#427: Covid changed his industry but he quickly built a $340K Amazon business
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Today's guest is another JimCockrumCoaching.com student who is thriving. He's a drummer who spent a couple decades in t-shirt merchandising in the Christian music industry. Covid slowed down the entire music industry as it did for so many business models, so he and his wife decided to pivot into ecommerce after a friend of his told him about THIS podcast. He slowly began applying the things he was learning from this show and the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course and he soon had a $4K sales in his first month. He finished his first full year with a part time effort selling $342K at approx 17% on his best month where he sold just under $40K at great margins. He's aiming for a million in sales 2022. Now as his t-shirt business slows during the off season, he focuses more time on his Amazon business. He now has great steady income from both businesses and a flexible schedule. Today's guest Jon Ludlow
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, business building warrior. This is Jim, another episode of Silent Sales Machine Radio. Thanks for joining us today. I've got a guest who will bring on the line in just a moment. His name's John Ludlow. He comes from the concert promotion, concert t-shirt arena. That's his background. That's what he's done with much of his life the past several |
| 0:22.5 | years. But with so many industries, COVID changed things. And while his old businesses are kind of |
| 0:30.4 | starting to come back online and starting to thrive again, and it's specifically interesting enough, |
| 0:34.5 | he's been in the Christian music industry, which I found fascinating |
| 0:37.6 | because I'm a huge fan of several Christian music artists that you may have heard of if you're in |
| 0:42.0 | that arena. That's who he works with, some of the big names that you've heard. But that business |
| 0:46.2 | definitely took a hit. It definitely slowed down with COVID. He needed something else. |
| 0:50.2 | And he talks through today how he found our community, how he got started. He jumped into the proven Amazon course, which you hear us talk about so much, proven amazon |
| 0:58.3 | course.com. He was watching the videos and learning the systems, starting to play around. |
| 1:03.5 | He sold about $4,000 worth of stuff, and he was excited. Then he jumped into our coaching program |
| 1:08.3 | and things really took off. He talks about that as well today. |
| 1:11.9 | By the way, there's links to everything that we talk about on this episode, proven Amazon course, |
| 1:16.9 | the coaching program, our free Facebook group, SilentGim.com is the only link you'll ever need. |
| 1:22.4 | It's all there. You can go jump in and check these things out. But as we had our conversation today, |
| 1:27.1 | he's at the point now where, as we're wrapping up |
| 1:29.5 | 2021, as I'm recording this episode for you today, we're towards the end of 2021, and he's looking |
| 1:36.4 | at about $350,000 for the past year. |
| 1:39.8 | And it's been a part-time thing for him. |
| 1:41.6 | That's how much he's sold. |
| 1:43.6 | He shares his margins and his ROI |
| 1:45.4 | and all of that on the episode as well today with us, of course. But he's looking at a million |
| 1:49.8 | next year. That's his goal. It's a small team. It's just been one part-time shopper that's worked |
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