#541: Struggling with arbitrage and making every possible mistake but still excited
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Today we meet a coaching student who only recently joined our program after realizing she'd been spinning her wheels listening to others offering her helpful, yet incomplete Amazon selling strategies for a couple years.
She works a full-time job she likes, but she hopes to make her ecommerce business her sole source of income eventually. It's a realistic goal based on her trajectory.
Her story is a bit of a cautionary tale. Even before she found our community, she was working in the best Amazon seller model for her skillset (Replens), but she was making a series of classic mistakes including: not tracking her numbers (profit/loss), buying too many of her test products, and trusting "buy lists" as her source for good inventory. We talk it all over and share the NEW PATH she's on including joining our coaching and hiring a ProvenReplensVA.com VA to ramp up her great REPLENS inventory list. She's never been more optimistic about the future of her online business.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, business building warrior. It's Jim with another episode of silent sales machine radio. |
| 0:08.2 | A little housekeeping before I introduce our guest today. Did you know we're about the past |
| 0:12.3 | 71,000 members in our free Facebook group? That's pretty incredible. It's a very active group, |
| 0:19.9 | very helpful, supportive, and encouraging. |
| 0:22.8 | We love seeing new people come into the group and encouraging them and helping them on their |
| 0:27.2 | journey. We're very realistic about the journey of e-commerce and Amazon. Anything worth building |
| 0:33.9 | is going to be a challenge. Anything worth having requires work, blood, sweat, tears, |
| 0:39.6 | and sacrifice. But if you want to hang out with a bunch of people who not only understand that, |
| 0:44.6 | but they're building incredible businesses, join our free Facebook group. There's a link at |
| 0:49.0 | silentjim.com. You can come be a part of the last remaining little ray of sunshine and hope left on Facebook. |
| 0:58.1 | I think a lot of our members certainly feel that way. |
| 1:00.4 | They avoid pretty much everything about Facebook except our group. |
| 1:04.1 | It's a really fun group. |
| 1:05.0 | We may move to a new platform at some point. |
| 1:07.0 | Who knows? |
| 1:07.5 | But for now, it's serving its purpose very well. |
| 1:09.8 | We'd love to have you come join us once a week or so as best I can. I go live as well and meet all the new folks who've |
| 1:17.3 | joined our group recently. Love hanging out, having an interactive time. And it's a good chance for you |
| 1:22.4 | to see as well 1,500 tagged success posts in our group as people succeed and hit new sales goals and get |
| 1:32.5 | excited about the trajectory of their business and make a post. Well, we put a little tag on those |
| 1:36.9 | so you can see how excited they are about our coaching program or their success. 1,500 of those |
| 1:42.2 | for you to scroll through and be encouraged by. Come join our free Facebook group if you're not a part of it yet. Well, hey,500 of those for you to scroll through and be encouraged by. |
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