#711: An exclusive interview with an Amazon Exec talking about Amazon seller opportunities
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
It's a rare occasion when an Amazon executive sits down with an Amazon podcaster to do an interview addressing sellers. To my knowledge, today is quite possibly an industry first!
It was truly and honor to be honest.
Claire O'donnell is the director of Seller Partner Empowerment and "Communities & Trust" at Amazon. She's has about 700 employees in her organization at Amazon who are all in "seller facing" positions - meaning they are focused on building connections and trust with sellers like you and me - in other words, provenamazoncourse.com students.
Her teams manage things like the Account Health Dashboard, the Seller Support Team, the Seller Forums and the Amazon Accelerate event which was attended recently by 2,500 of your fellow sellers from around the world in Seattle. We were there and had the honor of interviewing Claire for a few minutes during her busy schedule as the primary host of the incredible event.
Perhaps the biggest win for us at the event (and for you as well) is that we continue to build great relationships with seller facing personalities at Amazon - and that helps us stay better in tune with the true opportunities that Amazon represents for all of us.
While we had scheduled 30 minutes with Claire, her schedule was understandably shortened due to the tight schedule of the Amazon Accelerate event, but we did get in some solid questions and this is a great step in the direction of building solid relationships on both sides of the Amazon/seller aisle.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, business building warrior. |
| 0:03.5 | Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio, the only podcast in e-commerce that features hundreds of success story interviews with students who have studied the strategies that we teach on this podcast. |
| 0:20.1 | That's pretty cool, right? We figured out a long time ago, |
| 0:23.2 | the quickest path to credibility in this industry is to actually help people succeed, |
| 0:28.1 | help them build beautiful businesses, and then just share those stories. We have a zero-dollar |
| 0:32.7 | marketing budget. We just keep cranking out the success stories, and you guys keep spreading |
| 0:36.6 | the word. If you're a fan of this show, thanks for hanging out with us and thanks for telling others to go to silent gym.com and check out the podcast that is changing the way e-commerce is done for thousands of families around the world. |
| 0:50.3 | We're so proud of the track record and reputation that this community has, that this |
| 0:55.5 | podcast has. And speaking, having a good reputation, we were invited recently to attend the Amazon |
| 1:02.4 | Accelerate event at no charge in September of 2023. They invited us out. Amazon put together |
| 1:10.1 | an incredible event with about 2,500 sellers from around |
| 1:13.9 | the world in attendance. They spent millions of dollars on this event. It was incredible. Nate, |
| 1:20.1 | my right-hand man, my coaching director, walked into the ballroom where they had all of us, |
| 1:24.2 | and he said they had to have spent half a million dollars on the AV for this room. It was incredible. I highly encourage you to attend next year, if it all possible. |
| 1:33.3 | We fully intend to do so ourselves and to kind of sum up the opportunity. It really feels like |
| 1:41.1 | Amazon is putting a lot of resources into making sure that sellers feel loved and supported. |
| 1:49.1 | They announced right at the start. |
| 1:51.8 | By the way, it was the guest that I'm about to interview in the second half of this episode today. |
| 1:56.1 | She announced from stage that Amazon sellers now make up over 60% of all the sales that are |
| 2:04.0 | happening on Amazon any given day. |
| 2:05.8 | That's right. |
| 2:06.4 | You, me, third party sellers selling on the Amazon platform are well over 60% of all the |
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