How to Scale an E-Commerce Business Past the $10M Wall | Ep 962
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Alex Hormozi
4.9 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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In this Q&A episode, Alex advises business owners on how to overcome growth bottlenecks by optimizing ad spend, testing new keywords, and building a defensible brand. He also tackles challenges around talent acquisition, outsourcing, and improving financial forecasting to scale e-commerce businesses effectively.
In this episode
00:00 Lead generation for a luxury tables business
07:50 Hiring strategies to scale a direct-response business
12:20 Building a strong brand beyond media arbitrage
18:19 SaaS pivot advice for a salon business
27:56 Scaling a luxury resale business
33:03 Buying versus building talent to boost sales
38:33 How to get the $100M scaling roadmap
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| 0:00.0 | In 2021, I sold my e-commerce company, |
| 0:02.1 | Prestige Labs with Jim Launch for $46.2 million. And six months ago, I broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest selling nonfiction book and generated over $106 million in a weekend just using a Shopify store. And so in this video, I'm answering your question about how to scale your e-commerce business. And for all these questions, I tried to do my very best to make the solutions as tactical as humanly possible so that you watching from home can immediately use them. |
| 0:22.1 | So enjoy. |
| 0:23.0 | Hey, Alex. |
| 0:23.7 | Yes. |
| 0:24.1 | My name is Max. So I tried to do my very best to make the solutions as tactical as humanly possible so that you watching from home can immediately use them. So enjoy. |
| 0:22.6 | Hey Alex. Yes. My name is Max. I run Elevate Customs with my wife was in the front row. It's a we build a |
| 0:31.5 | Customs. Yep. Like home custom solutions? No, we build and sell like luxury gaming tables, like pool tables, casino tables, |
| 0:39.0 | manufacturing. Not what I was saying. Okay, got it. Yeah. That's cool. Like cool backlights and |
| 0:45.0 | things like that. Yeah, like anything like one off custom pieces. Sweet. We're at around two and a half |
| 0:50.3 | million revenue a year. We want to be around 10. How do you sell? At least. Mostly Google |
| 0:55.8 | ads. So e-commerce. Yeah, she sells. Yeah. Okay. So invoices, phone calls. Okay, got it. |
| 1:01.1 | So how do we increase our leads 2x, 3x without breaking the bank, basically? How do you increase your |
| 1:08.2 | lead flow without breaking the bank? Yeah. Well, I'll ask you. For quality leads. |
| 1:12.8 | Yeah. So what are you currently doing? You said Google ads. Yeah. Around 15 to 20K a month. |
| 1:17.7 | Can you spend more? Yeah. Why don't we do that? We've tried and we weren't generating the same quality leads or necessarily getting more. |
| 1:25.5 | So there's different keywords. We're not getting you more quality. Yeah. Correct. This is probably a scale thing, though. Like this is a media buying question because I can promise you that at $20,000 a month, you haven't saturated the market for cool custom gaming stuff. Like you could probably get to like two million a month before you even get close to that. It's probably just like who your media buying we have a company okay i would this is a keyword thing like this is this is |
| 1:50.0 | three degrees down like super tactical like we're just buying the wrong words and there's just we |
| 1:54.0 | like i would be how what's your margins right now 20% 500 care of year so you just have to see this as like, we might burn $200,000 this year on bad keywords |
| 2:05.5 | to find another six that we can scale up to $100,000 a month. |
| 2:09.5 | And by doing that, we'll five X the business. |
| 2:11.6 | And so if you just see it like that of like, okay, we're going to spend $200,000 or $300,000 |
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