Christian Verhoeven's guest appearances

Christian Verhoeven

eCommerce Momentum Podcast

Amazing Exits Podcast

Liran Hirschkorn

Chris Guthrie

Mark Daoust

Mike Ward

Nate Jackson

Christian Zeron

Johnathan Grzybowski

Aaron Walker

Tommy Griffith

Alan Taylor

Greg Mercer

Heather Havenwood

Brian Miller

James Thomson

Jeremy Wilson

OwlTail

Christian Verhoeven is an entrepreneur and consultant and was the Founder of Big Fudge, a leading brand for premium vinyl record sleeves on Amazon. For five years, Christian was a sous-chef at Spago Beverly Hills before he decided to take the leap into entrepreneurship. He combined his passion for vinyl records and brand ownership to create Big Fudge — and from there, he scaled his brand into a full-time job. In this episode… Are you a new entrepreneur struggling to develop your brand? Where can you turn for expert tips to optimize your business strategy through your brand-building process? For Christian Verhoeven, he found guidance in the transition from a sous-chef to an Amazon entrepreneur by connecting with others already established in the entrepreneurial space. He was proactive in forming standard operating procedures. As he says, when you’re operating your business the right way, exiting your brand is easy. Today, he is here to share his exit process with you.  In this episode of Amazing Exits, Paul Miller sits down with Christian Verhoeven, entrepreneur and consultant, to discuss selling and exiting an Amazon business. Listen as Christian talks about his transition into an entrepreneurial role, the importance of optimizing your operating procedures and tracking stability payments, and the process of working with an aggregator. Stay tuned!

Christian Verhoeven is an entrepreneur and consultant and was the Founder of Big Fudge, a leading brand for premium vinyl record sleeves on Amazon. For five years, Christian was a sous-chef at Spago Beverly Hills before he decided to take the leap into entrepreneurship. He combined his passion for vinyl records and brand ownership to create Big Fudge — and from there, he scaled his brand into a full-time job. In this episode… Are you a new entrepreneur struggling to develop your brand? Where can you turn for expert tips to optimize your business strategy through your brand-building process? For Christian Verhoeven, he found guidance in the transition from a sous-chef to an Amazon entrepreneur by connecting with others already established in the entrepreneurial space. He was proactive in forming standard operating procedures. As he says, when you’re operating your business the right way, exiting your brand is easy. Today, he is here to share his exit process with you.  In this episode of Amazing Exits, Paul Miller sits down with Christian Verhoeven, entrepreneur and consultant, to discuss selling and exiting an Amazon business. Listen as Christian talks about his transition into an entrepreneurial role, the importance of optimizing your operating procedures and tracking stability payments, and the process of working with an aggregator. Stay tuned!

