My BIGGEST Mistake in Ecommerce | Shopify Horror Story w/Gretta Van Riel
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- Опубликовано: 3 мар 2021
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Imagine losing 1.3 million and still be a millionaire. Gretta is a legend
Truly inspiring! ❤
Imagine recovering from that in business. She is the GOAT
OMG Gretta, I'm so sorry that happened to you! I'm so glad it didn't ruin your business. Thank you for sharing. I'm sure you are saving someone out there a similar heartache.
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I admire her resilience. Truly a mark of a true entrepreneur. 🙏
Spot on! 💪
Selling edible products are a headache. You can get sued faster than any other product category.
Thank you Greta, this is truly helpful and eyes opening on any type of business. Management mistakes are always a possibility even in successful companies. Thank you for sharing.
Youre welcome! 😁
So relatable. I'm glad that you bounced back. Inspiring ❤
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I love your information! very instructive, continue in the same spirit !!!
Will do! Thank you so much for watching. 😁
Thank you so much for sharing Gretta. Your advice is very helpful
Glad it was helpful!
Damn that’s intense. Well at least lesson is learned thank you for sharing! I always use my Amex gold for all business transactions. Amex got my back just in case some shit like this happens to me god forbid. I move carefully as possible when dealing with business transaction!
Yeah big lesson indeed! Youre welcome!
Thank you for sharing! We all make mistakes! I would not have known they outsource that much!
Youre welcome T! Yes mistakes is normal.. we just need to learn from it and push past it.
I really love your videos. Thanks for the great channel and great content!
Thank you so much!
That was a great story and lesson, thank you!
You're welcome! ❤
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thanks for the great channel and great content !
Glad you liked it! More awesome content coming!
Perfect. Thank you friend.
Welcome!
Very intuitive story with strategy advice for online/retail execution.
Hope it helped Youngtey!
Thanks Gretta, this really hit home for me. Definitely taught me a valuable lesson. I just sold a development deal & I felt like I was short changed by $200k & I have been trying not to get worked up by it showing gratitude that I made some money & not at a lost.
Would love to know more on what methods & training you've gone through for EQ ( emotional intelligence ) especially when going through hurdles.
You "made some money" that's always a positive. Chalk up the rest to learning and move on to the next awesome deal. Don't dwell. Just learn and move on.
Thanks for the great Insight, Glad you have enjoyed!
Great sharing ~ Thank yoU!
Youre welcome Vernette! ❤
Geez $1.3 mill 😲! You certainlly bounced back 👏
Grettas a beast. Got me a new hero.
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Thank u for sharing!
No worries! ;)
Interesting...Thanks for sharing this
No worries! Hope it helped. 😁
@@Foundr It sure did
Wow! That’s crazy!
Amazing Content!
Hope it helps!
India is also one of the largest manufacture of Tea in the world & Thanks fr sharing ur experience Gretta !
You're welcome! 😉
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I’d go Sri Lanka, smaller and more easy going.
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😭😭😭I just want to share my bad experience with Aliexpress and why you must not use Aliexpress.
I’m a drop shipper since 2019. I have so many problems with Aliexpress. Too often, sellers send the wrong items, give me bad tracking information, send very low-quality products, or never ship my items at all.
My favorite AliExpress moment was spending $10 for US shipping on 25 different orders for a seller who claimed to have a warehouse in the US, only to have my orders shipped from China in 6 weeks. AliExpress cannot be trusted!
So, I switched to Zendrop. Since then, I haven’t received any customer complaints relating to missing or damaged packages. Each order arrives on time within 5 to 7 business days with the express USA shipping option.
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@@vincecedo5155 Join us? Nice story though 😂😂😂😂
@@gaensliesterlin1791 Thank you😂😂🤭🤭🤭.
Thx for sharing
No worries Elanie! 🙏
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Great valuable content
Thanks! :)
inspiring !!
Thank you! Glad you got some value out of this one.
I feel sorry for her story. I love tea, and I always buy tea in China. The best tea doesn't come from Hongkong. All the good tea in China comes from Jiangsu Province and some smaller cities where all the herbs grow.
Thanks for watching Ophelia,Glad you have enjoyed.
She's a soldier 👏quite an inspiring video with great lessons.
Thank you! 😁
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I hope you also do contracts with manufacturers now so you get to stipulate things you care about..!!
