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My missed opportunity #ytshorts

11 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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A brief YouTube Shorts transcript of John Jonas describing a missed business opportunity (~2004) to partner with a successful entrepreneur (owner of MyFamily.com/ancestry.com) to create a dropshipping website. The speakers recount that Jonas balked at writing product descriptions then, but now notes that hiring multiple content writers would make that trivial — a reflection on how some opportunities are easier to execute today.

One time I had a chance to partner with a.
Really successful businessman. So he started.
Myfamily.Com.
And ancestry.com years ago.
I had the chance to partner with.
Him on a project.
And this is like.
2004, probably. We wanted to.
Take this entire dropshipping library and make a website out of it so we could just sell the stuff and someone else would do all the fulfillment. And so he said.
Well, you'll just.
Write descriptions for all these things. Which when he said that, I was.
Like, oh, yeah, that's just definitely not going to happen.
Right, Because.
I'm not going to write the descriptions. The thought of writing the descriptions, the thought of writing even one description for me was just sickening. Almost looking back on it now, I could like, oh, if I had that opportunity or that problem now it's like.
Oh, yeah, that's super easy to solve.
I can easily hire three content writers or five content writers to write the content for this.
So if you haven't hired help yet.
Onlinejobs PH is where you're gonna hire.