PODCAST · business
Start Yours
by Oberlo
Start Yours is a podcast about what it’s like to start your own thing. Whether that's a side hustle, an ecommerce store, dropshipping, or walking away from your day job! You'll hear from people who have done it themselves, and learn what to expect (and what to avoid) when you start yours.
Episodes
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10 Easy Growth Hacks to Master TikTok
In the world of TikTok, genuine content reigns supreme. Unlike other social media platforms, users often favor raw and engaging videos over highly edited and curated posts. This stark difference in content is what makes TikTok special, and gives creators a connection to their audience that would…
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From Side-Hustle to a $20M a Year Business
In this episode of Start Yours, Aleisha speaks with Bryan Clayton, founder of GreenPal. Bryan built his lawn mowing business from the age of 16 to a $10M a year business before a successful exit. Then after a brief retirement, he decided there was more to do and decided to convert his experience...
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The Money Mindset Difference - How to Plan For Success
Taking the leap to start your own business can be exciting, scary and a new challenge for many budding entrepreneurs but how much money do you need to earn before you ditch your day job? How do we plan for success (while also embracing the possibility of failure?) and what a healthy risks when it...
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Dropshipping Marketing On Any Budget With Kamil Sattar - Ecom King
Kamil Sattar went from failing grades and working two retail jobs to making 7-figures with dropshipping. Now he runs a successful Youtube channel, Ecom King, where he helps aspiring entrepreneurs build successful e-commerce businesses. In this podcast, Kamil shares his expert advice for...
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Mindful Marketing- Less B/S Equals More Sales
How do the stories that we tell in our advertising and marketing copy lead to sales? Does putting pressure on our customers by making them feel like they must buy now, actually work against our success? How do we create a brand that has integrity and is profitable? On this episode of Start Yours,...
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The Multitasking Myth - How to be more productive and get stuff done
We're always being told that we should be multitasking to get things done but really is doing 50 tasks at once helping us or dragging us down? In this episode of Start Yours, Aleisha is joined by renowned productivity expert, speaker and best-selling author, Dave Crenshaw. Dave provides a…
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How To Launch Your Digital Product Business - with Dan Henry
If you have ever considered launching a digital product (or an add on product that boosts your physical products sales), then this is the episode of Start Yours for you. Our guest, Dan Henry went from a broke college dropout who delivered pizza to creating a 10 million dollar online business. Now...
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The Pathway from Full-time Work to Your Own Dropshipping Business
In late 2019 one of Emma Cunningham's close friends convinced her to start a dropshipping store. Working full-time for the Australian Government, Emma was unsure if the move from working 9-5 and managing her dropshipping store was sustainable but a few months in, as the sales started to jump, she...
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How To Launch a Profitable Print on Demand Store
Our most listened to episode of 2020...so good we wanted to play it again! In this episode of Start Yours, we delve into the ins and outs of print on demand, from production to product sourcing, customer service to making sure that your products arrive on time to your customer. Done right, print…
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Discovering Your Zone Of Genius with Mike Zeller
This episode of Start Yours, Aleisha speaks with Mike Zeller — a business architect who strategizes with entrepreneurs on finding your zone of genius, creating an irresistible Offer and how to fuel your momentum. Mike works with his clients to pinpoint their deepest purposes, greatest gifts, and...
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21 Winning Niches to Start Selling for 2021
2021 is right around the corner and you're ready to start your eCommerce empire. But, what kind of Shopify store should you build and what should you sell? Some of the best eCommerce business owners swear by the branded-niche model: A Shopify store that sells products in one niche and caters all…
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How Two Friends Built their Dropshipping Empire to $10 Million
It took Andreas Koenig and Alexander Pecka three tries before they finally found success with dropshipping and boy did they find success! Their online pet business has just hit an annual turnover of $10 million. In this episode of Start Yours, Alexander and Andreas share their secrets to scaling,...
