Hey Everybody,

Yep, I've been gone awhile … sorry about that. I've been working on a new project its literally called Project Sean Gee. I'm super excited about it and extremely passionate about entrepreneurship, building brands, and digital marketing and dammit that's what I intend to do. So I will be posting regular content on here bringing you every piece of value I can give. If you own a business, or you're a coach or a consultant I can help. I have discovered the amazing abilities to market on Facebook through organic and paid. But what I'm really stoked about is Facebook Messenger Chatbots.

My goal is to impact people at scale and transform their lives for the better. With a vivid imagination and a strong sense of compassion. I enjoy using my creativity and obsession with “figuring things out” to resolve entrepreneur challenges to find the perfect solution. The idea of helping someone achieve their entrepreneurial goals is rewarding to me. I tend to see it as my purpose in life.

I'm going to just jump right in on what I've discovered about the power of messenger chatbots. As of right now, Facebook Messenger has more than 1.3 billion monthly active users. Just let that sink in for a moment — what that means is that this is a platform with 1.3 billion potential LEADS. A platform where your prospects and clients are already hanging out, communicating with friends, family, and other businesses!

As you can see from the chart above that FB Messenger is creeping up the latter but more importantly passed up Instagram and Snapchat. Marketers and business owners who have experimented with bots know that bots are proving valuable for businesses. According to Facebook:

• 2 billion messages are sent monthly between businesses and people
• 53% of people are more likely to buy from a business they can message
• 56% of people prefer to message instead of calling customer service

Facebook Messenger Chatbots allow businesses, and brands the ability to Teach, Build trust, and Generate revenue.

Here’s what I mean.

So let say you have a messenger ad on Facebook and the URL is your chatbot link. So In the FB ad, you could offer some type of incentive for them to click on the ad such as a PDF teaching them something or a free training video. As soon as the click the ad they get a message on Facebook messenger. As soon as the opt-in to get that training video bam you own that audience. You can now save tons of money by not having to retarget to them. Whether they purchase now or 5 years later you can message them anytime. Now, how awesome is that?!?!

Please if you have any questions I would love to chat with you. Feel free to send a message on Facebook anytime!

Thanks for reading and there will be more to come!

Thanks again

Sean Gee

Hey Medium!

Just a quick update for today. Everything is the same since yesterday which brings me to point in my writing endeavors. I’m going to try writing once or twice a week instead of 5 times a week. I feel like the quality of the post will be better and I won’t feel like I need just words to just throw whatever’s out there. I will start next week. Maybe write Monday to give an update from over the weekend and then maybe write Friday to update what happened over the week. And of course lessons I’ve learned over those times. Awesome!

Thank you so much for taking your time in reading my post. I value and appreciate that so much. Words can not express my gratitude towards that.
Feel free to reach out and say hi. I’m always down to meet new people. I’m @Seanngeee on Instagram & Twitter

Thanks again!

Whats up Medium!

So late last night I checked the mail and got my first return order. I was a bit bummed but I had to face the problem head-on. When I can back to the house the package said insufficient address unable to forward. Well, I immediately contacted the buyer to update them on the status of their book. I wasn’t sure why it was sent back because from the looks of it it looked fine. I let her know anyways and asked if she knew what was wrong and if she had a different address that I could send the book to.

At 8:30 am I get a response and it was a simple typo on her part. Whew glad it wasn’t anything super serious. So now I’m going to fix the address ( not sure if I’m able to but I will see ) So that’s one lesson learned on building my business. I’ve also been researching really hard on private labeling. There are a few things I need but once I get that I’m going all in.

I was watching a friends video on Instagram and he was talking about “ Reap what you sow” I’m going to be honest here and say I didn’t understand the meaning behind that quote. So I looked it up and basically the word Reap by definition is to gather or take (a crop, harvest, etc.) to get as a return, recompense, or result.
The word Sow by definition is to plant (seed) by scattering it on or in the earth or plant the seeds of (a plant or crop).

