What is up guys? Happy Friday. Thank you for joining me on realtalk number 14 super excited because this week's guest was just a total badass Kenzo. So Bri is a seventeen year old e-commerce entrepreneur. He got his start in first grade while selling Pokemon cards and then every year of grad school kind of just kept up with the trends to see what kids were buying and would create his own side hustles in eighth grade. He started doing print on t-shirts and high school afterEating his mentor in November of 2017 Jeff bunting. He learned how to begin dropshipping on eBay. And the rest is history. He's now moved on to scaling on Amazon FBA. And for those of you who don't know what Amazon FBA is. It's essentially a business model where you buy inventory and use Amazon's fulfillment services at a cost to sell your product. So for example, if you want to buy toothpaste and you are the one looking for that fulfillment, Service, you would reach out to a wholesaler by that toothpaste and then use Amazon's fulfillment services. So they would pack it ship it and essentially use their platform where 50% of e-commerce is being sold right now to sell your product. So as you can imagine Amazon being that the PowerHouse that it is it's enabled a lot of entrepreneurs who have the capital to invest in that initial inventory to have a business model where they can have a very hands-off approach. Or hit very Hands-On approach depending on how much involvement you want because remember that Amazon is the one providing the platform and the shipping services for you. So really exciting space and I think as Amazon continues to grow will see more and more entrepreneurs entering FBA, but that's a quick highlight over FBA. So to give you guys an overview on what we talked about for Real Talk number 14 and went something like this. We talked about Ken Zoe's backstory the importance of mentorship. Ship a beginner's overview as to what is Amazon FBA and eBay Arbitrage as well as eBay Drop Shipping. We also talked about Ken Zoe's future plans heading into 2019 and had a lot of great audience Q&A that we just went over through the live. So guys, if you want to see the video version of this interview, make sure to check out Youtube. It'll be posted there if you're already on your phone on Instagram. You want to see a 10 minute clip of it. You can head over to my profile. And it'll be on IG TV as well as always guys all the links to all this stuff will be in the show notes below. So just make sure to check those out and it will be super easy to find just click on the YouTube link click on the Instagram link and definitely make sure to give me a follow so that you know, the next guest for this upcoming Wednesdays Instagram live. It's going to be super sick and I can't wait to share more with you. So guys, I hope you enjoy this episode with Kenzo. So Bree 17 year old e-commerce entrepreneur Are absolutely killing it. Make sure to go give him a follow and let him know what you think of his content. It's really not about well. Who are you and how old are you? It's really how much time have you spent on a given platform my thing my one piece of advice especially for young people is just like every day trying to figure out how the world works. I'm here to changing the future somebody and doing it for the greater good that is in my opinion the best idea ever come up with All right. Cool. Kenzo is in here. So I'm gonna invite him to join Kenseth. I think I can just invite you in right now. Let me see. Hi Kenzo, and it's going good. How are you? Busy working? Well, thank you for you know joining me on this live just to kind of highlight your story talk a little bit about yourself. I found you on Instagram because I know I was connected with AKC atoms because I met him on it when he was on a trip in San Francisco. And I think he went to your birthday party, right? I saw like Instagram stories from that. Friend of mine originally. I think he came he came a few months back, right? It was closer to Summer to San Fran. I think I'm supposed to meet up with him, but he didn't have any time. I think that's when he went to like the Layton office and YouTube and all that kind of good stuff, right? Yeah. I work at LinkedIn. I'm the one that gave him the tour of LinkedIn. Yes, so you were supposed to hear supposed to meet him up here, but he was stuck in Silicon Valley. So because I stay out over in the East Bay, you know about an hour drive from San Fran, but you know, Dude, really love them super humble. Yeah, but he came to my birthday party. We originally met them in person at the elevator boot camp posted by Dan fleshman over in Hollywood back in Moon September 1st. I believe nice and super said yeah, I heard dance speak at Casey's event and I was super sick because I hadn't known about Dan before that. But like he's super legit as well and like super cool entrepreneur. So to kind of like get into you, you know, I read a little bit about you and I saw that you were from like a Outside of Oakland. So could you kind of just highlight real quick? Like, you know kind of what it was like growing up there and like kind of where how you got to where you are. I never really had a father figure. I was born and the creek and then I was moved to I've stayed at enrichment for the first few years of my life, which isn't the best city, but it's not the worst either, you know, a little one-bedroom