#1080: Starting with $150 for inventory and building a beautiful business
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
After being let go from his job a few months ago, Brandon and his wife went "all in" with their Amazon business. In spite of using only $150 sto start with for inventory, they've built a fantastic business and on this episode you'll hear their story. We celebrate with them as they've just passed the six figures in total sales because of their work using ProvenAmazonCourse concepts and 3PMercury to manage their business.
They credit the community of Business Building Warriors and the relationships they've established for not only improving their income, but also in their own words, "helping to save our marriage and bringing us closer to God" - they are doing business together from home now and the future is bright.
We love telling ProvenAmazonCourse.com and coaching success stories on our podcast and this is a great one!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, business building warrior. Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio, the podcast, as you probably know, that features hundreds of interviews with very real people with very raw stories talking about their journey from, in most cases, never had any success online, to building beautiful businesses. And today, I just finished up an |
| 0:24.1 | episode. I'm recording the introduction now, talking to you, that was very moving, very rewarding |
| 0:31.2 | for me to be a part of. And I love all the episodes that we do. But today is a very special one. |
| 0:37.9 | And I think you'll figure out why as we go. |
| 0:40.3 | You're going to meet Brandon and Bonnie. |
| 0:42.5 | They've been in our community for several months now. |
| 0:45.0 | They were part of our recent event. |
| 0:46.9 | And they came and they attended that event with us at our conference in Florida. |
| 0:50.8 | They've sold about $100,000 now. |
| 0:53.5 | He was laid off from his job and went full-time |
| 0:58.2 | into e-commerce with his wife. They made the leap. And just the realness of their story, |
| 1:04.3 | I think you're going to find very compelling. They started with just $150 for inventory. That's it. $150.50. And they followed our programs. |
| 1:15.2 | I'll put links to the tools and resources that they mentioned today. They got into coaching, |
| 1:19.8 | and they just speak with such high regard to the entire experience. I'm grateful that God sends us |
| 1:26.0 | people like this to serve, and it's a pleasure serving them. |
| 1:29.3 | And I think you're going to be inspired and encouraged by their story. |
| 1:32.3 | And if you find yourself thinking, hey, I wouldn't mind hearing a little bit more of how I might make some things like this happen in our life with you and your family. |
| 1:42.3 | Hey, give us a call. You can text us or call us anytime. There's |
| 1:47.6 | phone numbers at silentjim.com slash book a call or go to silentjim.com, click on coaching |
| 1:53.7 | and you'll see a page that has our phone number where you can text us or you can schedule a time |
| 2:00.1 | where you can have a free |
| 2:02.0 | half-hour consultation with either me or someone on our team to talk to you about your business, |
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