#189 - Second-hand E-commerce, Door-to-door Sales, and Live Show Recaps

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have.
Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple. It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm gonna tell you about in a second, but he has this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this book. It's called How to Make Money With What You Already Have. It's an incredible episode. Talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book. The host is Donald Miller. I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this is totally by coincidence. It was all separate people. They said you have to check out Donald Miller. He's amazing. So I'm happy that he's part of HubSpot's Podcast Network. You can check it out, Business Made Simple Podcast. It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left engine is your sales. You have to check it out. This guy's amazing. It's called Business Made Simple with Donald Miller.
This is why on all my landing pages, I always ask for email first.

**Shaan Puri** (1:17)
What's up? We're back from Miami and we got a new nickname. I am Shaan Puri. He is the Vanilla Gorilla and we are back.
We had to wing it this episode because we had a guest cancel last minute, but I think it turned out pretty good. So Sam, what do we talk about?

**Sam Parr** (1:32)
Yeah, so this episode actually turned out, I think to be one of my favorite in a long time. We probably discussed maybe 20 or 30 ideas.
The ideas start about halfway through, but we have a bunch of interesting ideas that are scattered throughout. So a few things that we've discussed. So businesses that we've both invested in recently, including an event business, we've talked about slingshot ideas. So slingshot ideas that have been kind of under the radar because of COVID, but now that there's a lot of pent up demand for events, for interaction, things like that, these are gonna be slung shot, is that the right word? Slung shot, slung shooted back into popularity. We talked about litigation finance. So basically there's a whole bunch of people that will finance lawsuits and then take a cut in the winning settlement. Kind of interesting. We talked about secondhand stores. Shockingly, that's actually, it seems like a huge idea. And then finally, we wrapped up with one of the best Shaan stories I've ever heard, where we talked about door-to-door sales. Trust me, it's gonna leave you fired up. It's in the last 15 minutes. It's awesome. We were supposed to have Bill Smith from Hello Landing On.
I got an email from his PR team, literally 60 seconds before we were supposed to hit record saying he's not gonna make it.
I don't know what we're gonna do today. I'm so angry about that. Oh my gosh, I'm frustrated.

**Shaan Puri** (2:48)
I gotta give you credit.
You replied back to the email to the PR person. The PR person, 60 seconds before the podcast is supposed to record. We're in the sound room, in a green room getting soundcheck. And it's like, hey folks, sorry, not gonna be able to make it today. Looking forward to rescheduling. And Sam just goes, are you kidding? One minute before the podcast? No context?
And I thought the are you kidding was very ballsy. I would have just ate it, just took the slap. And I think you're rightfully like, what?

**Sam Parr** (3:26)
I mean, okay, so I'm reading this book called Nonviolent Communication. I'm reading it for two reasons.
The first reason is I've gotten repeated feedback from you and Abreu and my coworkers that I have a temper. I don't think I have a temper. So I'm trying to get that. And my wife, Sarah, the second reason is that-

**Shaan Puri** (3:47)
And this feedback is pissing me off.

**Sam Parr** (3:51)
Yeah, I think I could be a little hot. And then-

**Shaan Puri** (3:54)
We gotta say, I was with you the whole week. We went to Austin, Miami and you were like an angel. You were totally patient. You were just being grateful the whole time. It was amazing. And then you, I think you even noticed at the end, I was gonna tell you, and then you go, I've been really kind this whole trip. I'm feeling really kind and grateful.