Ep 26: How to Start an eCommerce Empire with less than $100 (Arsha Jones of Tees in the Trap)
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2016
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest is Arsha Jones, a serial entrepreneur and an emerging leader in the ecommerce industry. She has built multiple, highly profitable brands, with revenues approaching nearly a half million dollars in less than two years .As we speak, she is currently operating and managing Capital City Co, keeping you fly through the Tees in the Trap brand, building iOS apps for Apps By The Pound, all while running the design blog (and Facebook Group!), Brand Build Sell.
Her first venture, co-founded with her husband is Capital City Co, produces a Washington, DC area wing sauce called mambo sauce - a local staple. Her second company is Tees in the Trap, which is a lifestyle brand inspired by pop culture and infused with black girl magic.
On today’s episode, Arsha shares:
- How she started the Capital City Co Mambo sauce in her kitchen and ended up on the front page of the Washington Post
- How she launched her first t-shirt shop with no shirts and no supplies
- How haters reporting and shutting down her Etsy shop gave her the motivation to launch her own ecommerce site
- Why you should test and validate your ideas before spending a lot of money on branding and inventory
- Her number one secret to Facebook marketing
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Links and people mentioned in this episode:
- Capital City Co
- Tees in the Trap
- Brand Build Sell
- Brand Build Sell Facebook Group
- The Facebook Formula Advanced Training
- Buffer
- OnlyPult
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow a |
| 0:07.6 | Side Hustle from Passion Project to Profitable Business. |
| 0:11.3 | And I'm your host, Nakela Matthews. |
| 0:14.0 | So let's get started. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:20.0 | This is Nakela and I am so excited to introduce you to today's guest. |
| 0:25.0 | Today's guest in the hot seat is Arsha Jones. |
| 0:29.0 | And Arsha, hey Arsha, thanks for coming on the show. You guys, Archa is one of the people who I've learned the most from this year. |
| 0:38.0 | Yes, I'm a part of your Facebook group as you know. |
| 0:43.0 | So Arsh is a serial entrepreneur and master of many trades |
| 0:46.9 | as we speak. |
| 0:47.8 | She's currently operating and managing Capital City Co. |
| 0:51.6 | Keeping us all fly through the Tees and The Trap brand, |
| 0:54.6 | building iOS apps for apps by the Pound, |
| 0:57.3 | all while running the Design Blog and Facebook Group brand |
| 1:01.0 | build sell. |
| 1:02.0 | So on this episode, you'll learn how Arsha created her first |
| 1:05.2 | online business with less than a hundred dollars and is now an e-commerce |
| 1:10.5 | extraordinary. |
| 1:15.0 | So welcome to the show, Arsha. Thank you. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, tell us more about who you are and what you're currently working on. |
| 1:19.0 | Well, so my name is Arceh Jones, like you said. |
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