#1058: What are the best and worst starting point business models if you're new to Amazon selling or are struggling so far??
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
There's a reason we start all new Amazon sellers in our community with the same proven, time tested, low risk, low cost, high odds of success model. It works. It's the core new seller model taught in our award winning ProvenAmazonCourse.com training and our coaching.
What is that model?
Filling the underserved and unstocked shelf space at Amazon's 100s of warehouses in the US with common, boring and easily sourced inventory is simply a beautiful, expansive and fully automatable biz model - as evidenced by the 100s of success stories on our show!
But many new sellers go down different paths and regret it...
What are the common paths that new sellers go down, and what are the risks and challenges of each of them? We talk about wholesale, private label, selling used books, thrifting and clearance aisle sourcing among other models and explain why they all pale in comparison to starting out with selling replenishables sourced easily online of from any authorized retailer.
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ProvenAmazonCourse.com - The comprehensive course that contains ALL our Amazon training modules, recorded events and a steady stream of latest cutting edge training including of course the most popular starting point, the REPLENS selling model. The PAC is updated free for life!
SilentJim.com/mistakes - the common mistakes new sellers make if they aren't trained by qualified coaching or courses
ProvenWholesaleSourcing.com - a free module included in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com that all about wholesale selling on Amazon from the best in our community
Safe Book Profits: ProvenAmazonCourse.com/safebookprofits - the module is also included in the ProvenAmazonCourse library at no charge
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SilentJim.com/kickstart - the low cost step-by-step group coaching classes for new ProvenAmazonCourse.com students
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, business building warrior. |
| 0:03.5 | Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio. |
| 0:05.8 | Thanks for coming along with me for a few minutes today. |
| 0:08.4 | We're going to talk about all the different ways that you can get started selling on Amazon. |
| 0:15.0 | Now, maybe you're not even considering selling on Amazon right now. |
| 0:17.7 | Let me just spend a moment comparing this opportunity to all the other |
| 0:22.9 | e-commerce opportunities that we've seen. Just drop some facts and data. Now, if you've been in |
| 0:27.6 | our community for a while, you've heard me say some of these things, but it's important. Let's lay |
| 0:32.1 | the groundwork. Why do we spend so much time talking about selling on Amazon when we could be talking about |
| 0:39.4 | all kinds of other business opportunities around here? |
| 0:42.9 | Well, it's this simple. |
| 0:44.3 | We see Amazon selling, specifically the models that we train, as the lowest risk, lowest |
| 0:49.3 | cost, lowest barrier to entry business model in all of e-commerce, arguably the entire world of |
| 0:57.1 | business opportunities, with the highest odds of success. That's why we spend so much time here. |
| 1:05.9 | Low risk, low barrier to entry, high odds of success. And I would add to that bright, bright future. |
| 1:14.2 | So let's give some facts, data, and evidence that help unpack what I've just said. |
| 1:19.2 | If you're not aware, e-commerce represents still far less than 20% of all retail spending in the United States. |
| 1:29.1 | That's right. |
| 1:29.8 | If you added up all the transactions online today, everything everybody purchased on eBay, on Walmart, on Amazon.com, online, all the online purchases, all the Etsy stores, and everything else combined. |
| 1:46.6 | It's far less than 20% of retail spending in the United States compared to people going to stores, getting in their car, |
| 1:52.0 | buying things traditionally. E-commerce is in its infancy, in other words. Very bright future ahead. |
| 1:59.9 | This is U.S. government data. If you don't believe me, go ask Google, |
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