The My Wife Quit Her Job Podcast With Steve Chou

648: Most Sellers Launch Their Products Wrong (Here’s the Better Way)

The My Wife Quit Her Job Podcast With Steve Chou

Show Notes

The fastest way to launch an ecommerce product today is to build the audience first and the product second. On a recent My Wife Quit Her Job podcast episode, my co-host Toni and I broke down a seven-figure product launch from someone in the ECF forums who spent zero dollars on ads. She built a community for a year before she ever mentioned her brand, and when she finally launched, her people bought. That is the entire playbook in one sentence. Meta ad costs have gotten so brutal that seasoned sellers are quitting the platform, and the old “build it […]

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