What’s up champs, my name is Trevin Peterson & I’m a full-time 7-figure Amazon FBA seller. I’ve recently hit my 4 year anniversary as an Amazon seller, and while my journey from college dropout to 7 figure Amazon success story hasn’t been entirely smooth, I know that it will help and inspire some of you out there. When people ask what I do, it always gets awkward when I tell them that I sell on Amazon and record educational YouTube videos… “…what?” “You’re on YouTube and sell on Amazon?!” “Do you have another job? “What does your wife do?” “Do your parents give you money and support you?” And it makes me laugh inside and think “if only you knew!” I wanted to write this because I’m nothing special. I have no magic pill that allowed me to become successful. I just worked hard and found success because of it, and this is something that you can do too. But first of all, if you’re more of a visual person and would rather hear my story on YouTube instead of reading, then click here and head over and watch my story video.

Where it all began

In 2016 I started going to college. Like so many of you, I had the same mindset that our schools have been teaching us for decades. Go to school and get the grades to go to college. Go to college for 4 years and get a degree to get a job. Get a job and earn a fair wage. Work for 40 years and retire. Live off a minimal pension and ride out the rest of your days. So… I went to college… and hated it. I found that what I was learning wasn’t applicable to real life, or it just didn’t interest me at all. One of my classes was a business management class. I was super pumped for this because I’ve always found the idea of owning a business interesting. But funny enough, it was taught by someone who had failed their business. I had a bit of a bad attitude towards school. And this didn’t help. How can you teach me when you failed yourself? But I kept going because I didn’t know what I wanted to do in life and I didn’t want to quit at the first hurdle. While I was in school I started my first side hustle – dropshipping… building a store and shipping in products from China when I got an order. And it failed. It didn’t go anywhere. BUT it did strike a passion in me for ecommerce. The feeling of someone, anywhere in the world, buying my product was AMAZING. And I knew people with successful ecom businesses, so I wanted it to work. But the bad products, the advertising costs, the ridiculous 10-20 day delivery times were real obstacles. Every step forward I made just ended up nowhere. To pay my way I had this part time job for a tech company. I was selling call centre technology… but getting no where. I would work hard to try and get a big deal, and it would fall apart. I found that sales just wasn’t for me. The cold calling and cold emails weren’t my thing.

From dropout to construction worker

This first year of college was hell. I hated my work, and school, and my side hustles just didn’t work,. This all combined to the point where I dropped out of college in the summer of 2017. I spoke to my parents about this, and my Mom was against the idea. She was behind the old ethos of

School > College > Job > Retirement

But my Dad, he was all for it because I planned to work for him when I dropped out. In my head, I was thinking “what’s the point in getting a degree to get a job… if i already had one?” So I started working for my dad’s construction company… And I hated it too. Every second. Literally, every aspect of the construction industry wasn’t for me. > I hated dealing with the clients. > I hated working from 7-7. > I hated working with subcontractors. > I hated manual labour. The industry just wasn’t for me. I have mad respect for those working in the construction industry who work as hard as they do, but I couldn’t handle it… But then I was stuck. Again I didn’t know what to do. I couldn’t just quit, I had rent and food to pay for, no opportunity to get out at this point. So I had to keep on going.

The MLM that changed my life

During this time of working with my Dad a lot of things happened. I was introduced to an MLM and I built a network marketing company – and did pretty well with it. I built a good downline and I was being paid like $2,000 every month from this network marketing company.

It was getting to the point where I nearly earned more from network marketing than my 9-5 (or 7am-7pm) job. So I planned on quitting my job from here and focusing on network marketing full time. And this is when my life changed I was talking to all my friends and family, all the time, about business and network marketing. But there’s a lot of negative feelings towards MLMs and it made it hard to get people on board. I then met with one of my friends who was selling on Amazon, and started talking to him about MLMs… and he talked to me about Amazon. This is when something just clicked. I previously had an ecommerce business so I understood the industry and so it made my ears stand up hearing about how Amazon fixes all the problems of dropshipping, and it got me thinking. Dropshipping has these 10-20day shipping times, no one knew I existed, I had to pay for advertising. My products were straight trash with no branding, and in Chinese packaging. But with Amazon, it solved all of the dropshipping problems. The only problem was I needed to find cash to put up front. But I found a way to get around this. So now I just had to find a product, get it manufactured and send it on to Amazon to advertise to their MILLIONS of ready users.

The beginning of my Amazon FBA journey

Learning about how all of my ecommerce problems could be fixed by one platform got me buzzing and went 100% all in. Within about 2 weeks of this chat I had my first product ordered and getting prepared to ship on to Amazon. My first order was 100 units of a seatbelt gap filler… a product that was on shark tank so I was sure it was going to be a winner. But, it had a patent. In my first week I sold 90 units. I just made like $500 profit… in one week… from doing nothing once the stock made it to Amazon. Ridiculous right? If I could do this every week I could leave my job and go at this full time! …But then I got a cease and desist letter because of the patent and I had to stop selling. It was a failure of a product – but it had proven the concept to me that Amazon was my future. From there I just started launching product after product. Failing some, succeeding with others. During this time I was still working my 9-5 job. And I was putting in tonnes of hours at the construction business, like 60 hours a week, and then got home and went mad with the FBA business. I was tired and made some real sacrifices, however it was worth it because I knew that this was my future! I set a goal. I had to earn $36,000 a year from Amazon to stop working for my Dad. Not a tonne of money, but once I hit this I would quit my job. So all I had to do was make $2500 a month and I was set.

