Welcome to the first ever episode of the E-Commerce Crew Podcast! Since this is the first episode, introductions are in order:

We are your hosts, Grant Yuan and Mike Jackness. Both of us have been involved with business for most of our professional lives, and we have a similar background in online marketing and the affiliate industry. Grant started working with affiliates in 2003, focusing on online gaming and a lot of poker sites. Mike is a lifelong entrepreneur who started running his own businesses at 18 with nothing but a pack of business cards and a pager. He worked with online marketing for many years before he turned himself on to buying and selling host names for websites, and that’s how he got involved with buying, owning, and selling his own e-commerce businesses.

Our podcast is our opportunity to share all we’ve learned with the rest of you out there struggling and succeed to run your own e-commerce businesses. Each episode will focus on the tips we’ve learned, the ones that didn’t work so well, the progression we’ve made over the years, and where we think we’re going to be heading into the future. There will be guests on air to share their insights, and we will be covering a range of topics, including:

Where trends are going and how you can stay on top of them

How to buy smart with keystone pricing

How to negotiate shipping prices for your specific business focus (pro tip: the best items to ship are socks)

Pros and cons of paying cash or credit for your wholesale supply

How to avoid leaving money on the table

Over the next few weeks, this podcast will evolve to become one of the most important tools you use to become and stay successful at running your online business.

Stay tuned for episodes on buying and selling online businesses and domains, selling your products on Amazon, building your brand, and how to prepare your own exit strategy so you can continue to expand your interests and develop new businesses.

Leave us a review iTunes and head over to our site www.ecomcrew.com for more news and updates on what’s working for e-commerce today.

Full Audio Transcript

Intro:                        Welcome to the EcomCrew Podcast, with your hosts Mike Jackness and Grant Yuan.

Here you will learn the lessons, tips and tricks that these ecommerce pros have learned over their years running and growing their very own seven figure ecommerce businesses. Each week we dig into the ins and outs of ecommerce, the truth about affiliate marketing, how to build your own brand and sell on Amazon. And how we have stumbled and then quickly rose to success. The world of ecommerce is changing rapidly and here you will find the trusted resources you need to take your business to the next level. Alright enough of the fluff, let’s get over to your hosts Mike Jackness and Grant Yuan.

Mike:                        Hi, my name is Mike Jackness and I am your co-host along with my other co-host Grant Yuan. Welcome to the Ecommerce Crew Podcast Episode number one.

                                    Grant and I figured since this is episode number one; the best thing for us to do is to probably introduce ourselves first and to give you a little background, so with that I am going to turn over to Grant and allow him to go first and give you a little background on himself.

Grant:                       Hey everybody, this is grant and I am happy to meet all of you guys. I know we can’t see each other and you are just listening to us but we are happy nonetheless.

                                    So my background is in online marketing and I have been doing it for over a decade and I started getting my feet wet in the affiliate industry around back in 2003, and back then I was in the online gaming industry and we had quite a wild ride in that industry for a few years. Anyhow,