You're listening to the My Wife Quitter Job Podcast,

the place where I bring on successful bootstrap business owners

and delve deeply into what strategies are working

and what strategies are not with their businesses.

I'm Steve Chu, and today I'm thrilled

to have another student in my Create a Profitable Online Store course on the show.

Now Carmen Rivas is a student from Australia who is now making a five-figure monthly income

selling captains on her own site and in fact I don't believe

she has transitioned to Amazon yet but she's doing really well and you guys are going to

really enjoy her story. Before you begin I want to give a quick shout out to Privy who is a sponsor of the show.

Now I'm super excited to talk about Privy because I use and rely on Privy to build my email

list for both my blog and my online store.

Now what does Privy do? Privy is an email

list growth platform and they manage all of my email capture forms and in fact I use

privy hand in hand with my email marketing provider. Now there are a bunch of

companies out there that I'll manage your email forms, but I like Privy because they specialize in e-commerce.

And Privy is easily the most powerful platform that I've ever used, and you can trigger sign-up forms based on any parameter that you desire.

So for example, let's say you offer free shipping for orders over a hundred bucks.

Well you can have Privy Flash a pop-up when the customer has $90 in their shopping cart

to get them to buy one more item.

Here's another cool use case. If someone has item A in their shopping cart,

I can easily tell Privy to display a unique and special coupon code

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