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15 Easy Ways to Make Your First Sale for Free
You’ve heard the saying, “you need to spend money to make money.” Is it true? Not today! In this episode of Start Yours, you’re going to learn 15 ways to make your first sale without spending a single penny on marketing or advertising. Facebook ads are the gold standard when it comes to…
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How To Design and Manufacture Your Own Products
Creating your own product is a big goal for many ecommerce and dropshipping merchants but where and how do you begin to speak with manufacturers to ensure that you are creating a quality product that will sell. On this episode of Start Yours, Aleisha is joined by Kian Golzari, who is one of the...
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Five Easy tasks You Should Delegate Immediately
Being an entrepreneur means that often in the early stages of running our businesses, we have to wear a lot of job hats. We find ourselves doing everything from social media management, to product photography, customer service outreach to website design. It’s great to have skills and use them but...
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Hottest New Products To Sell Before The Holidays
What products are the fastest moving, most popular dropshipping items on the Oberlo App? Start Yours host Aleisha presents the top 5 products for the holidays as presented by Oberlo.com team members Magda and Gurj. Is one of these products going to be your viral winner? We hope so! We also talk...
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Using Facebook to Source Winning Products
Did you know that you can use Facebook as a search engine to source winning dropshipping and ecommerce products? In this episode of Start Yours, we share the easy steps to using Facebook to search for hot products and then we share three easy tips to help improve your advertising listings, that…
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The Secret to Dropshipping Profit? Consistency
The path to dropshipping success and profits is not always clear and for many merchants who are new to the business, it can feel overwhelming, especially when there are so many 'get rich quick' messages out there that promise easy wins but then often disappoint. Our guest today is Daecian...
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10 Dropshipping Myths That Need To Be Debunked For Good
There are a lot of myths about dropshipping out there. These dropshipping myths can leave people feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, and disappointed once they take action. In this episode of Start Yours, we’re going to debunk the dropshipping myths and lay out all the facts so that you know what...
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The Secret To Hitting the Magic $1 Million Mark
Many people think starting an ecommerce business has to be a full-time gig. Sure, there are many things you have to do to get it up and running and even more to maintain it after it's launched. But that doesn't necessarily mean having to ditch your day job. Sometimes, starting small can have its...
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How This Entrepreneur Immigrant Built a Million Dollar Store To Support His Family
Back in 2015, Pierre Emmanuel leaped into the unknown when he and his wife relocated from France to the United States. After discovering some of his clients were dropshipping using Oberlo and Shopify, Pierre decided to try it out for himself. It was a match made in heaven. Over the next few…
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Avoiding the Most Common Mistakes Made by New Dropshippers
We're going to be straight with you: Starting an online store is not easy. Expect mistakes, frustration, more mistakes, and more frustration. But the good news is, if you can persevere through it and, success will be greeting you at the end of that tunnel. Having spoken to our fair share of...
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Top 5 Best Products to Start Selling Right Now!
Sourcing products for your e-commerce and dropshipping store can be tricky and sometimes even overwhelming. Each week, Jessica and Magda host a live broadcast on Oberlo's Youtube channel were they share their top 5 product recommendations and which trends you need to keep your eyes on. We've...
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How To Bootstrap Your Marketing And Become An Established Brand
How do I start marketing my business? Is Facebook or Google a better platform? What about influencer marketing? How much do I need to spend? Whether you already have an ecommerce business set up or are looking to start one, you will have asked these questions at one point or another. In this...
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How Harry Grew His Million Dollar Businesses
Some people are born with a love for the #hustle but like a lot of us dropshippers, Harry Coleman has worked really hard to hit the highs of ecommerce success. In this episode of Start Yours, Aleisha shares Harry's story, from working a day job as well as building his empire (and taking naps in…
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Winning Marketing Tips for the Black Friday And Holiday Season
The holiday shopping season may not be for another month, but as an ecommerce business owner, whether you have it as a side hustle or are running it full-time, this is the time of the year you definitely do not want to miss out on. To guide you through that, we're joined by Oberlo's very own…
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Our Test Store Experiment - Can We Make $10,000 in One Month?