apartment with my mother and then you know as she started leveling up, you know, she came to the US when she was 18 and you know, she just you know did the American dream now she has her own business as well, but it wasn't difficult. I mean it wasn't difficult but it wasn't easy either. I mean I never had anything handed to myself what in terms of like Taught me like at a very young age to be very independent like started walking to school first grade. And then that's actually when I also started like my little entrepreneur career nice little man deals with like Pokemon cards. I don't know how but these first graders income schools like 30 dollars in quarters, and I just go to Target by like 25 dollars worth of Pokemon cards and keep five bucks for myself. It was it was it was a good it was a good little hustle and in the beginning and then you know, I just kind of stuck with the trends each year grade school and then from there, you know, I hope this the middle Cool. I have my ups and downs, you know, I wasn't the best student, but I wasn't the worst either mmm. And then yeah, so what seventh grade oh boy. Seventh grade. I started like selling what I do. Okay, let me come back to that but I remember eighth grade is when I started selling T-shirts. Okay, thanks on t-shirts. So what I do is I buy like these plain white t-shirt from Target and I go by these iron on designs from like Michaels are wherever you get them and like I literally prints out of my fridge like these images and like I'd cut them out and iron them onto t-shirts and I sold those I'm in school. I literally dabbled in everything and I just I just love the like I was so attracted to earning money not necessarily like money itself, but like the fact That I was doing it for myself and I was able to you know, do these things whatever I wanted and what not and I grew up like now I live in an area called Dublin. So these kids these kids all have, you know, trust fund babies. Everybody has not his money. So it was a really great Marquis these kids getting $50 $100 weekly ounces. So and then you know after that that's when I start getting into e-commerce, so I started by because I really want started wanting to buy sneakers and stuff because that's what was hot at the time. Yeah. Like I was sitting at a desk with my mom and my mom was buying me these shoes. There are these Jordans and I was wondering I'm like my friend said he got these for like a hundred eighty. Why are they three hundred dollars? And then I realize that the only Market it's like supply and demand that's how I went to find a man, you know, there's limited releases and everybody wants something but there's only like x amount of units available. So I realized like holy crap. There's a there's a hundred Just because there was never a guarantee, you know, getting all these, you know sneakers and stuff like that. Yeah, and then from there I kind of like I started selling things around the house that are doing a little bit of Retail Arbitrage going to garage sales and then like I actually met my first Mentor back in November of I believe 2017 and his name is Jeff. You probably know I'm just punching. He's a super great guy. Very blood very straightforward. Like them says everything how it's supposed to be said and he taught me how to do eBay Drop Shipping and that that's what really took off of my e-commerce career. Like I really started going in on that, you know hours and hours, you know daily I do what I need to do. I graduated high school two years early and then like literally I had like this grace period I had like eight months. I believe six eight months where I was out of school because I graduated high school and then College semester didn't start till August or something. And yes, I got out January. I got out in January and I literally had eight months where every single day hours an hours each individual day that it is literally devote to you know, listing on eBay eBay is how I started making my first like five figures mmm and six figures and everything just you know history from then, you know, I did that then I opted to Amazon because Amazon's a business more scalable depending on your Capital your front the money for your inventory and then everything just took off and Compounding like crazy like I've never seen businesses compound this quickly. Yeah, like because the scalability the thing also that that is Like the other day, I believe what it was yesterday. I got a 68 thousand dollar check and like that's insane. Yeah now I'm like, okay like what's next? Yeah. I have like I forgot who said I don't know if dance for silicide or someone. Someone elevator boot camp is this Blissful like dissatisfaction. Mmm, if you know what that means like you're satisfied with yourself, but you're never satisfied. Yeah, so Like I'm like, okay cool. That's done. Now. What's happening today? Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. Yeah that feeling kind of just like dissipates after like, yeah, that's kind of what it felt. Like when I was even just getting a job like similar, right? You're just like for me I was like in the grind of like graduating college and trying to find a get get a job and then I got my job at LinkedIn and then like within like I didn't five minutes of like celebrating I was like, okay cool. Well like yeah, what's next after this so I can definitely relate like always just pushing for that next thing and you mentioned like your first mentor Like how did you guys meet and like how important was meeting him at that point? All right. I'm working construction. I was 14, you know child thing out my parents friends and everything on weekends. So I had money saved up and I bought into his in-person training event and I went down to and I'm you know stayed with him at his house for three days and I learned in person how to do everything from him. So, you know, you know, I don't know how many 15 year old, you know that confront 2500 dollars just for the training and then 2004 the laptop and this and that, you know, I live it all in and everything. History from that like I literally came home first nine days. And I did like I swear over $2,000 in sales or something ridiculous crazy just from that just from that soap. So what do you say to people that like that like struggle right when there's like a lot of e-comm courses out nowadays, right? What about those people that like are like damn? I don't know if this is worth like $700 like what would you say to them? You know, but then again, Right now so everybody's just trying to get a piece of that and people just don't see that like they don't see through it the so that's the issue like like a few a few people are ruining the whole domain of like e-commerce. Hmm in a sense in my opinion. I'm not going to name anybody put anybody on blast but it's just like some people just like, you know, yeah take advantage. Yeah, because because that's the thing about you calm right now. It feels like that space is just like it's like the wild west almost like you don't know who you can trust. You don't know who you can't trust and the only real way to do that is like either to have friends that have already taken courses, but since it's so new, I feel like a lot of people are just getting into it not it's not very new the concept but like the course of the I'd say that are coming out or maybe I'm just becoming more self-aware of them, but I guess so to kind of follow up on that question. Like what is something that you feel like is a really good thing to look out for when you're trying to evaluate is a course worth taking or like, you know from the right person. Can you repeat that you gotta cut a little bit. So you said what's the right thing to look for like in terms of like finding the right course, you know, like what are some things you would evaluate if you're gonna yeah. This is for people like that's that's the issue. Usually I just kind of go off group. If I really deserve the people are killing it. Hey Casey is really cool with you know, Tristan. Oh Tristan's teaching something. That's something I might want to look into. It's like people that I know that are credible. Yeah, like spoke and I like big events and stuff like that. Like that's the only way I could really that personally I could really like trust somebody mmm. But you know then again, it's like you can't even like there's so many unlike unreliable sources. Like you can literally pay I could go right now and paced about $800 and they'll go post an article about me on entrepreneur. Yeah, you know, he's like what these Publications? Yeah, and it's so easy to steal someone's screenshot. Someone else's sales are it's like that's the thing. It's like now with like that plus Photoshop plus people being a little devious. It's like there's no way ever really trust somebody unless like you actually like talk to them like hear that like for their voice and health are really genuine or not. Yeah. Yeah, totally. That's totally right like yeah, it does the hardest thing about like just like It's like I don't really like someone for talk all the talk. But until like I actually see them in person and talk to them. I can't like, you know, I don't take anybody like super seriously. Okay. Yeah, that's a good recommendation. And then like also just going to events. So maybe look you can actually meet those people and then and then evaluate from there. Yeah, so I know this is like, you know, like a kind of short form just conversation interview, but I did want to ask you like in terms of anyone that doesn't know what Amazon FBA or like eBay selling the way that you're selling on eBay not like use good selling. Can you I just like give them a quick highlight or overview like into that world. Yeah, so essentially for any beginners out there. I totally 110 percent recommend selling on eBay only issue Ebates just revamped their whole site because they're really trying to compete with Amazon. Yeah. So in simple words even trying to copy Amazon's like algorithm and how they work their site which is ending up fighting eBay back in the butt. So essentially like all sales on either dip especially for doing Drop Shipping, but if you like honestly if you want to With no like no Capital like, okay. Well not no Capital it. So you'd like 10 20 bucks. You want to start like, you know, an online business I'd say eBay Drop Shipping is the way to go you literally like you'll go ahead and Source a product. For example all Source this iPhone. I found it on Amazon for $80. I'm gonna go ahead and list this exact product. I'm literally a copy with title the photos the description everything like literally copy and paste. Yeah, you know, I know most of these people mostly students do it for their papers. So there's no issue do It right