#339: From full-time ministry to at home dad with a $300K business
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Today's guest has built a successful Private Label business on Amazon as a coaching student of our program. He went from full-time church ministry to building a $300K business (36% margin) and has plans for a lot of growth in the future. He's a married dad of three little girls and they are loving the flexible lifestyle they now have because of their business. There are plenty of great strategies and insights in today's episode! Episode guest: Ben Horton
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Jim. Welcome to Silent to Sales Machine Radio. Today I've got a guest, Mr. Ben Horton. He's going to join us here momentarily. And I had so much fun interviewing him. He's got a beautiful wife, three lovely daughters, and he's been able to be home thanks to this exploding Amazon business that's taken off. He's doing really, really well. |
| 0:22.7 | Now, here's an example of a guy who's doing private label. He's come through our coaching program. |
| 0:27.7 | He's got his own products and they're doing well. He's also got some PPP proven product |
| 0:34.8 | partnering strategies going on. And that's simply, as we'll describe more in this |
| 0:38.4 | episode, where you help other brands get on Amazon and you get paid a percent for having done |
| 0:44.6 | so. He's making some good money from that as well. He did about $300,000 of business in 2020. |
| 0:50.4 | He shares with us on this show at about a 36% margin. So he's got a really nice business. |
| 0:56.5 | He used to be in ministry full time, and this has kind of replaced that for him to where he's |
| 1:01.4 | still able to do the things he's passionate about. He's got the flexibility. He's home with his family, |
| 1:06.7 | and he's got the freedom to do the things that he wants to do when he needs to do them. |
| 1:12.0 | It's just a beautiful success story. |
| 1:14.1 | And I'm so proud that he started his journey of e-commerce through the proven Amazon course, |
| 1:18.6 | which you'll hear him talk about. |
| 1:20.1 | That link will be in the show notes at silentjim.com, of course, for a course, |
| 1:23.8 | which has helped so many people get started building successful businesses online. |
| 1:28.1 | And he also came through, like I mentioned, our coaching program, Jim Cockrumcoaching.com. |
| 1:33.7 | And if you're interested in talking to us about maybe helping you grow your business, |
| 1:38.1 | we'd love to bring you on board as our next student if it's a good fit. So give us a call. |
| 1:41.8 | Love to talk to you about it. |
| 1:43.1 | Information is on Jim Cockramcoaching.com. This is call. I love to talk to you about it. The information is on |
| 1:44.1 | Jim Cochromcoaching.com. This is one of those episodes that we turned on the cameras. We have a guest. |
| 1:49.6 | So if you're watching on YouTube, you already know that. But if you're listening, we do have |
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