"So, what do I need to learn next in order to succeed with my online or Amazon business?" Have you ever asked that? We can help. There are several reasons our E-commerce coaching program has lasted for over two decades while most business coaching companies fail within a year or two. The biggest reason by far is all of the success stories we've generated from our courses ( provenamazoncourse.com ) and coaching clients - and all those successful students tell others! That's how our community cont...
Nov 08, 2023•43 min
So often on our podcast, we hear stories of people who have built incredible businesses, but today’s episode is perhaps one of the most powerful stories we've ever told from a ProvenAmazonCourse.com community student. The student I interview today has been in our community for well over 10 years at this point and has built one of the most incredible brand building success stories That Amazon has arguably ever seen. Not only has this product been a top 10 item on Amazon in the grocery category, i...
Nov 06, 2023•52 min
Once per week or so our Amazon seller leadership team and I love to go live on Zoom with whoever can join us and answer as many ecommerce and Amazon selling related questions as possible. We love to capture the best moments from these Monday night sessions for you and turn them into a podcast episode. If you have questions about Keepa, this episode is a must listen for you! Just a few of the highlights captured by the team: Jim lays out exactly what “underserved listings” are and how to go about...
Nov 04, 2023•50 min
We have created a simple to use software tool that is going to change the way Amazon sellers source great inventory online. It's called ProfitSeekerPro.com and you are the first to hear about it. Many of the first 30 or so "insider" students we showed it to were getting results with it DURING THE LIVE DEMO! On today's podcast episode I talk to my partner on the project - Joseph Kelsey. He's a success story from the provenamazoncourse.com course, a coach on our team and the lead project manager f...
Nov 02, 2023•35 min
On today’s coaches corner episode of the podcast, we hear from Brian and Robin Joy as they dive into what they are seeing while coaching numerous students from our community. For example, we are hearing from many students who are having success selling products well above the buy box. They reveal why this process works. You also hear them talk about the difference between community listings and private listings. Understanding the difference is foundational as a new seller. Get ready for a heavy ...
Nov 01, 2023•43 min
Today's new podcast interview is with a recent college graduate who is using his Amazon income to travel while working only a few hours per week! He's a coaching student of our turned coach who started out with the REPLENS model as taught in the provenamazoncourse.com course, and is now working on wholesale and branded bundles strategies as well. Watch on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/pz3_9-3IJ-M Show note LINKS: https://SilentSalesMachine.com - text the word “free” to 507-800-0090 to ge...
Oct 30, 2023•43 min
This segment will be a huge encouragement to those who want a little guidance in what it means when Jim says "build relationships and your business will grow" and how to go about it. We covered episode #657 - An Update from a student we interviewed three years ago - Spencer Carlson. You can listen to the full episode at https://silentjim.com/podcast The guest discusses growing his Amazon business and developing relationships along the way! The guest talks about his team as well as some of his pr...
Oct 28, 2023•1 hr
Today's guest is a former high school teacher and IT professional who stepped away from her career to live a flexible lifestyle on her own terms thanks to the ProvenAmazonCourse.com training and her multiple six figure sales. Initially, she considered launching a private label brand with a different strategy before finding us, but she moved decided against that because of what she calls some "sketchy" elements in the other group, but as she's grown into the Amazon opportunity, she's now explorin...
Oct 26, 2023•1 hr 5 min
We love capturing, podcast episodes for you that not only encourage you, but also equip you with very specific strategies for ongoing success with Amazon! Today we talk about the most popular selling model in our community - REPLENS! On this "coaches corner" episode you will hear the seven activities that are required of any successful Amazon Replens seller. If you learn the seven steps, you give yourself the best chance at building a beautiful business as so many of our students are doing right...
Oct 25, 2023•48 min
Today's all new podcast episode is the story of how Greg has built an incredible business on Amazon with ONLY Legos! These ideas will snap into place for you nicely as you if you're ready for another great income stream! We are also excited to be launching the ProvenBrickInvesting.com course today as well - the doors will close quickly when we launch this class - check it out asap! You'll learn from a seven figure LEGO seller who has built an amazing and VERY EXPANSIVE system that we know will b...
