070: The Story Behind Two Successful (But Very Different) Online Businesses with Steve Chou from MyWifeQuitHerJob.com - a podcast by Bjork Ostrom
from 2016-10-25T08:00
Welcome to episode 70 of the Food Blogger Pro podcast! This week, Bjork chats with Steve Chou from MyWifeQuitHerJob.com about building two eCommerce businesses - one that sells physical products, and the other that sells digital products.
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Steve’s wife Jennifer decided to quit her job in 2007, and within one year replaced her six-figure income with an eCommerce business selling physical products. Steve started blogging about how she did it and later quit his job - fully replacing his salary - with an eCommerce business selling digital products.
These two businesses had one thing in common: they were eCommerce businesses. Everything else, from the customer acquisition to the time it took to generate a decent income, varied widely. However, Steve and his wife have learned a lot over the last few years running their two eCommerce businesses, and today Steve is here to share some of his knowledge with us.
In this episode, Steve shares:
- What two businesses he and his wife run
- Why one business wasn’t as profitable as the other in the beginning
- How to find what products to sell
- What it’s like working with vendors in foreign countries
- Whether he would recommend selling physical or digital products
- What the best way is to sell your first physical product
- What FBA is and why you might use it
- Why they stopped selling on eBay
- How he markets their digital and physical products
Resources:
- osCommerce
- Shopify
- Squarespace
- TeraPeak
- Jungle Scout
- Alibaba
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
- s2Member
- Fulfillment by Amazon
- Ecwid
- Klaviyo
- ConvertKit
- How to add a Facebook pixel to your website
- Bumblebee Linens
- MyWifeQuitHerJob.com
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