Owner of https://teapaw.org/t.co/gdFK1AciGk, Mentor | Building https://teapaw.org/t.co/Lzib7RLmNU | E-com Founder | Father
Dallas, TX
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I'm AC.
Scaled personal ecom stores past $10,000,000+
Helped my students collectively pass over $50M in sales.
But none of that was supposed to happen.
Here's the real story:
Born in Kansas City.
Single mom.
Gambling addiction.
Dad in and out of my life.
Sister in and out of rehab.
No role models, stability and guidance.
High school? Selling drugs.
Multiple arrests. Cycle of trouble I couldn't break.
I knew I was meant for more. Just couldn't see the way out yet.
College was supposed to change everything.
Started in Computer Science. Hated it.
Switched to Marketing.
Met a roommate making thousands dropshipping fake designer bags.
That's when I first saw a path to freedom.
But I was still making the same mistakes.
Got arrested again. Spent 2 days in jail.
Sitting in that cell, I realized:
if I don't change now, I'm stuck in this cycle forever.
Graduated. Got 3 job offers:
Baltimore, Oakland, Dallas.
Picked Dallas. New city. Fresh start. No safety net.
Moved into my first apartment.
Week later? Got robbed.
Everything gone.
Called my job hoping for support.
They didn't care. "Come in anyway."
That's when I realized:
corporations don't give a f*ck about you.
You're a number. Replaceable.
I had to build something of my own.
Tried dropshipping in 2016.
Quit after one day.
Too overwhelming.
Tried again in 2017. Failed for months.
Burning money. No sales.
Ready to give up and move back home.
Then disaster hit.
A crane crashed into my apartment complex.
K*lled one person. Injured six others and destroyed the building.
I was homeless.
Again.
With nothing.
City gave me $5K for furniture and 2 months rent.
I didn't buy furniture.
I invested every cent into dropshipping.
Snuck back into the destroyed apartment that night to grab my laptop.
Was the only tool I had left.
This was my one shot.
December 2018.
Found a product trending on TikTok. 265K likes.
Everyone said "too saturated."
I moved anyway.
went on to hit $100K+ in 30 days.
First time I ever saw that kind of money.
Then Facebook banned the store. PayPal held all my funds.
Back to $0. Again.
Most people would've quit at this point.
I just started over.
Launched a baby product 3 months later. $1.7M in 9 months.
That's when I realized:
restarting isn't failure. It's part of the process.
Was the first time I ever got on a plane,
First time I traveled,
and the first time I had money to breathe.
Started posting my journey on Instagram and YouTube with no agenda. Just sharing.
People started reaching out. "How did you do this? Can you help me?"
Went on to grow my YouTube to over 600k subs.
My schedule filled up fast.
I realized I couldn't help everyone for free.
So I started charging. That became Supreme Ecom.
35k+ students later. $50M+ in collective sales.
Some scaled from $0 to $100K in 120 days. Others hit $1M+ in under a year.
I've watched people quit their jobs. Buy houses for their moms.
Build real freedom.
That's what this is really about.
Not just the money. The freedom.
I still work 60-70 hour weeks.
Still trying to find balance with my family.
Still figuring this shit out.
But I'm not the kid in the Red Cross shelter anymore wondering if I'll ever make it.
If you're stuck right now, just know:
your rock bottom is your setup, not your end.
Keep moving.
9-5ers with kids have way more time to build a business than they think.
When I built mine I had a 9-5 but no kids, so I'll be honest, I had it easier.
I'd get home around 6, eat, and sit on my laptop until midnight.
But one of my students has both.
Full-time job, 2 kids, and he still did about $127K in sales in roughly 4 months.
His evenings belong to his kids, so he works on his store from 5am to 8am before he heads to work.
Then it's work, then the kids, and he gets a little more done at night once they're asleep.
Nobody needs him at 5am, so that's when the business gets built.
But where a lot of people lose is jumping on too many shiny objects at once.
One month they're into crypto, next month it's dropshipping, then they want to start a YouTube channel, then it's an AI business.
Nothing ever gets enough time to actually work.
I just had a baby on October 1st, and between her and my son, my evenings are more or less gone now too, so I kinda relate
But still, you'll still find time to squeeze out that nobody needs you for.
Give that time to ONE thing, stick with it long enough, and it'll surely work out.
If you want to skip building the store yourself, this builds you a full Shopify store with AI for free, products and pages included:
buildyourstore.ai/ac-2
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ecom bros on December 1st after their first Black Friday:
(CPMs tripled, supplier ran out, 64 refund emails, profit: -$212)
Ac Hampton retweeted
I'm fcking BEGGING you:
> start a store this week
> sell energy gum to folks who crash at 3pm at their desk
> one pack, then a refill every few weeks
> launch in January when ads get cheaper
> hit $1K days in 90 days
> pay for summer in cash
Exactly how to get to $1K days:
1. Message 5 gum suppliers that ship from the US.
Ask how much caffeine is in each piece and for a lab report on every batch
2. Read the 1-2 star reviews on NeuroGum and Military Energy Gum.
Bitter and chalky come up again and again. Pick the flavor that fixes it
3. Print the exact caffeine on the front of the pack.
40mg a piece. A cup of coffee has over 100mg
4. Build the page around 3pm.
The slump, the 3:30 meeting, the coffee you already know will keep you up tonight
5. Make the ads with AI and keep the real pack on screen.
Desk scenes, the afternoon crash, gum vs coffee
6. Run ads to adults only.
Meta requires 18+ for this, and desk workers are who you want anyway
7. Sell 1 pack, then a 3-pack, then a refill every 6 weeks they can skip anytime
8. Never say "no crash" or "won't affect your sleep."
That's how these stores get shut down
9. $1K a day is 25 orders at $40
I put the whole day-by-day plan in one doc: the suppliers to message, the exact questions to ask, the page layout, the AI ad prompts and the refill setup.
