My First Store Failed: What I Learned and What I Did Next

My very first store was a private label skateboard brand called Beatnik Boards and it failed. In this video I tell the full honest story of why it failed, what I learned from doing a SWOT analysis on myself, and how that failure led me directly into high-ticket dropshipping with my second store selling fixed gear bikes.

🔥 What's covered:

- Why Beatnik Boards failed: wrong margins, no direct-to-consumer sales, buying from importers instead of manufacturers, and expanding the team too fast

- How the skateboard industry's gatekeeping and cliquiness made the niche even harder

- Why being emotionally attached to a niche can actually be a weakness in business

- How to do a SWOT analysis on yourself to find the right niche for you

- How I stumbled into high-ticket dropshipping with fixed gear bikes and got my first sale

- Why drop shipping worked where private label did not for my specific strengths

- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses helps you pick the right niche the first time

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