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Reseller Hangout Podcast - Rob & Melissa On How The 90-Day Sprint Went
Rob: What's up, guys? On today's episode, we are talking about our 90 day sprint that we just completed.
Melissa: So we took the TV off the wall after our mastermind in March. And the goal was to keep it off for 90 days. So we're almost coming to the end. Did we do it?
Rob: So in a previous episode, we actually talked about a 90 day sprint that we were going to jump on and take the TV off the wall to get some results in our business.
Melissa: So we made a Reel about this and a TikTok, in March. Cause we went to this mastermind event and we came back and were like, well, this was actually you.
So you, during one of our runs came up and said, okay, I don't want to tell you this because once I tell you this then I'm going to have to do it, but I think we should take the TV off the wall. So that's kind of how it went. So it was like, I need to focus. And why did you say that?
Rob: Yeah, just to get some more hours in the day.
That's what a lot of people say. There's not enough hours in the day, but there are more hours. There's more hours that you can go without sleep. There's more hours that you can not watch Netflix and not watch Hulu. And that's where I felt like at the end of the day, when I wanted to relax, and I still could have got more productivity out of the day, TV was sucking it out of me.
And I would sit and watch maybe an hour or two hours of TV when I could have been more productive. So I decided we're going to do it. I told Melissa about it and we pulled our TV off the wall.
Melissa: And wrapped it up and put it into storage. And then, and I want to add too, you're not the kind of person who is a workaholic.
This was a big thing for you, and you don't, you're not lazy and waste time either. You have a good balance. We balance each other out too. But it was just like we had these big goals. How are we going to get to them if we are, you know, wasting two to three hours a day, pretty much at night? So yeah, we wrapped it up, put it to storage and then replaced it with a vision board with our kids.
We had them draw on it and see. They weren't really that happy that we took it off the wall.
Rob: They were not.
Melissa: They came home from school and it was gone and it wasn't a punishment to them. Some people were upset. I posted a video, so they were so excited and thought it was a great idea and some people were saying how we like our kids are just deprived because we took the TV.
Like, I think they'll be okay. They have a lot of other fun things they can do, but they were upset. And so we told them, like, it's not, this is only for us to be able to focus. So at the end of 90 days, what do you want to do? Like if we work really hard, what can we do as a family? And so they wrote out some things they wanted to do, like Legoland and, go back to Mexico.
That's Brody's. He wrote it, Mexico, and then he wrote a hundred circles because he wants to go back a hundred times.
Rob: So we should clarify. It was definitely for me, but the kids were going to get some good results from this as well, because we feel like our kids, when they do watch TV, they get a little more whiny and that kind of stuff.
So, it definitely wasn't to punish them or anything like that. And it was for my productivity, but they were going to get some good results out of it as well. So did we make it? That's a big question. Did we make it our 90 days, our 90 day sprint that we were trying to do, and the answer is.
No, we did not. And we made it roughly about 45 days before I actually pulled a TV that we had. I didn't even pull the one out of the warehouse yet. So that one's still in the warehouse.
Melissa: Still, not the original TV is not back on.
Rob: It is not so, but I had another TV in the house that we did not use. It wasn't even plugged in, it or anything like that.
We pulled it out and we pulled it out for one thing. What was it? To test something. Oh, that was the end of it. So we bought laser disc players that are from the eighties or nineties. I think they're the late, I don't remember, but laser discs. So, pretty cool. Big like DVDs, huge like CDs or DVDs. I have seen them, but anyways, we bought those two.
Melissa: We ordered a laser disc off of eBay, right?
Rob: Oh, that was Amazon. I got it on Amazon. It was quicker. So, anyways, we, bought those, bought two of those units from a local thrift store and I needed to test them to see if they were working. So I pulled this other TV out, hooked it up, and that was the end of our 90 day challenge. So from there I watched a movie that we ordered on the laser disc and the laser disc, and then ended up hooking our Netflix up to it.
Melissa: And, it took a couple more days. You didn't hook it up right away. It was just still you unplugged it and it was sitting there, it was only hooked up to the LaserDisc. So it was just the one movie that you could watch. And you didn't really watch it again,
Rob: But we did not make it, like I said, the 90 days, but we got some great results on the 45 days that we were actually, that we did take it off.
And we did work later, worked more hours and we got some really, really great results. So we want to tell you kind of about those results that we were able to get. Yeah.
Melissa: And it is nice to know, like it's for a time. It's not, it doesn't have to be forever, you know, and we're all about like enjoying the moment and not imbalance, not depriving yourself, but if it's for a short time, so you can reach some goals, then it might need to be so like, what are some of the goals that you maybe have a big death pile or like, I recently heard money pile. That's just sitting there and it's just sitting there, but you're tired at the end of the day. Don't want to go get it listed. You know, what is that extra shift in your mind to go change that, go get it listed.
Rob: So what are some of the things that we were able to accomplish in that 45 days that we pulled the TV off the wall?
Yeah, we'll start.
Melissa: Yeah, so we were able to, we actually just finished it, they take a lot of planning. So it was a lot of work, but we just finished our furniture flipping summit. So we had 19 speakers at this and it was amazing. We had so much fun, so much great energy and a lot of like with the attendees and the speakers.
