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Welcome back to another high impact episode of Invest in Yourself, the digital entrepreneur podcast with your host, the podcast mogul, who helps you grow and monetize your show. But we're talking about ecommerce. Because if you're in the ecommerce world, growth strategy, or scaling a business, you better buckle up because today's guest has helped brands drive over $1,000,000,000 in revenue. Yes. That's a b, not millions, billions. And he's here to drop some serious knowledge. He has over twenty five years of experience. He's worked with Fortune 500 giants, like Pepsi, Canon, Tommy Hilfiger, and of course, Sour Patch Kids.

Who doesn't love Sour Patch Kids? All while helping start up scale at record breaking speeds. He's been endorsed by Gary Vee, Neil Patel, and Matt Higgins from Shark Tank. He's built a reputation as the go to expert for unlocking explosive growth. His rapid two x program, which we will talk about, generates about a 8% average increase in just twenty one days for 29 brands across 17 industries in 2024 alone. And with his AD method, he's proven that ecommerce brands like with product market fit can achieve two to 10 times growth no matter the economy. So if you're ready to scale faster, sell smarter, and maximize profits like never before, get ready. Today's episode, we're sitting down with Sabir Samarkat. Sabir, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you, Phil, for having me on your show.

I am incredibly honored to have another amazing guest like you on the podcast, teaching us how to grow ecommerce because ecommerce is kind of like the backbone of the digital entrepreneur world. Right? We all sell something online. It's ecommerce. Right? So I wanna know though, I wanna go back to the beginning before twenty five years ago or twenty plus five years ago, what made you decide, hey, I'm leaving corporate to go into entrepreneurship?

Total accident.

It seems it's either an accident or you got forced into it. That's the two answers I get the most.

Total accident and I was forced into it. So let's get into it. Double barrel. So before I started, on this journey, right, I was a different kind of a hacker. Right? I'm a growth hacker now. That's the term people use, growth advisor, growth hacker. But back then, my background is in computer science. So I'm a hacking nerd, like, co coder.

Twenty plus languages, millions of lines of code, like, even infrastructure related stuff related to the Internet, I've built a lot of it also from the from the ground up. This is before Shopify. Right? So if you want me to build you an ecommerce business from the ground up, like, literally, all I have is Python or PHP or Java, I can do that too. Right? Wow. So that's who I was. And what and people just like now people know me as, you know, if you wanna grow your ecom business, you you go to the Rapid2x program under my guidance and I I and I help you explode your business. Right? Back then, if you needed you had an ecommerce startup or ecommerce channel and you wanna do it right, I was the guy to go to, right, from a tech standpoint. Right? So the transition happened.

So this is kind of the well, this is when the spider bit me because you have Mickey Mouse on your background there. You know? So the spider that bit me was, you know, just like normal, I got pulled into vitamin shop by Jeff Horowitz. He's the founder of Vitamin Shoppe. You know, Vitamin Shoppe has now thousands of stores across The US. You see them everywhere. Back then, it was like they had about 300 stores. So, but what they did was just like a lot of other companies. Right? You You know, just like today, these days, you see on on the public markets, you see then the the term blockchain or AI and the sky the the the stock just skyrockets.