#1102: Coaching student has 45,000+ ASIN machine selling in the U.S. living in Germany!
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
You meet people who want freedom. Then you meet someone who refuses a boss so much he reverse-engineers his whole life. After Derek left the Army, he started Amazon FBA with nothing but podcasts, stubborn grit, and a few painful months of trying to "make a penny per ASIN."
In this talk, we walk you through his jump from Excel chaos to 45,460 ASINs stored, his real replens, and a system that runs while he sleeps. You'll hear how he fights through IP blocks, bad prep centers, order cancellations, and the mental weight of slow progress.
If you ever wondered what happens when someone treats sourcing like a gym routine, delayed gratification like a religion, and three in the morning like normal business hours, this one shows you.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Silent Sales Machine Radio. |
| 0:03.7 | I am your co-host, Brian, and today I'm joined by special guest, The Man Behind the Legend. |
| 0:10.6 | The recent podcast episode we did here around using bulk sourcing tools and 3P Mercury to build up a large database of testable acin's, Mr. Derek Kamro. Welcome to the show, Derek. Hey, Brian. How are you doing? I'm doing great, thanks. We didn't talk about whether I was going to cover that on the podcast in advance, so I didn't drop your name then, but we've had many good conversations over the months that we've been working together, and so it made sense to go ahead and bring you on. And first of all, |
| 0:38.5 | just get some information about your background, |
| 0:41.0 | how you got into this, |
| 0:42.4 | how it started for you, |
| 0:44.6 | sort of what that middle part looked like |
| 0:46.6 | and where things are looking for now. |
| 0:49.3 | How do things look going forward? |
| 0:51.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.7 | So I'm Derek Kamlo. |
| 0:53.3 | I am 35. I currently live in southern Germany, the city of |
| 0:58.9 | Nuremberg. I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina. I joined the Army in 2012. In July of 2024, |
| 1:09.7 | is when I got out of the Army, so close to 13 years. |
| 1:14.2 | I moved back to Germany. |
| 1:15.8 | I was once stationed here, and that's where I met my wife. |
| 1:18.4 | We now share two kids, a boy and a girl, a two-year-old, and a six-year-old. |
| 1:23.5 | And they're a job on themselves. |
| 1:25.0 | But I think anybody that has been in that life situation understands. |
| 1:31.3 | But yeah, so I've been out here. |
| 1:33.7 | And one thing with leaving the Army is a life goal of mine was to never have a boss again. |
| 1:40.5 | And so I started looking up everything, you know, |
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