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Silent Sales Machine Radio

Voted the #1 podcast for Amazon sellers in late 2024! Still the ONLY Amazon seller podcast that features 100's of RECENT, REAL stories and strategies for Amazon FBA sellers around the world! Welcome to the most listened to and success filled Amazon/Walmart/eBay seller podcast on the web! This is the official podcast of the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course. Inside the free 78,000+ member Facebook group for fans of the show (SilentJim.com has a link) you'll MEET and INTERACT with an amazing community that uses the strategies taught on this show to grow incredible businesses. This show features "real people" from all walks of life who pull back the curtain on the struggles, victories and strategies that come with WORKING HARD to build a beautiful business online. Nothing worth having comes easy, but prepare to be inspired by those who are charting a course towards building an amazing business online. The hundreds of featured guests on the show are ProvenAmazonCourse.com students as well as some of the 7,000+ coaching students from our Ecommerce coaching program that's been operating with a great reputation since 2003. The host, Jim Cockrum (SilentJim.com) has had a reputation as one of the most credible sources of eCommerce strategy advice to be found since 1999. Bottom line: Regardless of experience level, you'll learn proven online business strategies on this show and become an Amazon selling NINJA! This show applies timeless, proven strategies to modern eCommerce challenges. This podcast is for anyone who is looking to build or start an online business the RIGHT way with advice from one of the most trusted names in online marketing. With over 6.3 million downloads on iTunes heading into 2025, you've found the right place to launch and grow the online business of your dreams. NOTE: This show and related content are not related to or endorsed by Amazon.com, nor are the success stories you'll hear representative of typical or average results you can expect. Results discussed are provided for demonstration of what is possible, but are not intended to imply that you'll achieve similar results or any results.
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#790: A live Amazon Q/A with our Facebook members and PAC students

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. Jim shares how the team has coached over 10,000 students and there are so many success stories pinned at the top of the My Silent Team Facebook page! Jim discusses how we start practically all new ...

Feb 24, 20241 hr 17 min

#789: Are you getting your share of the highest margin sales on Amazon? Let's talk about "above buy box" strategies

For a few years now we've had a strategy we've loved sharing with our ProvenAmazonCourse.com and coaching students that interestingly seems to be more easily grasped by our students who have LESS Amazon selling experience. Experienced sellers seem to struggle with this "above the buy box" concept because it's so simple that it goes over their heads quite often as they attempt to over complicate it! A bit of background: Did you know that every day on Amazon millions of shoppers are NOT looking fo...

Feb 22, 202435 min

#788: How hard is building a business on Amazon and what help is out there?

Did you know that we've helped 1,000s of students launch and grow beautiful businesses online? Did you know we have numerous FREE as well as paid resources to assist you? Let's talk about it! Also, today we address the question of just how hard it really is to build a real business. We love to say that we believe we've found the lowest risk, lowest learning curve, lowest investment required business model online with the highest odds of success... that's another topic for today's great episode w...

Feb 21, 202448 min

#787: What's the state of the REPLENS selling model as we face the future of Amazon and Ecommerce?

If there's one rule of thumb with ecommerce it's this: Things are always changing. There's one business model however that we have been bullish about for the past 6+ years and we continue to be increasingly excited about for the future as Amazon needs sellers with this skills set more and more! The evidence is strong as student success stories continue to roll in! I'm talking about the REPLENS business model as taught in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course. Perhaps you've heard many of the 100's o...

Feb 19, 202438 min

#786: Our weekly highlights and recap of powerful business lessons

In today's weekend episode we have highlights of a prior show. In this segment we discuss both our Amazon Influencer training and our Branded Bundles training. We also include the benefits of attending our annual live event. We covered episode #731 - While recovering 18 months from back surgery, she built incredible Amazon income streams. The full episode can be heard at https://silentjim.com/podcast Jim tells listeners how they can get a free copy of his updated book - Silent Sales Machine by t...