And, it was just a great time. And I learned a lot because furniture, something I really want to get into. So it was, yeah, it was a lot of fun and those are a lot of work. We were able to pull it off.
Rob: They are. It turned out really well. And we were able to spend more time on that kind of stuff.
Melissa: You did a 30 day listing challenge.
Rob: A 30-day listing challenge with our group, we actually took, 30 days out of that and listed items for 30 days straight.
We do this every once in a while with our group, probably every couple of months everybody jumps in. And, we list items 30 days in a row. And I'm the one who came out with it and said, all right, let's do it. Let's get some results, 14 or 15 days in, I started getting some crazy results and got quite a few sales in we, so we made a lot of money on that listing challenge.
So we were able to accomplish that while we were in the midst of this 90 day sprint, for sure.
Melissa: And we launched our one-on-one coaching program. So that was a big one.
Rob: One-on-one coaching.
Melissa: Available to people.
Rob: Absolutely. Our first time that we have ever really, launched a one-on-one, to help people go into their business, help them really, really get resilience, their whole business.
And it's a six month coaching program. So we were able to do that. And, we got six people jumping into our program.
Melissa: You're working with them one-on-one, and you really like, this is where you really thrive. You get so energized by helping people like, just have results in their business. So like, you'll get off a call talking to somebody who you're just you're jazzed up.
You're like, all right. So you want to help them. So it's really exciting. Just like you help somebody get, I think just recently.
Rob: One of the students we found, I actually found a listing in her local area that was $750, actually, it was the guy wanted a thousand or $1,500, for these, for these, these items.
And, she was able to negotiate. Now I told her I would do it for $750. She went in and made the offers for $750 and she got them and it's over $30,000 worth of boards. They're actually. They came out of a school system. So, I think they're called smart boards that have projectors that go down to them and the boards, but, she got a 30 or 35 of those suckers.
So it's going to be over $30,000 in sales, on these boards that we're able to help her find and, yeah. Be able to help her get those listings done and make some money. So super, super excited about that. For sure.
Melissa: Two of the students were really kind of overwhelmed just at eBay and everything in general, so that like you've really been helping them through each step.
Rob: So, yeah. Get stuff listed. I'm not even sure the two students that we had had ever had anything listed before on eBay. So we were able to help them walk through that obstacle of, oh my goodness. It's analysis paralysis that they've been stuck in and we were able to help them do that and start to see sales.
So that's really, really exciting as well.
Melissa: And one of them is doing it with is a 13 year old, which is so cool because we like, we love the young entrepreneurs coming up because it is so cool. You started this at 16.
Rob: Yep.
Melissa: And which is interesting because to go on that one story that we were talking about earlier that you worked at Red Lobster, part-time and you were making what?
Rob: With like $125, roughly every two weeks for working once I got home from school, I worked a couple of hours a night. And yeah, $125 every two weeks.
Melissa: And you wanted to buy a car?
Rob: I did. And it was a Mustang GT convertible. It was one of those things that yeah, this was a Dodge Aries is what I had, which was a $400 car from, a salvation army auction.
It was donated to salvation army and my parents bought it for me to drive and it was not, look it up. It's nothing spectacular. I was a little embarrassed to drive in a Dodge Aries car. But anyways, I wanted a Ford Mustang and I was working at Red Lobster, roughly $125. For two weeks is I got paid two weeks, every two weeks.
And yeah, that was not going to cut it. It was going to take me over four years to buy it.
Melissa: It's going to take you over four years, if you want to buy that and not spend money on anything else either.
Rob: And that was when I actually talked to my mom and figured out that I could start flipping my parents had done it from when I was at a young age, my parents had done it as a side hustle. I talked to my mom, we went to a local auction and found our first Nordic track ski machine at a local salvation army auction. And yeah, I got that and made $350 in seven days from a $5, Nordic track. And that was what my aha moment was.
Okay. $350 in roughly two to three hours of time. And I was making $125 in roughly, what did we figure out?
Melissa: It was like 10 hours a week did we say? I can't remember.
Rob: I think it was an eight to 10 hours a week. So you're talking about 20 hours of time to make less than half of what I could make on one flip.
And that was the aha moment. Okay. Okay. I'm going to figure this out. This is only one item. It was. The machine, one item that I flipped and then I that's what really put me on this rabbit hole of, okay, what can I flip? What can I find? And just having a blast in this flipping resale game. So for sure.
Melissa: And one of my favorite things is they used to make you, you said they used to make you stand out in the back or out by the road in the lobster suit, the Red Lobster suit.
Rob: And it was hot.
Melissa: This was Florida in the summer, in a Red Lobster suit, doing backflips to get, you know, people by the road getting attention to the, that was you. That was not worth the $6 an hour. Right?
Rob: And when it got slow, how did the traffic get brought into Red Lobster? Send Robbie out there by the side of the road on I drive and make him do backflips in a lobster suit.
And that was what I did to call attention. And yeah, so I did not get paid enough money for that.
Melissa: I really wish there were smartphones then I would love to have a video.
