
Today's podcast is a special edition of the podcast because we have an accompanying video that comes along with today's episode. So if you'd like to join in and watch me interview my good friend Greg, hop on! If you're on the road or would rather listen to this episode, we'll have the normal audio-only version like usual just for you guys. During the filming of the Five Minute Pitch, I got the chance to really get to know some of the other judges that I shared the table with and one of those judges was Greg Mercer. If you've been listening to the podcast since day one, you'll know that I've visited him a number of times over the year, and this time, I got the chance to finally do a 1-on-1 podcast with him where we dive deep into the creation of JungleScout, what were the circumstances that lead him to grow JungleScout to the amazing tool that it is today, and the amazing team that's he's managed to put together over the years. If this is the first time you've ever heard of Greg Mercer and JungleScout, this will be a great opportunity to get to know him and the amazing tool that helps thousands of Amazon sellers around the world find their product. Here's a list of questions that I asked Greg during the interview, for your benefit: What came first, selling on Amazon or the JungleScout plugin? (7:11) When did you first start selling on Amazon? (8:13) How did you find out about selling on Amazon? (8:38) What were your initial products? (10:03) Where did you get the capital to start selling on Amazon? (11:46) What was the plan after seeing the benefits on selling on Amazon? (14:26) How did JungleScout come to be after that? (17:07) At what point did you start selling JungleScout? (18:46) How did JungleScout evolve from there? (20:47) How much were you doing on Amazon when you decided to sell JungleScout? (23:45) When did you realise that you had to