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 achieving sales reps at a huge company. I also discuss the concept of "finding your why" from a biblical a...
Jan 28, 2022•14 min•Ep. 430
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 community - he explains how he knew we were different when he started seeing all the success stor...
Jan 26, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 429
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 seller community prepare for the changes, challenges and opportunities that we see coming at us in 202...
Jan 20, 2022•53 min•Ep. 428
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 learning from this show and the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course and he soon had a $4K sales in his fi...
Jan 17, 2022•51 min•Ep. 427
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 a new seller on Amazon almost never works out and it didn't work out for our guest either. When she...
Jan 14, 2022•48 min•Ep. 426
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 selling on Amazon make up the base of the pyramid, and the more advanced, slightly riskier (and higher rew...
Jan 12, 2022•12 min•Ep. 425
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 the tough questions that were keeping them from moving forward in launching a business as an Amazon ...
Jan 10, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 424
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 life together" as a result. They aren't where they want to be in their business just yet, but they ar...
Jan 06, 2022•49 min•Ep. 423
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.be/tK5GCZiWVFI Show note LINKS: Keepa - the ONLY tool our new sellers need as they go through our Pro...
Jan 05, 2022•8 min•Ep. 422
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 educator and he needed more income. Within just a few months he's about to have his first $10K sales mo...
Jan 03, 2022•57 min•Ep. 421
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 using from his coach to make shopping and prep more efficient, how he finds new inventory to sell, w...
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 420
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. Her Amazon business even helped sustain her family as her husband (a dentist) was furloughed for m...
Dec 27, 2021•59 min•Ep. 419
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 partner, and he has a small team of part-time workers as well. He shares lessons today about how they...
Dec 23, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 418
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 ProvenAmazonCourse.com course. He decided he wanted to use a JimCockrumCoaching.com coach. He quickly ra...
Dec 20, 2021•41 min•Ep. 417
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 you'll talk to. Today, instead of interviewing one of our successful students, I interview our cons...
Dec 16, 2021•52 min•Ep. 416
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 question you should ask when someone attempts to create fear by claiming a business model is "dead" (1 Sam...
Dec 13, 2021•1 hr 1 min
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, just a few days prior to recording this episode, today's guest hired her husband to join her so they bo...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 414
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 together on their business, their marriage has also improved in unexpected ways as you'll hear. They ar...
Dec 06, 2021•52 min•Ep. 413
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 ESPECIALLY for new sellers. New evidence has come to my attention that makes our approach very valid...
Dec 02, 2021•26 min•Ep. 412
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 REPLEN strategy that we teach in the ProvenAmazonCourse that pops up so often in our success stories on ...
Nov 29, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 411
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, and I've seen these questions help many people get back on track when they feel like they've hit a m...
Nov 22, 2021•38 min•Ep. 410
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 selling bundles as well as managing two virtual assistants. Today I interview that "new hire turned bu...
Nov 18, 2021•45 min•Ep. 409
Today we meet a student who is doing very well selling on Amazon while also generating results with several other strategies that she's learned primarily from the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course. The "PAC" contains modules for numerous strategies, and Vicky has jumped into many of them with excellence. As a former school teacher turned homeschool mom, she's really great at communicating her inspirational story that's sure to have several great lessons and motivational tidbits for you to enjoy. She...
Nov 15, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 408
If you are curious about what's working now for Amazon sellers, you'll love this episode. Today we catch up with the leading Amazon Replens expert on our team - Jimmy Smith. We discuss the current challenges we are seeing among many Amazon sellers and the creative solutions that are working for so many of us. We also spend a bit of time discussing why we call the biblical model for doing business "the most tested, relevant and proven model you'll find anywhere" for growing a business of any kind...
Nov 11, 2021•41 min•Ep. 407
Today's guests are heading towards doing $1.4-1.5Million in sales on Amazon in 2021 and are projecting to double that next year. They credit our coaching team for what they’ve developed as you’ll hear. They are most excited about the brand protected bundles they’ve built that are selling very well and are easily sourced. They started with the simple strategies that we teach in our ProvenAmazonCourse.com course and ran a thriving RA (retail arbitrage) business in the US while traveling internatio...
Nov 08, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 406
Rich Potter and Jim were recently invited to be a guest on another Amazon seller podcast. It was a great conversation, so we added it as an episode for you on this podcast. We discussed Wholesale on Amazon, building multiple income streams, the unique system that Rich has developed for growing his $4.5million Amazon business (as taught in the ProvenWholesaleSourcing.com course), Scott Needham’s new software tool called "SmartScout" that we are all excited about ( SilentJim.com/ss has the best pr...
Nov 04, 2021•54 min•Ep. 405
Today's episode is for established Amazon sellers who are looking for a great way to win the buy box more often, increase profits and save time. If you are spending more than a few minutes per day on repricing, then it's probably time to look into getting a repricer set up on your account. Not all repricers are the same though -today we talk to the one I use called Bqool. They are one of the most popular repricing software companies in the industry today and they also have an incredible special ...
Nov 01, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 404
What do Covid, political unrest, supply chain disruptions and economic uncertainty all have in common? They all add up to huge opportunities for Amazon sellers who follow our strategies in 2022! That's right - while it may be difficult to watch current headlines drip a constant stream of bad news into your day, this podcast episode is an oasis of hope as we help you realize that in all OPPOSITION there is OPPORTUNITY - and I'm not just talking about wishful thinking and good attitudes. I'm talki...
Oct 28, 2021•31 min•Ep. 403
Did you know that several of our most exciting student success stories have come from people who started on Amazon business with very little and then went on to grow incredible businesses? Today I share how they did it. You don't need a lot of cash, and you shouldn't be listening to the pricey course sellers if you are new to making money online. We offer a better way- with loads of stories from real people to back up our approach to Amazon seller success. Keep your wallet in your pocket and ram...
Oct 25, 2021•46 min•Ep. 402
This is an episode that both brand new sellers and experienced sellers alike should find very useful. With thousands of Amazon sellers listening to this show, as well as in our free facebook group and as coaching students, we've notice many trends. One of the trends we see a lot in our community is "stalled growth". For some sellers they stall at $5,000 per month in sales. Others stall at $100,000 per month in sales - or maybe you are stalled at $0! Regardless of where you are "stuck", this epis...
Oct 21, 2021•53 min•Ep. 401
