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  1. “SPYGUY.com. I'm on Twitter. Give me a shout. It's at Alan Third, so A-L-E-N T I R D and I have a personal site as well. There's not a whole lot on it at the moment, but maybe in the future, AlanWalton.com.”

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  2. “I love meeting other entrepreneurs and finding opportunities to have great conversations or start a business together or help other people with their businesses and get a lot of joy out of that. And so, yeah, I've done the dreamlining thing and I'm like, all right, where do I want to be a year from now, five years from now? And I just really want to be helping people who are maybe where I was when they were like eighteen or twenty-two or whatever. If I can share some of the knowledge and point people in the right direction, then I think I get a lot of personal satisfaction out of that.”

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  3. “Building out a team has been life changing for me because they can handle all the shipping and stuff, so I don't have to. I don't have to take a single customer call anymore if I don't want to. Sometimes I'll hear it ring and I'll snatch it before somebody else does. But Go months without taking a phone call if I really wanted to. And that's great. Yeah, so building out my team, figuring out how to factor in having a newborn baby in my life. I think that's going to be really interesting.”

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  4. “Thank you. I'm kind of interested to see how this will go. With the free time and being able to work on the business. And so I've really... Taken upon the task of building out my team. Well, not a burden, but carry more of the weight Because I can't do everything on my own anymore, it's impossible, and by building a team, I can have people that I depend on Actually, not just maintain the business, but I want them to help grow it. Figuring that out has been a lot of fun. It's been a lot of, you know, it was cool doing stuff on my own for a long time. I mean, that's how people typically see it when they do entrepreneurship. It starts out with just them.”

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  5. “They're like the number one distributor of valet podiums in the US. And so I remember being in Dallas getting a haircut a couple months ago, and they had valet parking. And I looked down at the thing and I see their logo on it. And I just like crack up because these are guys that I found out about through the podcast who lived in Thailand at the time.”

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  6. “They have a lot of really great episodes with people like me who are doing maybe they'll do Fulfilled by Amazon businesses. So they'll find products, sell them only on Amazon, and then Amazon will actually ship it for them as well. So they never have to physically handle the inventory, which sounds amazing to me. FBA sellers, they interview people who are running digital agencies, so paid ad campaigns on Google or Facebook, Instagram. They'll interview people who have a small team and they'll be based in the Philippines or in Thailand or something like that running their business remotely for US clients. And it keeps cost low. And they'll share with you everything that they know, like how they stumbled into that niche. So you hear about people who are doing really interesting things in niches you've never known about. Like the guys that run that podcast sell.”

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  7. “So eCom Crew, I would totally suggest to anybody who wants to start an online business that selling physical products because they talk about factories finding them working with them, raising money, running an e-commerce store, and how to do Facebook ads correctly and make money from that. Cool stuff. About two months after I started my business, I learned about the tropical MBA podcast. Again, terrible names usually mean that the product's pretty good. But these are guys that do entrepreneurship, Tim Ferrestyle. And so”

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  8. “Yes, and then Ecom Crew Ecom Crew is my favorite e-commerce podcast. It's run by a friend of mine named Mike, and he has been almost completely transparent with his e-commerce business. It's a seven-figure e-commerce business. They do adult coloring books.”

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  9. “So, I actually don't get a whole lot of people asking for advice. I kind of like lay low, I think. But the people who do reach out, I give them a handful of books to read that were hugely, we talked about some of them earlier. I can name more later if you want, but I tell them to read these books if they have any questions they can get back to me. I give them a list of podcasts that I listen to. What are some of those”

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  10. “And I'm like, holy crap, that is exactly what's happened to me. I've met so many amazing people on Twitter, and you can have these great conversations without having to physically be near them at all. So meeting people through Twitter, meeting people at these events, other business owners who are just doing really cool stuff and are into personal development and fitness and entrepreneurship and Just cool people, even without that stuff. I enjoy being around them. So I've kind of been able to find my tribe type of thing.”

