#306: Building an ecommerce business from South Africa

Silent Sales Machine Radio

Jim Cockrum

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.8 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest started out selling on Amazon.com in the US from South Africa, but he found far bigger opportunities locally! He used the lessons he'd learned as a listener to this show along with the lessons he picked up as a ProvenAmazonCourse.com student to begin selling on a local marketplace and now his business is exploding! There are so many great lessons for all of us on today's episode! The "online selling" explosion is only beginning - you are in the right place to learn how to build something incredible! All resources mentioned can be found at https://silentjim.com/podcast

LINKS:

TakeALot.com - the S. African marketplace used by Ismael

ProvenAmazonCourse.com - the course he's used along with this podcast to learn ecommerce

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Jim. Today we've got a guest from South Africa on Silent Sales Machine Radio.
0:09.5	He's not selling on Amazon, but he's using the proven Amazon course to develop his strategy for sourcing products.
0:16.9	And he's doing incredibly well on a local South Africa-only marketplace, e-commerce
0:25.7	marketplace.
0:26.8	Such a fascinating story.
0:28.8	This guy is an Islamic Imam.
0:31.4	He's a spiritual leader.
0:32.5	That's what he does full-time in his evenings with his family.
0:36.0	He sources products and sells them very much like Amazon.
0:39.8	He learned his skills selling on Amazon US, but he lost his account. So he started looking
0:45.7	locally. And that's going to be one of the big lessons from the show today is there's always
0:50.5	other opportunities. If you can source profitable products, there's opportunity out there.
0:56.0	This is such a fascinating story of a different part of the world from where you've probably
1:01.6	ever considered building an e-commerce business before. We talked so much around here about
1:06.3	the kind of the same different areas of the world. This is a very unusual location that we're talking
1:10.5	about today for most of us,
1:11.6	never been to South Africa.
1:13.1	Now, if you happen to be in South Africa,
1:14.9	you're going to love this episode today because there are some huge opportunities there.
1:19.3	But that same lesson applies to wherever you are,
1:22.6	even if you're in the middle of a hotbed, if e-commerce.
1:25.8	There's other platforms besides Amazon that you should be experimenting
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