Rob: But anyways, that's one of those things. I'm not sure how we got off on that too.
Melissa: You know, just talking about kids. Cause he's doing this with his kids, just to see what is available.
Like you weren't great in school. So like what else is available to do? Like, I dunno, like it's just another way to open up.
Yeah.
Rob: Plus we love family. We're very huge advocates of spending a lot of time with our family as much time as we can with our kids. And to be able to do something that's fun like this, to really live into your kids' like desires and live into your kids' I guess their, what they're drawn to and learn how to flip those, find those items and flip them just really, really cool. Yeah, it's really, really been cool in that one-on-one coaching that we've had and we've had, yeah, like I said, six people in there get to know them a little bit better, really into their business and really help them get results is a lot of fun.
So, and all that was birthed from this 90 day sprint that we started with.
Melissa: No, we're still, we've still been working, but the TV came on a couple of times at night now. A little bit later though, usually just comes on and for a shorter amount of time, I will say that it's not as like you're done right after dinner.
When the kids go to bed, you're still working and then you're like, okay, just relax. Yeah. One of the last things that we want to talk about too, that was kind of came from this, you know, like we've kind of had our head down, working hard and we were asked just a couple of weeks ago to speak at our very first onstage event.
And, you know, it's kind of indirectly, like we're putting out more content we're, we're doing all the
Rob: things. Yeah. Working harder towards what our goals are. And it was a very, very exciting, this is somebody that, has been a real mentor to us and we've been, yeah. We're very thrilled.
Melissa: Listening to the podcast, read all the books, do all the things and then yeah.
To have them ask to speak on stage and in front of like 600 or 700 people, apparently. So that's in a couple of weeks. We're talking about eBay, so that's a good thing. Cause we know eBay. And it's geared towards kids, which is going to be cool because that's another thing like we're really passionate about helping families and helping kids.
Rob: So, but we can bring all this back to taking that 90 day sprint that time that we wanted to really focus on our business. These are some of the results we just gave you of some of the results that we were able to get out of this last 90 days that we've been doing this. So super, super excited about.
And I'd love to challenge you guys, and it might not look like this for you. It might not be a TV. Maybe it's a fast from social media. Maybe you're burning too much time on Facebook, Twitter, whatever it is.
Melissa: That would be mine. Mine isn't TV. Mine is more social media because I go on to do research on quotations, TikTok and Reels, what's trending, oh, wait an hour just went by, was doing research. Wait, what?
Rob: So, whatever it is for you, I want to challenge you. Melissa and I want to challenge you, you guys, what can you do to see those results? And we always hear there's not enough time in the day. A lot of people say there's not enough time in the day. And I get it. And you go, and you work at your job for eight hours.
You come home, you take care of your second job, which is taking care of the kids, taking care of your husband or your wife, whatever it is. You guys are doing that. And, yeah, you something's got to give, but if you want to see results and maybe don't do it for 90 days, maybe start off saying, hey.
Exactly. Or even in the next 15 days, I'm going to commit to doing this and I want to see what results I can get. That's what I would love to challenge you guys to do, and then let us know about it. You reach out to us and let us know, hey, I'm going to do this. I'm really going to do it. I want to hear about it.
I definitely want to hear about your results and your progress or your progress while you're on this sprint for you.
Melissa: Yeah, we like to listen. We always try to put in our heads, motivating, encouraging, and challenging people all the time, because we want to keep stepping up and grow. And so that just to come back to this speaking event is a very big growth moment for us.
So we'll have to do another podcast after the event because we have a couple weeks. But this is way outside of our comfort zone.
Rob: We're both terrified to speak on stage. That's probably an understatement. I do not want to speak on stage, but it's one of those things that we know it's part of the growth period, and we really, really need to do it to step out of the comfort zone.
Melissa: It would be a lot easier just to say no thank you, a lot easier, but we know that if we're not uncomfortable, we're not growing. And so we're gonna make it happen and figure it out. So, which is funny that you're nervous because you do, you like, I don't know you're outgoing and you like people, you like videos. So it's just funny.
Rob: Just being on stage is that's the biggest thing is being in front of people and maybe saying the wrong thing. But it is, it's cool, but it is you guys, this is growth for us. This is how we grow and we see that and we want to always be growing. So that's one of the reasons why we said yes to this event that we're speaking at.
Melissa: So thank you guys for listening. And if you're listening in real time, when this was released, we did just open the doors to Flipper University. So, if you want to check it out and see if some of the higher profit items or, you know, shipping larger items is something that you want to do, get started with your eBay business. You know, eBay is our focus, we do sell on other platforms, but eBay is our main focus, and be surrounded by a community of really helpful people. Check it out before the doors close on Sunday. If you're listening to this after, let us let us know. We're still, it'll be open again soon.
Rob: Yeah, we only open it a couple of times a year.
So this is the time right now that it will be opening or it will be open when you're listening to this. So super excited. Hopefully we'll see you guys on the inside.
Melissa: It might be a good thing to do this summer. Maybe it's something that summer that you need that extra income and it could be a great summer project.
So, we'd love to see you in our members group. And thank you so much for listening.
Rob: You guys rock. Have a great day.
Melissa: Bye.