Building an Indie Business

In this episode, I rantShow Notes and Other Domains:smashingthemes.comcamarofamily.comtravelmealbag.comixtheme.comnotmute.comEpisode PageJoin the Email ListThis podcast is proudly hosted on Caproni.fm.Support this podcast💥Thanks to the monthly supporters💥Brendan WeinsteinRoss KinkadePublished on April 15, 2024

In this episode, I discuss the results of trying to get affiliates on LinkedInShow Notes and Other Domains:smashingthemes.comcamarofamily.comtravelmealbag.comixtheme.comnotmute.comEpisode PageJoin the Email ListThis podcast is proudly hosted on Caproni.fm.Support this podcast💥Thanks to the monthly supporters💥Brendan WeinsteinRoss KinkadePublished on April 8, 2024

In this episode, I discuss trying to get affiliates on LinkedInShow Notes and Other Domains:smashingthemes.comcamarofamily.comtravelmealbag.comixtheme.comnotmute.comEpisode PageJoin the Email ListThis podcast is proudly hosted on Caproni.fm.Support this podcast💥Thanks to the monthly supporters💥Brendan WeinsteinRoss KinkadePublished on April 1, 2024

In this episode, I discuss getting my first affiliateShow Notes and Other Domains:smashingthemes.comcamarofamily.comtravelmealbag.comixtheme.comnotmute.comEpisode PageJoin the Email ListThis podcast is proudly hosted on Caproni.fm.Support this podcast💥Thanks to the monthly supporters💥Brendan WeinsteinRoss KinkadePublished on March 25, 2024

In this episode, I discuss content in the SEO industry that annoys meShow Notes and Other Domains:smashingthemes.comcamarofamily.comtravelmealbag.comixtheme.comnotmute.comEpisode PageJoin the Email ListThis podcast is proudly hosted on Caproni.fm.Support this podcast💥Thanks to the monthly supporters💥Brendan WeinsteinRoss KinkadePublished on March 18, 2024

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In this episode, I discuss promoting WannaDog.com on Linkedin as a jokeShow Notes and Other Domains:smashingthemes.comcamarofamily.comtravelmealbag.comixtheme.comnotmute.comEpisode PageJoin the Email ListThis podcast is proudly hosted on Caproni.fm.Support this podcast💥Thanks to the monthly supporters💥Brendan WeinsteinRoss KinkadePublished on March 4, 2024

In this episode, I discuss Shopify Collabs, this is part 1 of the series on Shopify CollabsShow Notes and Other Domains:And in the business and the center of venture capital. I am Alex Edmonds. People on the internet call me Supreme Rum Ham. And this is the building in Indie Business podcast recorded in the Indie Business studio. All right. So today I want to talk about Shopify Collapse. So what Shopify Collapse is um is um a app that Shopify has that can help you uh find creators and build an affiliate program. So for a couple of weeks, I've been talking about doing an affiliate program, whether on the podcast or just to myself or to other people. Um And I know about Shopify Collapse. I didn't know that it was um like a way to build an affiliate program. Um So I started checking it out yesterday and I sent a couple invites to people. I haven't gotten any responses back because I sent them out like an hour ago, but I wanna go over it with you guys and uh you know, do a little live, uh check in and do some things live and complain about it because the search part of it sucks. So let's get into it. All right. So you download the app and then you have to find people to um you know, to, to use, to wanna collab with you, right? So you go to find creators. Um and I've sent two invites and now you search for people and they have filters and the filters suck. The filters really need to be better. I, I wanna find someone who's 18 to 25 who's a woman who's in dogs. That's, that's my ideal um affiliate uh for my affiliate program. And you can only search by platform Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Twitch, Twitter and youtube. Um You could do it by location. So I wanna do us because it just makes paperwork a little easier. Um All right. So us and then it gives you a bunch of options and then, yeah, so let's say I wanna find a Tik Toker who has um you know, just a Tik Toker who tiktoks about dogs. So I'm able to search for a creator. So I just typed in dog. Um And now I have a bunch of tiktokers who um have pictures of dogs and their profile picture, right? So, um it says 25 United States animals, pets travel. One issue I have with um the recruiting function is that it automatically set my um parameters like like it auto set my parameters to health and wellness because I said want a dog is a health and wellness um product. But, you know, maybe I want some sports people, maybe I want some car people. Um Yeah. Um so OK, let's see, Jessica Wang. She has a Tik Tok audience of 300 3 623,000. 623,000. Yes, that is. And she has a picture of, I don't know, this looks like a multi poo. So yep, it's a multi tau. How did I know? Um OK, so we're gonna check out her Instagram and it's loading her Instagram is just a bunch of pictures of her dog, right? So um now that I found the person that I want to um that I want to work with, we have to create like a little package for her. So she is a multi poo, right? So what um we do now is we go to programs and what the programs are, they two tabs, they are tiers and they are gifts and the tiers is what like the parameters that you set for the affiliates. So I have um one tier that's principal dog coloring pages, which is a me a tier that I have where you only get commission on um the principal dog coloring pages section of products or the collection of products. Um you get 40% on any sale and then you get 10% off on any other sale uh because I want to encourage people to sell those products specifically. So um this woman Jess has a multi poo. So um the other section of programs is creating gifts for um for the potential affiliates. So I create a gift of, of whatever dog they have. So um this person has a multi poo, so I'm going to send them a free um multi poo coloring page. Um like that, that product, I'm gonna send her that for free, right? Um So we're, now we're back to the recruiting tab. We see her profile uh female United States um 187 followers on Instagram 623 on 23,000 on um tiktok 267 on youtube. Ok.