Oberlo has already helped dropshipping merchants find and sell over 85 million products around the world. One of those merchants is Tim Kock. We set Tim the challenge of building a dropshipping store from scratch and making $10,000 in the first month. In this episode of Start Yours, David joins…
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How Instagram Niche Pages Helped Make $30,000
When most people think about marketing on Instagram, they think about ads or influencers. But not Kamron and Varun. The high school friends and business partners leveraged Instagram in a lesser-known, different way to run their business to success: niche pages. The teenage duo joins us in this...
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Using Video To Connect With Your Audience and Build Your Brand
Thinking about getting in on the trend of video and live streaming for your business and not quite sure how and where to begin? If you've got questions like what you need to start and what video content you should put out swirling around your head, then you've come to the right place. In this...
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Freelancing - Making Money From Your Niche Skills
A recent report by freelancer.com shows a 41 percent year-over-year increase in freelancing – both in people hiring and those looking to become one – in the second quarter of 2020. With the surging demand and popularity, now is as good a time as any to begin freelancing. But although…
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Finding Success With a Niche Product
After a couple of false starts creating a dropshipping store, this episode's guest, Tze Chan, stumbled upon a winning dropshipping product niche and has been riding the wave of success ever since. Tze shares how he sourced his product, how he knew he was on to a winning niche and the step he took...
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Should You Be Building An Email List?
If you are starting a business or ecommerce store, do you need an email list? How do you go about building a list and what is an email funnel? In this episode of Start Yours, we speak to Andrew Roach who manages Oberlo.com's email communications about email best practices, offers and most...
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Easy Ways To Use TikTok to Build An Audience And Make More Sales
There's no denying TikTok has taken over the social media scene (and teenagers' lives) by storm. As an ecommerce business owner, you should already be on the platform and taking advantage of everything it has to offer because, well, tick-tock, time is passing you by and every second you're not on...
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Success Comes From Leaving Your Comfort Zone
Before John Lee Dumas launched Entrepreneurs on Fire, he was… miserable. John had what from the outside looked like a nice shiny job in corporate finance, but on the inside, the whole scene was driving him nuts. He felt trapped, and to break free, he jumped into the deep end and started a…
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The Entrepreneur Who Left a Cushy Tech Job To Be His Own Boss
When Vlad moved from Ukraine to the United States, his end goal was to start a business but the steep learning curve and time-consuming process meant he needed to secure a job to pay the bills while he worked it all out. So he did. He got a job at eBay, one of the biggest tech companies in the...
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Top 10 Questions About Dropshipping Marketing
In this episode of Start Yours, the top 10 questions about dropshipping marketing. Questions like, how much money should I spend on marketing? How much does Facebook Ads cost? How many products should I sell? We sourced these questions directly from you. From entrepreneurs, from dropshippers…
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How 2 Best Friends Went From a Million Dollar Product Failure to #1 on Amazon
Alex and Andrew, aka The Bizzy Boys, started making cold brew coffee out of true love of the product in their cramped apartment in 2013 after being fed up with paying $5 for a cup from a coffee shop. Like most at-home cold brewers, they started by using what they had on hand, a crummy grinder and...
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Launching a Successful Online Business For Under $300
Today's guest, Chris Wane is proof that persistence pays off. It took him five failed ecommerce stores and hundreds of trialed products before he struck a winning formula. He battled through self-doubt and negativity from others around him, who laughed and dismissed his budding business as a “get...
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How To Successfully Use Crowdsourcing To Launch Your Own product
Launching a new project or business in the midst of the pandemic isn’t everyone’s idea of fun but serial entrepreneurs Shannah and Jeff Game saw it as their next big challenge, setting out to create the Money Mindset Journal - a journal to help cultivate a healthy money mindset, set intentional...
