How Long It Took Me to Replace My Job Income With Dropshipping

How long does it actually take to replace your job income with a high-ticket dropshipping business? In this video I tell the honest story of how it happened for me — from my warehouse job in LA in 2008 all the way through my first $100K year, my first $500K year, and eventually selling multiple stores for significant exits through Empire Flippers.

🔥 What's covered:

- How I went from a warehouse job in LA to my first ecommerce sale in 2011

- Why it took almost 5 years to replace my income without a mentor

- How getting a coach in 2016 compressed that same timeline from 5 years to 4 to 5 months

- What happened when I hit $100K in sales in 2013 and $500K in 2014

- The mistakes I made along the way including opening a bike shop and platform switching

- How I discovered I could sell dropshipping stores for 2 to 3x annual net profit

- Why I moved to Chiang Mai and eventually Bali to dramatically reduce my living expenses

- My 2022 exit and what I am building now

- Why the super high-ticket custom quote funnel model is where things are heading in 2026

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