#456: Pastor's wife sells $400K/yr while living a flexible lifestyle
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Can you sell an item alongside 125 other sellers and still make a profit? Today's guest is a ProvenAmazonCourse.com student who did just that and sold hundreds of units weekly! In fact she sold about $400K last year at healthy margins! She's also a JimCockrumCoaching.com coaching student who has been in full-time ministry for about 25 years with her husband and also homeschools their kids. Before she joined our community and began listening to our podcast, she sold only on eBay until Spring of 2020 when her yard sale sourcing strategies stopped being possible (because of covid). That's when she jumped into the Amazon strategies we teach in the PAC. She's a huge fan of coaching as well as investing in yourself. Today's guest, Susan Gilbert Also note, Susan has now officially joined our coaching team since the time of this recording!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, business building warrior. This is Jim with another episode of Silent Sales Machine Radio. |
| 0:06.5 | I've got a guest today, her name is Susan Gilbert. She's one of our coaching students who's building an incredible business. |
| 0:13.2 | She sells some on eBay as well, mostly on Amazon. She shares her numbers. Beautiful business that she's built. |
| 0:20.1 | Basically, she's earning somewhere between we figured $30 to $40 per hour net profit |
| 0:24.8 | with a very flexible schedule, homeschooling your kids, supporting her husband's ministry. |
| 0:30.5 | They've been pastors at a church for, I think she said 25 years, believe, something like that, |
| 0:35.9 | homeschooled their kids all the way up. |
| 0:38.0 | Beautiful, flexible lifestyle using e kids all the way up. Beautiful, |
| 0:45.0 | flexible lifestyle using e-commerce to fund the schedule of their dreams is maybe a good way to say it. She uses the replins model that she learned from us in the proven Amazon course. You'll hear |
| 0:51.7 | her reference that as well. You'll hear her drop some names of |
| 0:54.7 | some of the people that she's worked with in our community over the years that have helped her |
| 0:58.2 | and mentored her along. Specifically, Larry and Sue Pruitt, two of our amazing coaches on our team that |
| 1:04.4 | helped coach Susan to where she is now. She's kind of a one-man show. She uses her kids a little |
| 1:10.4 | bit to do some help on the side. Her husband as well, steps in from time to time. |
| 1:15.4 | He works full time in pastoral ministry. |
| 1:17.9 | But they've managed to sell in 2021, the most recent full year, as I'm recording this, |
| 1:22.4 | they sold around $400,000 of total inventory. |
| 1:28.2 | 330,000 of that was on Amazon. |
| 1:30.8 | The rest on eBay. |
| 1:32.2 | She's got a cool system that she's developed for both. |
| 1:34.9 | We talk a little bit about books today, selling books on Amazon, if that's a good place |
| 1:40.8 | to start. |
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