Jared Goetz built a Shopify business on the side, photographing products himself and hiring a freelancer for the logo. He sold directly at malls and airports, making $1,500 per sale with $1,200 profit, then planned to scale to 1,000 units for a million dollars in revenue.
working on a Shopify site. I took pictures with like this camera, made a brand, literally like hired someone on Upwork to make a logo, and I printed out a business card with my company website. Anytime anyone asked me, where do you get it? I said, right here, right here. And now I started riding this thing around the malls, the airport, and everyone's breaking their necks looking at it. I'm selling $1,500, so I'm making $1,200 each time. And that's insane. So now I'm making more money than my salary, and I'm like, how do I sell 1,000 of these and make a million dollars? Now I'm obsessed. I started thinking like, okay, I have I have one friend that has like 30,000 Instagram followers. Maybe if he posts, someone will buy it.
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