Some people say its karma “What goes around comes around” kind of thing. What I took from it I guess is kinda similar. I was thinking, what you put in is what you get. If you don’t plant the seeds today then, of course, there will be nothing to harvest. Its really that simple. Pretty black and white here. If you’re putting in the work to build something then that thing should be built. I feel that also comes in to play when a friend or family member is putting in the work on something and you get jealous because of the progress they are having. Now there are other variables like bragging or just straight up talking shit. Then I can see some resentment toward them but if they are a genuine person then I can’t see why you would be jealous.

Now there’s another variable if things were given to that person to make it easier I get that as well. But for me, Im just not a jealous type. The punch line of this is that most people are very capable of doing things that others are.

“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.” — Steve Job

The number one factor that most people are missing is the effort, the time towards that thing. THE WORK! That’s the missing piece in most cases. Instead of working and putting in the time they get jealous and talk shit. If it was me, I enjoy inspiring people and motivating them. So I would try and motivate them into doing it too or something similar. I’m here to help and give as much value as I can. I truly believe that the number one reason most people fail is because they don’t put in the action. (Im going to say “we” here because I was doing this too) We sit and dwell instead of just going for it.

Im in it for the legacy and what people say at my funeral. Not the pay check. The funny part is that making money is the by product of giving value.

Thank you so much for taking your time in reading my post. I value and appreciate that so much. Words can not express my gratitude towards that.
Feel free to reach out and say hi. I’m always down to meet new people. I’m @Seanngeee on Instagram & Twitter

Thanks again!

This week has been slow for the business I’m not sure why. But I know I need to look further into it. There’s got to be a way to have a more consistent way of sales. It feels strange not having any control of the sales. I need to look into some adds or maybe I just need more books ha I’m not sure but I will soon figure it out and let you guys know.

This post will be number 40 which feels good but I’m also realizing the patience I’m going to need for this. I know as soon as I stop writing a year will go by and I’ll be so mad at myself that I didn’t stick with it so that is not what I will do. It’s vital to have the discipline to keep at it. No matter how hard or boring it can get. The idea here is to beat that pressure of quitting. Once you go through with something its start to becoming a part of your day. Basically a habit. Now I’ve heard several numbers of days that it takes to build a habit but the one that stuck is 66 days to make a habit. Now, thats just an overall it could be sooner or later but 66 was the average. I’m on post 40 and write Monday — Friday taking the weekends off. So I’m not sure how this will work but I can say so far I have not missed a day yet. In the beginning, I was actively growing my page so I need to get back to that. I went from like 7 to 240 in a week or so. I will shoot for a total of 500 by this time next week and let you know how it goes. It’s not that I’m so obsessed with the follower count I just want more people reading and hopefully I can bring value to the readers. And if anyone can help me become a better writer Il take that as well.

I want to commit to this writing but If I stop it will be for a different platform like Youtube. I feel I can scale and grow that a lot faster. I feel weighted down when I write. Like I cant get everything out like I would if I were saying it. So that’s another plan going on in my head.

Thank you so much for taking your time in reading my post. I value and appreciate that so much. Words can not express my gratitude towards that.
Feel free to reach out and say hi. I’m always down to meet new people. I’m @Seanngeee on Instagram & Twitter

Thanks again!

What’s up medium Family

Today is a bit of a lazy day. Yesterday I left my house around 9 o’clock and went to 4 thrift store‘s to scout for books and what I’ve learned is that and this is just my theory but that because Monday is so close to the weekend there weren’t that many profitable books. I’m only assuming that my situation is somewhat rare because since I’m doing this full time there might be other sellers that areOnly doing this on the weekends because they do have a full-time job. Just an idea though.

And because of the weekend whether it’s regular shoppers and/or other sellers looking for books yesterday was completely wiped out. I think I profited about $80 and was gone all day didn’t make it home till 630.

The cool part about that is the times have changed now and it is lighter outside around that time which was really cool. But one cool thing was as I’m buying the books once I make it to my car I list them on my store and then I did that for like it was the second store elicited about four bucks I stopped at the gas station to get something to drinkAnd actually sold one of the books that I had just bought enlisted that was super cool.

So today I’m chilling. I’m actually doing some research and going a lot deeper into the Amazon business. Selling books is just a gateway of what I’m going to be doing. Check out Amazon FBA private label. That’s what I’ll be getting into.

Thank you so much for taking your time in reading my post. I value and appreciate that so much. Words can not express my gratitude towards that.

