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It’s been a month since Ariana launched her passion product, Vino Cards, on Amazon and we will share with you the real results. While it did well, it wasn’t as much as we expected it to be. In this video, we will go over three things that we’ve done to launch Vino Cards and the mistakes we realized we’ve made along the way.

How to Launch a Product?
Ariana wanted to create passive income for herself. Apart from her full-time job, she wanted to pursue something a little more fun. A lot of people teach Private Labeling on Amazon and what I do is something similar to that. I call it creating a Passion Product. Private Labeling is taking an already existing product and slapping your own label on it. Passion Product, on the other hand, is creating something unique, different, and does not exist. It is something that you’re excited about. It’s something that is new and is missing from someone’s life and you want to create that.

One of the benefits of doing a Passion Product is you can do a Kickstarter. It’s a great platform where you can share your idea, even a prototype of it, to raise money for the actual product. In Ariana’s case, she set a goal of $5,000, which she hit, and used the money for the first production run of Vino Cards.

Another part of this is creating a product launch group. The product launch group will support you on Kickstarter. They will also be the first ones in line to buy your product and they will leave reviews on Amazon.

Actual Numbers
In the first month, Ariana sold 147 units. This is pretty good, but we expected it to be more. It (more…)

How to Set Up A Woocommerce Site in 6 EASY Steps

In this video, I will be showing you the different things you need to do to set up your Woocommerce store.

 

Below are the six steps that you will go through in setting up Woocommerce:

 

  1. Buy the Domain Name

You can go to GoDaddy or Namecheap to get your domain name. For your domain name, remember to keep it short, easy to spell and easy to remember. It’s also a plus if your domain name includes keywords. A keyword is something that a user enters into Google to find your company.

 

  1. Choose a Host

Once you have purchased your domain name, you need to choose a company that is going to host your website. Although Woocommerce is free, it is not free to host a website. You need to host it yourself or pay someone to host it. I personally prefer Siteground. It is one of the three companies that WordPress themselves recommend to be used for hosting WordPress. It is also cheap and offers SSL Certificate.

 

  1. Install WordPress

This is the easiest thing to do. You can install it with just one click. It used to be very difficult but sites like Siteground have made it easier.

 

  1. Install Woocommerce

Once you’ve installed WordPress, you need to go into the backend and install Woocommerce. It is free and very easy to do.

 

  1. Set Up a Payment Provider

The next step is to find a payment processor. This is a system is going to process all your payments. You can use PayPal and Stripe.

 

  1. Create Your First Product

Once you’ve set up the payment processor, it is time to add you first product. You only need to add the product title, description, images and price. Make sure that you also design your site so it looks good.

 

5 Steps to Sell On Shopify

In this video, I will discuss the different steps on how to start a Shopify store. Below are the things that you will have to do:
1.Get a Domain Name
2.Sign Up to Shopify
3.Set Up Your Store
4.Set Up the Legal Things
5.Drive Traffic

Get a Domain Name
This is the first step to starting your Shopify store. Here are some keys to a good domain name: Short, Easy to Spell, and Easy to Remember. It’s a huge bonus if it includes a keyword to the product you are going to sell. You can buy your domain name from sites like GoDaddy and Namecheap.

Sign Up to Shopify
You can use this link (www.effectiveecommerce.com/shopify) to sign up to Shopify: When you do, you get a free 14-day trial and a one-on-one consultation with me.

Set Up Your Store
Setting up your Shopify store is easy. Below are the things you have to take note for this step:
1. Add Product
2. Make it pretty
3.Properly SEOd

Set Up the Legal Things
One of the things that people get pressured with is how to properly set up their business in a legal structure. Here are the steps you need to do:
1.EIN – Get an EIN number. It’s free if you are in the US.
2.Sellers Permit – Get some tax information from your local state. Apply for a sellers permit so you can pay your local state sales tax
3.Set Up LLC or DBA – This is your business structure. You can choose from a DBA or LLC. DBA is a lot cheaper to do but it does not offer much protection. LLC is more expensive than DBA. The price depends though on which state you are in. Personally, I go to LegalZoom for both of these and DBA costs about $100 while LLC costs about $300 plus your state’s local fees. The benefit of LLC is that people (more…)

How to Set Up WordPress in 4 Minutes✓

 

This video will be about setting up WordPress in 5 minutes. I will take you through the different steps below:

 

  1. Buy Hosting

The first step that you need to do is to look for a site that is going to host a WordPress website. I would personally go with SiteGround.

 

Go to www.effectiveecommerce.com/siteground, find WordPress Hosting and click Get Started. Choose from the different plans that would suit you. The StartUp plan is good if you only have one website while GrowBig and GoGeek are great if you have multiple websites. You can also upgrade your plan later on.

2. Buy Domain Name

After choosing your plan, you need to buy your domain name. You can use SiteGround or you can use other sites like Namecheap or GoDaddy. If you use another site to buy your domain name, enter the website in that you want to have the WordPress hosting on and click proceed. After this, you need to enter your account information. For the period, you can choose how long you want to lock-in the site.

3. Transfer Domain Name

After paying, you will be directed to another page. Go to My Accounts and click Launch Setup Wizard. Type in the domain name and click continue. Select Start a new website and click WordPress.

 

Once done, go to My Account and copy the Account DNS. Go to where you bought your domain name and log-in. In my case, I used Namecheap. Find the domain name that you will use and click Manage. Go to Nameservers and choose Custom DNS. Paste in the Account DNS from SiteGround.

4. Install WordPress

Go to My Accounts and click Go to cPanel. Scroll down to the WordPress installer. Click Install. Type in your Domain Name, Admin Name, and Admin Password. You can also tick those other options that apply. After that, click Install.

5. (more…)

Meeting My Virtual Assistant Changed My Life (And How You Can Hire a VA!)

This video will show you my trip to the Philippines to meet my virtual assistant. I will also show you how to hire and work with a virtual assistant. Plus, my virtual assistant, Dan, will also be sharing some tips and insights.

Here are some questions that I will be tackling about in this video:
Where to find a VA?
Why hire from the Philippines?
What task should you give a VA?

Where to find a VA?
I found my VA in Onlinejobs.ph. It is the system that I used in hiring my virtual assistants. You can check my detailed video about this.

Why hire from the Philippines?
Filipinos speak really good English and they have a good work ethic. It’s also just about $3/hour to hire someone from the Philippines. While it may sound cheap for others, Dan shares that this kind of rate is already a big thing in the Philippines.

What task should you give a VA?
Most of the tasks I give my VAs are those repetitive ones. I just write it down or do a screen recording of how I do it. From there, I then let my VAs do it. Over time, as you get comfortable with your VAs and you are able to find someone you can trust, you can give them bigger tasks.

Some of the tasks that Dan does are the following:
Invoice Checking – This was the first task he received which was for my first company, BDancewear.
Video Editing – At the start, Dan had no idea on how to edit videos. While I provided a tutorial at the beginning, he eventually learned to teach himself.
Bookkeeping
Collecting Emails
Hiring Other VAs – For Dan, one of the things to watch out for in hiring VAs is the way they answer the question. If they are uncertain with their answers, that will already raise a red (more…)