 How cell phone cases made me millions online. Okay, that's a strange thing to say, but it's true and in this video I'm gonna explain to you How doing one simple thing can actually make you millions of dollars if you don't know me I'm J.R. Fisher and I've sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products online and in this video I want to tell you how that all came about if you're interested Stick into this video and keep watching and you're gonna know the whole story Hey, if you're new to the channel, do me a favor subscribe down there and Turn on all bell notifications Ring the bell turn on all notifications so you're notified every time I do a new video or I go live now I want to tell you a little story. I want to take you back to 2009 2009. Yeah, I decided I wanted to make some money online and I didn't really know how to go about it I didn't have any technical skills and I'd never sold anything online and heck I couldn't even type which I really can't nowadays either I gotta work on that keep saying I'm gonna do it One day, maybe I will and I decided when to sell stuff online So I thought well, how do I figure out what to sell online? So what I did is I typed into the search bar What sells the most on eBay because at the time eBay was the thing I mean everybody went to eBay everybody bought stuff on eBay. It was really big I don't think it's so big anymore And I found a website and this website would actually tell you what products were selling on eBay And how many of them were selling and I narrowed it down and I found out that the biggest selling product on eBay was something I could actually afford and that was cell phone cases and they were pretty cheap I mean you could buy a whole bunch of cell phone cases for a few hundred bucks and I invested a hundred dollars to start with and I bought some cell phone cases and I got a little bit of a variety, but not that much I mean I was buying them, you know for a couple dollars here and there and then sell them for a little bit more than that and I put them all up on eBay and I sold a few but you know I would have to then Find that case in my little inventory there and I'd have to put it in a package And then I'd have to you know get their money in I would have to print out a label and I have to stick it on there You have to seal that up Then the next day I'd have to run to the post office and stick all of those in the mail And that's how I was going to make some money. Well, that was a great idea However, what happened was is the profit margins were really small I mean really small like sometimes I would make a dollar or 50 cents or sometimes even only 20 cents on a cell phone case And in addition to that the other big problem was that people kept changing their cell phones So when they changed their cell phones the inventory that I did have people quit buying it because they didn't have that phone anymore And they all fit that particular type of phone if they didn't have that phone They didn't need that cell phone case So what I would do is I would buy, you know 50 or 100 of these cell phone cases and what I didn't sell I would just put in my closet and that was usually the majority of what I bought I didn't sell and I just put in my closet and I kept doing that and I woke up one day and low and behold My walk-in closet was no longer a walk-in closet. It was full of cell phone cases and I had lost money Now that could have been the end of the story. I could have said at that point Well, you know cell phone cases don't work and you can't sell them You can't make money now I'm sure somebody does because there's a lot of companies that sell them out there And I'm sure they're making money because they know how to do it I didn't but it was kind of a good thing because me starting out. I learned here's what I learned I learned how to list a product on eBay. I didn't know how to do that before I learned how to Process a sale on eBay. I didn't know how to do that before and then I learned how to You know do credit card processing and PayPal and all that stuff and I didn't know how to do that before So since that didn't work out I decided I would move over to some camping equipment So I found some little hand saws and little cheap trinket type camping things I could sell online and I started selling those items and I made a little bit of money here and there You know, maybe a couple hundred dollars a month or something on that but I was putting in a lot of hours to make a few hundred bucks and I really never made a huge profit on it and Then one day this company contacted me and they said they had freeze-dried food And that it was emergency food and then since I was in the camping Neesh, which I didn't even know what a niche was at the time that I could sell their product So I said well sure I'll sell anything, you know if I can make some money now at the time I didn't have a lot of money So what I would do is I would put one of their freeze-dried buckets of food on eBay And then when I got a sale I would take that money and I would send it to the company and that company would send me the bucket to My house and then I would take off their labels and put my labels on it and then send it out to the customer I wasn't making a whole lot of money if I if I had a hundred dollar sale I was probably making ten dollars maybe fifteen dollars for all this work But I knew there was something there something kept driving me to work on that It started to grow and I started to sell a lot of this freeze-dried food as a matter of fact I got up to four or five thousand dollars a month and then ten thousand dollars a month and then one month I Did eighty thousand dollars in this freeze-dried food eighty thousand dollars heck I went into my boss I said I'm done. You know, I'm I made eighty thousand dollars. That wasn't all profit That was my total sales, but it was enough. There was enough profit there back then my profit was probably ten fifteen percent So eighty thousand dollars I was making, you know, eight thousand dollars or more a month And that was enough for me to quit my job and I was off and running I went and got me a little warehouse. It was like six hundred square feet And I sat down and I started processing these massive orders. I was getting I was doing great Matter of fact, I was kind of far behind because I couldn't even type in the orders as fast as I was getting them I couldn't I all of a sudden I got a complaint from one of the customers and they said, you know It's been a week and I haven't gotten my product now at that time I had that company actually drop shipping those products and they would just send them out to the customers I would pay them they would ship it out to the customer And this person didn't get it and then another person didn't get theirs And then it was like two weeks and people weren't getting them So I called him up and they said, yeah, you know, we got really far behind And you know, it's probably gonna be about two three weeks before we can ship them out Well, at the time on eBay, you didn't have to ship overnight But you had to ship in a reasonable amount of time and eBay started sending me messages about, you know You need to start sending these orders. I had a lot of orders starting to pile up But on the weekends, I would actually go out to gun shows and I would sell this freeze-dried food What I had of it and sell these gun shows on the weekend and I had probably 250 300 listings at that time on eBay So we're piloting up the car one day on one of Saturday I'm getting ready to go out to one of these gun shows and I looked down at my phone and all my listings for freeze-dried food on eBay Well, they were gone. There was no listings there at all And that took me hours and hours and hours to put all these listings in and they were