Reply "GUM" and I'll send it over
I'm fcking BEGGING you:
> start a store this week
> sell energy gum to folks who crash at 3pm at their desk
> one pack, then a refill every few weeks
> launch in January when ads get cheaper
> hit $1K days in 90 days
> pay for summer in cash
Exactly how to get to $1K days:
1. Message 5 gum suppliers that ship from the US.
Ask how much caffeine is in each piece and for a lab report on every batch
2. Read the 1-2 star reviews on NeuroGum and Military Energy Gum.
Bitter and chalky come up again and again. Pick the flavor that fixes it
3. Print the exact caffeine on the front of the pack.
40mg a piece. A cup of coffee has over 100mg
4. Build the page around 3pm.
The slump, the 3:30 meeting, the coffee you already know will keep you up tonight
5. Make the ads with AI and keep the real pack on screen.
Desk scenes, the afternoon crash, gum vs coffee
6. Run ads to adults only.
Meta requires 18+ for this, and desk workers are who you want anyway
7. Sell 1 pack, then a 3-pack, then a refill every 6 weeks they can skip anytime
8. Never say "no crash" or "won't affect your sleep."
That's how these stores get shut down
9. $1K a day is 25 orders at $40
I put the whole day-by-day plan in one doc: the suppliers to message, the exact questions to ask, the page layout, the AI ad prompts and the refill setup.
Reply "GUM" and I'll send it over
My students are doing $100K+/mo with ecom.
Every one of them started with a store.
Get yours built FREE by AI in minutes:
buildyourstore.ai/ac-2
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ecom bros putting grandmas on a $69 rebill for a $2 supplement while their bio says "Exodus 22:22 🙏✝️"
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Ac Hampton retweeted
> Be me
> Lie on my McDonald's application at 13
> Sell drugs in high school, get arrested
> Graduate and get arrested again a week later
> Spend years on probation paying lawyers
> First in my family to leave Kansas City
> Watch my roommate KJ sell fake designer bags online
> Spend 2 days in jail in college
> Graduate with a degree I never use
> Move to Dallas knowing nobody
> Take a job building wine displays 70 hours a week
> Get robbed and lose everything I own
> My job says come in tomorrow anyway
> Quit with $2,500 and rent due in 4 days
> First 2 products flop, $400 gone
> Find a winner on Christmas Eve
> Do $100K in sales in under 30 days
> 6 months later a crane crashes into my building
> Sneak back in for my laptop
> City pays me $5,000, all of it goes into ads
> Do $2M in sales my first full year
> Take my first flight ever
> Strangers start asking me for help
> Turn those DMs into Supreme Ecom
> Passed $10M in total sales
> Watch students pass $50M in sales
> Buy 7 properties
> Welcome our second baby this October
And every bit of it started with a laptop I had to sneak out of a condemned building.
> Be me
> Lie on my McDonald's application at 13
> Sell drugs in high school, get arrested
> Graduate and get arrested again a week later
> Spend years on probation paying lawyers
> First in my family to leave Kansas City
> Watch my roommate KJ sell fake designer bags online
> Spend 2 days in jail in college
> Graduate with a degree I never use
> Move to Dallas knowing nobody
> Take a job building wine displays 70 hours a week
> Get robbed and lose everything I own
> My job says come in tomorrow anyway
> Quit with $2,500 and rent due in 4 days
> First 2 products flop, $400 gone
> Find a winner on Christmas Eve
> Do $100K in sales in under 30 days
> 6 months later a crane crashes into my building
> Sneak back in for my laptop
> City pays me $5,000, all of it goes into ads
> Do $2M in sales my first full year
> Take my first flight ever
> Strangers start asking me for help
> Turn those DMs into Supreme Ecom
> Passed $10M in total sales
> Watch students pass $50M in sales
> Buy 7 properties
> Welcome our second baby this October
And every bit of it started with a laptop I had to sneak out of a condemned building.
Ac Hampton retweeted
A 14-year-old did $250K in sales in 6 months, working on his store before school every morning.
These are my notes from a call with him.
Copy-paste his blueprint:
Black Friday offers that keep your margin:
- free gift just above your AOV
- spend $100 save $15, $150 save $30
- bundle 3 bestsellers, one price
- $20 credit for January orders
- free shipping on 2+
Customers want to feel like they won. They don't need 50% off to feel it.
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A 14-year-old did $250K in sales in 6 months, working on his store before school every morning.
These are my notes from a call with him.
Copy-paste his blueprint:
If you want to build a store like this step by step
From picking the product to running your first ads, everything we teach is inside Blueprint 6.0 ⬇️
supremeecom.com/twitterx/
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