#186: Do boring profits trump passion driven business?
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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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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