#1057: Full time Amazon selling after leaving a corporate job - the reality of day to day
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
On today's show you meet someone who has been full-time on Amazon and Walmart for about four years after leaving her corporate job. She shares the details of the lessons she learned and the victories she's had along the way.
She's also one of the most prolific users of Amazon seller tools so we spend a lot of time talking about the different tools she's using for various aspects of her business.
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Today's guest: Cris Beam
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, business building warrior. Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio. My name's Jim Cockram. I'm the host. |
| 0:07.5 | Today, I'll be bringing on a guest in just a minute. It's someone who was on our show about four years ago. |
| 0:12.0 | Right when she went full time into Amazon after leaving her corporate career behind. Well, |
| 0:17.6 | how's it going four years later? What's the reality? The ups and the downs and the |
| 0:22.1 | day-to-day routines of someone who's been doing this for a long time. Seeing the changes come and go |
| 0:28.1 | with the different tools, the different strategies. She's also a coach on our team. She's doing a |
| 0:32.4 | tremendous job. As one of the great coaches in the coaching program, you can read more about |
| 0:37.2 | our coaching at |
| 0:37.9 | silent gym.com. Jump over there and get the details. But this is Chris Beam today. We're going to |
| 0:45.2 | talk to her about her business. She sells on Amazon. She sells on Walmart. She's, like I mentioned, |
| 0:50.7 | had some beautiful results. And she's also had some challenges along the way. |
| 0:55.1 | We're going to be very transparent about that. |
| 0:56.8 | Something I love about Chris is she sees it as her responsibility to the coaching students |
| 1:02.3 | in our community to be familiar with all the different tools and all the different strategies. |
| 1:07.6 | So she's always trying new things. |
| 1:09.5 | She probably has used more seller tools in the different strategies. So she's always trying new things. She probably has used more seller |
| 1:12.9 | tools in the Amazon seller space than anyone. At one point in our episode today, she starts to rattle |
| 1:18.9 | on off the tools that she's using and how she uses them and when and which one she likes and |
| 1:23.5 | prefers right now. By no means, do we suggest that you go out and get all these tools. That's not the |
| 1:30.2 | point. The point is, I think, a couple things. One, we really care about making sure we know what we're |
| 1:36.4 | talking about around here. So we take a lot of time to invest in educating ourselves and understanding |
| 1:43.1 | the industry and understanding the tools that are |
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