1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,460 Welcome back to another episode of the Resellers Mindset Podcast. 2 00:00:03,460 --> 00:00:06,980 My name is Mike, also known as the used book guy on YouTube, along with my friend 3 00:00:06,980 --> 00:00:09,120 and fellow full-time reseller, Johnny B. 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,720 We help people start and grow their reselling businesses from the ground up. 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:16,640 We also have a weekly zoom call and private discord for all YouTube members. 6 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:21,180 Head on over to youtube.com backslash use book guy to join the channel and gain 7 00:00:21,180 --> 00:00:25,460 access to the full length podcast zoom call and private discord today. 8 00:00:25,660 --> 00:00:27,360 Let's get into this week's episode. 9 00:00:27,420 --> 00:00:28,380 What is up everybody? 10 00:00:28,380 --> 00:00:32,360 Welcome into another episode, resellers mindset podcast, Mike next to Johnny, 11 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,920 Johnny's topic today, things that are not seen. 12 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:37,560 And I think this is kind of pivotal. 13 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:41,400 And I really, I'm surprised you came up with this topic because I do the YouTube, 14 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:41,600 right? 15 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,740 Like I show me out at the thrift stores. 16 00:00:43,740 --> 00:00:47,560 I show me at the storage unit, but you work a lot more than me. 17 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:49,780 So there is a lot that doesn't get seen. 18 00:00:49,780 --> 00:00:52,700 And you know, it's kind of hard to translate it to words. 19 00:00:52,700 --> 00:00:53,580 I guess I'll go first. 20 00:00:53,580 --> 00:00:53,760 Right? 21 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:59,520 So I had two pretty big bulk pickups recently and the other night I had my 22 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,760 little plugin USB light because there's no light at the storage unit. 23 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:05,120 It's 30 degrees. 24 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:06,040 The wind's blowing. 25 00:01:06,380 --> 00:01:08,320 I don't make a YouTube video about this, right? 26 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:09,960 Cause I just want to work and get it done. 27 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,800 But like here I am at it. 28 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:15,480 Wasn't even that late, but the sun was down or it was like 7 P.M. 29 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,840 And I'm just sitting out here in the storage unit by myself, waiting for 30 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,780 somebody to come snatch me up in the darkness of night. 31 00:01:21,780 --> 00:01:22,920 Nobody would know about it. 32 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:23,760 You don't see that. 33 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,760 You just see me out there when the sun's shining, things are great. 34 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,900 Scanning all the profit, not dealing with all the crap that I got. 35 00:01:30,900 --> 00:01:31,540 I don't know, man. 36 00:01:31,540 --> 00:01:34,500 It's tough for me because I can't show it all. 37 00:01:34,940 --> 00:01:39,580 And I think it's hard for me sometimes because I can't show that type of stuff 38 00:01:39,580 --> 00:01:41,040 because I got to get the job done. 39 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:41,280 Right? 40 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,700 Like the YouTube doesn't pay my bills. 41 00:01:43,700 --> 00:01:45,540 Like I have to get through the inventory. 42 00:01:45,540 --> 00:01:46,820 I have to get it cleared out. 43 00:01:47,140 --> 00:01:51,620 And unfortunately, I don't have a videographer where I can just work 44 00:01:51,620 --> 00:01:55,560 normally and someone records me and it's just too much for me. 45 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,820 So when I had things like this, I just have to get it done and it doesn't 46 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:00,860 content the last thing on my mind. 47 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:02,060 Right. 48 00:02:02,060 --> 00:02:06,040 And even and for those not aware on group calls, a lot of people are 49 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,080 actually working, even though it doesn't look like they are like they're doing 50 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:10,700 the technical work on the computer. 51 00:02:11,140 --> 00:02:14,840 So you're working and when you're on a call, you're normally working at half 52 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,780 speed or a quarter speed because you're trying to listen or somebody ask you a 53 00:02:18,780 --> 00:02:22,420 question, you kind of have to stop what you're doing, respond to the question 54 00:02:22,420 --> 00:02:26,560 and all that, but that's the only way we can do it. 55 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:32,520 And I agree any, any kind of call or distraction or even recording a YouTube, 56 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:37,260 you're not able to put all of your working effort into the actual work because 57 00:02:37,300 --> 00:02:40,600 well, your brain's distracted because you're multitasking. 58 00:02:40,940 --> 00:02:45,980 Multitasking is great, but you realize you're going to, you're not going to be 59 00:02:45,980 --> 00:02:49,180 able to do it a full a hundred percent on each individual task. 60 00:02:49,180 --> 00:02:52,580 There's going to be some percentages assigned to sec to a secondary or third 61 00:02:52,580 --> 00:02:54,640 area, tasks that you're doing. 62 00:02:55,120 --> 00:03:00,820 Um, and even me, I had a one-on-one with a lady earlier this week and I was 63 00:03:00,820 --> 00:03:06,460 teaching her how to source and took her a minute to figure out what I was talking 64 00:03:06,460 --> 00:03:10,740 about when we were looking at things on Facebook marketplace and it was just 65 00:03:10,740 --> 00:03:14,440 little things like you see, you see that stack of comics, maybe you send them a 66 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,840 message and see if they have graphic novels, which are books. 67 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:18,040 We don't care about their comics. 68 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:19,300 We care about the books, right? 69 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:21,200 Ask if they got books, they're nerds. 70 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:26,780 They probably got the graphic novels of the comic books too, or, or science fiction 71 00:03:26,780 --> 00:03:32,620 or fantasy, whatever nerd and they're into, they have books that more than likely 72 00:03:32,620 --> 00:03:35,860 goes beyond what's being shown, which is just comic books. 73 00:03:36,620 --> 00:03:40,180 I got a hot take and I might die on this hill, but it's fine. 74 00:03:40,420 --> 00:03:42,360 It's what I believe in right here, right now. 75 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:46,800 If what was that Jim Carrey movie where he was like videotape 24 seven, like 76 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:48,140 around the clock Truman. 77 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:48,980 Yeah. 78 00:03:49,380 --> 00:03:53,380 If I could have that Johnny for like a week, maybe it was just live stream, like 79 00:03:53,740 --> 00:03:58,480 every single thing I did throughout the whole week, I guarantee you people that 80 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:03,460 were brand new or people that were starting to scale would think twice about 81 00:04:03,460 --> 00:04:10,620 doing exactly what I do because there is so much that I'm doing behind the scenes. 82 00:04:10,620 --> 00:04:13,860 Behind the scenes that doesn't get shown or right. 83 00:04:13,900 --> 00:04:17,940 Even if you think about the person out there listening to this and maybe watches 84 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,580 a lot of YouTube reselling, you always see the truck backing up, unloading the stuff. 85 00:04:22,580 --> 00:04:23,080 Right. 86 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:24,140 You always see the hits. 87 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,600 You never see the truck leaving with all the stuff you got to get rid of at the end 88 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,280 of the day and the long drives, right? 89 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:34,380 Like I'm just sitting in the car, listening to the Ramsey podcast, driving an hour 90 00:04:34,380 --> 00:04:37,020 and a half one way that's not content. 91 00:04:37,020 --> 00:04:42,180 But I do think like if I had some, some camera that had an infinite battery life 92 00:04:42,180 --> 00:04:46,260 and I could record every minute of every day when it comes to what me and you do 93 00:04:46,260 --> 00:04:51,100 in the group and I know like the group is, you know, you've had other, I guess, 94 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:55,040 uh, what would it be electronic, uh, jobs in the past. 95 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,140 So like, but you're a coach in the group. 