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  11. “Seeking those people out and finding them. And on Twitter, it's easier than ever. I can't remember who said it. I want to say it was Naval Rabicant. I think he had a tweet and he's like, Facebook is where you meet the people of your past and Twitter's where you meet the people of your future”

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  12. “So, the first thing that comes to mind as I look out of this This amazing view of Austin is that I'm sitting here chatting with you right now. I mean, Booke was hugely influential to me and then a lot of my friends So, this has been an awesome experience. Meaning people who are like me has been the biggest impact on my life. Like I kind of went through high school just like as a loner and I didn't really have a lot of friends and I was kind of like wandering around aimlessly. But starting this business up has exposed me to people who are just really cool and really interesting. And if we went to high school together then we probably would have liked along really well. Would have been awesome. And so”

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  13. “It was our biggest sales day of all time, and it still is. And so that was really cool at the moment. But then for the three months after, I'm like, oh my gosh, what's taking so long? Forries not being very responsive to me at all. We have customers calling left and right, and a lot of them, we forgot to market unorderable on the website. So customers were placing orders for it, even though it wasn't in stock. And so they were getting frustrated with us. And yeah, it was a difficult time. I mean, I'm glad it happened. I just wish we had been prepared better. But”

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  14. “Right. Every week or so, there's a story that comes out about somebody finding a hidden camera like in an Airbnb or vacation rental. And they did a segment on that and how to find a hidden camera. And so they just generally mentioned a bug detector. And it turns out that Amazon sold out completely. And a lot of customers found our website after hitting Amazon and not being able to find anything in stock. They came to our website and purchased all of our inventory and we were out for months. It was horrible. We had to cancel orders left and right. And it was a difficult time.”

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  15. “He went back to the Philippines, where he was from. And when the story finally hit, it gave us a lot of publicity. So like all of a sudden, other newspapers were wanting to talk to me. And then TV stations were asking for Skype interviews and stuff. And it actually came out on the same day that Jared from Subway was arrested. And that took up the news for the entire day. Also, I think Anthony Scalia died, the Supreme Court justice. So the news was just flooded and the story just got buried. What happens”

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  16. “The police suspected that the priest was doing something. Anyways, The reporter that was working the article, I decided to reach out to her and I decided to reach out to the detective that was working the case at the same time. And we kind of worked hand in hand to get the story out in a way that looked favorable for me. So the reporter for the paper was greatly appreciative that I contacted her with the scoop and allowed me to share my side of the story. And instead of making it seem like I was an accomplice to some guy that did a terrible, we had never even spoken to this guy. He just placed the order on the website. He never called us on the phone, never did a live chat or sent in an email. It's just somebody that placed an order on the website and did something terrible. And so I was really worried that that would just destroy my business. And we worked hand in hand with the police department. They ended up issuing a warrant for his arrest. But he had already fled the country like a week prior.”

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  17. “So bad. And so I'm like, okay, we got to get the police department this information. They had a detective that was working the case and they gave me their contact info. And I'm like, okay, what can I do? What can I do? And so I actually do a Google search for the guy. And I stumble across articles that had been written about him already in the local newspaper up there and the Oregonian was the name of the paper. And so they already had a reporter that was on this story and she had come out with like two to three different blog posts because it turned out that the kid found the camera and then reported it to his parents who then reported it to the priest who actually set up the camera and then he's like, oh, okay, I'll get this taken care of. And then he never went to the police. And so the kid's parents are like, what is going on here? And so”

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  18. “So that is his first book, and it blew my mind when I read it. It's all about the media and how they work and how you can use it to your advantage, and then also to your detriment if you don't play by the rules. And I was reading it at the time, and I'm like, oh my gosh, I could totally see this headline ending up on Gawker, which isn't around anymore. But Catholic priest installs hidden camera in boys' bathroom just like screams Gawker. And then they'd probably mention my store or something like that. And then everything I worked for was going to be, you know, ruined.”

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  19. “Okay, we can't just sit on this. We have to hand this information over. And so at the time I was reading, trust me, I'm lying by Ryan Holliday. Ryan. There's a lot of audience.”