all gone So I contacted eBay and they said, yeah, you weren't shipping out on time. So we took down all your Listings and we've closed your account. I'm like what what so then I go to check my bank account And in my bank account $20,000 was missing $20,000 was missing and I thought to myself where did that go? And I noticed it was a withdrawal from PayPal. So I contacted PayPal and they said, yeah, you had a lot of orders that People were wanting refunds on when we had to set up a reserve. I said, what's a reserve? They said, well, we had to take money to cover all those, you know refunds in case you didn't have the money I was like, what? So they took $20,000 for my money. I had no listings Whatsoever on eBay anymore and I was essentially out of business. So I was driving down the road thinking now What do I do? I quit my job. I got this warehouse. I got to pay rent for what do I do? And then it hit me. I said, well, I've got to come up with my own food is what I have to do So I came up with recipes that were far better than what the freeze-dried food was that I was previously selling And I started to market that as survival cave food Survival cave food and it started doing pretty well And I started getting it on other sites and other sites started selling my survival cave food And as this went on the sites started to contact me and they said, well, you know Your your freeze-dried food is pretty good and we're selling it. However, we don't have any real meat I mean the only meat that we see out there is freeze-dried. It doesn't look good. People don't, you know, really want that What do you what do you have for an alternative? And at the time I had nothing I said, well, I've got to research this so I did and I researched it And after a while, I figured out a way that we could actually can meats That was ready to eat and lo and behold Look at survival cave food There's a can of chicken right there and if you notice the label and I'll try to put this up on the screen here I don't think you can see that on the camera, but I'll put it up on the screen The ingredients in here are just chicken and salt and that's it This can of food right here Is actually slow pressure cooked in the can we put the raw chicken in the can with just a trace amount of salt We seal the can and then it's put it into a slow pressure cooking machine And it gives it an extremely long shelf life years and years and years So this is survival cave food This survival cave food right here has sold millions and millions and millions of dollars of products over the years It has been sold on thousands of websites everything from walmart to sportsman's guide This can of food right here this can of food. So I started off this video And I said to you cell phone cases have made me millions of dollars online and they have It's just been very very very Indirect, okay Very indirect But what the whole purpose of me telling you the story is You need to start you need to start with something Nothing is a failure. Everything is an opportunity every time something goes wrong And as you heard a few things went wrong every time things go wrong, you got to say great There's a big opportunity here anytime something goes wrong. You got to say great There's a big opportunity here now. Here's the thing You're not going to want to do this because when something goes wrong all you can think about is the problem It's really hard to think of the solution. I'm not that smart. I don't have any extra intelligence I didn't have any extra skills But the one thing I did have is that I didn't want to go back to my job Didn't want to go back to that same job that I wanted to leave. I didn't want to do that I wanted out of there, okay, and to get out of there. I need to do other things And when things went wrong, I didn't want to go back So I did other things so What I'm trying to tell you guys is that you need to start and you need to keep going and you need to never ever ever quit You need to just keep going. You can't fail You can't fail If you keep going it's just not possible for you to fail. I mean this here This can of chicken right here has made me millions of dollars. Oh, by the way, we have beef and pork and turkey and ground beef too And we have bigger cans too. We have 28 ounce. This is one of the 14 and a half ounce cans right here But this is from cell phone cases That right there is from cell phone cases Cell phone cases made me millions of dollars online And they made me millions of dollars online because I started and I continued And I overcame the obstacles as they came along and this is what you're going to have to do And I share the story with you so that you don't think that I got lucky Some of you may be watching this and go well, you just got lucky You know, I'm never going to stumble on to something like that. How do you know? How do you know you won't? How do you know it's not going to take you in another direction? I never set out to be a profayer of you know, canned meats. I seriously, I never did Now what's what's funny about this is after I made some money online people started asking me They said well, how'd you make money online? And I started telling them about the process and the things they need to do and they were very interested And then somebody pulled me aside one day and they said you need to do a course I said a course. Why would I do a course? They says you could make a lot of money Just telling people how to make money online. I said really really is that possible? They said sure it is There's a company called clickbank and you could put a course up there and make money and lo and behold I did a course. It was called digital cash academy digital cash academy did Close to 400,000. I think it was 370 or 380 thousand dollars in the first 72 hours that the course was released That's a lot of money That's a lot of money and then from that I did another course on facebook ads I did one on Shopify. I did one on drop shipping I I did I actually did one-on-one training with businesses locally in my town I filmed that and turned that into another course. I've got a bunch of courses now. I've got continuity I've got inner circles now. I've got the e-business toolbox and all of those things came from cell phone cases all of those things Now, I don't know where you're going to end up couldn't tell you where you're going to end up But I know one thing for sure if you don't start you don't try And you continue to quit you won't end up anywhere. You'll end up exactly where you are right now Is that what you want? Do you want to stay where you're at right now? I'm thinking if you went this far into this video, you don't want to stay on your job You don't want to keep doing what you're doing You want to do something different and I'm going to tell you you need to start You need to start right now and you need to keep going and no matter what obstacle you run into I don't care what it is. You just keep going and keep telling yourself It's going to be for the best. It's going to be for the best There's an opportunity here every time I see a problem. There's an opportunity And if you think about the wealthiest people in the world, they solved problems for other people They they came out with a car. They came out with a drug. They came out with a laptop They came out with software. They came out with a cell phone They came out with something that helped other people and that's what you need to do Just go out there help other people. I hope my story motivates you a little bit This little can of meat here It came all from cell phone cases and my courses, they came all from cell phone cases So whatever you start, I know you're going to do good. Please don't stop If you enjoy this video, do me a favor share it. 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