96 00:04:57,180 --> 00:04:59,180 We do the podcast every single week. 97 00:04:59,180 --> 00:05:01,280 You answer questions every single day. 98 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:03,660 So this is something that people don't see. 99 00:05:03,660 --> 00:05:08,280 And nobody ever they hear Johnny and they're just like, oh yeah, he's got a warehouse. 100 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:08,980 He buys books. 101 00:05:08,980 --> 00:05:09,720 He sells books. 102 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:10,980 Well, they don't hear the fact. 103 00:05:10,980 --> 00:05:13,860 Like you just said, you know, you sat down with somebody one-on-one and 104 00:05:13,860 --> 00:05:14,720 helped them with their business. 105 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:19,360 Like nobody sees that or nobody even thinks about that about you besides probably me and 106 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:21,480 a few others, because we know you're out here doing it. 107 00:05:22,900 --> 00:05:23,400 Absolutely. 108 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,320 And I don't take credit for a lot of it. 109 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:33,300 And, but also, I mean, like even pulling and packing orders, nobody sees from 110 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:38,000 sees what, when I do that, uh, they may see you because you may do it for YouTube or 111 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,760 Mel back to burnout, she does pull and pack episodes, but you don't think about 112 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:42,840 the other people around you. 113 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:45,280 You just see them on a call or. 114 00:05:45,820 --> 00:05:47,020 Yeah, that's exactly. 115 00:05:47,020 --> 00:05:49,700 And the only time you see them, you see them on a call and they, they're just 116 00:05:49,700 --> 00:05:51,320 sitting in a chair most of the time. 117 00:05:51,700 --> 00:05:55,080 Occasionally you'll see somebody working because they got the phone set to the 118 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:56,700 side and they're going back and forth. 119 00:05:56,700 --> 00:05:57,880 Cause they need to do that. 120 00:05:58,160 --> 00:05:59,040 They were sitting in the call. 121 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,600 That'll throw off their whole day with their schedule because believe it or 122 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:05,440 not, resellers are very busy people. 123 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:07,100 They're go, go, go, go, go. 124 00:06:07,100 --> 00:06:09,320 And they have to get things done or else. 125 00:06:10,340 --> 00:06:11,020 Well, they don't. 126 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:15,220 And then it's bedtime and then they have to get up and try to play catch up or 127 00:06:15,220 --> 00:06:20,620 makeup, um, and it's just a damned, if you do damned, if you don't kind of scenario. 128 00:06:21,020 --> 00:06:25,940 So you gotta, if you're going to be in groups, you do have to multitask and the 129 00:06:25,940 --> 00:06:29,480 best way to do it is work on the call, but realize you're not going to be working. 130 00:06:30,100 --> 00:06:31,900 To your fullest until the call is over. 131 00:06:31,900 --> 00:06:32,540 Honestly. 132 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:33,800 And that that's okay. 133 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,700 I mean, I also, when I'm not on a call, I listened to podcasts and stuff and it's a 134 00:06:37,700 --> 00:06:41,620 little distracting, a little less so than an actual call, a live call that is where 135 00:06:41,620 --> 00:06:47,280 I may be called on to engage, but I'm still able to go through my day and also absorb 136 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:48,640 some knowledge while I'm doing that. 137 00:06:49,220 --> 00:06:52,420 Would I absorb more knowledge if I just laser focused on the video? 138 00:06:52,580 --> 00:06:57,640 Probably, but my work wouldn't get done if that were the case and that sacrifice 139 00:06:57,640 --> 00:06:58,280 I'm willing to make. 140 00:06:58,280 --> 00:07:04,100 And the other way around it, if I laser focus on the work, I don't learn as much. 141 00:07:04,100 --> 00:07:05,660 So it's a little give and take there. 142 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:11,940 Um, other things that aren't senior, like, um, how many of us have done custom jobs? 143 00:07:12,780 --> 00:07:17,960 Modifications like tables or rearranged rooms to make things more efficient. 144 00:07:18,380 --> 00:07:18,840 Nope. 145 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:20,540 That's boring stuff to watch. 146 00:07:20,580 --> 00:07:23,200 Nobody ever sees that they need to be get done. 147 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,180 Like I have a big component of having everything on wheels. 148 00:07:26,180 --> 00:07:29,820 They don't come that way, by the way, you have to go to the hard store, get some 149 00:07:29,820 --> 00:07:37,420 screws and wheels and brackets and washers and nuts and bolts and experiment and figure 150 00:07:37,420 --> 00:07:38,020 it out. 151 00:07:38,060 --> 00:07:39,180 Your drill brick breaks. 152 00:07:39,180 --> 00:07:42,660 You have to go get another drill bit or installing. 153 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:47,100 I don't know if you've got a wall mount for your photo station, you got to figure 154 00:07:47,100 --> 00:07:48,460 out how to do it, measure it. 155 00:07:48,460 --> 00:07:49,260 Is it crooked? 156 00:07:49,260 --> 00:07:51,580 Well, I got to take it down and redo all of this. 157 00:07:51,580 --> 00:07:56,100 Nobody sees or talks about any of this because it's boring content to be honest. 158 00:07:56,100 --> 00:07:58,020 But it's stuff we all do. 159 00:07:58,020 --> 00:08:01,860 It's the stuff not seen, but the stuff not seen is what gets the job done. 160 00:08:01,860 --> 00:08:02,420 Honestly. 161 00:08:02,740 --> 00:08:05,140 I mean, especially with, especially in eBay land, right? 162 00:08:05,140 --> 00:08:12,700 Like you, you do all this work and you sell the stuff and like you, you post the items 163 00:08:12,700 --> 00:08:16,900 you sell, which 100% like, you know, what, what you got, you put in all the work. 164 00:08:17,220 --> 00:08:17,460 All right. 165 00:08:17,460 --> 00:08:23,340 Nobody sees you, you know, at 2am taking photos of your stinky T-shirts. 166 00:08:23,340 --> 00:08:26,660 You're so tired, your red bull ain't working anymore. 167 00:08:27,020 --> 00:08:31,260 You're drooling, your butt naked, listening stuff 2am in the morning. 168 00:08:31,380 --> 00:08:37,060 You know, like nobody sees that content and that's, that's how you get the end 169 00:08:37,060 --> 00:08:37,660 results. 170 00:08:37,660 --> 00:08:42,580 And when I see these people posting these crazy numbers, like how many items sold on 171 00:08:42,580 --> 00:08:46,700 eBay, and I think to myself, all right, that's like, they sold a hundred and how 172 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:50,340 many items over the weekend at six or eight photos per item. 173 00:08:50,340 --> 00:08:55,380 Like my mind just starts blowing up because I have that, like, I see the next level to 174 00:08:55,380 --> 00:08:57,220 the data because I've been doing this long enough. 175 00:08:57,220 --> 00:08:59,140 I just don't see like, Oh, a hundred orders. 176 00:08:59,140 --> 00:08:59,380 Great. 177 00:08:59,380 --> 00:09:02,940 I'm like, damn, that's probably 10,000 photos. 178 00:09:02,940 --> 00:09:04,260 Like you poor soul. 179 00:09:05,100 --> 00:09:06,660 Yeah, that's a lot of work. 180 00:09:06,660 --> 00:09:14,300 I mean, even people able to do it in a minute, a photo set for a single item in under a 181 00:09:14,300 --> 00:09:15,620 minute, that's really good. 182 00:09:15,620 --> 00:09:19,580 But you're compounding that, like you said, to get a hundred sales, you got to have a 183 00:09:19,580 --> 00:09:20,180 lot listed. 184 00:09:21,420 --> 00:09:25,180 The 10,000 photos ain't far off, maybe 15,000. 185 00:09:25,180 --> 00:09:26,780 I mean, it's insane. 186 00:09:26,780 --> 00:09:30,420 And if you're doing more than six, it just goes up in the amount of time it takes. 187 00:09:31,140 --> 00:09:31,980 That's another thing. 188 00:09:31,980 --> 00:09:36,100 All these little things we do all the time we put into these little things do add up, 189 00:09:36,100 --> 00:09:43,020 but the benefit of improving our workflow, our work life experience and or educating 190 00:09:43,020 --> 00:09:46,860 ourselves that pays off in the hugest dividends throughout the course of the year. 191 00:09:46,860 --> 00:09:49,860 So we've got to do these things in order to be better resellers. 192 00:09:50,340 --> 00:09:50,940 I agree. 193 00:09:50,940 --> 00:09:53,700 And it's like, I'll give a perfect example of it. 194 00:09:54,420 --> 00:09:58,460 I tell everybody, Hey, go in and do some repricing manually. 195 00:09:58,460 --> 00:10:02,180 And it's like, I spent two, two and a half hours doing that. 196 00:10:02,180 --> 00:10:04,460 And it took me 10 seconds to type that sentence. 197 00:10:04,460 --> 00:10:10,100 So like my show off was, Hey, go do this in 10 second, one sentence line that says, 198 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:11,580 Hey, go do some repricing manually. 199 00:10:11,580 --> 00:10:14,660 But in reality, I just spent two and a half hours of my life. 200 00:10:14,660 --> 00:10:16,020 It took you two and a half hours. 