Danny Carlson is a guest on our podcast today to talk about the things that have been bothering you for quite some time now. He's a 27-year-old entrepreneur, podcaster, & lifestyle architect. His first business produced extreme downhill longboarding videos in 2014 & has since grown the Amazon FBA Agency “Kenji ROI” to more than 10 team members. Kenji ROI has served over 500 Amazon sellers & created photos, video, copywriting, & graphics for over 1240 listings. He's also a host of the Actualize Freedom Podcast & the Danny Carlson Podcast completing more than 60 interviews with names like Daniel DiPiazza, Steve Sims, Manny Coats, & Kevin King.

Remotrepreneur’s Insights

• Never Stop Developing Your Product – Always have in mind that competitors are doing way more product research than you. Never stop improving your product and be one step ahead.
  
• Lifting Your Company Up Requires Hustling – Especially in the beginning stages you have to use all of your powers to get your company out there. Whether it’s SEO, blog posts, websites, reaching out to people, you have to do try it all if you want to see results
  
• Don’t Rush Implementing SOPs Right Away – Wait until you’ve tried your system and procedure at least five times until you install it permanently in your company.
  

Key Podcast Milestones

02:55 – Danny’s first steps to remote entrepreneurship

06:51 – Danny’s thoughts on Amazon products

08:15 – How did a near-death experience change Danny’s perspective

10:46 – How did Danny overcome problems in the first three months of starting a business

14:24 – The turning point where Danny removed himself from fulfillment

16:33 – When should you be starting to create the systems and processes

18:55 – How did Danny create and employed his team members

22:47 – The budget for hiring an operations manager

28:35 – Danny’s recommendation for improving communication between teams

36:48 – How Danny manages team meetings

38:48 – The next level for Kenji

Top Key Quotes

“If you just sit back on your profits and you’re extracting money, enjoying it, then those profits are going to dry up. Competitors come in, product life cycles and Amazon are fairly short unless you have a really unique product or a patent. So, if you’re not constantly doing product research, launch a new product, just doing things to maximize your current product, then it’s not doing to last”

“I would recommend hiring a dedicated, at least part-time / 20 hour, general virtual assistant. If you can afford it, you can get something like that $400 a month. Even if your profits are not much more than that, the ability to be able to focus on the things are going to generate more revenue for your business that is going to improve the system so that you can scale the business. Just the fact that you can focus on that, even if you keep your profits not that high above break-even, you are going to be building an asset for yourself that can then scale to a much larger company.”

“It’s really important to go through a process at least 5 times by yourself so you really understand the process. That way you’re going to know how the process itself can be improved or what part of the process doesn’t work.”

Resources

KENJI ROI – Danny’s company

Freedom Agency Blueprint – Danny’s courses

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