In this episode, I discuss a YouTube hack that I discoveredShow Notes and Other Domains:smashingthemes.comcamarofamily.comtravelmealbag.comixtheme.comnotmute.comEpisode PageJoin the Email ListThis podcast is proudly hosted on Caproni.fm.Support this podcast💥Thanks to the monthly supporters💥Brendan WeinsteinRoss KinkadePublished on February 19, 2024

In this episode, I discuss launching Wanna Dog on Product HuntShow Notes and Other Domains:smashingthemes.comcamarofamily.comtravelmealbag.comixtheme.comnotmute.comEpisode PageJoin the Email ListThis podcast is proudly hosted on Caproni.fm.Support this podcast💥Thanks to the monthly supporters💥Brendan WeinsteinRoss KinkadePublished on February 12, 2024

In this episode, I discuss creating product bundlesShow Notes and Other Domains:Building an indie business in the center of venture capital. I am Alex Edmonds. People on the internet call me Supreme Rum Ham. And this is the building an Indie business podcast recorded in the Indie Business studio. All right. So today I'm gonna be talking about product bundles. I'm gonna be talking about um a conversation that inspired them, how I'm doing them, why I'm doing them. Um Yeah, that's about it. So, um this goes back to affiliate marketing. So I was looking for some affiliates and I posted on Reddit and I was like, hey, um, if I charge $2 for a product and I give people like a dollar 50 for each sale that they get, is that worth it or something like something to that effect? Um And then someone said you can make a coloring book bundle and sell it for like 8 to $12 and make the commission 30 or 50%. This is how six per $6 per commission is still low ticket product, but you'll find a good amount of affiliates at this price. So most of my products are below $2 in pricing. So I figured II I looked at this and I figured bundling it up will help to get um a higher price for each of my products or not each of the products, but like just create a section of products that people will be able to use for affiliate marketing, right? Um So then I kind of was like, ok, how am I going to do this? I'm gonna bundle the products and for a lot of the products, I have the dog, I have Rottweiler and then I have Rottweiler puppy. So I just started taking all the dogs with the puppies, um, the holiday, um, holiday uh products. So Christmas and Halloween, I have dogs and puppies for each of those. Um, so I've created, uh, let me see, 123456789, 1011, 12 bundles issue is that all the bundles are like less than uh $5. So I have to figure out how to increase those prices, I guess. Um, maybe find another, like, um, like create another thing like, ok, so I have Golden Retriever puppy and I have Golden Retriever, maybe like golden retrievers on skateboards, um, and just add that to the bundle and then increase the price from $5 to $8 and then, you know, maybe that'll, um, increase the likelihood of someone becoming an affiliate. Ok. So that's why I'm doing it. How am I doing it? Shopify has this bundle app and it really sucks because all it does is it creates a product page out of your different products, right? So it goes OK, you want to create a bundle, create a bundle, what, what products you want? OK, dog retriever um and dog, whichever puppy I, I want those two and then it just creates a product page with those two products. There's no description, there's no images. Um So I have to take all of the golden retriever images and golden retriever puppy images and then put them on that product page again, which is so stupid. Um Yes, so that's how I'm doing it. Also, another thing is that this has a lot of seo benefits. So this is another page I'm creating. Um And this, this is a page with more than two dozen um images. So that's 25 pages in one product and the images I already have. So all I have to do is upload them again and then copy and paste the alt text. Um The only real thing I have to do here is write a new product description which you know, that takes me an hour. Um But I don't have to collect the images. I don't have to like size them up. Probably each bundle should take me two hours, which is half the time of the um thought a new product. So that'd be great. Um Yeah, there's just a lot of seo benefits. So like for golden retriever, um I'm doing Principal Golden Retriever coloring page. Um that doesn't have a lot of seo traffic, right? Or Google traffic. It's only 40 searches a month. But like for Siberian Husky, I can do Husky coloring pages which is 1900 searches a month. So that's great. And then I'm going to create a new collection page. I'm gonna create principal dog coloring pages. A lot of the keywords that I found or that I'm making for the

