I’ve started 9 businesses in 12 years. No wonder I’m exhausted.

Here’s what I would do differently if I were starting today, which is actually what I did to start my latest business.

Note: if you want to be a solo consultant or freelancer, that’s different than I’m talking about in this episode. That’s a fine choice but it will have very different considerations.

Also, I said make $100k in annual revenue before committing to the business. That might be too high. Maybe $50k is the number, but I wouldn’t go below that.

Lastly, I said I hope to never talk about starting a business again, but I don’t actually mind talking to you about it if you’d like. I just don’t like listening to podcasts, and wouldn’t like to go on podcasts talking about it  

Get in touch with me here -

http://hireteamup.com/contact-isaac

What is product-market fit actually? 

I stumbled onto it, partly on purpose, partly through dumb luck.

In this episode I share how 3-way differentiation (a niche within a niche within a niche) built my current business.

And the 4 phases you'll go through to find product-market fit.

Listen and apply them to your own business.

You can contact Isaac by clicking the link below:

http://hireteamup.com/contact-isaac

It's been 2.5 years since Isaac published an episode. 

What happened? Where did he go, and why publish this now?

You can contact Isaac by clicking the link below:

http://hireteamup.com/contact-isaac

Check Jesse out at productpearl.com

Get a free copy of Joe Valley's book The Exitpreneur's Playbook:
exitpreneur.io/nextlevel/

Get ready to sell you business by getting your books in order:
summitecommerce.co 

Daisy Delfinado
Operations Manager
Summit eCommerce Advisors

Need help with your bookkeeping or cashflow planning?  

Daisy & Isaac's professional team provides bookkeeping and fractional CFO service.  Get in touch here:

Summit eCommerce Advisors
summitecommerce.co

Nate Ginsburg tells the story of acquiring Centrurica, a company that does due diligence services for online businesses.

Nate Ginsburg
CEO
Centurica
centurica.com

Need help with your bookkeeping?  
Want help with cashflow planning?

Isaac's professional team provides bookkeeping and fractional CFO service.  Get in touch here:

Summit eCommerce Advisors
summitecommerce.co

Nick Contristan tells his story of building and selling his ecommerce business.

Want to sell your business?

First, you'll need clean books.  (Otherwise buyers and brokers won't even talk to you.)

Second, you'll need a team doing most of the work.  (Buyers don't want to buy a job.)

Isaac's team can help with both of these things. 

Get your books cleaned up and ready for the sale by having Summit eCommerce Advisors do it for you.

And let us help you build a rockstar team.

Find out more at:  www.summitecommerce.co

Scott Moran
Founder of Go2
https://www.go2.io

Joe Valley
Quite Light Brokerage - https://quietlight.com

The Exitpreneur's Playbook
Get a free copy here:
https://exitpreneur.io/nextlevel

Have Isaac's team get your bookkeeping in order, so you can sell your business:
https://summitecommerce.co

Mads Singers
Management Consultant
www.madssingers.com

The story of Duda acquiring Snipcart, with the CEOs of both companies.

Duda - https://www.duda.co
Snipcart - https://snipcart.com

Francois’ blog post about selling Snipcart -
https://www.flanthiernadeau.com/selling-snipcart-part-one/

Amy Wees
Founder of Amazing At Home

Get free SEO tips & fundaments - www.summitecommerce.co/seomonth
Check out John’s new eCommerce SEO course - www.ecomseomethod.com

Guest: Ben Leonard
Company: Ecom Brokers

Links:
EcomBrokers Website
Why eCom Brokers in Facebook

What if you focused on your superpower?  How much progress could you make?

Michael Erickson Facchin did exactly that.  He knows where he's best and delegates the rest.

Listen now to find out how he found his superpower, how he trusted it, and how he's able to delegate without fear of losing control.

Show notes:
http://nextlevelecommerce.co

Get Beta Access to our new program at NO COST:
How To Build Teams & Systems For Ecommerce Business Owner
We're only taking beta 25 members, and there are only 8 spots left...

www.nextlevelecommerce.co/beta

Want to exit your eCommerce business? Sell it to Ian Bond and his investors.
Contact Ian - ianbond@professionalwebsiteinvestors.com

Everything changes when you find out you have a baby on the way.  If you're doing everything yourself in your business when you find out, what changes would you make?

Anastasia Vankova knew she had to systemize and outsource.  Otherwise how would she run her growing business with a new baby?

How did she get free from the day-to-day operations without causing problems?

Listen now to find out.

Show notes:
http://nextlevelecommerce.co


Get your no-cost bookkeeping strategy session with Isaac here:
www.nextlevelecommerce.co/books

Want to exit your eCommerce business? Sell it to Ian Bond and his investors.
Contact Ian - ianbond@professionalwebsiteinvestors.com

Entrepreneurs are a strange bunch.  It takes someone special to make that big leap.

