#641: The "gray areas" of opportunity when selling on Amazon

Silent Sales Machine Radio

Jim Cockrum

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

4.8 • 805 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Today's new podcast episode dives into some of the most common questions we get regarding the "gray areas" of selling on Amazon as a new seller or moderately experienced seller. I have nuanced answers and some strong cautions for you on the most common topics we hear about on our team.

While we pride ourselves in typically bringing you a steady stream of success stories from among our provenamazoncourse.com student base on most episodes, today's episode is all about helping you avoid some danger areas while also encouraging you to embrace some strategies that you may have been unnecessarily overly cautious about so far.

I share some of our seasoned advice (based on helping 1,000s of sellers) on topics such as the following:

Using BUY LISTS, selling products that look different on the label than they do on Amazon, drop shipping, selling items that others sourced for you, shopping clearance aisles, selling books, selling seasonal items, selling shoes/clothes, bulk discounts and finally stalking the stores of other Amazon sellers for ideas.

Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/00UTlde2cCA

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, business building warrior. Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio. I'm your host today, Jim Cochrom.
0:08.1	And this, of course, is the podcast family of people who are using the internet creatively to launch and grow multiple streams of income with a focus on creative Amazon opportunities.
0:23.1	It's a global audience that listens to this show.
0:25.1	I was just checking the statistics today.
0:32.7	We've got about 120,000 people on iTunes alone who downloaded and listened to this show in the last 30 days.
0:34.2	That's pretty awesome.
0:37.6	We blew past 5 million downloads here a couple months ago.
0:43.0	So we love that you love this show. Thanks for hanging out with this.
0:47.8	Thanks for listening. If you're watching on YouTube, hi, you can see me. Most of our listeners,
0:52.8	most of the consumers of this show, I should say, only listen to it on their favorite podcast app.
0:54.9	But it's great hanging out with you no matter how you're listening today. And the topic, as you probably saw in the title today, is some of those
0:59.7	gray areas that we've observed where it takes a more nuanced answer to address the situation,
1:08.3	the challenge, the opportunity, the question that you have, and you'll see a lot of
1:13.5	conversations in our free Facebook group on these topics because they're very nuanced
1:19.0	situations for the most part. Some of them people think are nuanced when really you should be
1:24.5	avoiding them entirely. And others, people avoid them entirely when really there's a nuanced opportunity involved.
1:30.3	So it's some of those fun conversations.
1:32.3	This is one of those episodes where I probably could have had another guest or two,
1:36.3	some experts, coaches from our team.
1:38.3	But it's such a popular topic.
1:40.3	I thought I'm just going to pound through the list and maybe we'll bring some other people on board at some point and go deeper on some of these.
1:47.3	On many of these topics that I'm going to introduce in just a moment, you've heard me discuss them with Jeff Schick, who is a great sponsor of this podcast.
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