0060: Amazing Exit With Christian Verhoeven

Christian has figured this out: Life is living. Sounds trite maybe but he is actually doing it. When was the last time you paused to work on yourself? When did you stop and enjoy life? Remember you get one chance on Earth, so live it now. Listen how Christian is making it happen. Mentioned: Christian’s Facebook Contact Sponsors Gaye’s Million Dollar Arbitrage List Solutions4ecommerce Scope from Sellerlabs Tactical Arbitrage – Get an 18 day free trial with code: “Tactical” Freeeup– Save 10% (forever) and get an instant $25.00 voucher for your first hire. GoDaddy Grasshopper Transcript: (note- this is a new tool I am trying out so it is not perfect- it does seem to be getting better) Sponsors Gaye’s Million Dollar Arbitrage List Solutions4ecommerce Scope from Sellerlabs Tactical Arbitrage – Get an 18 day free trial with code: “Tactical” Freeeup– Save 10% (forever) and get an instant $25.00 voucher for your first hire. GoDaddy Grasshopper Transcript: (note- this is a new tool I am trying out so it is not perfect- it does seem to be getting better) Christian:                             [00:00:00]               If anybody is in wholesale and they not using sponsored ads, you have to do it because nobody in wholesale, these using sponsored ads, Cool voice guy:                  [00:00:07]               welcome to the ECOMMERCE, but we focus on the people, the products, and the process of selling today. Here’s your host. Steven Peterson. Stephen:                             [00:00:21]               Yeah. This is going to be a good episode. Hey, just wanted to jump in with a couple of things. There’s a couple notes about some things going on with Andy and myself at our warehouse. Some opportunities to work with us. I’m going to get them in a second, but first up, man, I’m, I’ve kind of mentioned something. I hope you’ve saw this. Um, one of my sponsors, seller labs was recently honored as one of the top companies, the top fastest growing companies in the United States and they looked at the top 5,000 and these guys didn’t make, you know, number 4,000 or 3000 or 2000 or 1000 or 800, 500. Now they’ve made the 148. I think it was. I mean, just imagine that what’s it take to be number 148 out of 5,000 that were recognized and you know, it’s just an honor to be recognized now to be 148. Stephen:                             [00:01:11]               It’s a big deal and you know, I know, yes, they pay me and all that kind of jazz, but again, you hear me talk about consistency over time and when you see a company that’s doing these kinds of things, it takes really strong leadership. When you, when you hire services that we all pay for service, I’ve got a lot of them and when I recommend a these companies that I recommend, it’s because I use their services right over time. What I love is this is you go to an event and there’s jeff or tyler, one of them are always our ed are always at the event because you can go and give them feedback, right? Feedback. Genius gets better because you give them feedback and they help improve the product. They’re always at every event and they’re willing to talk with you. They’re there to talk to you. Stephen:                             [00:01:53]               How many companies do that? You know, it’s easy to, I get these companies all the time, hey, you know, would you let me promote, I got one right now, would you let me promote and will want to sponsor in a that mom, no, I don’t know you, I’m sorry, and your new then maybe you do have the best company, but again, I’m looking at over time and again for similar labs to be recognized across the country and that just to make the list of $5,000 a huge deal, but to be on number 148, that’s a really big deal. So, you know, Jeff Cohen, a Brendan check hurts, um, and uh, uh, Hank, sorry guys. Um, it’s just so exciting for me. The leadership that you guys have put together for this company. It’s phenomenal. And it just said something about you. So I 100 percent solution, so I just don’t want to miss that. Stephen:                             [00:02:38]               That is such a big deal. Um, that’s why I think you should be with sellerlabs. Look at all the product scope, right? Ignite, take a look at a feedback genius. All those products that they have, right? They’re doing advertising, all that stuff is there to help you, but again, they’re going to be there next year and I think that’s the thing you want to remember how many companies have we seen come in and go out because they moved on to the next cryptocurrency and all the rest of the, you know, and I don’t fault him, but that’s not the kind of company you want to be with. You want to be with a company that’s going to be here for the long haul that’s going to help build that brand that we’re all trying to build and that help you take it to the next level. Stephen:                             [00:03:11]               So, so her labs, well done. I applaud you. Very, very cool. Another big one with one of my sponsors is gay lesbian group. You’ve heard me talk about it’s q four is coming. Um, all that kind of stuff. But what’s very cool is she’s now given me a special two week free trial were the only ones who have it. You get a free trial if you’re interested in a sourcing group, daily product find. And I’m going to have an announcement in the next week or two with a special bonus thing that you get if you join, but try sign up for two weeks, try it, and then sit back and say, is my business better off? Am I in a better position for q four? And my theory is this, have a strong q four to get the cashflow so you can build next year’s business. You should be building next year’s business. Stephen:                             [00:03:55]               How are you going to do that? You need the money. Use this as an opportunity. I just think it’s phenomenal. So it’s you go to amazing freedom.com, forward slash momentum, hyphen arbitrage. Yes, it’s a mouthful. Amazing freedom.com, forward slash momentum, hyphen arbitrage. And you get that two weeks free. It’s phenomenal. And last but not least, I don’t want to Miss Karen Locker solution for ECOMMERCE. She’s doing listings for me this week for all these new private label products we have going on. And it’s unbelievable. You know, I just send them to her with some information and boom, they do it, they test it. Now here’s a better example. There was a a listing, it’s a wholesale account that we have and I said, hey, could you get these four or five photos added on now I need to with Karen idea with some, one of her team members, which I have my own, you know, assigned person for my team, which is phenomenal. Stephen:                             [00:04:47]               And she was like, Hey Steve, I’m having trouble. I’m waiting for them to link or whatever. She followed through and then