Today, listen to the story of a journey to being a seven-figure seller that all started with

a random conversation in the bar in China, then find out why he moved from Oregon to Puerto Rico

and what the benefits are from a tax and lifestyle perspective of living there for American

citizens.

How's it going, everybody?

Welcome to another episode of the serious sellers podcast.

And I have a guest today, John Haddon.

John, am I pronouncing your last name right?

Yes, you are, sir.

But now, you live in Puerto Rico now, right?

Yeah. So do I need to call you live in Puerto Rico now, right? Yeah.

So do I need to call you Juan? Juanito? You can. You can. You live in the first or probably the last. All right. Cool. So we're definitely going to talk about Puerto Rico today, but I literally, I don't think we've ever met in person, right? I don't think so. Yeah. So, like, I know you know Mani and you've talked to him and you're on the AMPM podcast before, but this is literally completely new to me, you know, this talk of, talk, a talkic, I can't even talk right, this topic about Puerto Rico and actually your history. So can you just give us a brief history of, first of all, you with e-commerce and Amazon? Like, how did you get into this space originally? What's your origin story? Good question. So I moved from Oregon to China, right out

of college, with my then-wife, and basically was working at teaching English, I read the-hour work week, and I decided to start

kind of my own company, was talking to some Miranda in a bar about it. And he suggested Amazon.

And basically his pitch was... In a bar in China?

In a bar in China, an American dude. So you're just chilling in a bar in China and like,

that's how you decided to start selling on Amazon.

Yeah.

I was literally following Timothy Ferris's model of, you know, before you buy inventory, throw up a website, try and drive some like Google ads to it. And I was talking to this guy and he's like, why would you do your own website? Even if you get featured on Oprah, which, you know, was still a show back then. he's like you know you're you're going to, your sales are going to skyrocket. Your traffic's going to boom on your site. And then as people forget about you, it's going to tail off. He's like, why would you do that when you could do Amazon, do all the work, the SEO, everything wants, get your listing to the top and sit back and make residual money with a company that's financially incentivized to keep your listing there if you're doing

better than other. So it's like, that's a pretty deep conversation for a Chinese bar.

Yeah, right. What bar is this? Where was this in China? This is in Shenzhen. Oh, in Shenzhen. So

you went to China, though, having nothing to do with e-commerce, but actually to teach English.

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