hi and welcome back to another amazon selling video deborah recently asked me a question on
one of my youtube videos so i thought i would go ahead and read it right here
hi nikki how did you start in your rv did you buy it to travel and sell on amazon the answer
is nope so i thought i would just go ahead and explain how i got started selling on amazon and
in rv travel in general because it's been a while since i've gotten into all that so back in 2016
i was living in los angeles working in e-commerce for belkin and before that i had worked at mattel
and before that way before i actually got my start as an assistant buyer in the virgin mega stores
which was a dream job at the time but then in 2008 they all closed so right out of college i was out
of a job when i was growing up i really wanted to do that thing where you get in at the entry level
and you work your way up but as i'm sure you're aware that's not how things work anymore and so
quickly i learned that networking and just being a really great employee so my boss from virgin had
me come work for her at another little e-commerce place i worked at and then that also closed i
think i can't remember i'm pretty sure that closed as well or their la branch anyways closed but
through that i had made a connection with someone who went on to work at mattel and so i got a job
at mattel through there and then my boss from the first two jobs was working at belkin and then she
told me about a job there so not how i had planned it but that's how it goes so i was working at
belkin making 75 000 a year or 80 000 somewhere in there i know i was pushing to get a promotion and
a raise at the time that i ended up quitting so i remember that part but i was making really great
money i was super proud of myself i was how old was i i think i was 30 or 31 at the time and i was
you know real proud but i really didn't like my job it was an easy job but the people who i worked
with were not so easy so somewhere along the line my best friend and i were watching fixer-upper and
we were like well why don't we go to texas and then somehow it was like why don't we get an
rv and travel first and i really don't know we can't remember whose idea it was to rv around
but we were like oh that sounds fun so i started in at the end of 2016 i started saving up money so
that i could quit my job having no idea what i was gonna do we bought the rv in may of 2017. i quit
my job at the end of may and two days later we hit the road to utah i had no idea what i was going to
do for income i just knew that i could figure out something right before we left i had found
out about the selling family and selling on amazon so the more i researched and do it i was like hey
i've actually sold cds when i worked at virgin they had the books on tape that we would get
for free and so i would turn around and sell them on amazon and so i was doing that and so it never
occurred to me that people could go to target walmart tj maxx buy stuff and turn around and sell
it on amazon that never crossed my mind so when i heard about it i was like hey i kind of have
experience with this and i love to shop it sounded like a win-win so i had already
bought in the training which i still highly recommend and the link is on the screen if
you want to grab it it is worth every single penny you guys i've spent money on trainings that aren't
and this one is worth it i've talked about this in another video but i really dragged my feet in
getting started with the boot camp i took over two months to do it because i was doing it off and on
because i mean i can say hey yay i was traveling and exploring and not working for the first time
and who knows how long but at the end of the day i was just also being lazy because when i started
telling people about it they would go through it in like a couple days so it took me two months
but i finally did do it and at the end of august of 2017 i sent in my very first shipment here is
a screenshot of it right here almost immediately was like why didn't i do this earlier there is no
reason i couldn't have started doing this while i was working my full-time job it's i still only do
it part-time i go sourcing one day a week and i ship it out another day that's two days i could
have done that in the evenings or you know gone to the target that was down the street from my
work at my lunch it really is something i could have done and that's why i'm always saying if
you have the comfort of an income and a pretty easy even if it's not easy flexible job and you
have the drive to start a second income or create this full-time income for yourself
that you can eventually quit your job and have this going that is what i recommend that is the
better way to do it but i did have a savings so that allowed me to travel and have the comfort of
figuring out what i wanted to do selling on amazon is not technically hard but it really does take
some getting used to so if you have that ability to do it while you have a steady income coming in
that i recommend that but there's no reason that if you're like me and you have no income coming
in that you can't also jump in and start doing it it just does take a while before it starts
to pay off and you get the profits so that is how i got started it was not i got an rv to buy
on amazon although i do love that i can shop in new places all the time that's not why i got it
i got it to travel and three and a half years later i am here in missouri in state number 46
i do believe and it's been a ton of fun thank you guys so much for watching if you have any
questions or need any help definitely let me know i'm happy to help until next time happy sourcing
you