Feb 17, 20241 hr

#785: After making a series of classic mistakes, this Amazon seller has a thriving business

Today's guest is a ProvenAmazonCourse.com student and coaching client who has made just about every mistake you can make on his way to building a successful Amazon business! He's failed at drop shipping, sourcing from Alibaba, paying for "done for you", trying to do an MLM with Amazon etc. all while working a full time job. So many CLASSIC red flags... but now he's seeing stability and growth and he's loving the process! If you'd like to hear what NOT TO DO as well as WHAT WORKS on Amazon, this ...

Feb 15, 202448 min

#784: How many ASINs do you need to make a car payment? A house payment?

On today's "coaches corner" episode of the podcast we discuss the reality of finding enough winning/test-worthy asinHow many ASINs do you need to make a car payment? A house payment?s to help make a real dent in your monthly budget. We all started small and built over time - this episode breaks down the reality of the Amazon selling models we've taught to 1,000s of students. We also dive into topics that are popular with our Amazon seller coaching students such as; which of our training offers a...

Feb 14, 202452 min

#783: Small Amazon success leads to other successes - and how to deal with excess and return inventory

Today's new podcast episode is a great ProvenAmazonCourse.com success story who built his business while in college and quickly had a $40k/month business - but that's not where he stopped! He noticed a need in our seller community and he built a service to help deal with any returned inventory so that sellers would not have to worry about it themselves. It's a great example of how diligence with Amazon always leads to additional opportunity! Watch this episode on our YouTube channel here: https:...

Feb 12, 202444 min

#782: A live Amazon Q/A with our Facebook members and PAC students

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. From the team highlights: Jim talks about the My Silent Team Facebook page which now has 74,000 members strong! The purpose of this Facebook group is to teach creative ways to make money online wit...

Feb 10, 20241 hr 1 min

#781: This "Mom-preneur" is building an amazing ProvenAmazonCourse.com business

Today's guest is a busy pastors wife with five kids with no prior business or ecommerce experience, but she's carved out some time to build an incredible business on Amazon using the REPLENS model as taught in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course. She started out selling books (which didn't ultimately work out as you'll hear), but she soon learned of REPLENS and went on to get some impressive results! She's doing so great that we are bringing her onto the team as a coach! Today's episode is sponsor...

Feb 08, 20241 hr 15 min

#780: Using prep centers and managing "tanking" ASINS

Our Wednesday podcast episodes are typically coaches corner episodes. This means we dive into the common issues faced by the ProvenAmazonCourse.com students in our community. Today we discuss what to do about ASINs that drop in price, and we also discuss options for using prep centers to create a more hands-free selling operation. If you haven’t registered for our May 2024 event - TheProvenConference.com event, VIP tickets are going fast! We will have over 40 great breakout sessions at this even...

Feb 07, 202446 min

#779: Revisiting a ProvenAmazonCourse.com student who had just started a year ago

It's always great to catch up with past guests to our podcast and see how they are doing! The last time we interviewed Ted he was a new ProvenAmazonCourse.com student who had just seen his first $7K sales month with REPLENS. On today's episode we catch up with him a year later and he's just had his first $100K month! That's great progress! He's also a new coach on our team with plenty of practical strategies and tips for all of us. You'll learn how he sources, what strategies he's using and some...

Feb 05, 20241 hr 10 min

#778: A live Amazon Q/A with our Facebook members and PAC students

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. Jim discusses the My Silent Team Facebook page and how the hundreds of inspirational successes are posted so new sellers can see that this works! It is easy for new sellers to become distracted wit...

Feb 03, 202436 min

#777: Student lives in Bankok and has built an incredible business selling on Amazon US

Today's guest is a ProvenAmazonCourse.com and coaching student living in (and from) Bangkok. He's followed the REPLENS training and has built an amazing business as you'll soon hear. I was blown away at his unique approach and how he's overcome what some would see as merely obstacles (English as his second language, lives outside the US but sells successfully on Amazon.com in the US, local currency weak against US dollar etc.) Those who pay attention to this episode today however should come awa...