In this episode, I discuss and analyze the first sales for WannaDog.comShow Notes and Other Domains:smashingthemes.comcamarofamily.comtravelmealbag.comletstravelup.comixtheme.comnotmute.comEpisode PageJoin the Email ListThis podcast is proudly hosted on Caproni.fm.Support this podcast💥Thanks to the monthly supporters💥Brendan WeinsteinRoss KinkadePublished on January 29, 2024

In this episode, I discuss using Google Search Console to find tags for YouTube VideosShow Notes and Other Domains:smashingthemes.comcamarofamily.comtravelmealbag.comletstravelup.comixtheme.comnotmute.comEpisode PageJoin the Email ListThis podcast is proudly hosted on Caproni.fm.Support this podcast💥Thanks to the monthly supporters💥Brendan WeinsteinRoss KinkadePublished on January 22, 2024

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In this episode, I discuss what my plans are for the Tik Tok videos I created for Wanna DogShow Notes and Other Domains:smashingthemes.comcamarofamily.comtravelmealbag.comletstravelup.comixtheme.comnotmute.comEpisode PageJoin the Email ListThis podcast is proudly hosted on Caproni.fm.Support this podcast💥Thanks to the monthly supporters💥Brendan WeinsteinRoss KinkadePublished on January 8, 2024

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In this episode, I discuss my goals for 2024Show Notes and Other Domains:smashingthemes.comcamarofamily.comtravelmealbag.comletstravelup.comixtheme.comnotmute.comEpisode PageJoin the Email ListThis podcast is proudly hosted on Caproni.fm.Support this podcast💥Thanks to the monthly supporters💥Brendan WeinsteinRoss KinkadePublished on December 28, 2023

In this episode, I discuss how I will use Tik Tok to promote Wanna DogShow Notes and Other Domains:smashingthemes.comcamarofamily.comtravelmealbag.comletstravelup.comixtheme.comnotmute.comEpisode PageJoin the Email ListThis podcast is proudly hosted on Caproni.fm.Support this podcast💥Thanks to the monthly supporters💥Brendan WeinsteinRoss KinkadePublished on December 25, 2023

In this episode, I discuss how Etsy took my money and deleted my storeShow Notes and Other Domains:smashingthemes.comcamarofamily.comtravelmealbag.comletstravelup.comixtheme.comnotmute.comEpisode PageJoin the Email ListThis podcast is proudly hosted on Caproni.fm.Support this podcast💥Thanks to the monthly supporters💥Brendan WeinsteinRoss KinkadePublished on December 18, 2023

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