Oct 23, 2023•43 min
Once per week or so our Amazon seller leadership team and I love to go live on Zoom with whoever can join us and answer as many ecommerce and Amazon selling related questions as possible. We love to capture the best moments from these Monday night sessions for you and turn them into a podcast episode. Highlights collected by the podcast team: Jim gives a general overview about the My Silent Team community and FB group. He also gives an explanation of the Replen model, which is basically serving ...
Oct 21, 2023•1 hr
There's a reason why we have more success stories in our community than any other E-commerce community I've ever seen. It's a combination of several things. The 20+ years experience succeeding with E-commcere, eBay & Amazon, the team of 60+ coaches with beautiful businesses, proven strategies that are carefully vetted and tested for months before we dare share them with our community and perhaps most importantly... We start virtually ALL of our students with the same basic skills that ensure...
Oct 19, 2023•48 min
The interview portion of today's episode was recorded BEFORE the terrorist attack in Israel. The episode is with a good friend of mine - Rabbi Daniel Lapin and his wife Susan who are currently in Israel on a business trip. One of the lessons he taught me about being a business building warrior is that you never allow things that are out of your control to steal your attention from those responsibilities that are under your control. One of those responsibilities (even during times of uncertainty)...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 18 min
This segment will be a huge encouragement to new sellers who are struggling to get momentum or who are having difficulty staying motivated! Jim talks about “bringing dad’s home” as the core mission of his work! We covered episode #618 - This Coaching Student's journey is a journey of mindset and consistency. You can listen to the full episode at https://silentjim.com/podcast Highlights compiled by the podcast team: Jim and the guest also discuss how important mindset and relationships are in thi...
Oct 14, 2023•49 min
On today's all new podcast episode we meet two friends who've know each other since the 6th grade and together they've built a successful business using the provenamazoncourse.com strategies that you've heard so many of our podcast guests rave about! They've done everything from Etsy, to books and bulk purchases, but their business stabilized and they had their first ever seven figure year with the REPLENS model that has been the foundation of so many great success stories! They are now getting ...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 12 min
If you've heard some of the 100's of success story interviews among new Amazon sellers on our podcast, you've likely say many times that, "You should be looking for ASINs instead of 'winning products' on Amazon" What does that mean? How do you do it? How can we help you like we've helped so many others? Today's episode explains the systems we've created that will help you find the opportunity hiding right under your nose on Amazon. It's the REPLENS system - and it's where we start 95% of all our...
Oct 11, 2023•43 min
I've worked with virtual assistants around the world to help grow and scale my business for over 15 years. Today I share some practical tips and strategies for finding great workers who can help you grow - often for just a few dollars ($3-$4/hr). What jobs can they take on? How do you narrow down the candidates quickly if you get 100s or more candidates applying? Isn't paying them $3-$4 exploitation? What jobs do these VA's do for Amazon sellers? What strategy should you use to train them? All t...
Oct 09, 2023•33 min
Once per week or so our Amazon seller leadership team and I love to go live on Zoom with whoever can join us and answer as many ecommerce and Amazon selling related questions as possible. We love to capture the best moments from these Monday night sessions for you and turn them into a podcast episode. Highlights compiled by the podcast team: Jim opens the Facebook Live session with some general introductory comments before he dives into answering listeners’ questions! Jim reminds the listeners t...
Oct 07, 2023•59 min
There are many ways to go wrong when you are starting out your Amazon business building journey. A few examples: >Going all in on a private label brand leads to extreme disappointment about 95% of the time >Buying from sources that aren't legit (closeouts, liquidations, "done for you models", warehouses that do the buying for you etc) These can all lead to sudden death for your account >Going too deep to fast on what you think is great inventory ...the list is long and we've seen it all...
Oct 04, 2023•51 min
It's a rare occasion when an Amazon executive sits down with an Amazon podcaster to do an interview addressing sellers. To my knowledge, today is quite possibly an industry first! It was truly and honor to be honest. Claire O'donnell is the director of Seller Partner Empowerment and "Communities & Trust" at Amazon. She's has about 700 employees in her organization at Amazon who are all in "seller facing" positions - meaning they are focused on building connections and trust with sellers like...