now. Yeah, you're gonna you're gonna literally copy and paste it into an email listing and you know, maybe with some like, you know, some key wording and some SEO you're going to be able to put your product in the front and like in front of other people's eyes some people shopping, even though they don't show up on Amazon. I don't know why, you know personally I prefer Amazon but it is what it is and like always be sourcing for 80 bucks and I'll press it for $100. So with that being said, you know, I just made $20, you know before fees but $20 right off the bat. Literally like using someone else's leveraging two companies and you know, like the thing about eBay you can make a lot of money. The only issue I have with it is eBay scalable. Mostly dependent on time. How much time you invest is that business how good you are at it as opposed to Amazon now Amazon, it's literally like I'm leveraging their fulfillment service and my capital and then, you know, once you once you have capital, I definitely recommend going to f----- be a because it's like the most passive yet tangible business out there. There you can be fully Hands-On are you can be fully hands off mmm. But literally you just invest in a product. So for example, I might buy it, you know 10,000 of these iPhones $40 unit and then also on Amazon for 80, so essentially what will happen is I'll have all these all these phones packed up on a pallet. I'll go ahead and send that palette to Amazon Amazon will take it apart and you know, they'll prep it label it whatever going to do and then when someone buys it off Amazon's website, I'm the one that's actually getting sale but Amazon. Pick they take it out of the case pack, they package it and they ship it out for you and they handle everything to handle your customer service to handle your returns. Hmm. So that's that's why it's like everybody's like favorite Vehicles invest in. I've so many Commercial Real Estate Investors hitting me up. Like hey, can you help me out? Help me out with automation. You know, I like draw. I like Drop certain, but I don't like the margins. So this is like why a lot of people move into FDA because you're getting you know, like the most I've gotten a seven hundred percent ROI on a product before and it sold out in the month. So yeah, that's just like ridiculous. Aeolus numbers that is crazy. Yeah. No, but on average like I'm not even gonna lie average is like $25 percent ROI, but that's still phenomenal compared to like Drop Shipping where you can use ten percent margins. Mmm. And that's the only issue. I have to like you see all these Shopify drop shippers that are showing. Oh, I did $100,000 in sales a month, which is cool and all you know, you feel you feel really good. You look really good. But at the end of the day people that actually run the business and I've done it before they know that you're probably talking less than $10,000 a month from that. Yeah. At the end of the day, what do I care about people's image of me or how much money is actually going into my pocket. You know, Mmm Yeah hundred percent. No that's totally fair until he makes a lot of sense. So I guess what another question of that just out of curiosity is like, how do you feel about these on the other side of guess e-commerce, right like in terms of like branding and things like that and building a brand using e-commerce as a vehicle to build a brand. What do you think of like, you know, I guess like companies like away and stuff like that is that not really the lane you want to play in? Or eventually do you think you'll build a brand given that you've already learned these skills on how to scale and everything like that? Wait, so I'm sorry you like cut out. I just moved because I don't know if the connections out here. So you said how do I feel about the other side of e-commerce like Brands like but like a way and like just just Brands like the millennial Brands, you know and like how they've just like like direct-to-consumer kind of more brand centered versus like, you know, just like sourcing things. Have you ever thought about doing something with that? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Create their own Brands. Honestly, I think that that's great. You know, a lot of people are pursuing what they love from a business standpoint. If you're looking for efficient scaling and you know stuff like that. I wouldn't recommend it just because you have to you know, you have to get the product created, you know, especially like most of the time when you're taking products, you're sourcing it from China, you know using this all EMS services, so you got this 40-day lead time because they're shipping, you know via see, you know, you got this horrible language barrier and this is like, I'm just saying this I'm not trying to bash on people that are doing this. I'm just trying to say this. people that want to get into yeah exactly tolling there's there's a lot of Is that aren't aren't seen that you experience like last minute and you're just like I didn't think it'd be this hard. You know people just think okay. I create a logo I have to put on my product and that's it. No, it's like you got you got this language where you got this lead time you have you got to get samples and then like once you actually have the product. Okay, if you're building a website, you got to build your website. Okay. Now you build your website you