Amazon FBA – All in

It was May 2017 when I launched this business, and in May of 2018 I quit my job. All it took was 1 year of hard work to be able to go full time with Amazon Since the day that I quit, I’ve never once looked back. This was the turning point of my entrepreneurial life, and it really set my chair on fire. I knew that if I didn’t work hard, I couldn’t make money, I couldn’t pay the bills, and I wasn’t going to be able to provide for my family. Even though this seems drastic, it was a stress that I could carry. A responsibility that I took. So I hunkered down 100% of my energy, made sacrifices and kept growing my business. Within 1 month of doing this full time, I had doubled my sales. Then another month later I doubled again. Only 6 months later in December 2018, my business did over $50,000 in sales and over $15,000 profit in one month. A complete 180 from a job that I hated to more money that I knew what to do with! Then I went from $50,000 per month in sales to $70,000 per month… to a month where I did over 6 figures in profit and it’s just crazy to see how my life changed in just 2 years. In just 2 years I was at the point where I was making $20k profit consistently.

At the same time, while I was building my Amazon FBA business I decided to pick up my camera (because I had extra time) and started sharing information on YouTube. Whether I made money or not I wanted to give it a go. The most successful people on the planet have at least 7 streams of income, and this was the start of my second. The first year didn’t make a dime. I probably spent more time on YouTube than I did on the FBA business too! After a year I had like 800 subscribers for all of the hard work that I put in. Then in January 2019 I hit 1,000 subscribers so I could monetize the channel with Adsense, affiliate marketing and eventually my course program, AMZ Champions. If you like the story so far, and you’d like to see how you can change your life with Amazon FBA, then I’d love to invite you to check out my free webinar. It’s only 30minutes, no fluff and totally free of charge. It gives more of a deep dive into how Amazon work. >> Check it out here

How Amazon changed my life

Then from here I started to take off in multiple areas of my life. My first month from YouTube Adsense made me like $100 and about $150 from affiliate marketing – (yes!) Compared to my Amazon business this was nothing, but I just loved that feeling of accomplishment from working hard towards something and seeing it pay off. The channel then got to the point where I was making $500-1000 a month and it just made me feel amazing. It’s addictive and I kept pushing on with it Then a year later I hit 11,000 subscribers, and my ad revenue was hitting about $1500 a month. My affiliate marketing and my AMZ Champions course got to about 5 figures a month too. And my students were getting super super crazy results as well, which added to this feeling of success. It’s taken time to get there but it’s been incredible to watch it grow. And I’m just excited to keep going and keep moving forward. This is a bit of a learning point for so many of you. Please don’t give up your journey if you don’t make it to 7 figures in 6 weeks. It took me years to reach this point. The main thing is just keep going. The crazy changes and the hard work have allowed me to live the lifestyle of my dreams. I bought a BRAND NEW Tesla model 3 performance and recently bought my wife a Porsche Macan GTS.

I moved into my dream house at 23. I want to upgrade to a new home in a few years, but I own an incredible 4,400 sq/ft house in my early 20s. I couldn’t imagine something like this like 4 years ago.

I’m now starting to get into investing. I’ve started on crypto, forex, real estate, and these investments are now making me more money than my old 9-5 ever did! I also have 2 rental properties giving me an even more diversified portfolio. I now live a life that doesn’t rely on me working…. and this all came from going into Amazon FBA with both feet. It’s just incredible to look back on this journey Just get to work and you can achieve this too. I’m nothing special. I wasn’t born with any special skills, Ijust put the time and energy in to grow this business into something I couldn’t ever have imagined. Want a head start? If my story resonates with you, and you’ve found yourself studying at college (and hating it), or working a job (and hating it), or pushing through with business opportunities that aren’t working (and hating it), then I recommend looking at my AMZ Champions mentorship. It contains an entire A-Z library of how to start your Amazon business, to then launching and scaling. We also have weekly Q&A calls and live demos where I run through the entire product research process with you step by step. Then the most valuable part of the mentorship is that I will personally validate your product for you! It can be a little complicated to find a viable product at the start of the process, and investing in $3,000 in lousy stock could be a big mistake. If you work with me, I will personally analyze your product choice and approve/deny it. This is worth the entire price of admission and could save you thousands in the short term!  But now, whether you’re looking to become an awesome AMZ Champ, or you’d like to continue learning with my free content, go and take action! That’s it, champ. Keep going. I’m rooting for you!

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Everything that you need to know and more can be found here, and as always, you can reach me on Instagram @trevinpeterson for some more information.