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How Students Can Sell First $6k with Elijah Montecelli of Montecelli Band & Satchel
25 Jan 2016
Chapter 1: How did Elijah Montecelli go from debt to selling $6,000?
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Chapter 2: What product does Elijah sell and how is it unique?
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Chapter 3: Which platforms did Elijah use to sell his products?
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Chapter 4: What strategies did Elijah employ to grow his business?
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Chapter 5: How does Elijah plan to expand his product offerings?
Okay, Top Tribe, good morning, good morning. This is one of those mornings, you know, your hair's still messed up, but you got your coffee in your hand, so you still feel like you're ready to conquer the day, and you're gonna love our guest today. His name is Elijah. You know, I met him, Elijah Monticelli, right? I pronounced that right? That's right.
Chapter 6: What challenges does Elijah face in scaling his business?
Good, yeah, I met him at the Non-Job Summit where I was keynoting, and listen, he's a great guy. He's 23 years old. He went from being broke and living in his parents' basement to selling $6,000 with his new business of handmade Apple Watch bands. Elijah, are you ready to take us to the top? I'm ready.
Chapter 7: What lessons has Elijah learned about entrepreneurship?
Okay, let's do it. So first things first, you're 23 years old. You're broke on your parents' basement. I mean, people always say that because it's a good story. I mean, are you really broke?
Chapter 8: What are Elijah's future goals for his business?
I was actually in debt. It was so broke. Yeah.
Who do you bank with? What's the banking outlet?
I bank with PayPal.
I bank with Alaska USA, you know. Okay, how much money total across all those things were there when you started this thing? I'd say negative 5,000. Negative 5,000. Okay. So first off, walk me through what the product actually is.
So the product basically is a hand-tailored cuff band for your Apple Watch. Now, Nothing like this has ever been made before until fairly recently. So it was a pretty cool breakthrough product at the time.
What do you mean by that? People are going to be listening going, what do you mean? There's been plenty of watch bands made.
Yeah, actually, until recently, people didn't know that you could actually make a cuff for the Apple Watch because of the heart rate sensor. So, um, it was fairly new that you, that, uh, people started making these, these cuff bands so that you could, um, so that it could read your heart as well as, you know, be a, be a big wide cuff for your band, uh, for your watch. So.
Okay. Yeah. Makes sense. So what is the, um, what is the website for stuff that you're selling the bands through? Ah, my last name. Monticelli.us. Ah, .us. Great. Okay. So walk us through one of these sales. Which one of these is selling the best right now?
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