201 00:10:16,020 --> 00:10:17,220 Realize, Hey, this is useful. 202 00:10:17,220 --> 00:10:18,940 I should tell the group about this. 203 00:10:19,380 --> 00:10:20,940 They didn't spend the two hours to do that. 204 00:10:20,940 --> 00:10:25,500 You actually save them two hours, but now they're probably going to be working. 205 00:10:25,500 --> 00:10:26,100 Blah, blah. 206 00:10:26,100 --> 00:10:28,180 I mean, I'm doing a lot of manual repricing right now. 207 00:10:28,180 --> 00:10:31,260 It's, it's my numbing stuff, but it's got to be done. 208 00:10:31,740 --> 00:10:37,500 Maybe I should just turn my YouTube channel into all the boring stuff and the non like 209 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:42,260 all the, all the things that suck in reselling, like, and sending me like scanning stuff, 210 00:10:42,260 --> 00:10:47,780 like both buys all you all everybody gets is like me going to the donation bin and throwing 211 00:10:47,780 --> 00:10:49,540 my stuff into the donation bin. 212 00:10:49,540 --> 00:10:49,740 Right? 213 00:10:49,740 --> 00:10:52,020 Like nobody ever knows if I even made any money. 214 00:10:52,340 --> 00:10:55,140 Oh, I got to go take, I got to go get rid of stuff today. 215 00:10:55,140 --> 00:10:56,980 I got to go pay my storage unit bill. 216 00:10:56,980 --> 00:11:00,180 Like all this shit that just sucks about reselling. 217 00:11:00,980 --> 00:11:01,220 Yeah. 218 00:11:01,220 --> 00:11:02,700 It's the work, right? 219 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:04,340 It's the actual work. 220 00:11:04,340 --> 00:11:07,700 Showing off sales that that's not the actual work. 221 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:10,660 In fact, you're stealing from your work time by taking the time to do that. 222 00:11:10,660 --> 00:11:16,260 But it's like, that's just the end result of what all this bullshit we did ahead of 223 00:11:16,260 --> 00:11:17,740 time resulted in. 224 00:11:17,740 --> 00:11:19,300 Cause it is bullshit. 225 00:11:19,620 --> 00:11:20,620 It's the suck. 226 00:11:20,620 --> 00:11:21,620 It's the grind. 227 00:11:21,620 --> 00:11:25,780 It's the horribleness, but we do it for this one little thing over here. 228 00:11:26,260 --> 00:11:29,540 And you notice, and if you're a reseller, you know what I'm talking about. 229 00:11:29,540 --> 00:11:32,140 Those little, those little good sale things. 230 00:11:32,180 --> 00:11:34,380 And then once that becomes the norm, it's never good enough. 231 00:11:34,420 --> 00:11:36,860 That you're going on and you repeat it and you repeat it. 232 00:11:37,180 --> 00:11:42,420 And that's why when you see a seasoned reseller, they usually don't brag anymore. 233 00:11:42,460 --> 00:11:44,500 And they're just like, yeah, it was a good sales day. 234 00:11:44,580 --> 00:11:45,940 It was a good sales weekend. 235 00:11:46,260 --> 00:11:50,020 And that's only if they're really asked really, because they don't, they don't 236 00:11:50,020 --> 00:11:53,780 care anymore when you're new, every sale is a magical experience. 237 00:11:53,780 --> 00:11:54,940 It's Disneyland. 238 00:11:54,940 --> 00:11:56,180 It's the best place to go. 239 00:11:56,180 --> 00:11:57,340 It's the best place to go. 240 00:11:57,340 --> 00:12:01,460 It's a magical experience, it's Disneyland, rainbows and unicorns galore. 241 00:12:01,780 --> 00:12:05,140 But after a while you get really jaded and really like, whatever, I made 242 00:12:05,140 --> 00:12:08,660 800 bucks, whatever, I made a thousand bucks, whatever, don't care. 243 00:12:08,660 --> 00:12:11,220 We've got to get on with the day back to the grind. 244 00:12:11,580 --> 00:12:16,020 And you're just in this, this cycle of, yep, just doing the day to day. 245 00:12:16,060 --> 00:12:21,220 But we don't become so miserable that we stop doing, well, some people do, but 246 00:12:21,220 --> 00:12:24,100 most people just keep on going on because they're seeing this growth wine. 247 00:12:24,420 --> 00:12:25,740 That's what they get excited about. 248 00:12:25,740 --> 00:12:31,060 They, they, they less focus on the individual day or the weekend or the 249 00:12:31,060 --> 00:12:32,820 monthly, and they focus about the year. 250 00:12:32,980 --> 00:12:36,740 They're trying to make that yearly graph go up in comparison to last year's 251 00:12:36,740 --> 00:12:38,060 yearly graph that was here. 252 00:12:38,060 --> 00:12:40,060 They want to overlap and go up, right? 253 00:12:40,380 --> 00:12:42,220 That's what people are looking for these days. 254 00:12:42,220 --> 00:12:43,260 If you've been at it a minute. 255 00:12:44,060 --> 00:12:45,340 What's up Amazon Tellers. 256 00:12:45,340 --> 00:12:48,940 We wanted to take a second to talk about GoToLister, the software me and Johnny 257 00:12:48,940 --> 00:12:53,780 both use to list and manage our inventory and grow our businesses with the fastest 258 00:12:53,780 --> 00:12:56,460 listing speeds out there and built in profit analytics. 259 00:12:56,740 --> 00:13:01,340 It's a no brainer, easily and quickly have items available for sale using 2D 260 00:13:01,340 --> 00:13:05,220 barcodes and get more for your items with its built in smart pricing. 261 00:13:05,580 --> 00:13:10,020 Make sure to check out the 30 day free trial at gotolister.com backslash Mike, 262 00:13:10,300 --> 00:13:12,380 or using the link in the description below. 263 00:13:12,900 --> 00:13:13,660 Uh, perfect. 264 00:13:13,860 --> 00:13:14,860 I've got another good example. 265 00:13:14,860 --> 00:13:17,420 I got plenty of these good examples because I actually been working a 266 00:13:17,420 --> 00:13:18,540 little bit harder lately. 267 00:13:18,540 --> 00:13:25,740 So I had a bulk DVD pickup and, um, I couldn't fit any more banana boxes in the car. 268 00:13:25,740 --> 00:13:25,980 Right? 269 00:13:25,980 --> 00:13:29,100 So now I got to play the game while I'm just taking them and throwing them in the 270 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:30,340 back seat and everything, right? 271 00:13:30,340 --> 00:13:33,700 Like the front seat, the back seat pot anywhere I can fit a DVD. 272 00:13:33,940 --> 00:13:38,140 I'm fitting a DVD and, uh, I take photos and Deb's like, what are you going to do? 273 00:13:38,180 --> 00:13:39,740 Text all your friends and show off. 274 00:13:39,740 --> 00:13:44,660 I'm like, I gotta enjoy some part of this because on the back end, I literally, 275 00:13:44,660 --> 00:13:50,740 every DVD I threw in, I have to take back out every individual one to get them. 276 00:13:50,740 --> 00:13:54,980 So I need like my, my five second enjoyment of being like, Hey, Johnny, 277 00:13:54,980 --> 00:13:57,820 look at this and Johnny's like, you can fit more in there. 278 00:13:57,820 --> 00:13:59,860 And then this is like, no, I said that to you. 279 00:13:59,860 --> 00:14:01,020 I was like, you still got room. 280 00:14:01,220 --> 00:14:02,100 It's the truth though. 281 00:14:02,100 --> 00:14:02,340 Right? 282 00:14:02,340 --> 00:14:07,660 Like we have to relish on these little things because you can get miserable 283 00:14:07,660 --> 00:14:10,180 real quick in this and it's not even like gloating. 284 00:14:10,180 --> 00:14:13,780 It's just funny to be like, Hey, my car is literally stacked to the ceiling with 285 00:14:13,780 --> 00:14:18,500 DVDs, but you gotta, you gotta see that as, okay, yeah, this is cool. 286 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:18,740 Right? 287 00:14:18,740 --> 00:14:23,460 It's cool to have a car full of DVDs, but you better believe that day, the next 288 00:14:23,460 --> 00:14:25,300 day I got through almost everything. 289 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:29,020 And now I just have a little bit more to get rid of because yeah, it's fun. 290 00:14:29,220 --> 00:14:31,540 But like Johnny said, she need growth. 291 00:14:31,540 --> 00:14:33,140 Your bank account needs to be growing. 292 00:14:33,420 --> 00:14:37,020 Um, if you're working more and you're not making more than, you know, 293 00:14:37,540 --> 00:14:38,660 that's what people don't see too. 294 00:14:39,620 --> 00:14:43,220 The bank accounts, Johnny, maybe we, maybe we need to have like a 295 00:14:43,220 --> 00:14:47,500 little, like a box with like, you know, how the stock market goes up and down. 296 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:50,780 And we can just have like our active bank account over the last three years 297 00:14:50,780 --> 00:14:52,340 on every YouTuber's video. 298 00:14:52,340 --> 00:14:53,340 I think that would be great. 299 00:14:53,500 --> 00:14:53,940 No, no. 300 00:14:53,940 --> 00:14:57,500 What I would love more than that is, you know, those like thermometer bars that 301 00:14:57,500 --> 00:15:00,900 should color in over the, over a period of time, that's what we need for the year. 302 00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:02,900 When it gets full, you did a good job. 303 00:15:02,940 --> 00:15:04,620 You did the thing for the year. 304 00:15:04,620 --> 00:15:05,420 Good job. 305 00:15:05,740 --> 00:15:08,020 And then you need an extra sheet of paper because it was more than you 306 00:15:08,020 --> 00:15:11,100 expected that you use little masking scotch tape on. 307 00:15:11,100 --> 00:15:14,940 Yeah, it's, uh, like every day I go to the storage unit and I see if I, if I 308 00:15:14,940 --> 00:15:18,300 grew somewhere, I shrunk some good pencil above my head. 309 00:15:18,340 --> 00:15:22,860 It's, it's tough, man, because there's so much people don't see. 310 00:15:22,860 --> 00:15:26,700 And I do think it does attribute to a lot of people that start kind of 311 00:15:26,740 --> 00:15:31,100 quitting before they get a real sense of what the business could be, because 312 00:15:31,420 --> 00:15:36,980 all of a sudden they're expecting to see, you know, uh, 3000 DVD pickup and 313 00:15:36,980 --> 00:15:41,260 you're making all this money, but they don't see, Hey, well, what am I going 314 00:15:41,260 --> 00:15:45,860 to do with the 2,700 DVDs that are not worth it to me? 315 00:15:45,940 --> 00:15:48,660 And I hate to tell you, like they got to go somewhere. 