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6 Tips From A Long-Time Dropshipper That All Beginners Should Hear
Our guest this episode is British business owner Suhail Nurmohamed who began his e-commerce journey when he was just 16-years-old. A few years later, he’d made over £112,000 ($145,00 USD) in sales on his men’s wear store, AyWear. Suhail was featured recently on the Oberlo.com blog where he shared...
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One Couple’s Secret to Dropshipping Success (And It’s Nothing to Do With Products)
When it comes to running their dropshipping business, Yuliya Chernykhovskaya and Mike Pavlou are committed to doing things differently. This entrepreneurial couple from New Jersey are the owners of an accessories ecommerce store, built using the dropshipping business model. While building their...
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The Path to Launching a Million Dollar Store
This episode's guest is hoping to graduate with his engineering degree in the near future, but study isn’t the only thing taking up 22-year-old, Cole's time. He’s also managing an ecommerce store that’s made over two million dollars in sales since March 2019. After hearing about ecommerce and...
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Tips For Scaling Your Dropshipping Business
There probably aren’t many people in the world who have devoted more thought to dropshipping than this episode's guest, Mordechai Arba. In addition to running founding Ecomhunt.com, he is a serial store launcher, and he’s the first to admit that they’re not all home runs. Mordechai shares what...
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Meet the Entrepreneur Who is Trying to Trade a Bobby Pin For a House
This episode of Start Yours, we are bringing you the ultimate tale of bartering and exchange. Our guest is Demi Skipper from the @trademeproject. Demi started her quest to exchange a bobby pin for a house (!) in May and very quickly dominated TikTok and Instagram with her regular updates on some…
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What Happens When you Make $500,000 In Sales But Can't Fulfill Orders
When Emma Reid first got into ecommerce, it reminded her of one of her favorite pastimes – video games. It was addictive, exciting, competitive, and tons of fun. Especially the money: One of her stores generated $500,000 in revenue in just 1 year. But then things fell apart. Emma’s supplier…
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Hustle and Hype, Thinking Outside The Box To Achieve Your Goals
In this episode of Start Yours, David Vranicar looks at how to keep the momentum going when building on your goals and hustling, without feeling the pressure to get sucked into the world of fake gurus and get rich quick schemes that often over promise and under deliver. Our guest is Mario Nawfal...
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How Two Friends Built a Secret Six-Figure Business
This episode of Start Yours features two friends from Vancouver, Rodney and Kory, who were initially embarrassed to be launching their own business. So much so, before they found success, they were tiptoeing around the topic with family and friends. They’d politely decline offers to hit the bars...
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Noah Kagan - How Taking Risks Made Him Millions
How do you feel about risk? Are you a leap taker or do you teeter on the edge? And as you will hear on this week's episode of Start Yours, when you’ve started over 20 businesses, most of which have been profitable, you’ve probably got a bit to say about risk. Our guest is Noah Kagan,...
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The Secret To Ad-Free Six Figure Profits
A pair of dropshippers from Utah, Mandie and Aubrey, joined us to explain how they’ve made six figures of revenue without spending a dime on advertising. The secret? Their Facebook group, which they’ve used to launch not one, but two successful businesses. They talk about how they keep their ad...
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How This Couple Created an $800k Business While Working Full-Time
If there's one thing many entrepreneurs don't consider when building their business is the importance of failing faster. It may sound counterproductive, but as you'll find out in our latest podcast episode of Start Yours, it's anything but. It's the mentality that's propelled dropshipping mega...
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Start Yours is a podcast about what it’s like to start your own thing. Whether that's a side hustle, an ecommerce store, dropshipping, or walking away from your day job! You'll hear from people who have done it themselves, and learn what to expect (and what to avoid) when you start yours.
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Start Yours is a podcast about what it’s like to start your own thing. Whether that's a side hustle, an ecommerce store, dropshipping, or walking away from your day job! You'll hear from people who have done it themselves, and learn what to expect (and what to avoid) when you start yours.
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