 Don't sell anything online until you watch this. Hey, I'm JR Fisher and I've been selling online for 12 years now and I've made millions of dollars of selling both digital and physical products. In this video, I got to share with you the eight things that I've learned. Eight mistakes I've made. Things that really will hold you back if you don't do them. I think you're going to be really surprised at the last one. But they're all really good and they've really taught me a lot because I screwed up a lot of these. I don't want to see you screw them up. Make sure you watch this video to the very end. Don't forget to subscribe. Hit the subscribe button down there if it's red. You want to click it, turn it gray. Don't forget, turn on all bell notifications. That way you'll be notified each and every time I do a new video. Just subscribing will not notify you. You need to do that. And I want to see your comments below too. Would you think of this? Have you made any of these mistakes? Okay, I know I made a bunch of them. And anyhow, I got this list here and I just got to share it with you. Number one, and this is the thing I did not do in the beginning. I'm telling you I didn't do it. Get organized. Get organized. And I'm talking your inventory, your accounting, whatever it is. Get organized. Find a way to get organized. And I'll give you a little thing that really helped me out a lot. I got a password app on my phone now and I have all my passwords on it. What's funny is you will start to accumulate passwords as you start to sell online. And if you don't have a password app, I promise you you're going to be scrambling or you're going to be selling your password so much it's going to waste so much of your time. I don't want to see you do that. Get organized. Also, your finances, your accounting, this stuff is so important. I'm very lucky. I have a wife who's really good at accounting and she keeps all this stuff straight. So I have somebody like that. If you don't have somebody like that and you're not like that where you're really organized, you need to find somebody. You really do. You need to get somebody who's going to stay on top of this. Don't go six months or a year and not do all your accounting. I mean, this should be done really on a daily basis. Number two is schedule your time. Schedule your time. When you work for yourself, what is really liberating is that you can do what you want every single day. I mean, whatever you want, this is number two. You can do whatever you want every single day, but you need to schedule your time because if you don't, you're going to find yourself gravitating to the things you like to do or the things that are easy to do. And unfortunately, when you have your own business, there's going to be a lot of things that are not easy to do. There's going to be a lot of things that are not fun to do, but they need to be scheduled. Today I'm shooting videos. Nothing else comes above that. Okay. Today I have to shoot these videos and I'm going to shoot 12 videos today, which is a bunch in a day. But that's how I choose to do it. I don't want to shoot a video every single day and set up the camera and the lights and, you know, get my hair fixed and get the right shirt on and all that. The other day is I'm going to dress like a bomb. Okay. I want to be comfortable. So I have to organize my time. Organizing your time is super important. Don't start your day when you feel like getting out of bed. You need to start your day at a set time every day. You need to work to a set time every single day. Can you take some time off every now and then? Sure you can. Can you take a longer lunch every now and then? Sure you can. But you do need to schedule your time to get everything done. Number three, and some of you aren't going to want to hear this, don't get a partner. Get a team. What I mean by that is if you go into business with somebody, and this is my advice to everybody, is to not go into business with somebody else. Some people say, well I've had a great partnership for years and it's worked out great J.R. and my partner's awesome and we do an equal amount of work. Well the odds of that happening are almost zero. Okay. If you've got a relationship like that and that's worked out well for you, more power to you. But I like having a team instead. Nobody owns my business but me. Nobody tells me how to run my business. Will I take advice? Sure from somebody who knows what they're talking about. But the bottom line is I don't want to partner. I've seen so many businesses go south because they picked the wrong partner. And here's the funny thing about a partnership. You expect that you'll both put in equal amount of effort. It's humanly impossible. Okay. So if you're the person that's working more than the other one, you may get jealous. You may say, well that person's getting as much money as me but I'm working harder than them. So you just, you've got to get into a situation where it's not pretty. So I much rather have team members. And that is people I go out and hire to do individual tasks or individuals that work for me to do individual tasks. Then to have a business partner. I don't want a business partner. Ever, ever, ever, ever. I just don't want one. That's my advice. You do what you want. If you go against this one and later on it doesn't work out, you're going to go, ah, I should not listen to JR. So you've got to maybe listen to this one. Don't get a partner. Number four is don't spend like a drunken sailor. We have days that are higher than others. Okay. I just got ready to do these videos this morning. And as I was coming in here, we got an order for $59,000. One order. $59,000. I don't get an order for $59,000 very often. Okay. Most people will spend, you know, a thousand or 1500. Some people spend $27. I have multiple businesses. You know, I have a survival food company. And that's where that order came from. I did have an order for $100,000 at one point, which was very nice. I've had orders for a quarter of a million dollars, which were very nice. But I don't have those every day. So I've got to understand that when I take in these larger orders and this stuff happens, I've got to ask for money accordingly. What you want to do is to try to live on the lowest amount of money you possibly can. Now, you may not want to hear that because you've heard, hey, I want to start an online business and get rich. And I want to just spend like crazy. I wouldn't recommend you doing that until you have, say, millions of dollars in the bank. You never know how long you're going to go where the income is not where it should be. So watch your money. Watch your money. Watch your money. Remember, you're not going to be getting rich every week like you would on a job. Number five I think is really important. Automate