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  20. “So that's exactly what my employee told the live chat visitor. And then the live chat guy goes, oh, okay, I am with the district attorney's office and I guess it's Sherwood or Portland area in Oregon. And we think that this guy bought a hidden camera from you and we found this hidden camera in the boys' bathroom of the Catholic Church where he is a priest. My employees like okay, send us a subpoena or a warrant or whatever it is that they ask for and we have to give you that information. And so my employee tells me this, and I'm like, oh my gosh, this is not what I needed today. And my employee goes, I looked him up and he did buy the hidden camera from us. And I'm like”

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  21. “I remember getting a message, we use Slack to communicate within the team. I guess that's also a big. I remember getting a message from my employee Vince, and he's like, hey, we had something weird happen just now, and I kind of want to alert you to it. I'm like, okay, what's up? And he goes, We had a live chat come in, and it's from somebody asking about a particular customer. And I told them that we can't give them any information on this customer. We don't just tell, you know, random people on live chat about our customers and what they're ordering. And so”

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  22. “More involved. Yeah, RFQs. And let me think. We get emails all the time from people who are set up as government suppliers, I guess, is the term. They're like, yeah, we need 2,000 bug detectors and we need them at your lowest possible price. And then we get those emails all at the same time.”

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  23. “We do, but most of our customers are just regular people that have something going on. They own a business and something's getting stolen and they need to find out who, or they're getting political signs stolen from their yard and they want to find out who's doing that. So all sorts of crazy reasons. It's really hard to find our customers on Facebook ads because there's like no demographic for people who need surveillance equipment. But yeah, they're just regular people, but we do have private investigators and law enforcement. So it's always fun seeing an order come in on the website and it's from Department of Justice or something like that. That's always fun. But to get those big orders from them, you have to do government contracts.”

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  24. “The ones that sell the most are the ones where I have a vendor that's really unpleasant to deal with, but I have to sell some of the stuff that they have. And so now I'm like, all right, how can I cut them out? So that's the first product that I started developing. And then I also have a couple products that customers have asked for, but I haven't none of my suppliers are providing it. And so I'm like, all right, this could be a real opportunity here. And so that's actually going to be one of the first times that I manufacture.”

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  25. “Keep them in staff for like another three months. And I'm like, this is terrible. I could have predicted this. I should be manufacturing my own items. So I've got $1,000, $2,000 in the warehouse. So if something like this happens, I can account for it. And I'm not at the mercy of other people.”

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  26. “Small stuff pops up on my radar, and I'm like, oh, I can knock this out real quickly. And then before you know, like 40 minutes have gone by. And then my wife wants me to get lunch with her. And then I'm like, I have barely even done anything today. I can't stop and get lunch right now. And you're putting out fires all day and stuff. And then before you know the day's over and you haven't done anything at all. So with the one thing, it's like, what's the one thing that you can do that makes everything else easier or just entirely obsolete? And so I've been thinking about that a lot lately. Like I should really be manufacturing my own products right now. Why? Because my margins are going to go up because I'm not as fragile with my manufacturers. We had a bug detector that was mentioned on the Today Show last November and we sold out of all our bug detectors like instantly.”

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  27. “Exactly. And so this is something that I've been looking at for like the last month or so, really not that long. But I also read a book called The One Thing that has been really, really helpful for me. I find that I tend to be pretty scatterbrained. There's always small stuff that I kind of”

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  28. “Yes. Yeah, they're both ways of running your company. I guess the way that traction explains it is, you know, your phone has an operating system, your computer does too, and so should your business. And we've started working on that a little bit, and they have this concept of rocks, sand pebbles, yes. And so sand is just like the incremental stuff. Pebbles is like a little more important than that. The rocks are like, what are the things that are really going to make your business awesome? If you can implement this stuff, what are What are the things that are just going to make it really take off?”

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  29. “I knew it wasn't going to work out with my 3PL when probably a week after we started with them, I was getting text messages from the fulfillment center owner. He was fulfilling the orders himself. Oh, he's”

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  30. “Customers getting wrong orders, wanting to cancel them, filing chargebacks all the time. It was very frustrating. So we have an office now and I have a full-time fulfillment guy who comes in in the morning. And he's really the only employee I have that has to go to an office and he'll pack the orders. And then we don't have to drive to the post office. We're important enough now that the post office and FedEx will come by the office and pick up from us twice a day.”