Feel free to reach out and say hi. I’m always down to meet new people.

I’m @Seanngeee on Instagram & Twitter

Thanks again!

Hey, Medium fam! This one is going to be a short post but I have a video for you watch. This is the power of storytelling. And Olan does it best.

Thank you so much for taking your time in reading my post. I value and appreciate that so much. Words can not express my gratitude towards that.
Feel free to reach out and say hi. I’m always down to meet new people.
I’m @Seanngeee on Instagram & Twitter
Thanks again!

Another good morning Medium fam. I’m headed out early this morning I have a few things I need to get done. I’m going to head to a thrift store this morning. And I recently came across private label for Amazon. Basically, you find a generic product ( which is the hard part I’m told ) then you brand it and put your logo on it. Let’s say you order 100 of this new product. Once you get them you can inspect them. Once you do that you send them to Amazon FBA. If your product is good then people will start buying your product. You sit back and let FBA handle the rest. So I’m going to look into that soon. Once I get my book business up and running Ill move into PL.
I need to stop playing around and start uploading more content. Content is vital these days to offer as much value as you can at scale. And that’s what I want to do. Either start writing or make a podcast or if you can deal with being in front of a camera then do video.
Today is March 9th, 2018. I’m going to start my vlog and start posting more. With my vlog being my core pillar of content I will break it down into microcontent for the other platforms. So I hate to cut it short this morning but I have some work to do. Here a video from my channel when I was doing it more often.

Let me know what you think. I would Like to know which content you like better. Video or writing? I do want to get better at both.

Thank you so much for taking your time in reading my post. I value and appreciate that so much. Words can not express my gratitude towards that.
Feel free to reach out and say hi. I’m always down to meet new people.
I’m @Seanngeee on Instagram & Twitter
Thanks again!

Whats up medium fam?! ah, that coffee was hot! Anyways today is another day growing the business. I’m going to be headed to another thrift store but today I’m selling my mountain bike :( yes I hate to see it go but the money I get from it is going to the business. I will be investing in some more equipment and software to scale this into a nice little income. I’m going to switch to FBA ( Fulfilled by Amazon ) which means Ill just look for profitable books then I box them up and send them to Amazon and they will pick , ship and customer service. So that’s my next process.

And that brings me to a topic to write about. Don’t make money to spend more, make more to save and invest more. I hear that all the time if only I made more I could do this or I could do that.

HOGWASH!

That’s what you think but once you get some extra money or a raise 9 times out of 10 it goes to something you didn’t need. I’m saying I’m perfect but I try to really think about the purchase. Is it a want or a need? And believe it or not some people are confused with this. I had a family member ask me what about things that I’m going to NEED ( yeah she said need ) Becuase I told her that money isn’t the main factor and of she overacted and said “ Sean you’re going to need money! What about the things you need? “
When she said NEED I thought she was talking about shelter or food haha no she said SHOES! haha Because the 2 pair I already have isn’t enough. I quickly snapped back and said do you realize what you’re saying is not a NEED that’s a WANT! She got madder.

To briefly explain my self. I absolutely understand that you need money. That’s not what I’m saying. All I was saying was that I don’t NEED $120,000 a year. Which was what I was about to start making at my old job. But It was on a tugboat and your on that thing for 21 days out of the month. The amount of money compared to the work and being stuck on a boat wasn’t worth it to me. I would honestly prefer to make $43,768 ( random number ) a year BUT on my own terms. Which is absolutely possible today. But she is stuck in her own ways and very close-minded and afraid of change.
Doesn’t make her wrong just different. But just because she doesn’t understand my side doesn’t make me wrong it’s just different.

So even though I get judged by her and others I’m still going to do things on my own terms. But to get to the point of this post. When you get some extra money don’t spend it on junk right when you get it. Just hang on to it for a little while. Or another good idea since most Americans have huge credit card debt why not put that money towards that? Getting out of debt and being financially free is one of the best feelings. Yes, it takes time but I can assure that it’s 100% worth it.

