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Silent Sales Machine Radio

#186: Do boring profits trump passion driven business?

Silent Sales Machine Radio

Jim Cockrum

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.8811 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Which opportunity should you pursue? The "boring" profits of selling random widgets on Amazon, or that passion project you've always wanted to tackle? Today's episode dives deep and hopefully clarifies the issue for you! Show notes are at https://SilentJim.com/podcast
 
 
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Silent Sales Machine Radio. This is your host, Jim, and today we're going to tackle

0:06.7

a question that pops up frequently around here. I get asked probably, I'd say once a week,

0:13.4

minimum, and it gets posted in our Facebook group frequently as well. It's the where should I start

0:19.2

question, but this is a very specific type of where

0:22.6

should I start because it's coming from someone who's had a bit of exposure to the Amazon

0:27.9

selling opportunity, the topic that we talk about so much around here. And I'm going to remind

0:33.0

you why we talk about it so much. It's not that I woke up one day and I was internally

0:37.3

excited and committed to Amazon. There's not that I woke up one day and I was internally excited and committed

0:38.7

to Amazon. There's a different reason there. It has nothing to do with my internal excitement level.

0:44.4

It's going to explain that. But people say, hey, you know, should I be doing this Amazon thing that you guys are talking about?

0:49.1

Or I've got this other project over here that I'm passionate about, interested in. It's a hobby of mine. It's something that I have on my mind. I've always wanted to write a book. I've always wanted to start a

0:57.3

blog. I've got this thing over here that is kind of in my brain that I want to use the internet

1:03.4

creatively to grow and do something with. And I'm going to lay a lot of foundation here before I

1:08.2

jump to the conclusions. And we also had a great Facebook post in our group where people gave me their ideas, and I'll be referencing that

1:16.0

as well. I'm actually clicking over to it right now so I can reference that because there were

1:20.9

some very intelligent and insightful comments made from the people in the community as well,

1:26.1

and you can jump in and add your comments too. We'll stick it in the show well. And you can jump in and add your comments

1:27.8

too. We'll stick it in the show notes. So you can jump into the conversation. That link will be

1:32.8

the same place every link is. When you are listening to this show, you probably have this

1:37.8

memorized for the new folks. Hey, here's the one link you need to write down. Silent gem.com

1:43.9

slash podcast. Silent then gym that's me jim.

1:49.9

com slash podcast so we'll have a link to the discussion in our Facebook group which is free to join

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