#1171: Working full time in his corporate job but still crushing it on Amazon FBA a few hours per week
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Today's guest is aiming for $750K at great margins in 2026 as a reseller and he's doing it as a one man show - with a full-time "real job" as well! He put in the work starting in 2024, but now his business requires only about 3-5 hours per week to maintain and he's on a roll. He uses a prep center and never touches his inventory - proving just how flexible and scalable this business model truly is!
At one point he says,
"Finding great products to sell isn't the challenge - finding enough money to buy them all is the hurdle"
Prepare to be inspired and encouraged with plenty of specific tips and insights as well!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, business building warrior. Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio, the podcast that features |
| 0:07.2 | hundreds of interviews with Amazon sellers who are crushing it, specifically Amazon sellers from |
| 0:15.2 | our community. Fellow listeners to this podcast, I'm talking about students of the proven Amazon |
| 0:20.8 | course or students who've |
| 0:23.0 | come through our coaching program, sharing their stories of how they're doing what they're doing. |
| 0:27.1 | And today we've got Matthew. He's going to be on the line with us in just a moment. |
| 0:30.9 | He's crushing it. He got started in 2024. He did about 160K his first year. And then come up to the most recent year. He's on track to do in |
| 0:43.0 | 26, about 750,000 at great margins. He's crushing it. He talks about the tools he uses, |
| 0:50.5 | the strategies he uses, some of the unique approaches that he's using to find |
| 0:56.3 | some great products. It's a great episode. I think you're going to find it very encouraging. |
| 1:00.9 | He's also using wholesale strategies, which heads up, you need to get over to proven amazon |
| 1:08.3 | course.com slash wholesale. I'll stick that link in the show notes |
| 1:12.7 | and check out the offer we have for you there because the basic skills of getting into wholesale, |
| 1:18.9 | there's information there on how you can learn that content. So get over there and check that out. |
| 1:24.4 | We also spend a good amount of time talking about the |
| 1:27.8 | proven conference, which is coming up in late August. Matthew's planning to be there. He talks |
| 1:33.0 | about some of the vendors from our community who are planning to be there as well. How excited |
| 1:37.7 | he is to be a part of this conference that's coming up. If you don't know about our events, |
| 1:43.3 | this is the 14th annual event |
| 1:45.2 | for Amazon resellers. The proven conference is the longest running annual event for sellers on |
| 1:51.9 | Amazon, but it's going to be done in association with the largest trade show in the United States |
| 1:59.3 | this year. So there's going to be thousands of |
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