Hey, y'all. I'm Shane Sams, the host of the flipped lifestyle podcast and the leader of the flipped lifestyle community.

And in this special training today, I'm going to help you choose a winning idea for your online business.

You got to get your idea to market if you're going to make any money of it.

And that's what we're going to talk about today.

Welcome to the flip lifestyle podcast

where life always comes before work we're your host Shane and jocelyn sams we're a real family

that figured out how to make our entire living online and now we help other families do the same

are you ready to flip your life?

All right. Let's get started. Now, when I first started my online journey, I didn't know

what I was getting myself into. I had no idea how I was going to make money online. I didn't

know what I could offer to the world. You see, I had bought in my whole life to this, you know, go to college, get a job, pick a career one, just stay in it until you're dead. Like I just, we were sold out to that. You know, I was a school teacher. My wife was an elementary school librarian and we were just all in on that story of what our life needed to be.

But when we realized that there were other things out there, there were other ways to make money,

there were other ways to earn a living, there were other ways to do things.

We tried to find our own idea.

And we tried a bunch of ideas first, guys.

And it was all offline stuff that we tried in the beginning.

I thought that I was

going to be a big pressure washer and a lawnmower and I could go out and do handyman work

for all the people in town in my free time right that was how I was going to build a side hustle

that could turn into something different but then I realized I hate it I can't do that work and I'm

not a good handyman I could barely put together a Lego set when they've got the instructions, let alone build something for somebody. There's no way I'm going to put together decks. There's no way I'm going to fix toilets. I can't even mow the grass straight, guys. That's what I'm talking about. So that we ruled that out really, really quick. Jocelyn, she tried to get a little entrepreneurial spirit going. My wife in the beginning, she thought she was going to sew curtains and she was going to sell them. But these were

like special curtains. They were for French doors. So they would fit the thing with Velcro and they

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