You're listening to the My Wife Quitter Job podcast, the place where I bring on successful bootstrap business owners and delve deeply into the strategies they use to grow their businesses.

Today I'm doing a solo episode to answer one of the top three questions that I get almost every single week.

How long does it take to make money with your business?

But before we get into all that, I wanted to give you guys some quick updates about my e-commerce

store over at bumblebee linens.

Because many of you have been asking me about how COVID has affected our business and I'm

happy to say that this past November was the all-time highest month that we've ever had and were

significantly up for the year despite having the worst March and April in the

history of the company. Now the pandemic has really caused e-commerce to

skyrocket and in my humble opinion

there's no better time to be starting an e-commerce business. Now to keep things in

perspective I also want to give you the bad with the good. Now even though we had a

record number of orders the pandemic has also prevented us from hiring people to work in our warehouse,

so we're actually pretty short-staffed right now, and orders are coming in a little bit faster than we can actually fulfill them.

So as a result it's been all hands on deck.

I've been going to work, answer calls and that sort of thing, but it's a good thing.

Now the other bad thing that's happened to our store, which has nothing to do with the pandemic or anything, is that PayPal

decided to deprecate their old PayPal Express Checkout API right in time for the holidays.

And for all of you who aren't aware of what Paypal Express Checkout is and why it's important,

Paypal Checkout allows users to sign into their PayPal accounts and have all their payment

and address information imported automatically into your site.

And this is especially important for mobile shoppers who don't like to type on their phones.

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