I'm coming up on twenty years experience in using the Internet creatively to earn income online. I've seen dozens of business models. The one I'm most excited about for 2022 remains Amazon REPLENS. It’s not necessarily easy, because no business is easy! It's work! The nice thing about the model though is that it's simple and our system works. It scales. It’s incredibly low risk and it consistently leads to other great opportunities. Today I spend some time dispelling common myths about Amazon se...
Oct 18, 2021•43 min•Ep. 400
In this episode we launch the brand new ProvenWholesaleSourcing.com training. We talk about systemizing and stabilizing your results on Amazon by adding in wholesale sourcing! You are more ready than you might realize when it comes to finding profitable wholesale products to sell on Amazon. These are products that are quite often already selling on Amazon profitably, and you can easily join the existing sellers at get a piece of the action. We want to show you how to find these consistent seller...
Oct 13, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 399
On today's episode we meet a ProvenAmzonCourse.com student who is expecting to sell $300K in her first full year of selling on Amazon. She has found dozens of profitable replens using our training and she's also a big fan of our coaching program! Her ROI on average is 50% and her net margins are about 20% and she's excited for the future! We dive into topics like creating bundles that sell well without allowing for competitors, where she goes to source items that sell hundreds of times monthly a...
Oct 11, 2021•40 min•Ep. 398
Today's guest has a goal to hit $350-$400K in sales in 2021 at a very healthy margin. She started her Amazon selling adventure as a young teen and now she has a beautiful, growing business on Amazon based on wholesale and replens strategies. When she first found our community she doubted the legitimacy of our ProvenAmazonCourse.com course, because it was priced too low for her to consider it credible. It took her awhile to come around, but once she did, her business took off and she loved our co...
Oct 07, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 397
Today's episode is the story of a journey from "Amazon basic selling" into "Private Label". If you didn't realize it, 95% of the YouTube "gurus" talking about Amazon selling are convincing new sellers to jump straight into building their own private label brand. This is taught by most experts as, "the ONLY way to go". The truth they don’t tell you though is that an estimated 90% or more of those "PL goldrush seekers" never make a dime - they only lose big. To help avoid the heartbreak and loss, ...
Oct 04, 2021•53 min•Ep. 396
Today's podcast guest is a JimCockrumCoaching.com coaching student who has a great story! He started with our program five years ago, and it hasn't always been smooth sailing. He's very transparent about the journey, but he's stuck with the things we've taught him and in 2021 he's going to easily hit $500K in sales at a 50% margin! He's also quitting his long time corporate job soon and has plans to join our coaching team as our latest hired coach. He gives several specifics today on how he find...
Sep 29, 2021•46 min•Ep. 395
Joe and Julia have built an $800K business online while working full-time at other career jobs. They credit ProvenAmazonCourse.com , our coaching ( JimCockrumCoaching.com ), and the community of sellers who listen to this podcast as the foundational resources that got them to this point. Joe is finally ready to go "full time with amazon" just a few days from now as we recorded this episode. They started out their married life with a handful of serious challenges facing them, but they've now clim...
Sep 23, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 394
Hey Amazon seller - are you curious what the finance pros think of your model? Where's are smart investors going these days in our industry? It's wise to look at the big picture of our industry from time to time and see what the pros think of our model. This is one of those episodes that will encourage you, and will put $500 free money into the pockets of many qualified listeners! Today's guest is Donald Hedig from AccrueMe Watch our interview on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/QNYEI-f8Yek...
Sep 20, 2021•39 min•Ep. 393
Today's guests have quickly built an incredible seven figures+ business out of a spare bedroom. Early in their Amazon journey they sold a single private label product that had a degree of success, but they were suddenly forced to pivot away from their single product when covid killed the sales. They knew they needed a more stable and sustainable approach to achieve their bigger goals. They jumped into the replens model as taught in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course at this point and things took ...
Sep 16, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 392
There are four models of selling physical products on Amazon. As a seller, you need to hear the strengths and weaknesses of each model. Where should you go on the spectrum? Today I discuss these four models and discuss the five characteristics of each model (stability, competition threats, speed of profits etc.) that can be applied to each to help you make the best decision for your online selling efforts heading into 2022. Check out this episode sponsor - Payoneer.com. Skip the credit checks an...
