Silent Sales Machine Radio

Today's guest works full-time at his IT career job, but he's managed to build an incredible business in his spare time and he's in the process of completely automating it! After trying and failing at a few other ecommerce models, he finally found the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course and he dove into it along with our coaching program ( JimCockrumCoaching.com ). About six months into his journey of se...

If you made the unfortunate mistake of going to youtube to learn to sell on Amazon, odds are you're starting to feel the burn. You've been burned by spending 1000's on a course, 1,000s more on a coach, hundreds monthly on software and then 1000's more on tools, resources, experts and the list goes on and on. In the end, you're stuck with unsellable inventory. We've heard it OVER AND OVER for years...

Today we meet the latest coach to join the JimCockrumCoaching.com team. In 2021 she worked full-time at her "real job", but as a professed "One Mom Show" she also sold $450K on Amazon at 20% net margin without any hired help. She even calls her approach "lazy"!   Her ASP (average selling price) is $72 and she makes about $20 per sale on her various products. She never sees or touches her inventory...

A student recently told me that he was struggling with staying motivated working on his business. This episode is an expanded answer of what I shared with him. I thought you might be challenged by it as well. I discuss a simple "hack" for staying excited about your business or any hard endeavor, also a study that revealed the ONE SIMPLE KEY TRAIT that was discovered among the top 5% highest achiev...

 Imagine turning $300 into $75,000 in sales as a tennager without any other workers helping him - he's a one man show. Today I interview a young man who previously tried several online business strategies that just didn't work out as scalable and steady enough for him to be pleased with his results. He tried dropshipping, shopify & eBay. Eventually he discovered this podcast and our free facebook...

What does the future hold for Amazon Replens sellers? This is an opportunity that is producing such an incredible stream of success stories, but where is it heading in 2022? Is it saturated or expanding? Are profitable replens easier to find or harder? Is the opportunity fading or growing? Is Amazon getting harder to work with? Last month we hosted a virtual event aimed at helping our Ecommerce se...

Today's guest is another JimCockrumCoaching.com student who is thriving. He's a drummer who spent a couple decades in t-shirt merchandising in the Christian music industry. Covid slowed down the entire music industry as it did for so many business models, so he and his wife decided to pivot into ecommerce after a friend of his told him about THIS podcast. He slowly began applying the things he was...

Today we meet a single mom of adult children who tried several different business ideas online before finding our community and finding success. She tried building a blog and it didn't get much traction so she tried launching her own brand of sugar scrubs on Amazon based on pricey coaching she fell for after she heard about it on youtube. As you've heard so many times before, selling your brand as...

There's a proven path that Amazon sellers follow in our community and we are proud to have originated the concept. It's been used by hundreds of our students, and I think you'll find it clarifying and useful. We call it the Amazon seller pyramid. The concept originated with a great leader in our community - Ryan Reger. The way it works is, the lower risk, easier "barrier to entry" models of sellin...

Do you have some tough questions about selling on Amazon? Are you skeptical about the opportunity to build a business on the Amazon platform? Many people have the same concerns you do, so you aren't alone. Recently, in a discussion inside our free Facebook group I asked for some "skeptics" to step forward. I wanted to have a conversation with them about their concerns, the rumors they'd heard and...

Today we meet a couple of JimCockrumCoaching.com students who started out as ProvenAmazonCourse students a couple of years ago. They used only a couple hundred dollar to start their business! They are building an amazing business in spite of some rough struggles along the way. They are ending 2021 with about $250K in sales at a 20% net margin, and they are able to homeschool their 6 kids and "do l...

In this short SEVEN MINUTE episode I'm going to help you understand how you've been lied to about what it means to build REAL a business on Amazon. There are six lies you've likely been told repeatedly about selling on Amazon, and based on having coached 7,000+ students I can confidently destroy each of these lies with facts and data. Watch this episode here on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.b...

