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#1070: Seeing the possibilities clearly. An Amazon skeptic with many questions is coming around slowly and about to jump in!

Silent Sales Machine Radio

Jim Cockrum

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.8 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

I recently posted in our Facebook group looking for anyone who :

  • was new to our group

  • was a bit skeptical

  • had many questions

  • was willing to be on our podcast

I found a great candidate! You're about to meet Michael. He volunteered, and we had a great discussion about:

  • ungating

  • done for you business models

  • drop shipping

  • 3PMercury for new sellers

  • the various ways to build a great business on Amazon

  • what it means to "fill the underserved and understocked shelves" in Amazon's massive warehouse networks...

And much more.

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, business building warrior. Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio. Have an unusual episode today.

0:07.0

I am interviewing a guest, but he's only been in our community a few weeks.

0:11.6

What I did is I put a post on the Facebook group and I said, I need someone who has a lot of questions,

0:19.5

someone who's thinking about doing this

0:21.6

business of selling on Amazon, being a reseller, but you've got questions, you've got

0:26.1

concerns, you're a little confused about a few points. Let's just have an open conversation.

0:30.4

Open mic, ask me anything. And let's see where the conversation goes. I've done this a couple

0:35.2

times before, and both episodes turned out to be so

0:37.9

helpful. We got such great feedback. I thought, man, let's do it again. So Michael, who you'll meet in the

0:42.6

minute, he's been in our community at this point for about three weeks now. He's sold about 20

0:48.1

items. He has a lot of questions. You're going to enjoy our conversation. everything about finding good sources for products,

0:57.1

ungating. Should I buy an existing business? What about drop shipping? What about what was the

1:04.9

other topic? We had a really good moment at this start. Well, you'll hear it in just a minute.

1:08.9

He was about to make some pretty bad decisions,

1:13.4

and I kind of talked him out of some of those things because there is a lot of shiny objects

1:18.4

out there. There are a lot of people, I know what it was, talking about even done for you.

1:23.2

Like, hey, just give us some money. We'll build your store for you. We talk about those kinds of

1:27.3

things on today's episode, and we dive into some very specific things that he could. hey, just give us some money. We'll build your store for you. We talk about those kinds of things

1:27.5

on today's episode, and we dive into some very specific things that he could and should be doing

1:32.6

to start to get on the right path and to really build something special. That's what this episode is

1:38.6

all about today is answering those questions. If you're new to our community and you feel like

1:43.6

your questions are

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