- Your hands will get ugly and dry packing orders. The Cardboard will suck any natural oil you have left in your once youthful-looking hands.
- Margins can be slim. Fees and expenses will eat into your product’s profits.
- It’s easy to reach 20K a month but not so easy to scale and reach 100K a month.
- Boxes and packaging are NOT easy to source on Alibaba.
- You need multiple streams of income and complementary products in your business.
- Americans love to complain and do chargebacks.
- Australians never do chargebacks and are generally nice and understanding.
- Working for yourself is stressful. The reality is not like the dream.
- You have to block a lot of copycats and nasty people on Instagram.
- Friends, family, and your work colleagues don’t want to hear about your business and most don’t wish you success.
- Superfans will admire you and you know you should be grateful for what you have created but sometimes you’re just not as excited about your business as they are.
- You are constantly learning. Whether it’s Googling accounting terms and books recommended by other e-Commerce gurus or watching what your customers do and trying to decipher it. You are in learning mode all the time.
- You’re always on the hunt. More followers. More sales. More. More. More.
- Shipping delays are 80% of your emails.
- Being online doesn’t necessarily mean less expenses. Your marketing expenses including your agency fees are basically rent.