better start running ads. Now, you're going to spend thousands and hundreds are you know, even thousands of dollars learning the perfect perfect add algorithm and it's like, There's there's so many things that are into it, but I think if you think it through all that you have the capital behind it you have, you know the time everything to invest in it and you actually care about it. I think that that would be phenomenal like I really love the idea but for me as like as like in terms of business, I wouldn't do it from a business case where I do it more for fun, you know, like oh we gotta be more passionate about like like I'm like, I'm like, I'm really interesting Acres. I'm really into you know clothing, you know, I might just buy my own t-shirts and stuff and that'd be more fun rather than profits in my opinion. Yeah. Yeah for sure. No, that doesn't Make sense, and I'm glad like you highlighted it because I think that people can kind of confuse like, oh, are you making a brand on Amazon or you making your own brand but you're talking strictly, you know sourcing products that are already out there. So there's a lot of the only issue that I have with it. There's a few things 50% of all items listed on Amazon our private label, but I feel like only five to ten percent of those sales are actually private labeled products. Okay, and that's private labels when people create their own Brands and whatnot. You know. I'm like coming back, you know running ads and everything and the only issue that I have on it as well. Like as the other main issues. I have one as well is if you literally go into Amazon right now and you type in what resistance then you'll see five of the exact same product and they're all private label, but they Have different logos on it. Yeah exact same product different logo on it. And I mean to me it's just like really, you know, it's not yeah, it's not my bread and butter. Yeah, they're like going find a product. Oh, hey, I see that, you know people by Gillette razors. It's making seven hundred thousand dollars a month. I'm going to go ahead and source that product. Mmm is the numbers are there to back it instead of, you know Paving the way yourself which could prove prove very lucrative long-term. But you know for me, it's just much easier and much more efficient. For the brands that already spent the millions of dollars on marketing. I want to sell it to a pack of Coke. Okay, that's gonna make me 2.2 million a month. You know, it's just yeah definitely not it makes sense and it's interesting that you saying all this because it kind of like I can also see like the similarity and just kind of being like that middleman like just how you said like that's how you got started and it sounds like you kind of been able to continue to do that but like at scale and like obviously using e-commerce, so I guess like the next thing on the agenda was actually going to ask you like an after this wobble. It's question. So if you guys want to start asking questions will definitely pick some questions. But what are your future plans heading into 2019 and like what is that look like for you? Yeah, so I'm super excited actually 429. I've never really been excited for a year like a new year anything like I like like I'm trying not to swear anything but it's like the same stuff different here. So like that's how I always. Was used to perceive things when I was in school, you know from 8 a.m. To 3 p.m. And then after that Sports and then Sports homework and then sleep but now it's like every day I play by here like sometimes I have like plans and you know, I called through with those but it just like for me like personally I enjoy every day like, I don't usually plan out things but I'm planning a huge Hawaii trip with a bunch of my friends, you know, nice. You probably know Melissa. Yeah, Andrew. Then just Ricky every like all my you know, all my cool entrepreneur friends. I'm inviting everybody out to Hawaii probably gonna print out a huge mansion and just have a good time. I plan on hosting a huge like networking event in December for my birthday weekend and I threw the party for my birthday weekend and I also had a two day after the party for the next two days Saturday and Sunday. I hosted a two-day in person eCommerce shop where you know, we talked 15 students the whole business model and everything. I want to do that but on a way bigger, Scale yeah, you know I want to host like an elevator, you know elevator night or you know, something something crazy like that like obviously not like a not as big as like a 10x growth but it's like if I could get like a hundred to two hundred people in there. I'd be satisfied that I love that, you know to have Melissa have Casey have all these speakers just speak there and just have a good time as well. Yeah, definitely one of my big things. I'm really focusing on mmm. Another thing is we just launched this new company back. I believe it was two months ago two ends already had over six figures and revenue. So I'm planning on bringing that to possibly eight figures by the end of this year so that I'm super excited for that. Yeah, that's pretty much it. I otherwise I play Everyday by ear, you know. Yeah. So so I also just like out of curiosity, right we hear about like these like sexual successful people like and their morning routines. Like do you have a morning routine or anything that you you do like