#1126: After 27 years he just quit his senior corporate position because his Amazon business is exploding!
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Today's ProvenAmazonCourse.com student just quit his corporate job right as we recorded this episode. He had enjoyed a 27 year career at an executive level, but the prospect of being home building his own ecommerce business offered far more reward and a better lifestyle as well - so he's jumped in to being full-time online!
In 2025 he enjoyed $700K in sales at a whopping 21% net profit WHILE holding down his corporate career - and now that he's just gone full-time on Amazon, the future is VERY bright!
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Today's guest: Rick Pavia
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, business building warrior. Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio, the podcast that features |
| 0:07.1 | hundreds of great interviews with students of the concepts that we teach here. I'm talking about |
| 0:15.0 | the proven Amazon course found only at this website, proven amazon course.com. Let's write hundreds of success stories. |
| 0:24.3 | You can meet dozens of recent podcast guests in our Facebook group, completely free if you'd like. |
| 0:31.6 | You can see about 3,000 success posts in that free Facebook group if you'd like as well. |
| 0:40.0 | Why do we just pound so many great success stories on our podcast? Well, it's because we want you to be encouraged, |
| 0:45.3 | inspired, and motivated to step into the great business models that we teach here. If you're |
| 0:52.9 | done settling for helping build other people's |
| 0:56.2 | dreams, that's what we call having a job around here, building someone else's dream, and you want to |
| 1:01.6 | start building your own dream instead, well, today's episode's going to be really good for you to hear. |
| 1:06.7 | We've got Rick stepping on in just a moment. Rick just quit his 27-year corporate job to go full-time |
| 1:14.8 | selling on Amazon. He's got a business that will easily do a million plus in 2026. He came close to it |
| 1:24.7 | in 2025. His net margins are incredible. He's doing about 21% net profit on a 700,000 plus business. |
| 1:36.5 | Just selling on Amazon? Incredible business. And none of the things that he's doing are rocket science complex. He's doing what we |
| 1:45.6 | teach here, and he's scaled up to a beautiful business. You could be doing that as well. He's going to |
| 1:51.9 | share his whole story today. One thing I want to point out is any links that we mentioned or any of the |
| 1:58.5 | resources that will be links in the show notes to all |
| 2:01.9 | of that. So you don't have to write any of those things down. But Rick really steps through the |
| 2:06.2 | process, some of the early failures and mistakes that he made. He ignored some of our advice, |
| 2:11.6 | or he wasn't aware of some of the pitfalls that he was going to step into. And he made some mistakes early on. |
| 2:18.6 | But he shares very transparently how he navigated that. |
| 2:22.0 | And he's just having a great time now. |
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