Love that video
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brilliant video
Thanks! 🌟
Are you legally allowed to make food products on a kitchen table? Or in the flat with 15 people?
Throwing 1.3 million dollars in garbage... what the heck is goin on. Gretta is unbelievable
Thank you for sharing your story. But in all honestly, who orders 1 year worth of inventory
Depending on the Market or situation it Can happen
$10k to dispose one tonne of waste. Not sure how you worked that one out 🤣 a skip would literally cost you a couple of hundred dollars. Needless to mention you could give it away as compost for free.
She said e. coli was present in the tea
great story
Glad you enjoyed it
WHAT THE HELL DEAR, thank you for sharing huhuhu big lesson !
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None of the AliBaba vendors take AliBaba payment so you can't get protection
Wow interesting story
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education is expensive…. haha Great story.
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This was amazing, thank you ?
You're most welcome MC Media! 🤜🤛
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Soooo Why don't you state the name of the Alibaba agent right here?
Brand new to the e-commerce. Quick study
Didn’t you order an inspection before paying for the goods?
Thanks for watching
Power
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Basically I can’t believe you handed them full money for an order before it was fullfilled and no quality control.
Thanks for watching!
This is China! Nobody sends you nothing if you didn’t deposited at least 50%, your boxes will come in fully covered with “Q.C. Passed” stickers and there’s gonna be dead cats and rolls of dust inside with your fuckedup product smelling like gasoline and chemicals.
I’ve been working here for 15 years and nothing has changed, they always say yes to everything and outsource to 25 different factories.
We use top engineers and spend a year developing a new product that loses a ton of money. Greta mixes a few different teas and is a millionaire.
There's always a story behind the story that is never asked so it never gets told. I always take these videos with a bag of salt only focusing in "Natural Law" or "First Principles."
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You spend a year and tons of money on engineers sleeping at work to make a product, she spends a month and couple big brains on marketing… It’s tea bro! Leafs & water.
Losses Can occur in business. It Will happen no matter what. 🎱
Yes. The important thing to do is keep going and learn from it.
@@Foundr Wow you answered my post. I did not know if you would pay attention to it.🙏🏿📝🎱🏅
Surely that’s HK dollars...
Some are borne for e-commerce success. You're certainly one of them.
Thanks For watching Gypsy, Glad you have enjoyed!
Please discuss influencers.
Gretta discusses Influencer Marketing in the course :)
why do people always say we sold when they started by themself
Exactly. Thanks for watching Alexis
check #origin protocol much better
Noted! and Thanks for watching.
Basically
Thanks for watching, Hope you have enjoyed.
The thumbnail threw me off a little 😅
I love how she makes it look so easy. “i woke up with 4 sales in the first day” are you going to explain how you got there or was it just magic?
What do you mean? She hustled on social media. It is not hard. Just takes time and energy. Never stopping even on the hardest days.
@@duluthdjs2588 how long did it take for her to build organic traffic? How did she do it? How many followers did she have when she made her first sale.. vs “I just woke up with 4 sales”. Yea the other day I woke up to 20 sales but I gave up my whole week trying to figure out an Algorithm to get these sales. She “hustled” doesn’t tell me anything.
@@cziganyy how long? How is that going to help someone be successful? She said she added her friends and her friends friends on social media.... Literally explained how she got those first sales and that things were different with the algorithm back then. Stop wanting people to tell you what to do and figure it out. Every journey is different. Make your own path.
When you're dealing with Chinese based companies. Just needed to be cautious and not take them for granted!!
Thanks for you Idea and thanks for watching.
Why not start a new venture called SkinnyMe Compost? Opportunities, opportunities... 😎
I wonder if that bacteria would cause a problem. Anyway, her tea business was booming and she probably wanted to redirect all her attention into fixing her established business first.
@@amex4453 No of course, I was joking! 😄
@@dropseo6703 It legit got me thinking, good creativity 👍
So did i hear right? She had 2 million in the bank from hand making teas ? Thats allot of tea
Reality and Thanks for watching TOKIGH02t
I don't understand why this is listed as a Shopify horror story - this isn't Shopify's fault, but your title makes it sound like it is....
Thanks for watching
Cause the algorithm would show this to Shopify users.
This could have been a 10 min video.
Sorry you feel that way! We aim to always keep our content as short as it needs to be- hopefully you still found some value in this one! 😃