27d • General discussion
Why I Hope You Suck At This For At Least 6 Months
I want you to be bad at Amazon OA.
Not forever. Just for a while.
Because here is the thing nobody talks about in month one.
You Are Supposed To Be Bad
Think back to your first day at your current job.
You sucked. Guaranteed.
You did not know where the files were. You asked basic questions. You made mistakes that seem stupid now.
That was normal. Expected even.
So why do people quit Amazon in month three because they are not profitable yet?
You have been doing this for 90 days. Of course you are not crushing it yet.
The Six Month Wall
In six months, you will laugh at how you thought about inventory in month one.
In a year, you will not even recognize the seller you were today.
It only makes sense that years one and two are when you gain momentum. Not week one.
But everyone wants the result without the transformation.
They see $5K month screenshots and think "I should be there already."
No.
That seller spent 18 months learning what you are learning right now.
The Real Filter
And if it was easy on day one, everybody would do it.
There would be no opportunity left.
Canadian OA is hard because it filters out the tourists.
Currency conversion sucks. Duties eat margin. Volume is lower than the US.
That is not a bug. It is a feature.
The hard part is what keeps lazy people out.
It keeps sellers who want passive income without work out.
It keeps people who quit at the first Keepa headache out.
What Makes It Easy
The fact that it is hard makes it easy.
Read that again.
Because once you get through the hard part, you are competing against way fewer people than in any US market.
Same products. Less sellers. More money per sale.
The barrier to entry is what creates the opportunity.
Your Paycheck Is Your Best Investor
Something else from the coaching calls.
New sellers always want to quit their 9-to-5 in month three.
The ones who actually make it? They use their paycheck to fund inventory for 12 months.
Your day job is not holding you back.
It is fueling your growth.
The moment you quit, you lose the capital injection that lets you buy winners when you find them.
Build the machine while you still have fuel coming in.
The Ask
Give yourself permission to be bad at this.
Six months. Not six weeks.
If you are profitable before that, great. You beat expectations.
If you are not, you are exactly where you should be.
The game is staying in long enough.
Drop a 🍄 if you are committed to the six month wall.
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Why I Hope You Suck At This For At Least 6 Months
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