#1049: She's almost 80 years old and she's never had this much fun growing a fantastic business
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is an interview with a successful proven Amazon course student who has recently built an incredible business and now can't wait to retire so she can go full-time in continuing to expand!
She's a huge fan of 3PMercury (https://3pmercury.com/friends) as well as our coaching program (SilentJim.com/bookacall).
She shares with us today that she's nearly 80 years old and her desire is to be an encouragement and inspiration to others because she has never had this much fun building a business before and her entire life.
She's a lifelong teacher and entrepreneurial thinker and she's a delight to spend time with.
She mentions several specific strategies and tools that she's using to achieve her incredible success and listeners of all levels of experience and results in the e-commerce world will enjoy spending some time with this Incredibly generous student.
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Today's guest: Sylvia Williams
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, business building warrior. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio. |
| 0:05.0 | Got a treat for you today, a guest who I think you're absolutely going to love. |
| 0:09.0 | I just got to spend some time with her, getting to know her. |
| 0:13.0 | It's a student from our community who has so many great tips and strategies to share for sellers, |
| 0:20.0 | so much encouragement. I think you're |
| 0:22.0 | going to love her perspective, her approach, her enthusiasm, and get this, she shares on today's |
| 0:27.3 | show, she's pushing 80 years old. She's, she is in the later years of her career. She's worked |
| 0:35.8 | in all kinds of businesses. She's right now she's training |
| 0:39.0 | mortgage brokers. She's going to step away from that soon and free up her calendar even more to do |
| 0:43.6 | what she really loves, which is building her Amazon business. She's using the proven Amazon |
| 0:49.5 | course strategies that you hear us talk about so often around here proven amazon course dot com she's one of those |
| 0:56.1 | students she's in our coaching program she's using a tool called three p mercury which you've heard |
| 1:01.6 | us talking about more and more around here lately because it's just cranking out the success stories |
| 1:06.0 | it's really changed the game on how you can be an Amazon reseller or Walmart seller, for that matter, |
| 1:12.4 | and succeed. It's really helped with the workflow. You'll hear her describe it in her own words. |
| 1:16.9 | She said she couldn't do without it. It's helped her grow her business. And she's achieving great |
| 1:22.7 | results. She's super excited about it. She's tried a lot of other business models in the past, |
| 1:27.2 | struggled, failed, never got the results she was hoping for. She says for the she's super excited about it she's tried a lot of other business models in the past struggled |
| 1:27.7 | failed never got the results she was hoping for she says for the first time she feels like she's |
| 1:33.1 | building something truly meaningful that she's excited about and she can't wait to be able to spend |
| 1:38.0 | more time pouring into it with her and her husband the list of resources is fairly long that we reference and allude to today. |
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