what's up in car builders JT Franco here the no-bullshit merizan seller hopefully
you enjoy this change of scenery this is my kitchen that's my dining table I want
to change things up a little bit because I get a lot of questions from you guys
right I get so many questions on Instagram Facebook YouTube everything
and I always want to make videos specifically to answer those questions
but I just don't have the time to do all that so I thought why not make a Q&A
session let's do this every single week where you guys can flood me with
questions and I can sit down rapid-fire succession we can kind of just chill you
can ask me anything about Amazon FBA or even the new no charge pressure ship in
general whatever it may be we can kind of open the conversation and kind of
just chat right and I'm gonna call it JT time again sip party and spill our tea
about Amazon FBA so if you wouldn't have any questions you want to ask go ahead
in the comments you can just start right now
hashtag JT time or on Instagram if you want to do that as well also if wanted
to send a video question I can add you to the video just send me a video on
Instagram DM and I'll throw you in on the next episode all right can't be read
off this is my dog tip it's his birthday today so he wanted to be in the video
say hi buddy alright so first question is JT how long did it take you to leave
your job and take your business full time asked by Mario all right Mario so
that's a very good question Kippy go back to the room buddy
go go go to the room go to the room go to the room alright so how long did it
take Amazon full time now the thing about
this is I'm gonna be a little bit of a rare case because I was doing a lot of
things before Amazon I had a catering company and I was doing sales at the
same time daughterís sales so once I started Amazon okay I shoved my can
company first like am I put it aside I was top dog here on that and then I did
the order of sales for a while and then once I launched my first products I'm
like okay I'm just gonna quit it wasn't because I was financially able to do it
it was just because you know I wanted to just I was all or nothing at that point
I had enough money to live for a few months and I thought you know what if I
don't do this or if I fail with our Amazon I'll just go back and move home
and back with my parents so that was kind of my mentality with it so I went
all-in so that I could focus all my time in it so it took me
about a month to quit my job but of course that's not gonna be typical so if
you're looking for you know something where you can see the average I'd say
probably six months six months to a year where you get actually quit and be
comfortable depending on how much money have to start with and how fast you're
able to work and how much I mean I was actually able to dedicate I've seen
people that have done it in six months some people a year and some people don't
even want it to quit their job for Amazon FBA right there they actually are
just there to have a site income to support and supplement their current
income I'll give this all answer so obviously
it's gonna depend on what kind of income you need to support your life your
lifestyle but let's just assume you need three thousand dollars a month to make
three thousand dollars a month on Amazon and be pretty and you if you were to
work two to two to four hours a day on the business you know two hours a day
like a minimum I think you could definitely get this get it done in in
about seven I'll say eight months eight months to comfortably be making $3,000
profit a day with Amazon with a starting budget of around three to five three to
five thousand dollars okay Tony Bravo asks if you are doing so well in Amazon
then why do you spend time making courses you guys are all selling the
same information damn Donna Anna I see this a lot so I
will attack this head-on right my no bullshit answer why do I you know
selling Amazon products versus selling programs
what's better why do I do both and how that all works out so selling a program
well first I'll start with Amazon why did I get into Amazon FBA why did I
start building a business it was to make money right to make passive income
that's what you're all watching this for that's what you want to do right make
more income from working from home that's the whole idea
you would really not do that for any other reason so that's why I didn't I
was on FBA I started you know finding success with that
that's what's able to pay the most of my bills in my life right now I'm able to
live off my I'm gonna be in business which is amazing now now that I have
that passive income business that you know has freed up a lot of my time and
now I have more time in the day because I don't have a day job I went into
documenting my process sharing my journey sharing my experiences and then
you know creating a program to make more revenue to make more money that's why I
do it to make money that's like then just the straight talk
I sell of course to make money like why else would I sell something right it's a
business it's a business small and it's a great business tomorrow let me explain
why first of all it is just it's easy the
product is my information so imagine whatever job you you have right now
whether you're an engineer you are a doctor you're you know you're it's door
door salesperson or you're a waiter or delivery driver right
whatever it is imagine you go to work for eight hours a day and you come home
you turn on the camera and you talk about your job for two hours and then
you get paid just as much as you did for going to your job right that's basically