Today's guest Tom is a ProvenAmazonCourse.co m student who is only a few months into his Amazon selling journey, but it's going great! The net income he's seeing is about $250/hour in profit! He has advanced degrees in education and his career is helping families who have special needs kids who are on the spectrum. Covid hit his income hard though, so he was forced to go out "on his own" as an edu...

Today's guest is a few years out of college, and he has a good job in his field of study, but he's getting more and more excited about the business he's building in his spare time on Amazon. He's a provenamazoncourse.com student and a coaching student who manages to sell about $15K per month at a healthy 21% net margin in his spare time. We talk about how he finds products to sell, some tips he's...

Today's guest is a former coaching student who became a coach with us about a year ago. She's one of the most organized and disciplined business builders among our leadership team! Her strategy is to have a set plan for every day of the week and she really sticks to it. She's building an amazing multiple-five-figure business that's far more than replaced the income she had in her previous position...

In spite of having a couple years of very challenging family circumstances, today's guest is building a thriving Amazon replens business (as taught in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course). He's also one of our coaching students who shares very openly that it hasn't been an easy journey! He's seeing $75K per month in sales on average right now with a very bright future ahead. His mom is his primary p...

Today's guest is a young man who came to the US from the Philippines at the age of 19. He worked several jobs just to stay afloat but was determined to get more for his wife and family. After wasting time on Ecommerce courses and concepts that took him nowhere (including a pricey private label Amazon course that completely wasted his time and money), he finally discovered this podcast and the Prov...

You may not realize that we've been coaching E-commerce since about 2005 and Amazon selling for nearly a decade. With over 7,000 students served and hundreds of recent success testimonials posted in our free Facebook group, there's one member of our team who has talked to as many if not more of our new students than anyone else. If you call our office for a consultation, she's quite likely the one...

For the past 17 years we've coached thousands of students in Amazon and ecommerce. This episode contains some valuable lessons that will make you more profitable. These are truths that have been around for 1,000s of years in some cases, but you may have never been exposed to them before! Lessons include, why a "TRIBE" is a better strategy than following an "EXPERT" (Proverbs 15:22), the one questi...

Today guest says, "profitable products are just everywhere" and she's right. She's followed the concepts we teach in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course and she's built an incredible business! In her previous job as a high level corporate manager she worked up to 80 hour weeks away from home, but now she enjoys a flexible schedule at home and has more than replaced her corporate income. In fact, jus...

Today's guests owned a plumbing business for 20+ years, but with covid impacting nearly every industry they wanted to find an alternate income source to stabilize their family's financial future. They found what they were looking for in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course - specifically the Replens selling model. They've benefited beyond just adding financial stability however because in working tog...

Today I share some HARD EVIDENCE that reveals why I'm now convinced more than ever that Wholesale strategies are AS PROFITABLE and FAR LESS RISKY than PL strategies are for sellers! It's a common theme on our show to hear me rant about all of the hyped up promises of the PL (Private Label) selling model on Amazon. Virtually every youtube "expert" is talking about PL, but we take an alternate path...

Today we meet a business building duo with an impressive Amazon business and they happen to also be a brother and sister team. The backbone of their business is over $1million in sales of primarily "hard to find" grocery items that are selling very well for them on Amazon. They don't introduce NEW products into Amazon, instead they find products that are already selling well (learned with the REPL...

Do you ever find yourself questioning if you are in the right business or if you are even the right kind of person to have their own business? Does the fear of failure haunt you? Do you lack motivation? Lacking confidence? This episode gives you a few questions you should ask yourself if you find yourself in a state of doubt or low motivation. The questions are based on timeless, biblical wisdom,...

One of the secrets to success behind Rich Potter's multi-million dollar Amazon wholesale/replens business is hiring great people! Today we meet someone he hired whom he met at a gym registration desk. The new hire started out packing and shipping products, but quickly took on more duties with an eager and ambitious attitude. He's now helping find new wholesale opportunities and discover new hot se...