316 00:15:49,060 --> 00:15:50,980 You just sit around speaking of that. 317 00:15:51,020 --> 00:15:53,220 Let's look DVDs. 318 00:15:53,500 --> 00:15:56,220 That's a special, special place. 319 00:15:56,220 --> 00:15:57,020 Cause you know what? 320 00:15:57,500 --> 00:15:59,020 You got to clean some of those. 321 00:15:59,140 --> 00:16:00,380 You got to buff some out. 322 00:16:00,380 --> 00:16:04,260 You got to throw them in the JFJ or whatever disc cleaning machine. 323 00:16:04,260 --> 00:16:09,500 Nobody wants to see anybody clean this because if they knew, if they knew 324 00:16:09,500 --> 00:16:14,100 how bad that is and how mind numbing that is, it's horrible. 325 00:16:14,140 --> 00:16:18,780 That's not to mean we don't pop on some music and we're kind of swaying side 326 00:16:18,780 --> 00:16:22,580 to side as we're staring at the JFJ every 20 seconds and cycling out the 327 00:16:22,580 --> 00:16:27,020 desk, putting in the case, wiping the disc off and then putting in the good to go 328 00:16:27,020 --> 00:16:27,420 pile. 329 00:16:27,580 --> 00:16:31,500 Nobody sees any of that because again, that's very boring, but we've all been 330 00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:34,620 well, if you're in this media, you've been there, you know exactly what I'm 331 00:16:34,620 --> 00:16:35,020 saying. 332 00:16:35,020 --> 00:16:39,260 You put on the tunes and you grind it out for an hour or two, and then you 333 00:16:39,260 --> 00:16:41,740 grab your pile and then it's back to normal. 334 00:16:42,180 --> 00:16:47,180 Maybe I'll record just me carrying my boxes from the third floor down to the 335 00:16:47,180 --> 00:16:47,580 car. 336 00:16:47,820 --> 00:16:51,740 And it will be like an hour long video of like a month of me just carrying my 337 00:16:51,740 --> 00:16:55,900 stuff up the steps, just to put it in a cardboard box to carry it back down. 338 00:16:55,940 --> 00:16:57,380 All it is is just my hallway. 339 00:16:57,380 --> 00:17:01,100 My steps, that's all the video is. 340 00:17:02,220 --> 00:17:07,940 And even like shipping, I mean, that's, that can be boring at times. 341 00:17:07,940 --> 00:17:09,980 Even Amazon shipping in big boring times. 342 00:17:09,980 --> 00:17:14,220 So you're packing your box, your pre packers, see how many you can cram in. 343 00:17:14,220 --> 00:17:18,700 And then, okay, I had to put some out because whatever reason the ranking went 344 00:17:18,700 --> 00:17:22,740 down or now it's an E score zero or it missed scanned, or you changed your mind 345 00:17:22,740 --> 00:17:23,980 on it or you're restricted. 346 00:17:23,980 --> 00:17:26,820 Okay, let me repack the box and pull it out of the box. 347 00:17:26,820 --> 00:17:30,660 Now let's lust it and let's put it back in the box and sticker it and then put 348 00:17:30,660 --> 00:17:32,500 it over there and then do it again. 349 00:17:32,500 --> 00:17:34,500 Do it three, do three boxes. 350 00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:36,380 And then they're like, okay, well, there you go. 351 00:17:36,380 --> 00:17:39,940 There's, there's three hours of really boring stuff. 352 00:17:39,980 --> 00:17:43,620 Not fun, dude, but we enjoy it because why do we enjoy it? 353 00:17:43,620 --> 00:17:49,580 Because our bank accounts go up and we have processes in place to make it, I 354 00:17:49,580 --> 00:17:52,140 guess, more enjoyable, not as miserable. 355 00:17:52,140 --> 00:17:56,700 Um, it's, it's hard though, because if you're the person that is out there 356 00:17:56,700 --> 00:17:58,780 grinding, you don't have the processes. 357 00:17:59,140 --> 00:18:01,500 Your bank account isn't going up quite yet. 358 00:18:02,220 --> 00:18:02,980 Do you got it? 359 00:18:02,980 --> 00:18:06,980 You got to self check yourself quite a few times throughout the days just to 360 00:18:06,980 --> 00:18:09,860 keep being like, all right, this is something I want to do. 361 00:18:10,340 --> 00:18:11,420 And, uh, I've been there. 362 00:18:11,420 --> 00:18:14,820 I've been broken, you know, I've been trying to grow a reselling business. 363 00:18:15,220 --> 00:18:20,340 All I can say is give it an actual chance and give yourself a chance by 364 00:18:20,340 --> 00:18:25,060 getting around like-minded people and, uh, basically just being a fly on the 365 00:18:25,060 --> 00:18:30,060 wall and consuming information that can and will help your business because. 366 00:18:30,460 --> 00:18:31,740 You get in the dumps real quick. 367 00:18:31,820 --> 00:18:33,860 Those bank accounts are hard to get up and resell it. 368 00:18:33,860 --> 00:18:37,500 It sounds glorious going to buy an item for 10 and sell for a hundred, but 369 00:18:37,500 --> 00:18:38,980 those are just one-offs, right? 370 00:18:38,980 --> 00:18:43,420 The most, most of my sales are between 15 and $22. 371 00:18:43,460 --> 00:18:44,860 Like that's not exciting. 372 00:18:44,900 --> 00:18:48,900 I can, if I did a what sold video, Johnny, and nothing was over 20 bucks. 373 00:18:48,900 --> 00:18:50,500 Like who cares? 374 00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:55,980 This is going to sound really masochist of me, but what I really love in a group 375 00:18:56,180 --> 00:19:00,180 and I know other people are the same way is when you see a new reseller, they're 376 00:19:00,180 --> 00:19:03,820 doing something miserable and they're talking about it and you know, there's a 377 00:19:03,820 --> 00:19:07,380 better way, and then you see all the old timers that kind of get a smile on their 378 00:19:07,380 --> 00:19:08,700 face, like I've been there. 379 00:19:08,940 --> 00:19:09,780 That was me. 380 00:19:10,140 --> 00:19:11,620 Let, let me help you out here. 381 00:19:11,940 --> 00:19:13,540 Cause we're smiling at our own misery. 382 00:19:13,540 --> 00:19:16,020 We're not smiling at the person that's having a bad time. 383 00:19:16,020 --> 00:19:20,580 We're smiling because yeah, I was in the suck one time too. 384 00:19:21,300 --> 00:19:23,940 Now you're just laughing at yourself at that point, but you're, then you're 385 00:19:23,940 --> 00:19:27,980 going to help the individual out and try to help them, but we all have to go 386 00:19:27,980 --> 00:19:32,260 through these trials and tribulations of the suck, the grind, the 387 00:19:32,260 --> 00:19:33,740 horribleness of reselling. 388 00:19:34,220 --> 00:19:38,380 Cause if you're not constantly thinking about how to make the suck less suck, 389 00:19:38,700 --> 00:19:40,220 you're doing a service to your business. 390 00:19:40,220 --> 00:19:43,940 Honestly, cause we always have to like, okay, this is, I hate this. 391 00:19:43,980 --> 00:19:44,660 I hate this. 392 00:19:44,660 --> 00:19:47,580 So much, how can I make this slightly better? 393 00:19:47,820 --> 00:19:49,500 Cause that that's it. 394 00:19:49,500 --> 00:19:53,580 It's like being in a desert and it's 150 degrees. 395 00:19:53,580 --> 00:19:54,620 You're just looking for a shade tree. 396 00:19:54,620 --> 00:19:57,660 How can I get shade for just a minute before I go on another two miles? 397 00:19:57,940 --> 00:20:00,500 And then you're just going from shade tree to shade tree kind of deal. 398 00:20:01,180 --> 00:20:03,820 Until all of a sudden you're just walking in the shade. 399 00:20:03,860 --> 00:20:04,780 This ain't so bad. 400 00:20:04,780 --> 00:20:06,260 All of a sudden, this is pretty good. 401 00:20:06,980 --> 00:20:12,020 Yeah, it's, it's hard when you really, but I always think of this way. 402 00:20:12,020 --> 00:20:15,860 When I was trying to get out of my job, like I would have did anything 403 00:20:15,860 --> 00:20:16,740 to get out of it, right? 404 00:20:16,740 --> 00:20:19,940 Like I was willing to do whatever it took to get out of the reselling business. 405 00:20:19,940 --> 00:20:26,060 So like, do we just assume that if we create the content around things that 406 00:20:26,060 --> 00:20:31,700 aren't seen the non fancy, the non bull lows, the non, you know, extravagant 407 00:20:31,700 --> 00:20:38,180 videos, do we just assume that nobody would watch the content or maybe, maybe 408 00:20:38,180 --> 00:20:42,020 that is a super niche where if one of these reselling channels just started 409 00:20:42,020 --> 00:20:43,700 showing the stuff, nobody else does. 410 00:20:44,300 --> 00:20:48,460 Then, then maybe they get traction on the channel and wouldn't it benefit us 411 00:20:48,460 --> 00:20:53,100 because most people are going to run away because they see me throwing 412 00:20:53,300 --> 00:20:58,220 thousands of DVDs and into my car and then unloaded them just to throw them 413 00:20:58,220 --> 00:21:01,220 back into the car to go get rid of them somewhere else. 414 00:21:01,220 --> 00:21:04,340 Like that would just mean less competition because less people would do it. 415 00:21:04,340 --> 00:21:07,580 But I don't know, man, it's, it's hard to get rid of them. 416 00:21:07,580 --> 00:21:09,220 No, man, it's, it's a hard balancing out. 417 00:21:10,100 --> 00:21:11,340 This is kind of a nut. 418 00:21:11,340 --> 00:21:13,100 It's usually done in groups. 419 00:21:13,380 --> 00:21:16,020 They'll, they'll record themselves doing a process. 