this business model so it's great and it's it's a simple way for me to add
another Pinkham stream on top of that I enjoy doing this I actually really do
enjoy creating content and firfer prove that I well had a YouTube channel far
before this channel that I did when I was in high school where I uploaded
dating videos I've got like 20,000 27,000 describers there I was the
sponsored game everybody a sports and I just enjoy this entire process I enjoy
being creative and creating videos and editing the videos and everything that
goes behind it I I love that so if I'm able to you know do something that takes
really not much too much time of my day and it's something it's something I love
to do something I enjoyed you and I'm able to make money doing that why
wouldn't I do that right now of course then there's the question of well if you
just focus all your time at Amazon FBA lunchy just do that instead because you
know selling programs was a waste of your time well honestly the whole reason
I can is I got on Amazon FBA is because it's passive right because I can do it
and I can do other things right and if it took me 16 hours a day to actually
run and grow in hours on FBA business I probably wouldn't be in it so that's why
I do that because it's just a great use of my time it's a great way to split up
my days and it's something that I enjoy doing and having fun and I get to see
the benefit of you guys you know seeing all of you guys being successful - right
and that feels great for me right so maybe that's the selfish reason in
itself of you know I have to feel great by seeing you guys exceed but that is a
great product of this business model and that brings me to another point where I
steal people saying oh some information you must be a scammer right now here's
the question it's 2019 basically 2020 if I was a scam if I was selling shit
information don't you think you would have heard about it a long time ago
by now you know there would be crazy but reviews out there I'm like you know I
have hella just likes on my channel everyone that's bought my program would
be saying negative things about it right well that's not the case so if you know
selling products on Amazon the success is simple simple to see
because if you sell a lot of products or successful right now with this business
model selling a lot of courses alone does not make me successful the only
measure of success with this business model is having you guys be successful
having results having successful students so if you look at a program or
thinking about investing in a program it's actually going to take you
somewhere faster make sure you look for one that actually has results and make
sure that you're looking at the right person that make you the next point of
your all selling the same information right so is that true to a degree sure
right because Amazon FBA there's only so many things right and for most for most
part like the basics of it all is the same so yes the basics it's gonna be the
same information but those courses out there that are one hour long two hours
long two hours long the only sell that only teach the real real bare-bones
basics and it's taught by people that haven't really done it themselves right
so if you want something like that or if you want something that's gonna be
bare-bones basics and show you how to do it I got four youtube video whatever
they can watch it like an hour-long and I swear to god I was gonna cover a lot
of the curriculum that some of these big courses are selling alright so the next
thing is how do you know what person to trust because with a Bismol like this
that is easy like I said it is relatively easy because it's just
information there's gonna be people that try to game the system right there
people that try to just siphon information off someone else
represent it as their own information and try to make money off of that now
unfortunately there are people that do that and sometimes I can be hyper
successful people and you would never be able to know but here are a few things
you can look for to see if the guy you're trying to you know invest your
money in is legit or if or if he's not first look at their content right if
they're uploading videos to YouTube after uploading you know videos to
Instagram what's their content about if you look at somebody like Russell
Brunson damn well 99% of his content is about funnels you know that's what he
does he's the funnel guy he's like you gotta make click funnels and that's what
he does it's his content if you can tell it's what he loves you look at a guy
like Grant Cardone or Dan Locke they're always talking
about sales sales sales sales McCarron real estate real estate real estate that
is what they talk about that's what they do that's what they're share right now
if you look at other guys and all of a sudden they go from one thing they
talked about maybe Amazon FBA or they talk about Shopify drop shipping and
then as their channel blows up boom their content starts becoming only about
lifestyle or the content only is now about cars and
fancy houses and fancy lifestyle things then that's an indicator that that's
what they really care about most so that's the first ride fly that you're
gonna look at what is their content what are they actually talking about what are
they sharing on a day to day basis if it's just exotic cars or things like
that then that's a good indicator that hey this is actually what this guy cares
about it's not about this business that he's trying to you know sell me on next
