Hey, Steven. Welcome to the Rock Your Brand podcast. So excited to have you on. I know you've

got a great story and I can't wait to dig into the nitty-gritty. How you doing, man?

Doing good. Thanks for having me. Yeah, I'm excited, man, because you and I had a brief

conversation, talked a little bit about your story, but I just kind of want to jump right

into your $2.5 million on Etsy because that's not something that I hear often in the Etsy

world. I hear about it in the Amazon world, but not so much in the Etsy world. And I want

to hear all about that. But before we do, let people know a little bit about you and kind

of where you come from and how you got into the game here in the, you know, how to make

money online game, I guess. Yeah, so I've been selling Etsy for almost three years now.

I got started back in June of 2020 during the peak of COVID where a good friend of mine,

Jesse, super successful Etsy seller told me about the opportunity on face masks on Etsy.

At the time, I don't think either of us knew about, you know, print on a man or printify

as he had a print shop. So he told me to buy this printer, this heat press, where it by

inventory. I set up shop in my garage on a single black table. Fortunately, at the time,

I had experience with something on Amazon. So I already kind of knew how to do, you know,

the product research, the market research, the listing creation, SEO, things like that. So while

I was waiting for everything to come in the mail, I was kind of just getting everything set up

on the shop so that way when everything arrived, it can just turn the shop on. I was able to get

17 sales my first day, like 30 sales my next day, 60 sales, 120, 250. I was doing like 500 sales

a day by day five, which is absolutely crazy. It was like $5,000 a day revenue, five days after

turning my shop on. Again, leveraging a pandemic, but also keeping mine. This was not print on the man.

This was like in my garage with a small heat press, small printer, no idea what I was doing.

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