#1161: Lessons from a successful Amazon reseller who is crushing it and sees a very bright future in this business model
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Today we meet a father of two who has a background in ministry who is making his family's financial dreams come true via Amazon reselling. His healthy six figure per month business is primarily a "one man show" run out of his basement operating about 18% margins. He's never been more confident than he is now about the future prospects of the Amazon reselling model.
We discuss what tools he uses, the challenges he's faced, how he sources products and his thoughts about the future of Amazon selling.
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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 interviews with successful students who are using the strategies that we teach around |
| 0:13.0 | here. I'm talking about primarily selling on Amazon, specifically reselling, which means you're |
| 0:20.5 | helping fill the hundreds of warehouses that sell |
| 0:25.6 | over a billion different products in Amazon's catalog. And what we've discovered is millions |
| 0:32.5 | of those products at any given time are simply understocked or unstocked entirely in that massive warehouse |
| 0:39.4 | network. And today's guest has built a beautiful business because he understands that. |
| 0:45.2 | He is basically a one-man show. His wife helps a little bit when she can, and he's working |
| 0:50.3 | about 30 hours a week. And he reports, as of April 2026, this month, |
| 0:55.2 | he's expecting to wrap up at about $145,000 in total sales for the month. |
| 1:01.5 | And it's a beautiful business that he's built. |
| 1:04.3 | His net margins, after all expenses, about 13%. |
| 1:09.7 | We calculated he's earning about $150 per hour of net profit for the time |
| 1:15.9 | he puts into this business. And we spent some time talking about how he could improve that by |
| 1:20.1 | automating and maybe building out his team. But he likes the routine there in a season of life |
| 1:25.4 | where he's doing pretty much all of it. He shops |
| 1:27.5 | online. He does the prep in his basement. He could pay other people to do those things if he wanted |
| 1:31.8 | to, and he might do that. We talked about that a little bit today. But the bigger point for you, |
| 1:36.3 | if you're listening to this, is this is yet another of dozens and dozens of recent examples of |
| 1:43.9 | people who have paid attention to the basic |
| 1:47.0 | business model opportunity that we talk about in this community constantly. |
| 1:51.9 | That's reselling on Amazon. |
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