thing is what are they doing now right sometimes you can find videos on YouTube
and it goes it's maybe a year old and it has a million views already you know
it's a few years old and you look oh my gosh this guy he must make know he's
talking about look for relevant stuff look for the newest stuff and if he
hasn't done anything in a long time if he also he disappears you know maybe he
made a bunch of money he disappeared there's a good sign that hey maybe this
guy wasn't who I thought he was you know he shared a bunch of the things he made
a bunch of money off this and then now he doesn't care enough to talk about it
anymore that is a telltale sign that the guy you're looking at is maybe
questionable and third if you're looking at buying a program from somebody what
other programs are they selling right are they selling a bunch of other
courses in a bunch of other business models because I'll tell you right now
if they are most of that stuff is going to probably be diluted because I'll tell
you right now being an Amazon FBA expert it's hard enough keeping up with the
changing strategies the changing rules the changing way of the platform and the
way the ebbs and flows of Amazon FBA I hope that was right so yeah if I was
trying to teach Amazon FBA and then I was trying to Shopify and then I was
trying to teach affiliate marketing and then you know as Google Ads Facebook ads
and all these different different ways to make money online am I really gonna
be an expert at all of them most likely not now it's a different case if it's ty
Lopez and he has an actual expert teach every program but if it's the same guy
teaching every single program really I mean really dude come on there's no way
he's gonna be a real expert to be able to deliver the value to the level that
you deserve if you're buying a program for $1000 right so those are kind of the
sign that you can look at the see hey is there any red flags here is this guy
actually talking and sharing what he loves or you know what if he is then
what is it that he loves is he relevant is he still up doing new things is he
still in the game and is he an expert in one field or is he you know
jack-of-all-trades an expert of none so those are kind of what I look at dr.
Weiss tell of course that's why I do Amazon FBA
because it just makes sense for me right and that's my no BS take AZ blue veg
says don't take business advice from prepuce don't take business advice from
a prepubescent hahahaha don't take business advice from
prepubescent yeah and I can't even say the line maybe you shouldn't take advice
I can't even read a Z blue veg says don't take business advice from a
prepubescent child on YouTube just don't down Savage I'm gonna need to take some
tea for that one alright alright hit me with your savagery you guys I don't mind
it I like it mister boss Co b-24 says if I get a
sample and it's not what I want can I return it back in in order to get my
money back or guys I failed English 11 or English 10 so maybe this wasn't a
good idea for me to read off comments let me try that again if I got a sample
and it's not what I want can I return it back in order to get my money back
or do I have to keep it and I don't get my money back so if you order sample
from a Chinese supplier you don't get your money back okay so you spend the
money you can't return it most of the the price the sample is
actually the shipping so no you if you order sample and you don't like it you
gotta burn that as a cost okay next Lawrence says this guy Asian
or Latin that's a good question I get that all times when I was people think
I'm Mexican I am Filipino okay andreas Steen says one question how do
you find a new product if around 200,000 people now use helium 10 or jungle Scout
or viral launch that's a great question so how do you find a new product when
there's stoney people using the same software its creativity its that that's
basically it it's creativity because the software is just an entry point now
that's somewhere below people could confuse they think okay I have a
software I'm entering these filters and I search and now these are the products
these are my only options that's not the case you got to look at a product a
software as as kind of like you know the beginning the entrance it's it's the
doorway so you walk into it if you watch Monsters Inc right it's like look at
this room so you did a search and now you have this room with a thousand doors
so you have all these doors and this is these are the products that are
showing you every product is just an entry point to look at this section so
when I look at DuPont research on viral launched at the products every tool
which is I suggest right virulence 50% link in the description or 20% link now
that's just the entry point so I find a product I click on it go to Amazon then
I'll put that into the keyword research tool and then I look at the keywords you
know what else is there what anything else that seemed interesting if not I'll
search the main keyword and then I'll click on the products and then from
those products I'll click on you know the related products I'll click on the
sponsored products that are like this people frequently you know bought
together or I'll click on to you know the seller storefront so there's a
product and look at this the product and I'll click on the seller see what else
products the person is selling or I'll also go into the reviews of the product
and I'll click on the reviewer profiles and when you click on the reviewer
profiles you'll actually be able to see past products out these people have
bought so it's just creativity it's just spending time it's all it is product
