#1085: The $5K stall: From figuring it out to owning your business
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
You've learned how Amazon works. You're sourcing, shipping, and seeing sales. Then out of nowhere, the growth stops. You're working hard but not progressing.
In this Coach's Corner episode, Brian and Robin Joy talk through what they call the stall - that stage where progress plateaus and motivation fades. They unpack why it happens, how to recognize it early, and what to do before it quietly kills your business.
Robin shares two stories from her dad - one about a stubborn bloodhound and another about learning to take short-term pain over long-term frustration. Both reveal how comfort keeps you stuck.
This episode blends tough love, humor, and practical coaching to help you push through the stall, build real momentum, and start owning your business instead of letting it own you.
Special guest at the conclusion of today's show, Jeff Schick of JeffSchick.com answers the question: "Can I ignore messages that come to me via Amazon messaging from other sellers?"
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Silent Sales Machine Radio. We are your co-hosts. I'm Brian. And I'm Robin Joy. |
| 0:06.8 | This is Coach's Corner. Hey, everybody. How's it going? It's going well for me. How about you? |
| 0:11.6 | Doing well. Looking nice as usual. Thank you. You look cold. |
| 0:19.6 | You know, I went to the doctor yesterday and I'm like, I don't, this reminds me of like when I was a kid and we used to go to my grandparents' house. |
| 0:26.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.4 | The way I feel right now. |
| 0:28.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.9 | And he would be wearing a long-sleeved shirt with a cardigan sweater. |
| 0:33.2 | And then inside it, the thermostat would be at 80 degrees. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm like, holy smokes. It's so hot in here. But lately, I'm becoming that person. I'm like, I'm always cold. No, you're cold all the time. So, yeah, we don't, I don't know. It could just be aged. Let's assume that's what it's right. Now you're the grandfather in the story. I am. You're right. |
| 0:59.6 | Funny how things change, right? Yeah. Well, what's been going on this week for you, Brian? |
| 1:10.1 | We've had more than one conversation around a particular topic. You know, everything we do here has been, is based on sometimes as questions directly from our coaching clients that we extract from a coaching session. |
| 1:15.6 | And we bring here this week, it's more of a overall. It's kind of an observation of a lot of people we've noticed are in this, in a kind of a slump lately. |
| 1:23.0 | And we want to talk about that and see if we can help you. |
| 1:25.3 | This is what we're going to call our tough love episode. Get ready. So if you're feeling called out, it's not just you. I'm saying we've had multiple sessions like this over the past few months. And it's like, so here's what happens. There's two phases of this business, which we'll get into in a minute. But the first phase is kind of figuring everything out. |
| 1:44.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.4 | You know, what's an a thing? How do I make a shit? Does it really work? Mm-hmm. Yeah. You know, really can I buy it retail and sell and blah, blah, blah. What are these emails from Amazon meeting? Yeah. Yeah. How do I handle this refund? and all these kinds of fun things, right? |
| 2:01.2 | And then you sort of get that part figured out, |
| 2:03.7 | and you know, all these kinds of fun things, right? |
| 2:01.2 | And then you sort of get that part figured out and you know how it works and then you take your foot off the gas. |
| 2:07.7 | And I say you. |
| 2:08.9 | I'm like pointing at you, right? |
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