Sam Parr's step mom was a seamstress who launched a Shopify store after a conversation about online business. Within three weeks she made her first sale. Three years later, she was running a million-dollar operation from a New Jersey warehouse with four employees hand-sewing products.
About 3 years ago, my mother-in-law, who loves to sew, she goes, "Sam, I want to start a business online. Can you tell me how the internet works?" I give her the most high-level advice ever. It was basically, "Well, there's this thing called Shopify." That's basically what the advice was. Like, there's a thing called a funnel where you get this many eyeballs and a percentage of them buy. The most basic thing ever. 3 weeks after that, she sends me this website. I'm like, "Smithy, this website looks beautiful. They named your company the same name that you were going to name your company, though. What the hell?" And she goes, "That's my website." And I'm like, "What?" She's like, "Yeah, in fact, I already got my first sale." I was blown away. Fast forward forward 3 years, she's done over $1 million in revenue. She's doing high 6 figures in '23. So she's hand-making these? Well, now she has a little warehouse in New Jersey and she's got 4 ladies sew it. I just imagine her just like, my fingers hurt from sewing. Well, now your back's gonna hurt. You just got landscaping duty.