research is easy it's just really time consuming you're just really clicking a
bunch of times and and going down the rabbit hole and trying to see if you
notice anything that sparks your interest or anything that is hidden you
don't want to just look at violon chair or look at whatever jungle scale and
take that for face value you want to use that as the way to you know look further
right if it's just the way it's just a surface you want to dig deeper than that
next question Jose says what part of Canada do you live in
let's talk or meet up about Amazon even more I live in Vancouver British
Columbia beautiful BC Hollywood North if you guys
actually do want to do a meet-up I've been thinking about that for a while if
any of you guys are from Ann Cooper wanna do me I know I'm running through
some of you guys just walking around the street which has always been awesome but
if you want to do a legit Vancouver meetup let me know maybe I can organize
something maybe when we hit 50k subs or when we hit 100k because we're barreling
down there we're gonna hit that soon so okay Scott when you're bundling products
that come from the same manufacturer do you have to package everything in one
box or individual yes so if you're doing a bundle
you're gonna want to put it all in one box right so a bundle is one box he
package it individually and then he said it's Amazon that's not a bundle anymore
that's gonna be different things right so you want to make sure it's all in one
box they have the same SKU if you want to sell them on the same listing as a
bundle okay let's see we're coming to the end of the line here you suggest
using viral launch what do you think helium 10 okay that another software
question so yes I do suggested viral launched helium 10 I've never actually
tried it so that's I can't really give an answer but the thing about this is
most of the tools are gonna be the same right that's kind of like the same thing
with programs most of the tools are gonna have basically the same exact
Suites there's only so much things you can do with Amazon so viral launch in
force helium 10% let's go it's just about you're comfortable with I used
viral I forgot I'm comfortable with it I started with jungle scout I'm gonna go
over to viral launch and I loved it so I just stuck with it I stayed and they're
great they do what I need them to do and nothing you know like no complaints
about violence so that's why I stick with them trying something else use
something else lisandro asks do I need software to start product research right
product research team I guess today now again if you want to ask questions
hashtag je t te a time cup of tea right and then ask a question and then I will
answer it you cannot put that on Instagram as well I'll answer it there
as I'll answer it in the next episode where's every week all right I'll try
this every week so do you need software no you don't right so you don't need a
software to do it you can do it manually and just go by that and I actually get a
video how to find products without buying software and you can do it
manually by yourself without you can do it the old way that it was used to be
done but the question is why would you want to do that right I always put the
analogy of you got $10,000 buried in the ground and you can do it for free by
using your hands it'll take you a long time there'll be a lot of pain and
effort or you can go ahead and buy a shovel for 68 bucks and just do it use a
shovel use a tool right and that's the same price as fire watch 20% off and ten
thousand dollar product in the ground is the equivalent of an Amazon product
right so you can do it manually but doing using a tool is always gonna be
much easier and it's such a small cost and I like to say this and I know it
sounds harsh if you can't afford to buy a product research software you probably
can't afford to launch an Amazon product yet so just by your software I get it
started and so you can start looking for products okay alright we'll close it off
of this Kesha or Keisha Shaw asks do any logo is that unless yes you need a logo
and that is how you're gonna be doing private label you need to put your label
on it and that's the only way to make it legit so that you're not gonna have
hijackers and people stealing your products in and just counterfeiting it
and that's the only way you're gonna stop them from doing item but beyond
that point I want to remind you guys that's very important to build a brand
or it's very important to actually think about the future not just a one-off
product but I'll think about what okay once I want is probably what am I gonna
do next and how am I going to have a product lineup that actually gonna make
sense that I can move forward with now sometimes it makes sense for your first
product just go for the most profitable thing and and and you know tests and and
go with that if it's easier but as you move on it's very important to think
about branding and how you can have a sustained brown on Amazon that's
cohesive right that that makes sense because the one on products and they
just don't last and it's just not it's not a long term way of thinking okay so
that concludes JT's time I didn't actually slip that T on its route to
take the teabag out so it probably tastes like shit now but it's good for a
prop there now forgot to mention if you want me to answer your question there's
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episode number one hopefully by now your Empire Builder which means never forget
that your Empire awaits say bye bye