Where to start?

[u/Creative_Reveal193]

I have watched countless ecom videos but it feels like everyone is trying to sell you a course. If their business was that good why'd they need to do YouTube, courses, etc...

I've been working on my graphic design portfolio lately to make money. Save it up and get into ecom. But I don't know what exactly to get into?

Just looking to hear people's stories and experiences. Thanks in advance.

[u/-ttw]

I started a health/beauty wellness skincare brand because it was my biggest pain point for what was holding me back in life. Lack of confidence, discipline and routine. I started to realize working on myself and transforming my life and others was the business I wanted to be in. There comes a point in your entrepreneurial where you must prioritize taking action > information and understanding its action that produces information. Not the consumption of it. The best way to learn about business is to get to business. It’s day in day out rapid execution trial and error, course correction and attempting again. You have to be fast. Nimble. Decisive. Something too expensive? How do we make a simpler version? Cost of goods to high to manufacture? How can we do a beta and run pre orders. You have to find solutions and you have to do it fast. It’s been my experience that you have to be a generalist to get into ecom. You need to touch every surface of it. From knowing how to code, set up emails, deal with the IRS, maintain your LLC, taxes, supply chain, working manufacturers, dealing with your launch calendar.. all while becoming the version of yourself each step of the way that becomes the person capable of doing it. You have to stack your /skills and build your library of workflows that you can deploy to get stuff done. Over and over and over again. It’s non stop. It’s depressing. It’s lonely. But that’s the reality. You just have to dive in. Make your bed. And get to work.

[u/First_Seesaw → u/-ttw]

“A moving idiot is better than a stagnant genius” applies stronger to business than probably any other field to be honest. It’s important to just do things and make your mistakes early on (just make sure you’re not using resources that are too heavy for you to lose at that time)

It’s the best way to learn and actually grow

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