everything you can. I automate everything. I automate emails. I automate payments. I automate everything I can because if you can automate these things, if you can use software, and I do recommend a software called Cartra, I'll put a link below. You can click on it. You can watch a video on it. If you're interested in Cartra, which I think you will be after you see the video, but it can automate all kinds of parts of your digital business. If you want it, you can get a trial for $1. So check out Cartra. But that's an automation software. I automate payments at the bank, you know, to go out to certain bills. I automate everything I possibly can. I'm telling you, the more you automate, the more you'll have time to create. Create makes you money. Automation saves you time. Number six, don't do what you hate. Don't do what you hate. You know, in the beginning, I did everything. I didn't hire anybody out for anything. And a lot of the things, the task is, if you don't have a lot of money, you have to do it all yourself. But as soon as you can allocate the things you hate, the better off you're going to be. You're going to be, you know, more inspired on a daily basis. You're going to get more accomplished. When you're doing things you hate, whether it be accounting or, you know, whether it's payroll systems, I have all this stuff automated. Those are the things that I just don't want to do. I just don't want to do it. So I allocate those to somebody else. And you may say, well, JR, I don't even have my products ready yet. I mean, I'm going to do sporting goods, but I don't even have any products yet. I don't care. Build a list. Build a list. Start putting content out there and having people opt in to get on your list, offer them a free download or something. If I had done this in the beginning like I should have, I would have made a lot more money. I can tell you that. And I do have a good list now. But it's not as big as it could have been. Build a list now. Get people who are interested now in whatever you're doing, whatever that niche is and say, hey, get on my list. I'm going to give you this free download. Come up with some kind of download. Get people on your list so you can start building it. Because here's the cool thing. Imagine, let's say, you were going to build a restaurant. You were going to do barbecue sandwiches. When you open the restaurant, as we all know, nobody knows about you, okay? You open your doors. You hope people come in. All those people came flooding in. That'd be pretty nice, right? Well, that's essentially what it's like to build a list. That thing can happen. And you can make a lot more money in the beginning. You start building your list. I waited years before I worked on a list, which was stupid. But I'm just trying to share with you the things that I didn't do that you should do. The last one is really hard to get across to people. But realize that things are going to take longer than you think. I mean, everything's going to take longer than you think. I just built this house. It's a brand new house here. And they told us it would be 120 days. And it was, how long was it? Let's see. Eight months. Eight months is more than 120 days. I think that's double that. That's 240 days. But things take longer than you realize. There's going to be delays. There's going to be problems. If you're putting up a website, it's going to take longer than you think to get the website up. If you're building a list, it's going to take longer than you think. If you're trying to buy inventory and get it delivered to you, it's going to take longer than you think. Now, I was very lucky. In my second year, I hit a million dollars in sales. Very lucky. But, you know, I had a lot of struggles between, you know, that $10 sale and that million dollars in sales. So, just realize it's going to take longer than you think. Don't quit. Keep putting forth the effort. I think that's what I see in a lot of people. They'll try two or three things. They don't quite work out. And they just quit and say, I tried that. It doesn't work. I did a video the other day on YouTube. It was about dropshipping and how to make money on dropshipping. So, it's going to take longer than you think. Now, I was very lucky in my first year of dropshipping and how to make money on dropshipping. And somebody's comment was, I tried that and it didn't work. All I could say to them was, what you tried didn't work. But dropshipping works. Okay? Dropshipping. I mean, Home Depot, Walmart. I mean, some of the biggest Amazon, some of the biggest companies in the world are dropshippers. Okay? They use dropshipping and they dropship. So, dropshipping does work. That person just put it on themselves and said dropshipping doesn't work. It's not true. They just did some things wrong. Or maybe they didn't try hard enough. Or maybe they had the wrong product. All these things work. People are making money at it. And if I want to get this across to you, if somebody else is making money doing something online, okay? Then you can, too. You've just got to figure out what they're doing and how they're doing it. And that's why I share these videos with you guys so that you know what to do. Please believe me when I tell you, you can do this stuff, okay? That $59,000 sale I just told you about with some of our canned meats. We sell survival food. I own a company called Survival Cave Food. And I will tell you, when I started selling these canned meats, I had a lot of people say nobody's going to buy those, JR. Nobody's going to buy that product. Now, I've since sold millions and millions of dollars of that product. But I've had so many people tell me that I couldn't sell those products. And it always came from somebody who didn't sell those products. It always came from somebody who was not an entrepreneur, somebody who hadn't done anything. And they were going to impose their lack of confidence on me. Don't let people do that to you. Don't let your friends and family tell you what you can't do because they haven't done it. They almost don't want you to do it because if you do it and they don't do it, how does that make them look? So ignore all those negative people, okay? Just get away from those negative people. Don't listen to those negative people. You can do this. It's all in your head. That came from a guy I watched in Key West. He trained cats. And he would actually talk to the cats. He would say, you can do it. It's all in your head. And he would have him walking a tightrope. And I'm sure somebody told him at one point, yeah, you can't have cats walking a tightrope. But he did. And you can do it. It's all in your head. Don't forget to subscribe. Hit that subscribe button down there. If it's red, turn it gray. 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