Sep 13, 2021•45 min•Ep. 391
Today's guest is building an Amazon business that allows him to be home with his wife and son while living a flexible schedule that includes plenty of travel. He has been earning income online in different creative ways since 1995, but he calls the strategy taught in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course the only system he's seen that's like "shooting fish in a barrel". After attending our conference in June a couple months ago ( TheProvenConference.com ) he implemented some of what he learned there...
Sep 09, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 390
Today we meet a homeschooling family who operate a million dollar business on Amazon. Prior to finding this community of business building warriors they were doing only OA/RA the traditional way (scanning barcodes and hunting for sales), but they are well into their REPLEN journey at this point and they share the details! We discuss tips for growing your business, our coaching program, what it's like to have a home based business under the same roof as your homeschool and much more. They break d...
Sep 06, 2021•52 min•Ep. 389
Today's guest is a ProvenAmazonCourse.com student with a young family who also works full-time at his "day job" career. He was determined to see what he could do with just $500 invested into an Amazon business following our model in his spare time. He was quickly blown away by what he found in this model, so he used some of his profits to jump into our JimCockrumCoaching.com program. Bottom line, within 8 months while working full time at hs "real job" he'd sold $100,000 in his spare time, and h...
Sep 02, 2021•53 min•Ep. 388
Today's guests have seen their business double each of the past four years. They are using several strategies taught in the ProveAmazonCourse.com course including replens, Private label and common RA/OA strategies. Sarah's blog is also gaining traction! They expect to hit $800K in sales this year at a 30% margin. This episode illustrates what's possible when a couple does the business together while each finding their roles and working hard. Ryan and Sarah Robinson are also coaching students in ...
Aug 30, 2021•52 min•Ep. 387
If you sell on Amazon long enough you are going to face an account health issue. Rest assured that with the proper approach you can safely navigate these types of challenges virtually every time, but if you try to "wing it" or "go it alone" you could put your account at risk. Today's guest is our go to expert for all things "Amazon account health" and he's here to tell us about the brand new course that he's made along with one of our top coaches, Larry Pruett that teaches you all you need to kn...
Aug 26, 2021•39 min•Ep. 386
As a seller, are you prepared for the Oct-Dec shopping season online? Today's episode will get you prepared! In the final three months of the year, there are so many opportunities for online sellers that we frequently hear them saying things like, "I run out of money before I run out of great inventory to buy". New sales records are set on Amazon and in ecommerce overall in the fourth quarter of every year and this year will be no exception. Many sellers actually see higher sales in the final th...
Aug 23, 2021•46 min•Ep. 385
Today's guest is a ProvenAmazonCourse.com student who frustratingly experimented around with several "gig" type jobs and ecommerce opportunities before finding our podcast and community. He shares his journey of small wins and lessons along the way until they made a fateful decision. Along with his wife, our guest decided to jump with both feet into our community about a year ago and pursue the replens model that we teach in the PAC. The bottom line? A year later they did the math and sold about...
Aug 20, 2021•56 min•Ep. 384
Today's guests confess that they had zero previous experience in business before finding ecommerce, yet they've grown an incredible $600K business using the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course and our coaching program. Until recently Mark and Amanda (our guests) were in full time pastoral ministry, and as they've transitioned into Amazon and ecommerce they are pleased to report that their business "is still our ministry". Because of the success of their business, they've been able to hire friends and ...
Aug 16, 2021•54 min•Ep. 383
Today's guest, Vee Osborne is a vibrant, energetic Amazon success story that's sure to inspire you! She's selling about $1,400 per day on Amazon and is heading quickly towards $2,000 per day. She started out with the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course and then jumped into our JimCockrumCoaching.com program soon after. Get this - when she started out with us she had NO experience at all with computers! She's a serial entrepreneur who ran day spas previously, but she always had other people take care o...
Aug 12, 2021•52 min•Ep. 382
Today's guest had never bought or sold anything online up until about three months ago. He ramped up quickly though after finding our community (and avoiding some slick private label "guru's" who nearly had him fooled). He took our fast-start ProvenReplenTraining.com training about 3 months ago and things took off from there! In spite of having a young family and working 70+ hours per week, he's building an incredible business online in his "spare time" and is about to hit $20K for the most rece...
