#421: Professional educator faced a big pay cut with covid, so he started a $250/hr Amazon business
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Today's guest Tom is a ProvenAmazonCourse.com student who is only a few months into his Amazon selling journey, but it's going great! The net income he's seeing is about $250/hour in profit! He has advanced degrees in education and his career is helping families who have special needs kids who are on the spectrum. Covid hit his income hard though, so he was forced to go out "on his own" as an educator and he needed more income.
Within just a few months he's about to have his first $10K sales month. We enjoyed hearing from Tom because he isn't one of our typical "big hitter" success stories that are so common on this program. He's a very part-time seller with only a little experience, yet he's building something beautiful. He hopes to blend his Amazon business with his educator business at some point by creating opportunities for some of his special needs students to work in his business with him doing some of the prepping and sourcing. He currently works about 10 hours per month and has found about 65 profitable products using our Amazon "replens" strategies.
Today's guest, Tom Bishop
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, business building warrior, this is Jim, another episode of silent sales machine radio. |
| 0:06.6 | I've got a guest for you today, and we turned on the cameras, which means if you want to check us out on YouTube, if you're listening right now, you can see a link right below in the description for this episode, and you can go watch us. |
| 0:18.3 | Although it's just two guys hanging out talking to microphones. |
| 0:22.6 | So nothing too exciting. |
| 0:27.7 | But if you're listening on whatever podcast app you're normally using, |
| 0:33.0 | hey, we'd sure appreciate you leaving us a review or feedback after you've checked out the episode today. |
| 0:37.1 | That really tells us that you like what we're doing and you want more of it. |
| 0:43.2 | So with that being said, let's get into a little bit of an introduction about who Tom is. |
| 0:44.5 | He's our guest today. |
| 0:47.2 | He's got advanced degrees in education. |
| 0:48.8 | He works with special needs kids. |
| 0:52.2 | He's got a big heart and he's doing some really good work. But with the pandemic hitting, a little over a year or so ago, |
| 0:56.3 | or coming up on a year ago, I should say, |
| 0:58.4 | he lost his position and he was kind of out on his own |
| 1:03.1 | trying to figure out how to pay the bills, |
| 1:05.6 | continue to do the work he'd been trained to do, |
| 1:07.5 | working with special needs kids on the spectrum, |
| 1:10.2 | helping them with |
| 1:11.0 | developing life skills. It's not a way to get rich for sure, but he was able to find a few |
| 1:16.4 | clients, but he needed something else to enhance his income. And he discovered our community. |
| 1:21.8 | He discovered selling on Amazon. He jumped into the replins model. And just a few months in, |
| 1:27.3 | he's built a pretty robust business. |
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