#1074: Working 7-8 hours per week and on the way to a seven figure sales goal!
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
We love bringing you all the incredible success stories of Amazon sellers in our community!
Today we meet Matthew.
Matthew has a goal of being a stay-home dad with his stay-home wife because of the business he's building - and they are well on their way! We love sharing the successful journey's of students from our Facebook group and our ProvenAmazonCourse.com training and today we have another great one.
After starting in Feb of 2024, Matt has built a fantastic business and he shares all the details with us generously on this episode!
Watch today's episode on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/B0R8i6W0S0o
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Today's guest: Matthew Borger
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, business building warrior. |
| 0:03.5 | Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your host today, Jim Cochram. |
| 0:08.5 | I'll be bringing on a guest, Matthew, in just a moment. |
| 0:11.5 | He's going to share his story. |
| 0:12.7 | We just finished that interview. |
| 0:14.5 | And you're going to absolutely be inspired and encouraged by what he's done. |
| 0:19.0 | He started just February of 2024. So about it, that was when he |
| 0:23.5 | made his first sale on Amazon after finding our community, jumped into the proven Amazon course, |
| 0:28.4 | got rocking. First sale, February 24, he's slated to net about $50,000 here in 2025. His goal for next year, 2026, is to do 750 to about a million |
| 0:43.5 | in sales at about 10 to 14 percent net margin. That's just following the program. He's jumped in, |
| 0:53.2 | he's working. He shares in the episode today seven or eight |
| 0:56.3 | hours per week. Now, he's worked hard to get where he is. He's taken action. He spends some time |
| 1:03.8 | talking about that today. He's jumped in and been very intentional about building relationships |
| 1:08.8 | in the community. We talk some about that today as well. But for the most part, he's just followed the system. Now, I want to contrast the |
| 1:17.4 | strategy he's using with some of the strategies that you hear, other strategies that you hear us talk |
| 1:22.5 | about on our show in previous episodes. There's really two ways that you can approach Amazon as a reseller. |
| 1:30.4 | You can do the inch deep mile wide or you can do the inch wide mile deep. And we spend some time |
| 1:36.3 | talking about the two, the risk profile of each, why you would want to do some of each, |
| 1:41.3 | which one makes the most sense. Most new students, we suggest to start off with |
| 1:46.7 | the inch-deep mile wide. What does that mean? It means you're selling just a few units at a time |
| 1:53.0 | of a whole bunch of different products, letting software and tools track those opportunities for you, |
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