every morning or yeah. No, not really. Honestly, I'm kind of a night owl. Yeah, I've been trying to wake up earlier. But like I'm someone I'm like, I'm not even gonna lie. I'm very grumpy in the morning just because I'm up super late because I still live with my parents I'm playing. I'm moving out in a few months. Oh, it's like everything's so crazy. You know go in today. I'm running around doing this running around doing that and you know, I have to do stuff with my parents and this and that so nine times like the only time I really have to myself in like just straight solid. That I could just sit down work game plan. Get everything done. Yeah, so that's when I don't really have a morning routine, but nightly like I don't really have a routine. It's kind of like every day is kind of now that I realize I don't have I really love a routine though. I feel like if I had a routine in a set schedule had become 10 times more efficient just I can't do it. Ya know it's hard it's hard and I mean like you're running your own business already. So it's kind of hard like some people have to make the routine so they can have time to like create that business, but since you're already, Doing it. It's only makes sense. I'm just going to look through real quick the feed see if anyone asks questions and just kind of read it off if that's cool with you. Yes. Okay. Someone said how to talk more about FBA. How do you get Wholesales with big companies? Do you know what that means? Adams because you're the one that's going to supposed to be charging sales tax on it. So with that being said, it's you that's the first thing is you need to be official. And then after that is when you can start reaching out to companies and like there's so many different ways to do it. If you live on any Coast like, you know, if you live in New York, Florida San Francisco or like La you could literally just open up Google Maps and you can literally like zoom in like on your like, you know coast and you can just search up like wholesaler or like authorized distributor and when these things will pop up, And you'll literally be able to like see all these people that are doing it and you could just call and cold call. Another way is you could literally just go and Google and search up like wholesaler or like, you know, Sharpie authorized distributor. Another way you could do it is there's this website called top temples l.com you go to their wholesale directory and you click on whatever category products you want whether it's the core whether it's Office Products, whether it's beauty products and they'll have like all these different suppliers like literally with all their contact information and the website that you can check out. And then you could also go to wholesale Central which you can actually post to a wholesale form and have suppliers come to you. So there's there's just so many different ways to do it. A lot of people just overthinking I get that's one of my most common questions. Where do you find some buyers there right in front of you? Oh, that's awesome. And so just to follow up on that like do you recommend doing like domestic based suppliers versus overseas? Yeah domestic always especially if you're trying to find name brand products, unless you start getting really big and you start importing. I just don't recommend it because if you're a beginner and you start importing, you're most likely going to be importing counterfeit Goods because there are a lot of counterfeit overseas so and like for example, if you're selling counterfeit items on Amazon, your account will get bands and Amazon will not let you open up a new one. Yeah, that's dangerous too, especially because like as you just said FBA is huge. All right guys, well if anyone has any more questions, feel free to drop them in I'm just going to check real quick and then if not, Thing is like a lot. That's something that's the only thing like a lot of people start selling all these counterfeit items and all that to make a quick buck and it's in it really ends up biting them in the but long term because their counter going to get bands, you know, maybe maybe they need a quick hundred bucks $12,000 hundred thousand, whatever. Yeah, but you're going to be banned and Amazon like Amazon does everything by like identity. So what they do is like they literally like they ask you for your social that's you for bank statements ask you for a photo of your ID or passport like this. Yeah throw so You know, like let's say I open up an account my account got banned. My mom wanted open up one they'll Banner account right away really down the same address address. So it's just it's not it's not worth it in my opinion. Yeah. No for sure. That makes sense. And then do you run PPC up PPC campaign on your products? Because that's the thing. That's why I like to run ads on any of my products because they already have Great traction. That's awesome. There's already two hundred thousand people looking for it something come directly to me, but I don't run no cpcs or PPC is or anything like that. When did you start eBay Drop Shipping and how fast we're able to scale. I started eBay dropshipping November 17th 2017, and it was scalable pretty quickly. I had my best-selling item by like January February. It was a best-selling item was it was like it was right up to become baseball. And so I was telling I did d-des youth like that