Feb 01, 202439 min

#776: Worst case and best case scenarios for Amazon sellers following the ProvenAmazonCourse.com strategies

On today's new podcast episode we discuss "What’s the Worst That Can Happen? What’s the Best That Can Happen? How do we Mitigate Risk as Amazon sellers?" Other questions include: How many units should I test when trying new products on Amazon? What's the ONE factor that determines my success with the Amazon strategies we teach? Our coaches Brian and Robin have helped hundreds of students succeed with the Amazon models we teach (as part of the ProvenAmazonCourse.com collection of strategies), and...

Jan 31, 202445 min

#775: Busy mom pursuing college degree while also building a beautiful Amazon Business

Today's guest only learned of Amazon REPLENS just a few short months ago. She's a busy mom working full-time and pursuing a business degree but she's managed to just have a very healthy five figure month on Amazon using the strategies as taught in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course. She reveals what she sells, how she finds the winners and how crazy it was having her first month where she shipped $20,000 worth of profitable items herself after having learned the systems just a few short months ea...

Jan 29, 202457 min

#774: Our weekly highlights and recap of powerful business lessons

In today's episode, we have highlights of a prior show put together by the podcast team. This episode highlights an awesome opportunity in creating branded bundles and selling them on Amazon. Our guest has been doing it for years and is quite successful in more ways than just monetarily. We covered episode #709 - Meet a seven figure branded bundle Amazon seller who employs special needs employees Highlights: Jim gives an introduction to the show’s guest, Kim, who is building a beautiful business...

Jan 27, 202436 min

#773: From 30 year corporate career to Amazon five figure monthly seller in a few months

On today’s new podcast episode we meet a longtime friend of mine who recently found himself in a major career change and contacted me about selling on Amazon. He’s doing great as both a ProvenAmazonCourse.com student and coaching student. We are even talking to him now about possibly becoming a coach on our team because his business has grown so rapidly so quickly and he has an incredible teacher's heart! You'll enjoy hearing the insights of what he’s learned along the way so far as well as the ...

Jan 25, 202457 min

#772: Your competitive advantage on Amazon is your sourcing!

Are you looking for a competitive advantage on Amazon? Nothing will make your path as smooth as learning to confidently SOURCE TEST WORTHY ASINS! Odds are that unless you are very experienced or you've been coached by us you are likely skipping over NUMEROUS great WINNING ASINs on Amazon (test worthy products) without even realizing it. That's the topic of today's episode. Watch today's episode on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/r49aG0DU58w Our special guest at the conclusion of today...

Jan 24, 202451 min

#771: Young married couple aiming for a career with Amazon selling and Ecommerce

Our guest today recently graduated from college, but now he's more excited about his Amazon business than his previous traditional career path. He's a ProvenAmazonCourse.com student who got connected to our community through word of mouth (which is the only way anyone ever hears about us). He's just had a huge December - which was only his second full month of being an Amazon seller. He asks a lot of great questions and gives a lot of great tips on this episode - you'll learn a ton while listeni...

Jan 22, 20241 hr 11 min

#770: Our weekly highlights and recap of powerful business lessons

In today's episode, we have highlights of a prior show. This episode includes selling on eBay, Amazon coaching with Coaches Larry and Sue Pruett, getting systems in place, hiring a VA through Legends, getting IP complaints and his store deactivated, appealing the suspension and getting reinstated and more. What a journey! We covered episode #703 - From working in the CIA to building a beautiful Amazon business FT You can hear the full episode at https://silentjim.com/podcast Today's highlights: ...

Jan 20, 202444 min

#769: From loyal eBay seller to new Amazon Replen seller who just had a $50K month

Today's guest still has a full-time job and is taking online college courses... and has a young daughter but he's squeezed into the cracks of his life the Amazon REPLENS selling business model that we teach in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com training - and it's going really well! He started in the Summer of 2023 and he's ramped up incredibly fast! He shares how he finds great inventory, the tools he's using, the power of doing some of your own shipping (FBM), the power of local relationships and also...

