Author, Entrepreneur, Educator, Podcaster, Book Coach and Business Guru – Shawn Chhabra
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The way Shawn spots trends and predicts where things are going. (is it gut, is it data, or something else?) The little “trick” Shawn uses to get people read his books. (And how they become bestsellers.) How was Shawn able to build a profitable business selling hardware parts without any paid advertising! Detailed, step-by-step instructions Shawn gives ME to republish my book and make sure it succeeds again. (Plus, learn all the juicy insider tips about Amazon marketing!)
Resources Mentioned in the Podcast:
* Get-Published-Get-Noticed
* FREE Gifts from Shawn!
Check out ShawnChhabra.com for more info.
Follow Shawn on Twitter
Thanks so much for listening!
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Jaime Masters: Welcome to Eventual Millionaire. I’m Jaime Masters and today on the show, we have Shawn Chhabra. I’m so excited because he’s actually been listening to the show for a really long time. We’ve been interacting and I had no idea he was a millionaire and could be on this show. I am so excited to have you on! Thanks so much for coming on today.
Shawn Chhabra: Oh my God! My dream was to invite you and bring you on my show and I took this opportunity so that, during this chat, I could convin – and really be my guest.
Jaime Masters: That’s amazing. All my fans will be like, “You have to go on his show! He came on yours!”
So tell us a little bit about how you made the money. Because I know you have iPhones and all sorts of stuff. You have books. Give us a rundown of all the things you do.
Shawn Chhabra: Actually, I have done – I have failed about in 25 businesses in my life. So there’s the foundation of that. And in the – I’m an engineer that got laid off in 85 days – 90 days from my first engineering job. After that, I never worked for anybody.
So I had Indian restaurant business three times. Every time I open restaurant business, it works. It makes a lot of money. And I just want to quit and move on to something better where I can have better life and better environment. So I keep quitting that and keep looking for other things.
So when the internet came and eBay came and I started doing email marketing, then I started selling used laptops. I used to buy mostly from your state – from Texas. So Dell, HP, and all those off lease places.
So me and my wife run – I can say – IT business since 1999. And we were buying and selling used laptops on eBay. Then I bought somebody’s mailing list – it came B2B.
Jaime Masters: Really?
Shawn Chhabra: Yeah. So it [inaudible] 00:05:50 in one night.
Jaime Masters: Really? So that worked. What year was that – that you bought the mailing list and then went up?
Shawn Chhabra: Around 2000 – 2001.
Jaime Masters: What made you actually go and take the risk of buying a mailing list?
Shawn Chhabra: Actually, when I was buying all of these products,