baseball backpack. It was gray and black, you know from Dick's Sporting Goods. Mmm. Nice and then what is it? Well, what is it? We have to get since we wholesalers don't I don't know what they're saying, but I think they're asking about tax the document. Would be more some states require more documentation not others, but essentially they're just going to ask you for your tax ID, which will be your EIN number to ask you is for your selling permit or seller's permit and then they'll also like if you're in like, I believe, it's California, New Jersey or New York and some other states that you'll also be asked for a resale certificate. Okay. Nice, and I think we missed one, but there was one that asked about do you offer? Or do you finance anything for your mentorship do you offer any sort of mentorship? Okay, people be like whatever. I'm just gonna you know, if it doesn't work on my first week, I'll just quit but if people like invest like $2,000 they're glued to it. They're like, I'm stuck with this investment. I'm going to make it work. So that's why you know, like that's that's that's one main reasons why everybody charges so much but I mean that again if you look at it in proportion to like college, it's pennies compared to what people pay, you know for college. Yeah, definitely in probably a much faster return. Unlike for years. So how long have you been doing? Just strictly FBA the summertime and I believe that's when I got like my first killer product. I mean me like, you know $25,000 from a single SKU. Yeah. Wow, that's crazy. I'm going down to OC next weekend. Okay. Nice. That's sweet. And then oh my gosh, there's so many questions. We have to have a seller's permit for Amazon FBA and where do we get that? No, you don't so in reality. All you need to start Amazon FBA is you just need to be like a legal us. So you don't even need to be US citizen. You actually could sign up on like Amazon UK or anything like, you know, you're of Amazon you can actually apply this on the US market. All you need is just you know, you just need to verify that you're a real person and everything. You just need a seller's permit in terms of if you want to access some of the better suppliers because they do everything by the books. Okay, cool. And then all right. I think this is a great last question or no. Do you still attend school? You don't attend school, right? No, you're in college right now. Okay, cool. That's awesome. Okay Kenzo. Well, I told you this is going to last a half hour. I don't know how much time you have and how many questions you want to answer. So I will like start to wrap this up. I really appreciate you taking the time to like come on SO for anyone who's watching this this is going to be in podcast form. I know Kendall you dropped a lot of knowledge. So anyone wants to watch this. It'll be on YouTube and I GTV and it also In podcast form in the link in my profile on Friday. Thank you. You killed it. You killed it. You dropped so many like I honestly wanted to take notes as you're talking but I'll just listen to the podcast and then take some notes, but thank you again. I really appreciate it. Yeah, that's pretty much it. I mean, yeah guys. Thank you. For tuning in make sure to check it out on Friday. I'll tell like post it on my story and you can check it out to Ken's. I'll send you all the links and everything. Alright. Peace out guys. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you guys so much for making it to the end of this real talk interview. If you guys don't know I do these every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Pacific Time 9:30 eastern time on my profile at Tiffany para. 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Kenzo Sobrie (@knzo on Instagram) began his journey in entreprenuership by selling pokemon cards in the 1st grade. By 8th grade he was selling his own print-on t-shirts. But everything really changed for Kenzo in November of 2017 when he met his mentor mentor Jeff Bunting. He invested over $4,000 in order to learn Ebay dropshipping. Kenzo graduated high school 2 years early and while waiting for the college semester to start he would devote hours everyday to listing items on eBay. He scaled that concept into over 5 figures and eventually 6 figures. At that point, Kenzo decided to enter Amazon FBA ( a form of selling that involves fulfillment by Amazon)   If you want to know about this young entrepreneur make sure to check out the full episode…   AGENDA FOR OUR INSTAGRAM LIVE ⚡️Kenzo’s Backstory  ⚡️Importance of Mentorship and How It’s Impacted HisLife ⚡️Amazon FBA / Ebay Tips for Beginners ⚡️Future Plans Heading Into 2019 ⚡️Audience Q and A   🔥🔥 Kenzo’s Info🔥🔥 Instagram: @ knzo  Website: kenzors.com   🎥YouTube Version 🎥 https://youtu.be/d1-3eJROIGU  🎙Listen to the podcast version-  Spotify Link- bit.ly/workinprogresspod  Apple Podcast Link-  bit.ly/wippodcastapple 🎙   ⚡️ Connect with me linkedin.com/in/tiffanyparra/  ⚡️Follow me on IG:  @tiffanyparra_  ⚡️$upport the podcast: www.patreon.com/work_in_progress  ⚡️Join my community for podcasters: bit.ly/LIpodcasts  ⚡️Want to know what gear I use to produce the podcast?kit.com/TiffanyParra    ⚡️Tune in next Wednesday January 9th at 6:30 PM PST or 9:30 PM EST for another Real Talk Instagram livestream⚡️   💎PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW IF YOU ENJOY THIS PODCAST IT REALLY HELPS SUPPORT THE SHOW! 