Welcome back to Silent Sales Machine Radio. This is your host, Jim, and I've got another great guest from our community today, a fellow proven Amazon core student for those of you who have the pack. She lives in Alaska with her family, four daughters. And it's quite a story. We'll dive into a little bit of the background,

but basically one of the things that we were just talking about before we started recording

today was the fact that she's kind of, you know, in a pretty remote location, but she's still

able to grow an incredible Amazon business. She's had some challenges, some things have come up

along the way. It hasn't been perfect, but she's succeeding by anyone's

definition. And I'm proud to welcome to the show today, a member of our community, Mrs. Vanessa Weiss.

How are you today? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on.

And I just said your last name wrong after trying to confirm. It's wise, correct?

It's what. I said it wrong. And I'm like, oh, that's not what it's.

But welcome to the show.

Thank you very much.

And you're in our Facebook community as well.

And you've been around.

Some people might recognize your name.

But for those who don't know much about you, how about we do just a little bit of background

story first, how you got started on Amazon, maybe what you were doing and how it fits into

your life now. And then maybe we'll share a few specifics about how you've grown your

business after that. Sound good? That sounds great. All right. Cool. So tell us your story.

So, you know, honestly, I really kind of stumbled into Amazon. I had a successful online business, a little clothing boutique, but it was taking up a ton of energy and a ton of time. My husband and I would come home from work and we would, you know, put together orders and spend the evening packaging up orders and just basically exhausting ourselves because we were doing all of this

merchant fulfilled, if you will. So it was just really involved. Even my 11 year old at the time was

like, mom, there's got to be more to life, you know?

Inventory everywhere. Yeah. And I love doing it, but as time went on, we did it for a little

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