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My First Big Business Breakthrough

Name: My First Big Business Breakthrough
Uploaded: 2025-07-27T20:00:05+00:00
Duration: 53 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this personal vlog, the speaker recounts a pivotal moment early in their entrepreneurial journey. After training a group of women to sell tanning…

27 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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In this personal vlog, the speaker recounts a pivotal moment early in their entrepreneurial journey. After training a group of women to sell tanning services, the speaker receives a phone call confirming that the trainees generated $750 in sales, with one full payment and another split payment. Seeing the "successful" status on the transaction, the speaker experiences a strong emotional reaction, realizing for the first time that the business can produce revenue without the founder personally making every sale. This moment marks a breakthrough in understanding the scalability and passive income potential of the business model.

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I went home for Christmas. This is like the first year of the gym. I was very afraid to do that. And I had trained these girls who had sold tanning before. And I remember when I was driving, I remember where I was and I get this phone call and they're like, yeah, you know, the day ended and I was like, how'd you do? Oh, we had, you know, we had, we had 5 people show, sold 2. And I was like, you sold them though? Like credit card? Like it ran like the whole thing. They were like, yeah, one was paid in full, the other split pay. I was like, Hold on. Today, $750 came in. Like, it said successful next to it. And they were like, yeah, they were like, actively like, why is this guy being so weird? And I ended up pulling the car over. And I remember it was like one of the few times that I had like a real big emotional, like, experience. I almost got like teared up because it was, it was the first moment where I realized like I wasn't the one who was going to have to make every dollar in this business.