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  31. “Yeah, and we have all of our inventory at the office. I had tried doing the 3PL thing. It was a total disaster. I know other people who it works great for them. They're typically only have like a handful of SKUs. And I think that makes it easier. We have closer to 100, and we had a lot of issues with the 3PL, with wrong orders getting sent out. That was actually one of the most stressful periods ever because I thought my business was going to implode”

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  32. “But the shipping software is incredible because in order we'll come through on our Shopify website and then it gets synced to shipping easy so that a label is automatically generated. So what we've done is we have a set of automation rules. So shipping easy knows how much each item weighs, what envelope or box the item will be shipped out in based on like the total order weight and the shipping method that the customer selected. So if they did free ground shipping then it's probably going to go out first class mail. But if they selected two day shipping then it's probably going to go out like FedEx one rate or we have a million different combinations that are in there and it's really easy to set up so that like within a minute of a customer placing an order on the website a shipping label is generated and we know exactly what envelope it's going to go into and what products.”

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  33. “I think that's kind of it. So it started as two separate ones, and then they were both bought by stamps.com. Which also owns? I don't know. They have like a monopoly on the post office, and I'm not sure how that works. It's really weird.”

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  34. “One of my biggest wins was using a shipping software called Shipping Easy. There's another one that's out there called Ship Station that is also popular.”

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  35. “That you're not just in Gmail all day. It makes it really easy to for customers to contact you and for you to give them the exact experience that your customer needs. So if they email you asking for a refund or a return, then you have canned responses that you can key in and you can assign tickets. So like if a customer is like, hey, I talked to Dale the other day I'd really like it if you could help me with this issue, then you can like move that ticket into his inbox and then he can manage it. And you can see the entire history of the customer's profile. Like you can see everything that they've done in Shopify also appears in Help Scout. So you can see the orders that they've placed. You can see if they've been refunded. So you can do all of your customer service stuff just within HelpScout and not having to open a new window and go to Shopify. So that's really good for streamlining things.”

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  36. “Oh my god, it hasn't changed. It hasn't changed since you used it So Shopify's a hub of everything that we do. It collects all of the data and we base all of our decisions off of it. We have another tool that's really helpful called Help Scout. It is a ticket software.”

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  37. “Sure. So Shopify is just the hub of everything that we do. And that's what talks to everything else pretty much. It's fantastic. It makes life so much easier than when I was on, I used to work at a company and we were using Yahoo Store. You remember that? Oh, yeah.”

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  38. “Other of the manufacturer because sometimes they don't Orders take too long, or they jack up your prices, and it just kind of feels like they have you over a barrel. So I'm looking to actually start manufacturing my own items. Yes.”

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  39. “So, production line hasn't started yet, but I did find an industrial designer who lives here in Austin I've also found an engineer that is making the PCB's design for me. So that's Printed Circuit Board. And it's been a hard road. I mean, there's a reason why people don't, if you're trying to get into fulfilled by Amazon businesses, the rule one is don't sell electronics. It's hard. And so I'm not technical. It's been a really hard road figuring out how electronics worked. What are the costs? Oh, some of the stuff comes out defective, and I got to deal with that. And then you got to communicate with factories in China because that's like the hub for everything electronics these days. And it's just been really difficult to figure out. I think I'm getting there, but we do have products designed. I want to sell them under the spy guy brand and then be in control of the actual product that we're making. It's been kind of a pain being at the mercy of.”

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  40. “Best to approach that. I'd really like to start manufacturing my own products. And that way I'm not having to compete with other people for the same exact item. So that's one of the other reasons I was worried that I'd list the item on Amazon and then all of a sudden you have like six or seven other people attaching themselves to the listing also saying that they are selling this item, which I'm not entirely sure that they are. It could be like a counterfeit or a copycat or something like that. And then you're all fighting for the buy box. It just seemed like something I didn't want on my plate and I knew it could make it work without it.”