So there’s that but what I was getting at was using the money to invest in your business. The cliche saying you have to have money to make money. True and that money can help grow your business. So be wise on your expenses and put the money back into the business so it will grow. Hints Why I’m selling my bike way underpriced and then using that to help grow it.
I’m not an expert CPA or anything but I have figured a few things out that have helped me and maybe they could help you.

Thank you so much for taking your time in reading my post. I value and appreciate that so much. Words can not express my gratitude towards that.
Feel free to reach out and say hi. I’m always down to meet new people.
I’m @Seanngeee on Instagram & Twitter
Thanks again!

So today marks day 10 that I have been running my Amazon business. So far I’m liking it a lot. I’m doing merchant fulfilled which means I’m packaging the product and printing shipping labels and dropping them off at the USPS. I actually don’t mind because I’m doing this full time. So I have a lot of time. It gives me a sense of accomplishment. So after I write my daily post I gather all of my orders and then get them ready for the post office. Then depending on the day if its a really nice day I’ll drive out to a thrift store that I’ve never been to. I have about 5 stores within a 10-mile radius but It seems like the circulation of products is slow. Today is a nice day so I’ll go to a store I’ve never been to.

Since I’m super new to this I haven’t invested in any tools or software to make it easier. So it usually takes a while. My inventor is 100% books and a nice tool that can help you scan is a Bluetooth barcode scanner which allows you to scanner much faster than the phone camera. Brand new they go for around $250 but I’m finding them on eBay for about $75. There an FBA scanner app that’s supposedly better than the Amazon seller app but it’s not free.
There are inventory software and software to remind your customers to leave a review. All these tools are extremely nice but I haven’t received a deposit from my seller account yet but once I start to get the flow of an income then I’ll invest more. The only things that I buy are shipping supplies ( which the shipping fees cover my expenses ) gas to get around town and books. I’ve kept all of my receipts to keep track of my expenses. I treat this like a business. There’s an app called quick books which allows you to scan your receipts, keep track of mileage, and some other cool things so I’ll probably look into that one first.

One thing you should pay close attention to if you’re interested in doing this is how to read the scanner app. I lost money because I wasn’t reading it properly. So you have the price of the book. Let’s say $10.00 then there are “shipping credits” which are $3.99 and then there are Amazon fees which vary from $2-$4 so in this case lets say $3.00. So my mistake was that I didn’t pay attention that the shipping credits that they were not removed YET. It’s also the layout of the app, it looks like the shipping is being removed.
So it would read $10.00 minus $3.00 (Amazon Fees) which makes it $7.00.
That’s what I thought my profit was.
WRONG!
There’s a section to add the shipping. Minus $3.99 ( I round to $4.00) $7.00 minus $4.00 (shipping) equals $3.00 now that’s my profit. So my first week wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be. But I know now.

That’s pretty much so far if you have any questions feel free to ask.

Thank you so much for taking your time in reading my post. I value and appreciate that so much. Words can not express my gratitude towards that.
Feel free to reach out and say hi. I’m always down to meet new people.
I’m @Seanngeee on Instagram & Twitter
Thanks again!

My buddy and I were discussing growing his business. I thought he understood how powerful personal branding is. Especially a visual arts business that he has. He films documentaries. I forget how we got on this subject but from working alongside my mentor who has built 6 successful business his personal brand was the absolute reason he was able to build and scale. Now there may be a misconception but the main point of a personal brand is building relationships. It’s not necessarily the tactics but more on the awareness of who you are what you’re trying to do. There are levels of exposure I’m not saying you have to put out a daily vlog although that would fast-track your brand all I’m saying is the more people you know the more resources and opportunity you’ll have.
It’s not the end all be all but if you’re trying to build a business and you have a strong personal brand with a good track record behind you. You will then find it a lot easier to find talented people to work with you. And believe it or not, it costs money to start and build a business and having the relationships could help you find people with the capital to invest in your business.

All I’m saying is don’t underestimate the power of personal branding and building relationships because doing it alone would be an unneeded challenge and take you a lot longer. Go out and start building relationships. You’ll thank this process I promise you.

Thank you so much for taking your time in reading my post. I value and appreciate that so much. Words can not express my gratitude towards that.
Feel free to reach out and say hi. I’m always down to meet new people.
I’m @Seanngeee on Instagram & Twitter
Thanks again!