The Checkout

Is E-Commerce Actually the Worst Business to Start?


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In e-commerce, you're poor until you're rich. This episode is about everything that happens in between.


Hosts John and Bart answer the real questions you want answers to: Is e-commerce right if you have a family? Do you need to out-hustle everyone? And what's actually happening when you're burned out, doing $2M in revenue, and only paying yourself $50,000?


Topics discussed:


00:00 - Introduction

00:57 - Is e-commerce worth it when you have a family?

11:38 - Why John has never launched his own e-commerce brand

15:12 - Easier ways to make money than e-commerce

20:19 - How much time and hustle is necessary in e-commerce?

27:49 - The upside of e-commerce (it’s not money)

33:21 - Burnout at $2M: why you’re not making a lot

37:19 - How to break past the $2M threshold

46:06 - Do you have to give up your dreams when you have kids?

54:33 - When e-commerce feels worth the sacrifice (& how to pay yourself)


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The CheckoutBy Modern Commerce Media