Oct 02, 2023•23 min
Show note LINKS JimCockrumCoaching.com - Get a free session with a business consultant on our team at 1-800-994-1792 / 1-801-693-1688 or TEXT US at 385-284-7701 (US & Canada only for Text) ALL of our coaches are running very successful businesses of their own based on the models we teach here! We’ve been setting the standard for excellence in e-commerce and Amazon seller coaching since 2002 with over 7,000 students served! Hundreds of our successful, happy students have been interviewed on o...
Sep 30, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Today we meet a seven figure Amazon seller who has built her dream business around her core mission. She wanted to have a business that employed special needs and physically challenged adults- giving them the dignity of work while building a profitable business serving happy customers... and she's done it with BRANDED BUNDLES (the same way we teach it in the ProvenBrandedBundles.com course!) Check this out - one of her best workers assembling her bundles is legally blind, but he is a top perform...
Sep 28, 2023•33 min
Having a balanced book of business on Amazon means having stability. How can this be achieved? That's the topic we discuss today! It'll take some work at first and it will be hard before it's easy, but this is the necessary path every true Business Building Warrior must go down! We also announce our upcoming Virtual Conference to help kick off the fourth quarter! Unlike past years, we are offering our Q4 training at NO COST to our PROVENAMAZONCOURSE.COM and coaching students! Come join us! Detai...
Sep 26, 2023•49 min
Amazon recently hosted 2,500+ sellers at their Seattle headquarters and we were honored to be invited to attend at no charge as "media". I think they wanted us there because of the popularity/influence of our podcast, but regardless - it was a huge honor to attend at no charge! On this episode Nathan Bailey (my 20 year coaching director) and I discussed the event, what we learned and make some observations about what we think the future holds for Amazon sellers. We also discuss a bit of what's i...
Sep 25, 2023•29 min
In this segment, you'll hear a bunch of great highlights from a previous episode. A few nuggets include tenacity and keeping at it, putting the pieces in place with the right mindset and what is a sustainable business model. Listen to the full episode - Episode 653: Branded bundles on Amazon have changed her life at https://silentjim.com Highlights: The guest shares how she’s always wanted to be an entrepreneur and during Covid, she came upon the Amazon opportunity which was low risk so she was ...
Sep 23, 2023•51 min
There are a few practical and mindset shifts that will give you a HUGE advantage in business. If you pair these lessons with Ecommerce, you become virtually unstoppable. These lessons have been learned over 20 years of teaching 1,000s of students. The patterns are undeniable. On today's episode I discuss: -Why ecommerce is different than traditional business -Your opinion on "profit" REALLY matters -Why multiple income streams matters and how to make it happen while staying sane -The necessary r...
Sep 21, 2023•42 min
In this segment, you'll hear a bunch of great highlights, but a few nuggets are what are the essential tools to get started, an inside look at sourcing and why the "why" is important. You can hear the full episode at https://silentjim.com/podcast Episode #613 - Four months into AZ Replens and these lifelong friends are seeing exciting results HIghlight notes: The guests talk about starting their Amazon selling and discuss The My SIlent Team facebook page, The Proven Amazon course (PAC), Keepa, c...
Sep 16, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Today's podcast guest is another successful provenamazoncourse.com student (and coaching student) who has seen some true challenges and struggles in the past few years. He's very candid about the relational and health challenges that likely would have ended the dreams of many people, but he's persisted and gone on to build a beautiful life and business on the other side of it all. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/0m0AuJt1jhA Don't forget to check out sellerboard, our a...
Sep 14, 2023•51 min
Sometimes we get new Amazon selling students who have already sent in multiple shipments that might not have been quite as successful as they had hoped they'd be. On today's new podcast episode we talk about the solutions we offer these students in our coaching. We also have an update for you about our ProvenBrandedBundles.com brand new course! Learn to launch bundle listings with brand name products on Amazon that competitors can't jump on with you! Special guest at the conclusion of today's sh...
Sep 13, 2023•40 min
Today's guests started with very little funding and are super excited about the trajectory and results they are seeing in their Amazon business! You'll be encouraged and inspired by the latest ProvenAmazonCourse.com students who've agreed to be interviewed about their journey! The community, their coaches and all the relationships they've built along the way have played a huge role as you'll soon hear! They have big plans for Q4 2023 as well! Watch this on our video channel: https://youtu.be/A85...
Sep 11, 2023•1 hr 8 min