Aug 10, 2021•52 min•Ep. 381
Summer is a slower selling season for many of us ecommerce warriors. How do you stay motivated? What are some mindset "hacks" if you will that keep you moving forward towards big goals? Today's episode has some stories, some resources and some encouragement to help you keep fighting as a business building warrior! I borrow from scripture, from history and from some of the great members of our community who are inspiring us with their spirit and fight! Stay strong warrior! Show note LINKS: Our la...
Aug 05, 2021•37 min•Ep. 380
In my nearly 20 years of watching people succeed or fail in building online income streams, there's a common thread that holds true nearly every time. Lone wolves don't survive, but those who have a community to lean on thrive. And while we are talking about communities, I submit ours for your consideration. In this episode I list out 10 things that make our community special. There are some great lessons in this episode! This episode was also recorded live in front of our Facebook community, so...
Aug 03, 2021•23 min•Ep. 379
Today's guest expects to use strategies he learned from the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course to sell about $700K total at a 100% ROI in his Amazon "REPLENS" business. Recently he hired some help and turned them loose and found approx. 1,000 profitable products for his business in about 5 weeks. The challenge isn't FINDING products to sell - it's finding time to buy them all! We discuss great books, what tools we use and other strategies in this episode. If you are new to Amazon selling you'll be in...
Jul 26, 2021•39 min•Ep. 378
After teaching thousands to launch businesses on Amazon, we've heard just about every excuse in the book and every misconception about Amazon selling that's out there. Today I attempted to tackle the top 10 lies about Amazon selling that seem to be the most popular. With facts and evidence (such as 100's of recent success stories you can easily access), we destroy each excuse and leave you with only one question to answer and it's this: "Am I ready to get to work and build something amazing on A...
Jul 21, 2021•26 min•Ep. 377
After having seen hundreds or recent success stories posted in our free facebook group, I've confidentiality come to the conclusion that there are not only profitable products in your home pantry, but there are income streams waiting to be launched. I give you all the details on today's episode as I dive into the model of Amazon selling that we use to help our students put money in the bank while learning the basics. Many of these students stick with ONLY this model and go on to build incredible...
Jul 05, 2021•19 min•Ep. 376
Do you have an amazon business that's generating $10K or more monthly in sales or are you fairly new to selling on Amazon? Either way, this episode is for you! Today our guest is Jimmy Smith - he's the guy who systemized or Amazon Replens model into a strategy that has now helped thousands. You can scroll through hundreds of recent, candid success posts in our free facebook group! Jimmy shares the current state of the Amazon opportunity from his perspective and also tells us about his soon to la...
Jul 02, 2021•51 min•Ep. 375
Without even meeting you, I can tell you the next stage of growth for your ecommerce business. It's almost certainly an area you've been paying too little attention to lately because of how the world has changed in the virus era, but understanding this simple LEADERSHIP and SERVING lesson is vital to the growth and survival of your business. The next step in your business growth involves using more words - and I'll tell you how in today's episode. This lesson is based on timeless biblical wisdom...
Jun 29, 2021•28 min•Ep. 374
Today's guests have been on an incredible journey the past several years since they nervously (but confidently) made the leap into full-time online income. Since then they've built an amazing business on Amazon, opened a warehouse and hired three workers. They've also coached hundreds of students (your fellow listeners to this show) on our strategies for launching and growing an Amazon business. You'll easily detect how deeply they care about ensuring their students get everything they need in o...
Jun 24, 2021•52 min•Ep. 373
Today's guest happens to be friends with two of the great coaches on our team, so when he and his wife jumped into our ProvenAmazonCourse.com course, things took off fast with the help of his friends! This couple with young kids now has a rapidly growing five figure per month business! It's hard work, but they are excited to see what comes next! Today we hear another success story from a family man with a professional career, and dreams of staying home to build his business even faster! There ar...
Jun 17, 2021•56 min•Ep. 372
Today's guest works two intense full-time jobs and is also building an incredible business using the unique "Amazon Replens" strategies as taught only in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course. She also has three kids! Wow! She's selling about $30K per month at a healthy margin while using only ONE TOOL (Keepa!). That's right - she's not using any fancy software because she understands (as you've heard me say many times), there's NO REASON TO BUY SOFTWARE until you are PUTTING MONEY IN THE BANK! The ...
Jun 14, 2021•56 min•Ep. 371