420 00:21:16,020 --> 00:21:19,900 Then they'll upload it to everybody to critique that like, this is how I do 421 00:21:19,900 --> 00:21:22,860 photos and everybody chimes in, no, this is how you should do it. 422 00:21:22,860 --> 00:21:24,020 No, this is how I should do it. 423 00:21:24,300 --> 00:21:25,700 No, this is how you should do it. 424 00:21:25,700 --> 00:21:26,780 That other guy's way wrong. 425 00:21:27,180 --> 00:21:31,700 And you get a whole lot of feedback and that person can take what they want, try 426 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:35,100 a couple of things and find out what works for them and then I'll do it for 427 00:21:35,100 --> 00:21:36,580 another process, like listing. 428 00:21:36,580 --> 00:21:37,700 They'll just screen record. 429 00:21:37,700 --> 00:21:39,860 This is how I'm listing this type of thing. 430 00:21:39,940 --> 00:21:40,860 And the same thing happens. 431 00:21:40,860 --> 00:21:41,620 Everybody critiques it. 432 00:21:41,940 --> 00:21:45,460 And that aspect, I think it's really good for resellers to engage like that. 433 00:21:45,660 --> 00:21:49,980 It's for the general consumerism of YouTube and content. 434 00:21:49,980 --> 00:21:50,980 No, it'd be boring as hell. 435 00:21:51,020 --> 00:21:54,140 Nobody would like it outside of people that are actually in reselling. 436 00:21:54,820 --> 00:21:57,620 I mean, I guess you could be, you could have like a super quick bait title, like 437 00:21:57,900 --> 00:22:01,220 how I make $1 and 50 cents an hour reselling, right? 438 00:22:01,220 --> 00:22:03,180 Like that definitely would work. 439 00:22:03,180 --> 00:22:08,500 And on the topic of that, we haven't talked about in a while, but like profit 440 00:22:08,500 --> 00:22:09,660 per hour, right? 441 00:22:09,660 --> 00:22:14,940 Like, of course you're not going to continue to resell if everything you do is 442 00:22:14,940 --> 00:22:16,620 such a grind, right? 443 00:22:16,860 --> 00:22:18,020 And you're making no money. 444 00:22:18,020 --> 00:22:19,060 It's different, right? 445 00:22:19,060 --> 00:22:23,700 If you told me or Johnny, Hey, you got to go work hard for the next 12 hours, but 446 00:22:23,700 --> 00:22:25,260 you're going to make $50 an hour. 447 00:22:26,180 --> 00:22:27,900 We're like, Hey, I'm ready to go work. 448 00:22:27,900 --> 00:22:28,260 Right. 449 00:22:28,540 --> 00:22:32,100 But yeah, let me put on the Rambo red bandana and let's do this thing. 450 00:22:32,100 --> 00:22:33,620 Yeah, let's just sit side, Johnny. 451 00:22:33,620 --> 00:22:39,220 And the reality of most resellers is, Hey, you got to go do this hard work for 12 452 00:22:39,220 --> 00:22:41,660 hours and you're going to make a dollar 50 an hour. 453 00:22:41,700 --> 00:22:42,420 Well, no shit. 454 00:22:42,420 --> 00:22:45,660 These people go away and quit because you're not making no money. 455 00:22:46,820 --> 00:22:46,980 Yeah. 456 00:22:46,980 --> 00:22:50,900 Early on, you're, you're lucky to be making minimum wage because you're 457 00:22:50,900 --> 00:22:56,340 learning, you're making mistakes, you're doing bad buys, bad pickups, or you get 458 00:22:56,340 --> 00:23:00,380 so many returns because your processes aren't down or you didn't know to notate 459 00:23:00,380 --> 00:23:03,940 flaws and your photos are bad, nothing's selling. 460 00:23:03,980 --> 00:23:09,820 So you're, you may be making negative dollars actually, or very low minimum 461 00:23:09,820 --> 00:23:11,740 wage, two minimum wage dollars. 462 00:23:11,740 --> 00:23:18,700 And it's very hard to power through that process because in the outside reselling 463 00:23:18,700 --> 00:23:23,660 world, you do an hour of work, you're going to get noted for an hour of work and 464 00:23:23,660 --> 00:23:25,300 get paid accordingly for that hour. 465 00:23:25,620 --> 00:23:29,740 Me selling, it's not that way because you have to earn your way to that by 466 00:23:29,740 --> 00:23:33,540 learning and doing honestly, and we learn by doing most of the time. 467 00:23:34,180 --> 00:23:36,700 It's, I like the thing of it this way too. 468 00:23:37,540 --> 00:23:43,540 It's kind of impossible to see content from resellers that are brand, brand, 469 00:23:43,540 --> 00:23:44,740 brand new, right? 470 00:23:44,740 --> 00:23:49,300 Like it's, you're always pushed out the biggest resellers on social media and 471 00:23:49,300 --> 00:23:53,100 YouTube realm, so you don't see the person that's literally day one in their 472 00:23:53,100 --> 00:23:55,820 business, like from the very, very start. 473 00:23:55,820 --> 00:23:59,820 So you can see all the trials and tribulations they go through to kind of 474 00:23:59,820 --> 00:24:02,660 get to the point where maybe they have a successful business. 475 00:24:02,660 --> 00:24:07,100 And I kind of wish, I don't kind of wish, I wish I had all of those stupid 476 00:24:07,100 --> 00:24:12,740 mistakes, me taking four hours to do my first box on video, because we can talk 477 00:24:12,740 --> 00:24:13,220 about it, right? 478 00:24:13,220 --> 00:24:17,420 We're talking about all these things that you don't see, but the words, they're 479 00:24:17,420 --> 00:24:22,060 nowhere near as impactful as what you experienced, right? 480 00:24:22,060 --> 00:24:23,900 Like four hours to do a box. 481 00:24:23,900 --> 00:24:26,900 Somebody hears that and like, oh yeah, wow, four hours to do a box, but you 482 00:24:26,900 --> 00:24:30,980 better believe when I'll sit in there for four hours, I was like, this is dude, 483 00:24:30,980 --> 00:24:31,700 I'm done with this. 484 00:24:31,700 --> 00:24:33,420 I'm ready to, I'm ready to call it quits. 485 00:24:33,420 --> 00:24:34,700 Deb's like, you're not making it. 486 00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:37,580 The cats are like, dad, you're not making it, dude. 487 00:24:37,740 --> 00:24:38,980 You need to get back to work. 488 00:24:38,980 --> 00:24:40,420 You need to go back to CVS. 489 00:24:41,620 --> 00:24:42,620 No, it's interesting. 490 00:24:42,700 --> 00:24:47,380 Like on YouTube, there's these things out there where somebody builds an entire 491 00:24:47,380 --> 00:24:49,180 cabin in the woods, right? 492 00:24:49,180 --> 00:24:50,620 And it's sped up like drastic. 493 00:24:50,620 --> 00:24:51,860 There's somebody builds their house. 494 00:24:51,860 --> 00:24:55,100 I would love to see something on a business like that, but how do you do that? 495 00:24:55,100 --> 00:24:59,140 I don't know how you would film that at all, but you're seeing it from, there's 496 00:24:59,140 --> 00:25:00,460 the empty plot of land. 497 00:25:00,660 --> 00:25:04,300 There's this poor sap dragon, all this wood off his truck and it's just him. 498 00:25:04,500 --> 00:25:08,940 He has to go the other side to put it on the horse and then they do the other side. 499 00:25:09,140 --> 00:25:10,940 He's doing it all himself, but it's super sped up. 500 00:25:10,940 --> 00:25:13,820 So it's a, even a lengthy video sped up. 501 00:25:13,820 --> 00:25:15,020 It's like an hour long. 502 00:25:15,020 --> 00:25:17,060 And then you see this beautiful end result. 503 00:25:17,300 --> 00:25:20,820 Their blood, sweat and tears are probably a year's worth of footage, honestly. 504 00:25:20,820 --> 00:25:21,660 It's amazing. 505 00:25:21,660 --> 00:25:23,020 And I'd love to see that in the resale. 506 00:25:23,020 --> 00:25:25,140 I, but again, I don't know how that would be done. 507 00:25:25,140 --> 00:25:29,740 You would need like 24 seven cameras in every corner of the room. 508 00:25:29,980 --> 00:25:31,740 And it's going like lightning fast. 509 00:25:31,740 --> 00:25:36,100 Like you're just seeing a box after box after box or package after package of 510 00:25:36,100 --> 00:25:36,780 a Z Bay. 511 00:25:37,100 --> 00:25:40,380 And then eventually, Oh, here's my bank account worth it. 512 00:25:40,860 --> 00:25:41,340 Yeah. 513 00:25:41,580 --> 00:25:44,860 You got to have the payoff at the end or, or, you know, it's not worth it. 514 00:25:44,860 --> 00:25:46,580 And there's going to be plenty of suck. 515 00:25:46,580 --> 00:25:48,580 And I hate to break it to you. 516 00:25:48,580 --> 00:25:53,260 A lot of the suck, no one can relate to because we've experienced, but we've 517 00:25:53,260 --> 00:25:54,380 experienced in the past. 518 00:25:54,380 --> 00:25:57,860 So it's like, when you tell me kind of like what Johnny said, you tell me, Hey, 519 00:25:57,900 --> 00:26:01,780 you were at the storage unit last night, unloading your car full of books and 520 00:26:01,780 --> 00:26:04,780 you were there for three hours and you didn't find much. 521 00:26:04,820 --> 00:26:07,740 Me and Johnny just smirk and say, he had been there before. 522 00:26:07,740 --> 00:26:08,860 Welcome to the club, right? 523 00:26:08,860 --> 00:26:11,900 You know, like welcome to the party and you're never going to have the 524 00:26:11,900 --> 00:26:12,860 justification. 525 00:26:13,260 --> 00:26:16,900 And it's a good thing and a bad thing because you can't always be looking at 526 00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:20,260 it for, you know, somebody else to justify the crap in the business or the 527 00:26:20,260 --> 00:26:21,220 good in the business. 528 00:26:21,580 --> 00:26:25,260 It's easier for me because I have a YouTube channel, we have the group. 529 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:29,020 So like, I can just put my stuff out there and people be like, Oh my God, 530 00:26:29,020 --> 00:26:29,940 great job, Mike. 531 00:26:30,420 --> 00:26:32,540 Oh my God, you're crazy for doing that, Mike. 532 00:26:32,700 --> 00:26:35,620 And I don't, I don't think that's necessarily a good thing when you're 533 00:26:35,620 --> 00:26:39,460 always trying to look for a pick me up because at the end of the day, the 534 00:26:39,460 --> 00:26:40,660 stuff's got to get done, dude. 535 00:26:40,700 --> 00:26:42,180 We got to, we got to get to work. 536 00:26:42,180 --> 00:26:44,340 We got to have things selling. 