Caleb Roth has been hustling since college, when he learned to flip textbooks on Amazon.

When he turned his side hustle into his full-time gig, he found out what separated him from everyone else.

He learned it again with his employees.  Why didn't they try to steal his ideas and compete with him?

Listen now to find out what separates entrepreneurs from employees and everyone else.

Show notes:
http://nextlevelecommerce.co

Want to exit your eCommerce business? Sell it to Ian Bond and his investors.
Contact Ian - ianbond@professionalwebsiteinvestors.com

How will marketing change in 2021?  How will you keep up?

George Bryant has his finger on eCommerce marketing's biggest pulse.

Today, George shares:
- the #1 most important thing for marketing in 2021
- the 3 fundamental ways marketing will change in 2021

Listen now to find out how you can avoid being left behind.

Show notes:
http://nextlevelecommerce.co

Want to exit your eCommerce business? Sell it to Ian Bond and his investors.
Contact Ian - ianbond@professionalwebsiteinvestors.com

For many, Robert Kiyosaki's book Rich Dad Poor Dad opened our eyes to entrepreneurship.  But what can you learn by revisiting the book?

Guest Matt Scott has built a successful ecommerce business.  In planning for his family's future, he's gone back to Rich Dad Poor Dad and the follow up, Cashflow Quadrant.

He shares how he's starting to put those lessons into practice in his business.

Listen to find out how.

Show notes:
http://nextlevelecommerce.co

Get your no-cost bookkeeping strategy session with Isaac here:
www.nextlevelecommerce.co/books

Want to exit your eCommerce business? Sell it to Ian Bond and his investors.
Contact Ian - ianbond@professionalwebsiteinvestors.com

What sourcing advantages can you gain for your eCommerce business by living in China for 10 years? How about being able to find your competitors' factories, improving their products, and beating them on Amazon and other platforms?

That's exactly what Brian Miller has done.  During that time, he also built a logistics company, with a modern warehouse in China.

Click to listen, and find out exactly how he's done that.

Show notes:
http://nextlevelecommerce.co

Want to exit your eCommerce business? Sell it to Ian Bond and his investors.

Contact Ian - ianbond@professionalwebsiteinvestors.com

eCommerce store owner, coach, and consultant, Jon Warren, shares what all $1-10+ million stores have in common.  He talks marketing, strategy, and mindsets that he's seen separate big businesses from those that struggle.

He also tells Host Isaac Smith why he suggested that Isaac sell his drop shipping store, over 1 year ago.

Show notes:
http://nextlevelecommerce.co

Now tap play to hear Jon!

Want to exit your eCommerce business? Sell it to Ian Bond and his investors.

Contact Ian - ianbond@professionalwebsiteinvestors.com

Entrepreneur Jon Warren shares lessons from consulting with 7 and 8 figure eCommerce businesses.  Jon talks talks about partnerships, and how to set them up for success.

Importantly, Jon is the one who first suggested that Host Isaac Smith should sell his drop shipping store.

Show notes are at:
http://nextlevelecommerce.co

Click play to hear Jon's story!

Want to exit your eCommerce business? Sell it to Ian Bond and his investors.

Contact Ian - ianbond@professionalwebsiteinvestors.com

Starting his eCommerce journey in 1996 by building a website to sell gift baskets for a pecan farm in Alabama, Patrick Pitman has seen a lot.

The biggest successes in entrepreneurship often come directly after the biggest failures.  Knowledge and skills that are built during those times of struggle that lay the foundation for the next big success.

Today, Patrick serves eCommerce businesses, by helping them connect with their customers on a deeper level.  But it was facing obstacles head on that equipped him to serve at a high level.

Click play to hear how Patrick made it through, and what he learned along the way.

Show notes are at:
http://nextlevelecommerce.co

Want to sell your eCommerce business? Ian Bond and his network of investors may be interested.

Contact Ian - ianbond@professionalwebsiteinvestors.com

This is a story of leverage.  It's the story of how Kiri Masters built a 25 person Amazon-based eCommerce marketing agency, by leveraging skills she developed with her eCommerce store.

Now she's leveraging what she's created with the marketing agency to serve even more eCommerce businesses.

This is a must-listen for all entrepreneurs, because it shows how to connect your current progress to your next steps.

Show notes can be found at:
nextlevelecommerce.co

Want to sell your eCommerce business? Ian Bond and his network of investors may be interested.

Contact Ian - ianbond@professionalwebsiteinvestors.com

How do you build an eCommerce business that supports your family without taking your time away from them? Jeremy Parker has been hyper-intentional about making sure his company works for him, not the other way around.

Jeremy explains how he was able to do just that.

Show notes are at:
http://nextlevelecommerce.co

Want to sell your eCommerce business? Ian Bond and his network of investors may be interested.

Contact Ian - ianbond@professionalwebsiteinvestors.com