's going on? Joshua: Dude, [crosstalk 00:01:58] I'm stoked. It's going to be fun. Yeah, we just want to talk through what drop-shipping is for those of you who don't know what it is and then how it can actually help your Amazon business. The big question I've been getting is the legal side of it. Is it legal? We are going to talk through Dean, talk with Dean through this subject and I just want the biggest break because I have a ton of questions too. Dean first off, tell me how the heck did you get started with drop-shipping? It's so random. Dean: Well first off I apologize for the room. This is not my studio. This is my son's room. We have stars and pictures and all our stuff. I got basically kicked out of my studio because it also happens to be where my littlest baby sleeps so I don't get to have the cool mic like you do today at least. Yeah, it's interesting. I mean for those who know me for a while I like doing the online stuff like not the physical product stuff. I do all the online marketing. Podcasting I used to do, now that Josh is basically way better at that than me. I give it to him and he's like taking it to the next level. Webinars all those different things. I just don't like touching physical product not that it's bad, it's just doesn't coincide with my nature. It was interesting. Drop-shipping never appealed to me. It's been around forever, honestly. Everyone knows what drop-shipping is for the most part. There's so many different ways to do it, I never actually went into it saying, “Hey,