537 00:26:44,340 --> 00:26:46,860 We got to put in the time, we got to put in the effort. 538 00:26:46,900 --> 00:26:52,500 I'm tired of it being spun as resellings easy, start open your eBay Amazon 539 00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:55,500 account today and start making money, you know, next week. 540 00:26:55,540 --> 00:26:56,780 That is not the case. 541 00:26:56,780 --> 00:26:58,500 We have to get real with this business. 542 00:26:59,620 --> 00:27:00,020 Yeah. 543 00:27:00,020 --> 00:27:03,300 And then, um, but I recently moved in the garage here. 544 00:27:03,660 --> 00:27:08,860 I was moving things around and, um, first was like foot traffic. 545 00:27:08,860 --> 00:27:10,300 I had to be able to walk free and clear. 546 00:27:10,620 --> 00:27:12,300 And then first day came my order. 547 00:27:12,300 --> 00:27:15,740 And the new garage set up and I know I noticed I was doing 548 00:27:15,740 --> 00:27:17,220 something really, really bad. 549 00:27:17,500 --> 00:27:21,220 I was walking all over the place, trying to get things like, no, Johnny, 550 00:27:21,220 --> 00:27:22,980 you put things on wheels for a reason. 551 00:27:22,980 --> 00:27:24,260 And I moved everything around me. 552 00:27:24,260 --> 00:27:26,940 So I didn't have to move like, there we go. 553 00:27:26,980 --> 00:27:28,340 This, this is normal. 554 00:27:28,340 --> 00:27:31,300 This feels comfortable, but I forgotten for a quick minute because I 555 00:27:31,300 --> 00:27:36,220 been over there for years and it's new setup, right? 556 00:27:36,220 --> 00:27:40,260 And then new processes come with a new place and, but it's similar, right? 557 00:27:40,260 --> 00:27:42,180 But it's just a different environment. 558 00:27:42,340 --> 00:27:44,940 So that, that was an interesting thing, but I caught myself like, 559 00:27:44,940 --> 00:27:46,220 you're being dumb right now. 560 00:27:46,220 --> 00:27:48,060 You're, you're being big kinds of dumb. 561 00:27:48,060 --> 00:27:50,220 How many times have you told people to do the same thing? 562 00:27:50,220 --> 00:27:53,620 You're not doing it yourself right now, but it was just a temporary 563 00:27:53,620 --> 00:27:56,780 hypocrisim, but, uh, no, it's simple things like that. 564 00:27:56,780 --> 00:27:59,700 But if you're not in the know, if nobody ever told you, you never asked 565 00:27:59,700 --> 00:28:03,540 the question, like I'm walking around a whole, well, dummy, move this shit 566 00:28:03,540 --> 00:28:07,380 near you and make your life easier where you don't move and your packaging 567 00:28:07,380 --> 00:28:08,340 life will be easier. 568 00:28:08,340 --> 00:28:09,180 I'll say this. 569 00:28:09,180 --> 00:28:14,980 I think a lot of people, if to see the things unseen, if we said every reseller 570 00:28:14,980 --> 00:28:20,460 has to record their life 24 seven and upload it to the internet, I think a lot 571 00:28:20,460 --> 00:28:25,260 of people, Johnny would be a lot more efficient, but I will argue my case 572 00:28:25,260 --> 00:28:32,620 that when I have to whip out the GoPro, I am 100% less efficient because it 573 00:28:32,620 --> 00:28:35,900 slows me down and I have no problem with that. 574 00:28:35,900 --> 00:28:36,420 Right. 575 00:28:36,420 --> 00:28:37,340 I choose to do this. 576 00:28:37,340 --> 00:28:38,420 I choose to help people. 577 00:28:38,420 --> 00:28:41,220 I'm not sitting here saying, Oh bad YouTube's ruined in my life. 578 00:28:41,220 --> 00:28:42,020 Not at all. 579 00:28:42,340 --> 00:28:47,140 But I think most people, if all of a sudden I'm in your house recording 580 00:28:47,140 --> 00:28:49,540 you, you're not going to be wasting time. 581 00:28:49,580 --> 00:28:53,620 You're not going to be scrolling through Facebook or, you know, Instagram. 582 00:28:53,660 --> 00:28:55,700 You're going to be like, Whoa, I'm getting recorded. 583 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:59,820 So like, I better be as fast as I possibly can be and as efficient. 584 00:28:59,820 --> 00:29:02,300 And I'm here to tell you, some of us work the opposite way. 585 00:29:02,780 --> 00:29:03,980 This thing's slow. 586 00:29:03,980 --> 00:29:06,100 I'm here to tell you, some of us work the opposite way. 587 00:29:06,460 --> 00:29:07,940 This thing slows me down. 588 00:29:07,940 --> 00:29:12,420 That's why I don't put out a video every single day because this slows me down. 589 00:29:12,420 --> 00:29:16,420 But most of you get a camera in your face and say, Hey, we're recording a video. 590 00:29:16,900 --> 00:29:18,060 Best behavior, dude. 591 00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:18,940 All right, let's go. 592 00:29:18,940 --> 00:29:22,020 I'm going to be the fastest, most efficient reseller I've ever been in my life. 593 00:29:23,260 --> 00:29:27,580 Yeah, that only works for so long because everybody likes 594 00:29:27,580 --> 00:29:28,780 putting their best foot forward. 595 00:29:28,940 --> 00:29:31,340 But then they become complacent and then you see the real them. 596 00:29:31,340 --> 00:29:32,300 And then, Oh, okay. 597 00:29:32,300 --> 00:29:33,380 You're just a normal person. 598 00:29:33,380 --> 00:29:34,220 You're a star person. 599 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:36,140 Yeah, you can't hide forever, dude. 600 00:29:36,140 --> 00:29:37,980 Sooner or later it comes out. 601 00:29:37,980 --> 00:29:41,340 And that's why you see a lot of these content creators kind of go away because 602 00:29:41,340 --> 00:29:44,820 sooner or later, your real personality is going to come through. 603 00:29:44,820 --> 00:29:49,900 Like I can be cheesy and like have a super fake, you know, Oh, the way I talk, 604 00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:54,540 the way I talk about business, eventually it's not going to, people see through it. 605 00:29:55,540 --> 00:29:56,500 Oh yeah. 606 00:29:57,900 --> 00:30:01,620 I mean, what are the things are not seen? 607 00:30:01,620 --> 00:30:04,660 I mean, cleanup, taking out the trash. 608 00:30:04,700 --> 00:30:06,020 There's a lot of waste in media. 609 00:30:06,020 --> 00:30:12,780 Well, keeping dude, bookkeeping, um, deconstructing boxes. 610 00:30:13,300 --> 00:30:15,340 If you got boxes left over, right. 611 00:30:15,580 --> 00:30:18,100 And if you're going to want to do with those things, or if you're a gay Lord 612 00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:22,180 person, you can't, you try to sell them or this, that, and the other, but taking 613 00:30:22,180 --> 00:30:26,100 those things apart and try to expose, I was always a pain, always third stores. 614 00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:27,260 You go in and find nothing. 615 00:30:27,420 --> 00:30:28,180 Never see that. 616 00:30:28,180 --> 00:30:32,420 When no resellers ever created a video saying I went into goodwill and I left 617 00:30:32,420 --> 00:30:38,020 with no items, did that, and I'm here to tell you that happens nowadays. 618 00:30:38,020 --> 00:30:41,820 I mean, it might not be zero, but some goodwill is at zero for me. 619 00:30:41,900 --> 00:30:43,700 And that's just part of it. 620 00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:45,740 And it's not exciting to record it. 621 00:30:45,740 --> 00:30:47,740 And most people, if they did record it, right. 622 00:30:47,740 --> 00:30:48,620 So here's how it works. 623 00:30:48,620 --> 00:30:50,740 I pull up to the goodwill, I got my camera. 624 00:30:51,060 --> 00:30:56,220 I'm going to record a video at this goodwill Johnny cord to cord myself, intro, 625 00:30:56,460 --> 00:30:57,700 record myself walking in. 626 00:30:57,700 --> 00:30:58,980 I find zero items. 627 00:31:00,620 --> 00:31:02,940 This video is not getting uploaded to, right? 628 00:31:02,940 --> 00:31:05,820 Nobody in their right mind is going to upload a video where they found nothing. 629 00:31:05,820 --> 00:31:06,060 Right. 630 00:31:06,060 --> 00:31:08,380 So there's so much that's unseen. 631 00:31:08,380 --> 00:31:10,580 And it's, we're not saying this as a deterrent. 632 00:31:10,820 --> 00:31:14,540 We're not saying this to be like whiny guys saying, Oh, bad, all this stuff sucks 633 00:31:14,540 --> 00:31:15,660 behind it, it sucked. 634 00:31:15,660 --> 00:31:16,420 I wouldn't do this. 635 00:31:16,420 --> 00:31:21,300 I tell everybody, if this was any harder than it has to be, then like, I would 636 00:31:21,300 --> 00:31:22,340 just go find a job. 637 00:31:22,340 --> 00:31:25,220 I don't know how some of these people were out here grinding, reselling, making 638 00:31:25,220 --> 00:31:27,460 seven to $12 an hour. 639 00:31:27,460 --> 00:31:32,580 Like we should be absolutely make, I don't make a lot of money, but I'm smart with 640 00:31:32,580 --> 00:31:37,420 it so I can put the majority of the little bit of money I make away and invest in my 641 00:31:37,420 --> 00:31:37,940 future. 642 00:31:38,060 --> 00:31:41,740 You don't have to make a bajillion dollars to get ahead in life anymore. 643 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:43,220 I think that's such a misconception. 644 00:31:43,220 --> 00:31:45,180 Like I got to be making all this money. 645 00:31:45,220 --> 00:31:48,860 No, if you're smart with your money and you're strategic, you don't need to be 646 00:31:49,300 --> 00:31:54,540 making 250 K year reselling to actually get ahead in life and have a future when 647 00:31:54,540 --> 00:31:55,700 it comes to your finances. 648 00:31:56,540 --> 00:32:01,100 I'm going to preface this with there's nothing wrong with hope, but I believe a 649 00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:04,860 lot of real sellers hope their way into success. 