eventually she said, okay, go take a look. They’re up. That kind of service is what I’m looking for and that’s what I get from Karen’s lockers team. It’s solutions four ecommerce solutions, four ecommerce, a forward slash momentum and you’re going to save 50 bucks and which is great and it’s 50 bucks every month from there on out. Okay. And so consider that and if you have any questions, whatever message me or message Karen, but solutions the number for ecommerce forward slash momentum. And Man, I just loved, loved, loved the service. So back to andy and myself. So what we’re doing at the warehouse, we have a couple things going on. So we have, we have our fifth client coming to board now. We’re not a fulfillment company, we’re not in that world, we just have some storage space and some relatively lower cost. Stephen:                             [00:05:37]               And the good news is we’re only an hour from avp so if you send a lot of material, the APP, it’s very convenient here because it’ll check in usually that day or the next day, but we have a loading dock so we can hinder pallets and we ship out by the pilot. That’s the way we prefer to do it. Um, but we have a couple openings if you’re interested in working with us. We’re not interested in doing any of Ra or away, but just be, can we just not, we don’t live at that warehouse, right? Um, but we can work especially for pallets, containers and stuff like that. Um, and we have a couple of wholesale clients but mostly private label. If you’re interested in joining us, you want a message, Andy, Andy Salmon’s a private, message him on facebook and start the conversation and that eventually we’ll get into it if you’re interested in that. Stephen:                             [00:06:20]               Second thing we’re doing is we are actually going to hold the summit, we’re gonna hold a summit in September 22nd, I believe the date is, and he’s going to talk more about that, but if you’ve been interested in finding out what it takes to run a successful full time or part time, I mean, I’m part time so I’m, I’m pretty good example of part time. But uh, how about an Ra business doing over 3 million? I think it is. 10 Wentworth is joining us for this summit and Andy’s going to be bringing in his private label, his wholesale and is already. Remember Andy used to do Ra and we’re going to bring this whole thing into a conversation. Very, very limited group. Not very large, but it’s a workshop type of deal. It’s in our warehouse. We’re actually going to let you see behind the curtains. Um, who else is willing to do that? So if you’re interested in that message and about summit, you want to get on that list and find out some more information. He’s going to be talking about it over the next few weeks, but I just wanted to get that there. Now let’s really get into the podcast. New Speaker:                   [00:07:20]               Welcome back to the ECOMMERCE momentum podcast. This is episode 331 Christian verhoeven. Man. Oh Man. For a young guy, we got wisdom to dudes. Got Wisdom. He said something, and Nicole, we were done with the call. He said something to me afterwards. We were talking about, you know, um, designing that life. I’m all about that, right? And when you hear what he does and then when junk happens, how he’s able to just let it roll off. I think there’s a real powerful lesson and there’s only 31 year old kid to me. I have a son older than him, but he said something else. He’s like, you know, we’re talking about, you know, wow, I got to have the biggest sales. You’ve got to do this. He goes, no, I think the real success happens at home. He actually used that phrase and I’m like, Whoa, that’s pretty deep. New Speaker:                   [00:08:08]               And I think that, you know, when you look inward, take a look at your own life and sit back and say, is real success happening at home or your relationships at home healthy, are you healthy? Are you taking care of yourself? How about your relationships with your family? How about your relationship with your neighbor, about your relationships with your vendors? Right? If that’s not all healthy man, start there, right? And, and, and don’t give so much to your business at the cost of all these other things. I think there’s a really important lesson here in this episode that there is a way to figure out both. You just have to have different perspective. And I think a 31 year old Christian has some pretty darn good perspective to offer. Let’s get into the podcast. Stephen:                             [00:08:52]               All right. Welcome back to the ECOMMERCE momentum podcast. We’re excited about today’s New Speaker:                   [00:08:56]               guest. He is all the way on the other side of the United States. He got up nice and early for me and I really appreciate it. Christian Verhoeven, welcome Christian. Hey, thanks for having me and thanks for coming on. It is early in your neck of the world. Is The sun coming up? Christian:                             [00:09:14]               Yeah, it’s [9:00] where we’ve got some sunlight. We’ve had a couple of hours of sunlight. You’re, are you close to the fires at all in California? No, not at all. In Highland Park Los Angeles where it’s, there’s some greenery here, but nothing’s on fire yet. New Speaker:                   [00:09:29]               Okay. Well that’s good. Let’s hope there’s not, especially today while we’re talking. Okay. So you’re in California. Are you in California by choice? Uh, by luck by force, uh, you know, family wise or what have you, uh, how do you end up in California? Christian:                             [00:09:46]               Yeah, it’s definitely by choice. Um, so a little preamble here. I’m actually born and raised in Germany. Um, and I say that as much background as, as a little pre face because there might be a time where our pronounce something a little bit wrong or I’m gonna take a second longer to find the right word in English is my second language. Uh, so yeah, I’m, I’m in California. I’m in Los Angeles very much by choice. I moved to the United States about seven years ago. At the age of what? Uh, it was 24. Yeah. So 31 NASA, 20 hours. Twenty four. All right. That’s a pretty good age to move over. Yeah. And that’s it. I don’t think I’d do it again now. Really? Well, I do it again, knowing what I know now, that part of it, but if you didn’t know what you know now exactly back then, um, I literally sold everything that I owned and I came to the US with, with two duffle bags and, and that was it. Christian:                             [00:10:50]               And I actually literally started out as a dishwasher, a in a, in a restaurant kitchen where you’re going to be an actor on what was the dream? No. Um, well I don’t know that...

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