#1132: Former teacher now earns about $80/hour working 3 hours per day on an Amazon reselling business
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Today we meet a former teacher/principal who is not working about three hours per day and enjoying the steady pace of his Amazon reselling business. He's a ProvenAmazonCourse.com student and a 3Pmercury user who says "I have more than enough great ASINs I can sell".
You'll love his observations about the opportunity, the relationships he's found and the pace of life he's enjoying while earning a great income.
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Today's Guest Wayne Richardson
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, business building warrior. |
| 0:03.2 | Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio, the podcast that features hundreds of great interviews |
| 0:07.9 | with students of the flagship Amazon seller training that's produced more success stories |
| 0:13.8 | by far than anything else out there. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm talking about the course that can be found at this website, proven amazon course.com. Go check it out. |
| 0:23.6 | If you don't have it yet, 39 bucks a month, get you everything day one and we hold your hand, |
| 0:29.6 | baby step you into the business ideas that you're about to hear more about with our guest today. |
| 0:34.1 | Wayne Richardson's going to jump on here. He's been in our community for a long time. |
| 0:38.7 | And with a very part-time effort, because he's been a school teacher and a school principal, |
| 0:43.4 | and now he's approaching his later years and slowing down the pace of life, wanting to do some travel. |
| 0:49.5 | But he's built a beautiful business and taken this community along with him. |
| 0:56.4 | About three hours or so per day, |
| 1:02.4 | he says he runs his business. He did very well, about $800,000 in sales last year at a nice net margin. We get into all of that today in the discussion. But I really like the season of |
| 1:08.2 | life that he's in, the wisdom he shares, his relational approach |
| 1:12.5 | to this community, how open-handed he is about the ideas and being, not loving, jumping into |
| 1:18.8 | our Facebook group and sharing ideas and encouraging others. He's just a great leader and |
| 1:24.7 | encourager in this community. He doesn't have any official role, just a great example of |
| 1:29.2 | the kind of people that have been generated over the years as we've served with an abundance mindset |
| 1:35.4 | in this community. What I mean by that is we don't have a scarcity mindset here. We see success |
| 1:42.0 | as something that anybody who's ready to do the work, anybody can have it. |
| 1:46.7 | That's an abundance mindset. A scarcity mindset would say, well, only some people get lucky and |
| 1:52.1 | success finds a few people and I'll probably never find success because everyone else is already |
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