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#57: Sourcing great products from China isn't as complex as you think

Silent Sales Machine Radio

Jim Cockrum

Onlineincome, Ecommerce, Business, Fba, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Provenamazoncourse, Careers, Amazon

4.8805 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Today Jim talks to an 8 figure Amazon selling pro who goes to China all the time to source highly profitable products he can resell online and on Amazon. Better yet, Jim's China sourcing expert guest takes others with him to help them find opportunity there as well!  Selling online is a global opportunity, and today we take the complexity out of sourcing internationally!   For a few dollars you could be sourcing and testing product after products on Amazon. Going to China isn't only for those ready to pace big orders! For a few hundred dollars you can easily test out anything!  That's what Shawn does - he'll explain it all in this episode! We'll talk about avoiding counterfeit goods, when to use an agent instead of traveling to China, the success rate you can expect when traveling to China to source and how you can prepare for a trip. This is a packed episode! As always get your show notes at http://SilentJim.com

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0:00.0

Welcome back, listener. Put your travel hat on because today Jim talks to an eight-figure Amazon selling pro who goes to China all the time to source great products.

0:13.5

Better yet, Jim's China sourcing expert takes others with him to help them find opportunity there as well.

0:20.6

Selling online is a global opportunity.

0:23.4

And today we take the complexity out of sourcing internationally.

0:29.7

Hey, this is Jim. Before we kick off today's episode, which I've already recorded, I've already

0:34.4

talked to a gentleman who has an eight-figure Amazon business, and he's built it doing the

0:39.9

easiest approach I can imagine. This is so straightforward and simple. And it's kind of buried in the

0:45.9

episode, so I wanted to bring it out right up front before we jump into today's discussion.

0:50.4

He's built an eight-figure business on Amazon simply by finding products that aren't on Amazon yet and putting them in small quantities, of course, on Amazon.

0:59.7

I'm talking five, 10, 15 units.

1:01.9

Just a handful.

1:02.9

You don't need to go 100 deep into a niche to test it.

1:06.8

You can just sell a few and see what the demand is.

1:09.5

See how quickly they sell.

1:10.5

If they sell fast,

1:11.3

well, you're on to something. If they sit there for three or four months, well, maybe there's not

1:14.6

much there. That's all he does. It's that easy. This guy, Sean Hart, is his name. He goes to China

1:20.7

frequently. He takes a bunch of people with him and they all come back with loads of new products that aren't on Amazon yet, or maybe they find a better way

1:28.4

to source products that they know are working well. They go straight to the manufacturer.

1:32.7

They build relationships. All kinds of ways to benefit from taking a trip to China with this guy,

1:37.6

which we'll talk a little bit about, too, how you can connect with him and do that. But this isn't

1:41.5

a show trying to convince you to go to China. This is an episode that hopefully makes you think to yourself, wow, this opportunity is in its

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