650 00:32:05,180 --> 00:32:10,380 They believe hard enough if they clap their hands, Tinkerbell style, and they 651 00:32:10,380 --> 00:32:11,820 work really, really hard. 652 00:32:13,180 --> 00:32:13,820 It's going to work. 653 00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:18,180 But if you're doing all of that and it's not working and you're still grasping at 654 00:32:18,180 --> 00:32:22,100 this initial hope, you are wrong. 655 00:32:22,100 --> 00:32:27,700 You need to figure out turning hope into fact and the facts come from you analyzing 656 00:32:27,700 --> 00:32:31,860 your business, knowing your numbers, knowing your processes, knowing your sources. 657 00:32:31,900 --> 00:32:35,100 I mean, sometimes it's just a simple shift of you're just sourcing junk. 658 00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:35,660 Stop it. 659 00:32:35,900 --> 00:32:37,060 Source better things. 660 00:32:37,300 --> 00:32:38,620 That's easier said than done. 661 00:32:39,060 --> 00:32:43,220 The things not seen when we make those statement or okay, how do I source better 662 00:32:43,220 --> 00:32:43,740 things? 663 00:32:45,140 --> 00:32:50,020 Let me jump on Facebook marketplace and scroll for four hours until I find that 664 00:32:50,020 --> 00:32:54,260 one deal, one that's going to fundamentally change my business. 665 00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:58,700 But you need to do the four hours of scrolling to find that little gym in the 666 00:32:58,700 --> 00:33:01,780 well of crap that is Facebook marketplace, honestly. 667 00:33:02,420 --> 00:33:06,100 Or let me send out some emails, some flyers. 668 00:33:06,980 --> 00:33:11,860 Let me go door to door knocking and seeing about collections or go up making 669 00:33:11,860 --> 00:33:18,740 contacts to the libraries or all these boots on the ground or fingers on the 670 00:33:18,740 --> 00:33:23,580 keyboard actions that take an extraordinary amount of long hours to accomplish. 671 00:33:23,820 --> 00:33:25,820 But the end result is success. 672 00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:27,540 That's what we're talking about. 673 00:33:27,580 --> 00:33:32,500 And again, I'm going to end it with it's okay to have hope, but be willing to do 674 00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:34,780 the work to make hope into fact. 675 00:33:35,620 --> 00:33:38,540 I mean, I've tried finding the end of the rainbow. 676 00:33:38,820 --> 00:33:39,740 It just keeps going. 677 00:33:39,740 --> 00:33:40,820 And then I never find it. 678 00:33:40,820 --> 00:33:44,460 You got to, but Johnny Sane's 100% correct. 679 00:33:44,900 --> 00:33:47,860 A lot of resellers hope doesn't pay the bills. 680 00:33:47,860 --> 00:33:48,820 All right. 681 00:33:48,820 --> 00:33:52,700 I look for a four leaf clover every day when I'm in a patch of grass. 682 00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:54,980 I have no luck finding any. 683 00:33:55,140 --> 00:33:57,700 I'd rather just be like, well, forget the four leaf clover. 684 00:33:57,940 --> 00:34:00,300 I'll go somewhere else and do some other thing. 685 00:34:00,340 --> 00:34:05,100 You have to be willing to do what you don't see when the time comes. 686 00:34:05,140 --> 00:34:09,460 You have to be willing to deal with the bulk, deal with the headaches, 687 00:34:09,460 --> 00:34:12,140 deal with the relationships, deal with the long hours. 688 00:34:12,540 --> 00:34:17,260 I wasn't always the person that was doing this 20, 25 hours. 689 00:34:17,260 --> 00:34:18,900 A week I used to be like Johnny. 690 00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:22,860 And instead of having the warehouse, I was going to thrift stores 691 00:34:22,860 --> 00:34:23,980 for five days a week. 692 00:34:24,020 --> 00:34:26,340 And I was straight up miserable, dude. 693 00:34:26,340 --> 00:34:30,820 That that's no life to lead to be in these stores all this time. 694 00:34:30,820 --> 00:34:34,180 The only way it starts to kind of feel like if it's a life to leave. 695 00:34:34,860 --> 00:34:38,180 Is when the green is coming in all of a sudden, when Mr. 696 00:34:38,180 --> 00:34:42,220 Krabs takes over my body and I'm like, Hey, I'm willing to, I'll go 697 00:34:42,220 --> 00:34:43,300 thrift in five days a week. 698 00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:46,060 If I, if it's going to up my bank account to a million dollars, right? 699 00:34:46,060 --> 00:34:50,780 Like you have to trade things off that makes sense and hope it's, it's 700 00:34:50,780 --> 00:34:53,660 okay to have it, but when things don't work, I'll be straight up. 701 00:34:53,660 --> 00:34:56,060 I've told more people this past year than I ever have. 702 00:34:56,780 --> 00:34:58,900 Well, here's three months timeframe. 703 00:34:58,940 --> 00:35:01,940 If you don't get results, then I think you 100% need to move 704 00:35:01,940 --> 00:35:03,100 on to a different endeavor. 705 00:35:03,100 --> 00:35:04,420 I don't think that's bad to say. 706 00:35:04,420 --> 00:35:06,540 I just think it's a reality check. 707 00:35:06,540 --> 00:35:09,420 And I thought I never would be the person to be like, Hey, like 708 00:35:09,500 --> 00:35:12,660 this just isn't for you, but I do believe in everybody, Mike. 709 00:35:12,660 --> 00:35:13,660 It's really hard for you. 710 00:35:13,700 --> 00:35:15,980 I know it is like, and I've seen it. 711 00:35:15,980 --> 00:35:19,020 I've told, you know, a handful of people this year, like, Hey, like, 712 00:35:19,420 --> 00:35:21,340 cause I do a lot of one-on-one coaching behind the scenes. 713 00:35:21,340 --> 00:35:25,180 And then just like, give me three months, give yourself three months. 714 00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:28,100 If this doesn't work, then you know, there's always something else you 715 00:35:28,100 --> 00:35:30,060 can get involved in as entrepreneurs. 716 00:35:30,060 --> 00:35:32,940 Like there's a whole world of life outside of reselling. 717 00:35:32,940 --> 00:35:35,060 He doesn't, it doesn't have to just be reselling. 718 00:35:35,060 --> 00:35:38,900 And the actuality is some, for some people, for the majority of people, 719 00:35:39,180 --> 00:35:42,500 even people listening to this, it's just not the business for you. 720 00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:43,460 And that's a, okay. 721 00:35:43,460 --> 00:35:46,860 You know, like go, go, there's people out there scooping poop 722 00:35:46,860 --> 00:35:48,700 off lawns making a hundred K a year. 723 00:35:49,580 --> 00:35:49,980 Right. 724 00:35:49,980 --> 00:35:54,140 And I've seen it happen a little bit more this year than any other year. 725 00:35:54,140 --> 00:35:58,580 I think it's because of post COVID times, hitting up with people hard. 726 00:35:59,140 --> 00:36:03,620 Um, people are having to get part-time jobs and then do their full-time eBay 727 00:36:03,940 --> 00:36:08,380 or they're, they're, they're putting eBay back to part-time and they're 728 00:36:08,380 --> 00:36:09,980 having to get a full-time job. 729 00:36:10,540 --> 00:36:13,100 Um, I don't think there's any shame in that. 730 00:36:13,100 --> 00:36:18,500 I don't think they should condemn themselves or think of themselves as a failure. 731 00:36:18,780 --> 00:36:24,780 They just realized the, it is a very long game to make it successful 732 00:36:25,100 --> 00:36:26,900 and they couldn't beat the clock. 733 00:36:27,060 --> 00:36:28,100 Nothing wrong with that. 734 00:36:28,100 --> 00:36:33,420 So do what you need to do so you can get back at it again, more power to you. 735 00:36:33,740 --> 00:36:35,300 You're not giving up in that stage. 736 00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:40,780 You're just, you're taking a factual stance of I need more money to live my life. 737 00:36:40,780 --> 00:36:44,180 Reselling isn't hacking it for me, so I'm going to have to get a part-time job. 738 00:36:44,860 --> 00:36:48,740 It's either that or you pretty much scrap what you're doing and 739 00:36:48,740 --> 00:36:50,860 reselling right now and figure out. 740 00:36:51,900 --> 00:36:56,140 A new thing in reselling to do shift, stop selling what you're selling. 741 00:36:56,220 --> 00:37:00,100 You're doing a bad job for yourself and your business and your family. 742 00:37:00,540 --> 00:37:02,300 And you need to figure out what works. 743 00:37:02,300 --> 00:37:11,100 If you're not willing to have that coming to self talk, um, you are, I 744 00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:11,860 don't know what to do with you. 745 00:37:12,300 --> 00:37:12,740 I'm sorry. 746 00:37:13,940 --> 00:37:18,180 I think, I think I'm going to wrap this call up here because this is a super hot take. 747 00:37:18,220 --> 00:37:23,660 Um, talking about things you don't see one of my biggest pet peeves, giant. 748 00:37:23,660 --> 00:37:25,980 Like you really want to piss off the used book guy, right? 749 00:37:25,980 --> 00:37:31,980 Like it's people that have these channels, the social media platforms 750 00:37:31,980 --> 00:37:34,940 and they're consistently uploading content. 751 00:37:35,500 --> 00:37:38,700 And then all of a sudden you never see or hear from them again. 752 00:37:39,260 --> 00:37:39,580 Right. 753 00:37:40,100 --> 00:37:44,860 It's because we can't have the realization and we can timestamp this. 754 00:37:44,860 --> 00:37:45,900 We can revisit this. 755 00:37:46,300 --> 00:37:50,380 The day I decided to stop reselling and move on to something else, I 756 00:37:50,380 --> 00:37:55,980 1000% promise there'll be a video explaining exactly why I quit reselling 757 00:37:55,980 --> 00:37:57,620 or moved on to greener pastures. 