Start, Scale, Learn Ecom

Angelo Castillo in the summer of his freshman year of college was a huge transition into entrepreneurship. After watching Gary Vee's Trash Talk videos he decided to try it out. His first item was a Lilo & Stitch Bubble Maker for $1 and sold it for $15. 

From that point forward, Angelo got more into entrepreneurship, investing, marketing, and business. He also got into Amazon FBA where he sold a lot of books among other items.

If you check out his social media, you'll be able to check his progress and value on how he makes a profit by selling items online:

• Tik Tok
• Instagram
• Youtube

Blake Alma is the founder of Coin Hub. His brand is all about coin collecting. He has a blog, Tik Tok, and Instagram where he talks about coins and precious metals.

We learn how Blake got introduced into coins and how one can make money by collecting silver. There are so many ways to make money, but this method is definitely something very unique.

To make things clear, Blake made sure that coin collecting or investing in precious metals is a long-term investment. This is not a get quick rich scheme. He's so passionate about collectibles and coins ever since he was a kid.

That is why he is still collecting coins to this day!

Check Blake's Coin Hub out on:

• Tik Tok
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Blog

Inikeya Wilson runs her own cosmetics brand The Makeup Plug where she sells lashes, UV liners, glitters, and pigments. Her unique makeup styles as a freelancer and part-time worker at Sephora helped her experiment with new looks.

Her new ideas caught the attention of many people to the point where she decided to make a business of her own without prior business experience. In a matter of 6 months, she has been able to generate hundreds of dollars a day and scale The Makeup Plug.

One of the biggest goals that she aims for is to have her business hit 6-figures, get her own warehouse, and hire a couple of people to help operate the business. Things have gotten so busy that she often needs her husband to help package orders.

It's really cool to see her hustle and grow a cosmetics brand that she feels so passionate about!

If you'd like to check Inikeya out, you can find her on:

• Instagram (personal)
• Instagram (The Makeup Plug)
• Youtube

Errol Coleman is a swing trader who started at just the age of 18. It wasn't about making money. Instead, it was the pure excitement and process of earning a living through day trading.

The first couple of months very challenging. There have been times where he had gotten many losses, but it is from those losses alongside perseverance that made him a better trader.

Errol Coleman has also blown up on Tik Tok, has a Discord membership with over 14,000 members and counting, a Youtube channel, and a podcast where he talks with other successful entrepreneurs.

Check Errol out on:

• Instagram
• Tik Tok 
• Youtube
• Discord --> DM Errol first

Arturo Knight is a music artist and entrepreneur. His music career started at a very early age. He's been in a couple of bands including JESSIKILL, where he currently plays with now.

Arturo dropped out of college after his first semester of college. That was the biggest decision of his life as he had to make money to support himself because he decided that he wanted to be completely independent and not move back in with his parents.

After working for someone else and helping them acquire more wealth, Arturo decided to dive into entrepreneurship and dropshipping.

As of right now, Arturo Night has dozens of businesses where he sells multiple products. He loves automation so he can manage everything and save more time. 

By having a team of virtual assistants among other important members on his team, he is able to scale his businesses and think of new ideas.

Check Arturo Knight on:

• Tik Tok
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• https://arturoknight.com/
• Facebook
• Twitter

Sebastian Paredes is an entrepreneur, trader, and marketer. The business that he enjoys working on the most is his digital marketing agency. He helps businesses all across the US increase their brand awareness, sales, website functionality, among other things.

Check him out on his social media:

• Tik Tok
• Instagram

Jon Torres is an entrepreneur, digital, and affiliate marketer. He currently has multiple affiliate marketing businesses where he is able to sell products/services for a commission.
 
If you would like to check out his guide on how he does check it out on his blog here.

In this podcast, he goes over how he got introduced to affiliate marketing, some of the tactics of running a successful business, and the reality of running one.

Compared to other business models, this one requires a lot more time and patience because a lot of the traffic to sell a service. Social media is a big driver to push traffic to sites, but another big element that Jon advocates is search engine optimization (SEO).

With SEO, your website or blog can be ranked high on Google which will result in more traffic. More traffic = more potential conversion = more potential commissions.

Jon Torres is in the process of making a course on affiliate marketing. He plans to go in-depth in the process of making the website from scratch, producing content, and finding the products/services to sell. The date of his course is TBD. Check out his blog if you'd like to learn more.

Check Jon out on:

• https://jontorres.com/
• Instagram
• Tik Tok
• Youtube
• Facebook

Taylor Price is a Gen-Z entrepreneur, investor, CEO & Founder of TAP Intuit.

TAP Intuit is a financial education platform that provides financial literacy to students so they can take control of their personal finances and make their money work for them.

Her educational platform first started out as a blog in 2019. Now she has scaled it with a team of young like-minded individuals who are pushing to teach students topics that schools do not prioritize.

It's really cool hearing how Taylor was able to scale and her business so rapidly and create a community of people who want to take control of their personal finances.

Check Taylor Price out on:

• Tik Tok
• Youtube
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• Twitter

Look more into TAP Intuit:

• Trainings Hub
• Instagram
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Pinterest 
• LinkedIn

We talk with Camilo Vasquez about our favorite podcasts such as:

• The Joe Rogan Experience (talks with highly talented and intellectual individuals)
• The Tim Ferriss Show (talks with highly talented and intellectual individuals)
• The Gary Vee Audio Experience (entrepreneurship, motivation, and business talk)
• How I Built This (learn the stories of how businesses were made)
• WSJ Tech News Briefing (a fast way to catch up on the tech news)
• The How My Wife Quit Her Job Podcast (e-Commerce tips, advice, and businesses)
• Planet Money (talking about money, economics, business, etc)
• Land Of The Giants (a series of stories on big companies like Netflix and Amazon)
• StarTalk with Neil Degrasse Tyson (learn about science, physics, and the universe)
• Shopify Masters (e-Commerce tips, advice, and businesses)
• Smart Passive Income w/ Patt Flynn (e-Commerce tips, advice, making money, and businesses)

Humphrey Yang provides a lot of value on personal finance and investing through his Youtube channel and social media accounts. We've asked him multiple questions about investing in the stock market, day trading, businesses, and about having multiple sources of income.

In this episode, he briefly goes over his poster business that generated $1.7 million in revenue with his business partner!

Humphrey does plan to create his own poster business called "Map Your Night" which he is currently working on. 

Check out Humphrey on:

• Youtube
• Tik Tok
• Instagram