After graduating from Auburn University with a degree in civil engineering, Greg Mercer found himself working a 9-5 corporate job. To escape from his mundane work life, he started selling products on Amazon. In the beginning, he was using the wholesale method but eventually transitioned over to manufacturing his own products. He was able to match and then exceed his salary as a civil engineer relatively quickly, so Greg decided to quit the corporate world and dive into entrepreneurship full time. He took his knowledge and experience selling on Amazon and created a tool to help others sell on Amazon successfully as well. Thus, Jungle Scout was born.
5 Ways Daily Exercise Will Change Your Life
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mahatma Gandhi Everyone agrees that fitness is good. It boosts your health, improves your physique, brightens your mood, calms your mind, and allows you to do more with your life. It’s one of those things that we know is good for us, but still, not everyone…
How to Survive in Business
2015 marked the 20th year in business for The Abs Company. This is something we are very proud of as it speaks to the validity of what we do and to the power of good old entrepreneurship! According to the SBA (Small Business Administration) half of all new businesses fail within 5 years and only 33% make it to year…
Why Multi-Tasking Should be 1 of the 7 Deadly Sins
To be clear, self-aware, and precise in your entrepreneurship path, there are certain habits you must learn to develop. Multi-tasking…is not one of those. For years, I’d been practicing what I like to call ‘prideful ignorance’ in believing that my ability to juggle tasks was actually the reason for my success. In reality, multi-tasking was a way of avoiding my true…
The Jungle Called the Internet – How to Find Your Tribe
As the digital revolution is shaking and shaping our ever evolving existence, many of us are left wondering whether we are getting lost in the jungle of the internet. As creatures of emotions, cultures and habits, it’s always been important that we belong to something, have our close knit communities and families around us, and indeed, have our own turf…
Secret Academy Episode – Julie Broad
In 2001, Julie Broad was getting ready to go back to school to earn an MBA, but she didn’t want to end up deeper in debt upon graduating. She decided to invest the money that was supposed to go towards tuition into purchasing two real estate properties with her then boyfriend, now husband. They ended up buying 2-5 properties a year until taking the leap to become a full-time real estate investor and starting a real estate newsletter in 2008. The newsletter led to an education business teaching others how to invest in real estate using Julie’s marketing and business background and her husband’s mortgage lending background. Today, Julie has transitioned her business out of the real estate realm and focused on speaking engagements and continuing her newsletter on http://havemoreinfluence.com/
Learning to Communicate Beyond Words and Talking
I once read that the difference between activities that cool kids do and uncool kids do is that uncool kids’ activities tend to be based in rules and cool kids’ less so. I don’t know how you’d verify the idea, but I found exploring it told me about myself. Uncool kids play chess, which has clear rules. You can count the…