758 00:37:57,980 --> 00:38:00,300 And yeah, it happens, right? 759 00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:05,100 Like, uh, I think like one recently, uh, was James bold finds. 760 00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:09,020 We had him on and he, now he's back to put more content back out on YouTube, 761 00:38:09,020 --> 00:38:13,420 but he made a whole video saying, Hey, like, I can't continue doing YouTube in 762 00:38:13,420 --> 00:38:16,860 this manner while maintaining and grow my business where I need it to be. 763 00:38:17,020 --> 00:38:20,380 But that's like an outlier of the case, dude, everybody else, they just 764 00:38:20,380 --> 00:38:20,940 disappeared. 765 00:38:21,340 --> 00:38:24,540 The last video was them at the goodwill making a trillion dollars. 766 00:38:24,540 --> 00:38:27,020 And then you never see or hear from them. 767 00:38:27,020 --> 00:38:29,100 That's like, dude, that just grinds my gears. 768 00:38:29,100 --> 00:38:31,100 I'm just like, you can't just happen. 769 00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:32,140 What happened? 770 00:38:32,140 --> 00:38:34,860 Just straight up, just come out and be like, Hey, I don't have time to do 771 00:38:34,860 --> 00:38:35,260 YouTube. 772 00:38:35,260 --> 00:38:37,820 I might come back in a little bit or, Hey, I'm going part time. 773 00:38:38,140 --> 00:38:41,660 Um, that's I'm perfectly fine with that because that just shows your 774 00:38:41,660 --> 00:38:42,380 character, right? 775 00:38:42,380 --> 00:38:46,860 Like that shows, okay, you, you spent the time to grow an audience and, 776 00:38:46,860 --> 00:38:48,140 uh, create content. 777 00:38:48,140 --> 00:38:49,740 So you just don't leave people hanging. 778 00:38:49,740 --> 00:38:50,460 It's just bad. 779 00:38:50,460 --> 00:38:51,260 Look at my pain. 780 00:38:51,260 --> 00:38:54,940 Like I'm going to be around somebody that's just like up and disappears 781 00:38:54,940 --> 00:38:58,460 without at least throwing me a bone and being like, Hey, I got things going on. 782 00:38:58,460 --> 00:38:59,980 Everybody's got stuff going on. 783 00:38:59,980 --> 00:39:00,460 Okay. 784 00:39:00,460 --> 00:39:04,060 It takes you two seconds to, to sit down in front of a camera, record a five 785 00:39:04,060 --> 00:39:07,820 minute video with no edits and be like, Hey, here's exactly what I got going on. 786 00:39:07,820 --> 00:39:09,180 So you might not see me for a while. 787 00:39:10,060 --> 00:39:12,140 You know who I was really proud of this year. 788 00:39:12,700 --> 00:39:15,420 Remember the interview we did with the Barbie girl? 789 00:39:15,420 --> 00:39:15,740 Yes. 790 00:39:15,740 --> 00:39:18,140 She's, uh, she's part time hustling now. 791 00:39:18,140 --> 00:39:20,300 And yeah, I guarantee you, she's a lot more efficient. 792 00:39:20,300 --> 00:39:21,740 She's probably getting crazy good numbers. 793 00:39:21,740 --> 00:39:24,140 I know for a fact, Sabrina is crushing it. 794 00:39:24,140 --> 00:39:30,220 Sabrina, I think put out the best video, the most honest, authentic video of, Hey, 795 00:39:31,180 --> 00:39:33,660 I gave it the good college try. 796 00:39:33,660 --> 00:39:37,020 It's not what is not meeting my means at the moment. 797 00:39:37,020 --> 00:39:38,780 I'm going to have to do what I have to do. 798 00:39:38,780 --> 00:39:40,220 And she was broken up about it. 799 00:39:40,220 --> 00:39:43,900 She felt a little bit defeated, but the end, it was the side relief. 800 00:39:43,900 --> 00:39:45,660 This was the right decision. 801 00:39:45,660 --> 00:39:46,380 Oh yeah, dude. 802 00:39:46,380 --> 00:39:48,060 She lives out in expensive land. 803 00:39:48,060 --> 00:39:49,500 Can't afford nothing out there. 804 00:39:49,500 --> 00:39:50,460 I'm right there with her. 805 00:39:50,460 --> 00:39:51,260 You move me. 806 00:39:51,260 --> 00:39:52,300 We swap places. 807 00:39:52,300 --> 00:39:54,380 The situation probably changes 100%. 808 00:39:54,380 --> 00:39:59,180 I literally go into her mindset of I'm, I, this ain't going to be enough for me. 809 00:39:59,180 --> 00:40:01,660 And all of a sudden she's here in the middle of nowhere, Pennsylvania. 810 00:40:01,660 --> 00:40:04,540 She's like, we cook and now like, forget this. 811 00:40:04,540 --> 00:40:06,380 It's there's so much that goes into it. 812 00:40:06,380 --> 00:40:07,660 And that's something you don't see. 813 00:40:07,660 --> 00:40:09,500 Like what are people's situations? 814 00:40:09,500 --> 00:40:10,540 We have commitments. 815 00:40:10,540 --> 00:40:15,660 We have, uh, we have some of us take care of kids, people with special needs, where 816 00:40:15,660 --> 00:40:18,060 we live, uh, disasters. 817 00:40:18,060 --> 00:40:21,100 There are so much that you don't see in the reselling world. 818 00:40:21,100 --> 00:40:25,420 And we're not talking about it to kind of just have you be like, oh, well, that sucks 819 00:40:25,420 --> 00:40:27,180 or, oh, feel bad for this person. 820 00:40:27,180 --> 00:40:31,020 There's just a lot more that doesn't get shown to you as a new reseller or as a growing 821 00:40:31,020 --> 00:40:35,020 reseller and understand that there's going to be hurdles in this business. 822 00:40:35,020 --> 00:40:36,860 You're always have to be learning. 823 00:40:36,860 --> 00:40:41,260 You always have to be putting in extra time, consuming content that makes sense for you. 824 00:40:41,260 --> 00:40:43,420 Johnny talked about it when he's on these calls. 825 00:40:43,420 --> 00:40:45,420 I'll tell you right now, he's always busy doing something. 826 00:40:45,420 --> 00:40:49,900 We'll, we have our call later this morning and he'll be on there listed, reprinted, 827 00:40:49,900 --> 00:40:52,380 listed, repricing, things like that. 828 00:40:52,380 --> 00:40:53,500 That's the trade-off, right? 829 00:40:53,500 --> 00:40:56,780 If you're going to be on these calls, be involved in these groups, you can't just shut 830 00:40:56,780 --> 00:40:57,900 everything down, right? 831 00:40:57,900 --> 00:41:01,500 Unless you're making some type of decent money from it, then, Hey, okay, sure. 832 00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:05,180 You can shut it down, but you gotta get, gotta get shit done in this business. 833 00:41:05,180 --> 00:41:06,140 The only way you get paid. 834 00:41:06,140 --> 00:41:08,060 It's the only reason we do this is to get paid. 835 00:41:08,060 --> 00:41:09,020 And there's a lot of suck. 836 00:41:09,020 --> 00:41:12,140 You don't see, and it sucks, but the money's good. 837 00:41:12,140 --> 00:41:13,740 So I can't complain about the suck. 838 00:41:13,740 --> 00:41:14,700 It could be a lot worse. 839 00:41:15,660 --> 00:41:19,340 Right now, um, in tech screw, there's a call that does not apply to me that I've 840 00:41:19,340 --> 00:41:21,340 attended a few times just out of fascination. 841 00:41:21,340 --> 00:41:26,220 There's a parenting call resellers with kids and how that work life balance works. 842 00:41:27,020 --> 00:41:27,500 Exactly. 843 00:41:27,500 --> 00:41:33,100 I salute you, mom and dad's out there because I hear about all the things they have to do. 844 00:41:33,100 --> 00:41:37,740 Same shit I gotta do, but they gotta have kids involved, constantly coming in, 845 00:41:37,740 --> 00:41:38,780 constantly disrupting. 846 00:41:38,780 --> 00:41:40,300 My brain would explode. 847 00:41:41,260 --> 00:41:46,060 And they, and they talk about just like in reselling, how do you troubleshoot the problem 848 00:41:46,060 --> 00:41:47,660 when this kind of situation happens? 849 00:41:47,660 --> 00:41:48,620 They do all that. 850 00:41:48,620 --> 00:41:49,900 But it's just fascinating to me. 851 00:41:49,900 --> 00:41:54,620 How do you do, how do you do this reselling, which is a shit ton of work with children? 852 00:41:54,620 --> 00:41:57,820 That's a tall order and secondary slew. 853 00:41:57,820 --> 00:42:01,100 It's, uh, it is that, that life. 854 00:42:01,100 --> 00:42:05,580 I mean, those people, those parents, you want to talk about grinding, right? 855 00:42:05,580 --> 00:42:07,180 Like, holy smokes. 856 00:42:07,180 --> 00:42:09,100 It's, it is tough. 857 00:42:09,100 --> 00:42:13,420 And you can't give enough credit to these people when it comes to trying to grow a 858 00:42:13,420 --> 00:42:18,220 business while having some of these other obligations or working that full-time job. 859 00:42:18,220 --> 00:42:21,980 60 hours just to meet your bills, but you also want to try to have a business on the 860 00:42:21,980 --> 00:42:22,860 side. 861 00:42:22,860 --> 00:42:23,660 It's possible. 862 00:42:23,660 --> 00:42:25,420 We're telling you that it's possible. 863 00:42:25,420 --> 00:42:30,300 Just realize it's not all sunshine, rainbows, four leaf clovers, unicorns. 864 00:42:30,300 --> 00:42:34,220 Sure, you might get to the end of the road one day and everything is great. 865 00:42:34,220 --> 00:42:34,940 You feel great. 866 00:42:34,940 --> 00:42:38,220 The money's coming in, but there's going to be a lot of hurdles and steps to get there. 867 00:42:38,220 --> 00:42:40,300 So that's going to do it for this week's episode. 868 00:42:40,300 --> 00:42:42,620 We will see you all next week as always. 869 00:42:42,620 --> 00:42:47,020 And those of us that we don't see because you're listening on podcast platforms, we 870 00:42:47,020 --> 00:42:52,300 appreciate you all just as much. 871 00:42:52,300 --> 00:42:56,940 And Johnny would appreciate it if you just leave us a little five star of review saying, 872 00:42:56,940 --> 00:43:00,380 hey, you know, we appreciate the content YouTube put out, but yeah, we'll talk to you all in 873 00:43:00,380 --> 00:43:19,420 next week's episode.