Speaker2: And since then, we launched Outsource School, which is our membership, where we teach people our hiring process and our new venture. We went on podcasts, we built partnerships, and we scaled that business for for four years before being acquired in 2019, which is a whole nother story we can talk about. But we had all these great e-commerce virtual assistants and freelancers that we started to offer out to other e-commerce sellers, and that became the free up marketplace, which was a lot of fun. That didn’t really happen and Amazon became harder with algorithm changes and more sellers. ![]() I think at first we thought we were going to be the next Amazon or take Amazon down. So for years we scaled this Amazon business with virtual assistants. I saw it as a real solution to my my problem of being overworked and not being able to grow because I didn’t have enough people. The buddy of mine introduced me to my first VA in the Philippines, and I was obsessed. So that’s how I got into the virtual assistant space. And I quickly learned that college kids were very unreliable and adults didn’t really want to work for me as a 20 year old college kid. But as we scaled this business and it became more stressful and bigger and I couldn’t do it all myself, I had to start hiring people. No one really knew what being an Amazon seller was. And back then there were no courses, there was no Amazon software. And so I started building this Amazon drop shipping business. But if I contacted US manufacturers that didn’t know e-commerce, they would keep my credit card on file and they would send the product wherever I needed it to go directly to the customer. What if I drop ship, essentially? Although I didn’t know it was actually called drop shipping until years later. So I started experimenting and I said, Hey, I don’t have money to buy inventory. It was just this big bookstore that was just getting into other products. But I had this Amazon account and back then, no one really knew what Amazon was. And I didn’t want to get kicked out of college, so I had to pivot. Well, my college catches on and they send me a cease and desist letter telling me to stop competing with their bookstore. And before I knew it, I had lines out the door of people trying to sell me their books. I created an affiliate program with my my college peers. I didn’t have a lot of money to buy textbooks up front, but I was hustling. And I, I didn’t really have a that much room to store textbooks. Speaker2: People’s textbooks, competing with the school bookstore. So, I mean, I started off as a broke college kid looking for extra money, and I started buying and selling. Uh, Nathan, can you go over a little bit of your story? I know you started selling on Amazon 2009. Nathan, thank you so much for being here. And we’re going to talk about one of my favorite topics on Amazon, especially this time of the year, as we get ready to fill our tax return. I have here a very special guest for you today. So don’t forget to go to, click on demo, play with the software. And it’s the interface is so beautiful, it’s so fast, and all the information that you need is just there in front of you so you can make decisions. There’s so much information, valuable information to see how the store is doing. ![]() You can see tacos by products, you have inventory management, you can send methods. Actually, it’s almost impossible to run your Amazon store without a software like sellerboard. It has everything that you need to run your Amazon store. But before we start the interview, I just want to ask you to go to, click on demo, play with the software. Today we have a very important meeting with Nathan that’s going to talk to us about bookkeeping and how important bookkeeping is to run your Amazon store and make sure you make decisions based on the data, on the bookkeeping. This is Fernando from the sellerboard show. TOP reasons to start doing bookkeeping. ![]() Our guest on the sellerboard show was Nathan Hirsch – entrepreneur and expert in remote hiring and eCommerce and co-founder of EcomBalance & Outsource School.
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