#537: Using a virtual assistant and online sourcing to scale to new Amazon heights
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Today's guest has several years of ecommerce and Amazon selling experience, but after a couple of big pivots she's now getting the best sustained results she's ever seen thanks to the REPLENS training that we teach in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com modules. She's a coaching student from our JimCockrumCoaching.com program and has one of my favorite coaching stories ever for reasons that you'll soon hear. She has plenty of practical tips and insights that you can take to the bank as well!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, business building warrior. I have an episode for you today with a guest who'll be on shortly |
| 0:06.6 | who's built an amazing business using the stuff that we teach around here, the proven Amazon |
| 0:12.0 | course, the replan strategy that you've heard so many times talked about on this program. |
| 0:18.7 | Her name's Maria O'Connor, and along with her parents, they have a small warehouse. |
| 0:22.7 | They've been in e-commerce for a long time, but they've had to pivot many times as you'll hear |
| 0:26.2 | in her story. |
| 0:27.3 | They used to sell, for example, sports apparel, like NFL and the major sports teams, and |
| 0:34.2 | they had the opportunity to do that for a while. |
| 0:36.2 | And then some big company came |
| 0:37.6 | along and shut all that down. Suddenly they were left asking, okay, what's next? And she shares in |
| 0:42.8 | her story today what they did next, where they went next. And the role that this community has |
| 0:47.2 | played, she's a coaching student in our program, has been for many years. And part of what makes |
| 0:53.3 | me so excited to share this story with you today is the fact that I get to brag on our coaching program a little bit. They signed up for coaching several years ago, liked it, benefited from it, took a break from it as things started ramping up in their business. But then when things got difficult, several years later, as you'll hear, we were still there |
| 1:11.0 | for them. And that's the commitment we make to all of our students. We've been doing this for 18, 19 years |
| 1:15.7 | now. Once a coaching student, that means you're in. We love you. We're here for you. We can't wait |
| 1:20.3 | to hear from you again and see how we can help you because we believe in the systems we teach. That's the way it's been for a long time around here, and that's |
| 1:28.2 | what it'll continue to be. With God's help, of course. We talk about coaching. Of course, like I said, |
| 1:34.1 | we talk about her virtual assistant that they hired through our program. It didn't go great at |
| 1:39.6 | first, as you'll hear towards the end of the show today. The first proven replins VA that they hired, |
| 1:46.0 | it was okay, but it wasn't great. |
| 1:47.8 | So we pivoted, which is kind of a theme today, |
| 1:51.2 | the pivot, and we got a different virtual assistant |
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