Jan 18, 202456 min

#768: The unexpected benefits of testing different products on Amazon

On today's new "coaches corner" podcast episode Robin Joy and Brian answer several why questions related to the 100 ASIN challenge that we teach to ensure success on Amazon. They also discuss a powerful benefit beyond ASINs being added as a replen and that is Amazon's Account Health Rating (AHR) “To ensure your AHR is evaluated in context of the size of your business, you also gain 4 points for every 200 successful orders you fulfilled over the last 180 days.” https://sellercentral.amazon.com/he...

Jan 17, 202432 min

#767: School principal builds incredible Amazon business selling in US from New Zealand and finds a new career

Imagine selling thousands of items monthly in the US on Amazon.com from New Zealand - without ever seeing or touching your inventory! Our guest today knew he needed a big change when one of his sons began to struggle and really needed his family nearby. As a school principal with a busy schedule our guest for today's podcast episode began seeking an internet based opportunity and he found our community. To make a long story short, it's gone incredibly well and he's built a seven figure business ...

Jan 15, 202452 min

#766: A live Amazon Q/A with our Facebook members and PAC students

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 grabbed by the podcast team: Jim introduces himself as well as the community, jokingly referring to this segment as a “Jim-fomercial!” Coach Robin Joy discusses the Kick Start bootcamp -...

Jan 13, 202451 min

#765: Dad works full-time but has built a beautiful business with REPLENS and branded bundles

Today's provenamazoncourse.com success story interview is with a dad who works full-time but still squeezes in a few hours per week and has built an amazing business selling REPLENS and branded bundles. In his own words, "great inventory is everywhere once you understand the system". He started with selling used books, but quickly realized that was a grind he had little time to commit to. Once he got into REPLENS and then soon afterwards studied bundles, things took off! Check out sellerboard - ...

Jan 11, 20241 hr 28 min

#764: I think we've proven this is the lowest risk, highest odds of success Amazon opportunity ever

On today's new "coaches corner" podcast episode we explain why we see our unique approach to Amazon selling we've developed called REPLENS is the lowest risk, lowest learning curve and highest odds of success Amazon seller strategy (and quite possibly the best opportunity in all of ecommerce). If you aren't aware - we teach the REPLENS model in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course as just one of the ways to do very well on Amazon as an ecommerce warrior, but it's also where we start just about ever...

Jan 10, 202454 min

#763: From zero ecommerce experience to a multiple five figure biz in a few months

Today's guest had no ecommerce experience prior to becoming provenamazoncourse.com and coaching students with us during the summer of 2023, and now they already have an incredible business with big goals for hitting six figure months next year! They are about to have a very healthy five figure month at great margins using the REPLENS system that we are so excited about in 2024 for Amazon sellers! Hear their story and 100s of others just like it at on our podcast! At the end of today's episode we...

Jan 08, 20241 hr 17 min

#762: Our weekly highlights and recap of powerful business lessons

In today's episode, we have highlights of a prior show. This episode spotlights the benefit of being part of a like minded community, touches on bundles and how a VA fits into their business model. We covered episode #688 - Forming Relationships in our Amazon seller community pays off big Today's highlights: The 1st guest details her eCommerce journey that has led to this point in time! The 2nd guest then shares her journey to date… The guests emphasize the importance of relationships in this bu...

Jan 06, 20241 hr 6 min

#761: Twenty reasons Amazon sellers should be ecstatic about 2024

Our Amazon seller community is exploding with new success stories lately - and we have some big news that will open up the doors of ecommerce opportunity even further in 2024... And get this - It won't cost our PovenAmazonCourse.com students or coaching students A DIME to join in these exciting new income streams! I'm talking about brand new wholesale selling strategies, getting paid to create simple videos, ramping up Walmart sales systematically, deploying systems to entirely automate OA Reple...

Jan 04, 202439 min
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