#1053: "I've been in e-commerce since the 90s and it's never been this straightforward to succeed"
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode we hear from an online seller who has been in e-commerce on and off since the mid 90s!
He tried a lot of things that haven't really amounted to much… until now!
Perhaps the most powerful thing he shares today is the fact that, "the game has never been as easy as it is right now" from his perspective.
He's a big fan of the reselling strategies as taught in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com training as well as the software that has completely systemized his approach to running a profitable Amazon business.
"I run out of money way before I run out of great inventory to buy."
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Today's guest - Gary Inman
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, business building warrior. Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio. I have a guest today. It's a guy who's built a |
| 0:06.8 | beautiful business using the strategies we teach around here. He's a big fan of 3P Mercury. And I love his |
| 0:16.1 | perspective today when he talks about how this software has changed the game for his business. He's been doing |
| 0:23.3 | e-commerce about as long as I have. Like we're late 90s guys when it was just eBay. He's been, |
| 0:30.0 | as you'll hear him describe, he's been doing it that long. And nothing's really ever caught on. |
| 0:35.9 | He's made a little money here and there. He's had to have a |
| 0:38.2 | full-time job. He tried to launch a private label brand. So many Amazon sellers fall into that |
| 0:44.4 | death trap of thinking that the best way to get onto Amazon is to try to launch a new product. |
| 0:50.3 | Well, you've heard me say many times on this show, industry statistics have proven out over time that around 95% of everyone who tries to go down that road fails. |
| 0:59.8 | As did Gary, our guest today, ended up just totally bombing, got himself into debt because of that, had to get a real job. |
| 1:06.9 | Started trying again a few years ago, found our community, started using 3P Mercury. |
| 1:13.7 | Now he says, the game has changed so much. |
| 1:17.5 | It's so much easier now to make good decisions. |
| 1:20.7 | He's just finding great Aesons all over the place from all different manner of strategies to do so. |
| 1:26.8 | And he explains today how he's doing it. |
| 1:28.3 | Some of it's super lazy. You'll be blown away how lazy it is, how easy it is to just throw Asans |
| 1:34.3 | into the software. And he lets the software tell him when it's time to go buy the products. |
| 1:41.1 | And he said his business has finally made the shift. And this is one of my favorite |
| 1:45.4 | parts of the episode today. The business has made the shift from me trying to find valuable |
| 1:50.1 | products and viable, profitable inventory to I just need more capital. I got inventory that I could |
| 1:56.8 | buy for days. The system is telling me exactly what I need to go buy next. And that's the |
| 2:03.2 | 3P Mercury software that he's talking about. So if you're ready to run a serious business, |
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