RYB 975: How Flipping Random Products Turned Into A Full Time Business and FREEDOM
Rock Your Brand Podcast
Scott Voelker
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
I’m so happy to have you here today! Thanks for taking the time to join me. I am fired up and so excited for today’s interview. It’s a special one. I’m interviewing a husband and wife team that has been in business together for years, and they are crushing it right now!
I really love interviewing people whose main goal is their family and wanting to find ways to make money that allow them the flexibility to put their family first. I really open this interview will open your eyes to see what is possible. There are a million different ways that you can make money while making sure that you keep your priorities straight. That is why I love these interviews so much. They are meant to inspire and lift you up in the process.
This couple has been flipping products, and it has become their full-time job. What this means is that they are taking products that they find and reselling them for a profit. Even if this isn’t something you’re interested in doing, you’re still going to learn a lot from their story, so don’t go away!
When you listen to someone else’s story, it always helps to open your eyes and shows you what’s really possible if you work hard and take action. So what are we waiting for? Let’s get right to it!
Where It All Started
When I was a kid, my parents didn’t have a lot of money. So they would always go to yard sales to save money. While they were there, they would buy things and resell them in the classifieds section to make extra money. So you could say that this type of business was distilled in me at a young age.
When Melissa and I got married over fourteen years ago, we started to buy used things and sell them as a side hustle. We both worked, but it was a great way to bring in some extra cash. About five years ago, we were able to start doing this full time and have never looked back.
Before we started flipping full time, I was working as a house inspector, and Melissa was a personal trainer, so this was just a side hustle that we worked on after hours. It was a great way for us to make some extra money. However, once we were pregnant with our third child, Melissa decided it was time to quit her job, and recently after that, my job stopped offering health insurance. So, we decided to start flipping full-time. It really was the best decision that we ever made and has provided us with so much more flexibility than we ever thought possible.
Our Decision To Flip Full Time
At the time, we were both a little scared and unsure of what to expect. Melissa was pregnant, and we didn’t know how things were going to turn out at the time. We were losing health insurance and had to replace both our incomes, so it was very scary. However, because we had done the side hustle for so long, we know that we could make it into a full-time business and knew that it was possible. If we hadn’t been doing that beforehand, it would have been a much harder decision to make sure.
When we started working on our business full time we started doing to focus on freight flipping. This means that we specialize in flipping large items and offering free shipping. This allows us to charge a premium for our products. We’re known best for selling really large products, throwing them on a palette, and shipping them anywhere. We really will ship almost anything.
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| 0:00.0 | Going full time, we were able to allow time to be able to spin with the kids, do the stuff with the kids, and then we were able to work after hours that normally you can't do as a normal job because it's late and you can't just work, but doing what we do it was it enabled us to do that. |
| 0:18.0 | Hey, hey, hey, what's up everyone? Welcome to the Rock Your Brand Podcast. I'm your host Scott Boker, a serial entrepreneur on a mission to help you. |
| 0:28.0 | This show is designed to teach you, to inspire you, to motivate you, to take massive action, and build a future-proof business. |
| 0:38.0 | So, whether you're just starting out or taking your existing business to the next level, this is your home. |
| 0:45.0 | Now, if you're ready, I'm ready, let's rock your brand. |
| 0:50.0 | What's up, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Rock Your Brand Podcast. This is episode 975, and today I am fired up. I'm excited to share my next interview with you because, well, it's a husband and wife team, just like myself and my wife that have been doing this for years. |
| 1:07.0 | I always love highlighting a husband and wife or a partner that is like family or people that are doing this because they want to create freedom for each other for their families. |
| 1:19.0 | And I really, really think this interview is going to inspire you, motivate you, and also open your eyes that, wow, there are like probably a million different ways that you can make a living out there on line and doing it for yourself. |
| 1:34.0 | And this is going to be a perfect example of this. These guys have been flipping product. Yeah, that's right. I said flipping product, taking product that they find, and then reselling it. |
| 1:46.0 | And I actually watch some of their Instagram stuff, and you guys know I'm not a huge fan of Instagram, but every now and then I'll go in there, and I'll see their stories, and they're finding like an old TV in the trash and selling it for like 300 bucks. |
| 2:01.0 | Or they're taking a stovetop, and they're finding it for 100 bucks and selling it for 7, 800 bucks. |
| 2:10.0 | And the thing is here is you might be listening to this and going, Scott, I don't care about flipping products. I don't want to flip products. |
| 2:16.0 | You're going to still learn from someone else's story. That's why I always say, just listen in on these episodes because a lot of times you'll take something away that you might not have been thinking about before. |
| 2:29.0 | And who knows? You might say, you know what? Maybe on a weekend, I'm going to take some of my old stuff and sell it, and you'll make an extra few hundred bucks or a thousand bucks or whatever. |
| 2:38.0 | So I want you to listen to this and really just listen to their story, because I think when we look at someone else's story, it opens our eyes to what maybe we're not seeing. |
| 2:49.0 | And it also gives us hope. All right. So guys, I am going to stop talking now so you can listen in on this interview that I did with Rob and Melissa Stevenson. |
| 3:00.0 | And really talking about their flip and journey. All right, go ahead and enjoy. |
| 3:05.0 | All right, Rob and Melissa, thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day. I know you're, you know, you got a family, you got a business to run. |
| 3:13.0 | So thank you so much for coming on. It's been a long time coming. So how you guys doing? |
| 3:17.0 | We're awesome. Thanks for having us for sure. Thank you so much. |
| 3:21.0 | Yeah, no, this is awesome. I've been following you guys for quite a while now, actually Nick Loper introduced us over three years ago. |
| 3:30.0 | And I just went back and looked at the email thread and I was like, how has it been this long? Because we were going to get together and hang out and talk a little bit. |
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