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  41. “Exactly. And Amazon is like a 30-day return policy or whatever. And I was like, oh my gosh, that's like enough time for somebody to use this product, get all of the value they needed out of it, and then send it back. And then I'm like totally burned by it. And so I was able to mitigate that by having, you know, my own store where I could set my own return policy and not have to worry about it. Amazon also eats in the margins a little bit. I also was worried about It was mostly a fear-based thing. Yeah, for sure, for not selling on Amazon. I knew I could make it work on my own and then Amazon just seemed like a little bit of an issue that I wasn't ready to take on. At least that's when I first started the business. Now, like many things, I start seeing things in different ways. And so I do see Amazon as like a sales channel that I can be taking advantage of. And so I'm trying to figure out how.”

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  42. “Well, there are a couple ways that I've approached this. And the first reason was because I was afraid of the really high return rates getting me in trouble with Amazon. So it's my understanding, and this could be outdated, but I'm pretty sure that once you get over a 10% return rate, then Amazon just kind of penalizes you. Like they can remove the listing entirely. And so I remember from previous experience that a lot of times my products were just like too technical for some users or the bigger one was that I was afraid that somebody was going to use my products for whatever they needed. Like I need this captured one video.”

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  43. “And I was just going through this weird time where I'm like, wait, I got to really bulk up first. And then I got to buy a leather jacket. Otherwise, I'm going to get stuck with two leather jackets. I don't know. I kind of reasoned myself out of the whole leather jacket thing, but maybe I should go grab one while I'm down here”

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  44. “I'm certain I did. I don't remember all of them offhand, but I do remember. Doing the exercise pretty regularly. I'd want to say like once a year.”

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  45. “Exactly. Yeah. And so some of it was like, what am I doing? What am I having? Like owning. Sort of thing. And so I can remember some of the things on there were like, I want eight percent body fat. I want 8% body fat. I want to be able to have conversational Spanish skills so I can talk to my grandma in Spanish I wanted a really cool leather jacket that could pass down to my kid one day. Because I never had a really cool jacket and I used to wear my dad's in high school. Just stuff like that.”

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  46. “Yeah, exactly. And so I did the whole targeted monthly income exercise. I wrote out what. My short term goals, I can't remember the exact links, but what do I want six weeks from now? And then three.”

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  47. “I tried finding my dreamlines. I think I tore them out of here at some point. I know I have them. I remember. Thinking that if I could make $30,000 a year, that I'd be okay, and my wife want to leave me. And I could pay my bills because dual income. So together we would have been fine by myself $30,000 probably wouldn't have been all that great. But if I can make $30,000 a year, then all this will have been worthwhile. I'll have time to pursue stuff that interested me. Like I was still really interested in playing music and Yeah, I just remember 30,000 being just the number that I needed to hit”

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  48. “It's really tempting to stay out and drink at night. Stay out until like 2 a.m. But then by the time you get back to your hotel at 3 a.m., you don't want to go to the session that's starting at like 8 or 9 a.m. So I would probably just advise that you should probably call it a night at like midnight.”

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  49. “Well, it's a private community of location independent store owners. So people who are Tim Ferris wannabes, basically. So it's called, I mentioned the job board earlier. It's called Dynamite Circle, and they have an annual event in Bangkok each year each October. And it's really cool. They get about 300 entrepreneurs, and we rent out the Conrad Hotel in Bangkok. And it's like summer camp for people who are doing business online and working from their computers and managing remote teams. And it's just like a five or six day event, and it's really cool. You meet so many people just hanging out in the lobby. That's my number one tip for anybody who goes to a conference is actually stay at the conference hotel. It's going to cost more money, but there's all sorts of serendipitous events that happen when you're just hanging out in the lobby or sitting at the bar and you start talking to somebody and all of a sudden you realize that you have a lot in common or there's something.”

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  50. “Yeah, it's huge. I actually don't go to it anymore because it kind of feels like a corporate getaway. Like there's huge companies there like Walmart.com and it's just a BH photo video, these huge companies that I have nothing that I can relate to. And a lot of the sessions are more for like enterprise type of clients, but they do have beginner related stuff. You do get to go to the exhibit hall where they have all sorts of software vendors who are providing services that you can use to run your e-commerce website or your customer service or your logistical needs like shipping and you strike up conversations in the exhibitor booths and you get introduced to people. It's really cool. So that was really helpful when I first started. The one that I Went to, and I was like, I can never miss this event ever again. It was a conference called.”

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