#803: From restaurant management and full-time ministry roles to Amazon REPLENS warrior
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Today's guest has a very healthy six figure per month REPLENS business based on the ProvenAmazonCourse.com strategies. His prior work includes restaurants and ministry roles, but now he enjoys the flexibility of an Ecommerce lifestyle.
You'll hear him describe the routine he follows, the strategies he uses to find profitable inventory and some insights about prepping and using family to help his business grow. He's also presenting at one of the 40 break out sessions scheduled for the upcoming TheProvenConference.com event in Orlando happening May 23-25th 2024. About 600 people are registered which will make this an incredible atmosphere of success and learning - don't miss it!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, business building warrior. Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio, the home of all the hundreds of success stories that you've heard over the past few years from students of the proven Amazon course. |
| 0:15.4 | We've got thousands of success stories in our free Facebook group from students who've gone through our training. |
| 0:21.9 | And we've interviewed hundreds of them on the show. |
| 0:24.4 | And today is another great guest who's built a beautiful business. |
| 0:28.3 | He used to be in the restaurant business, spent some time in ministry as well. |
| 0:32.1 | And now full time for the last year and a half, two years, he's been selling on Amazon. He's also developed into one of the |
| 0:40.0 | great coaches on our team as well. You're about to meet Mr. Grant Douglas. Something else I can tell |
| 0:46.4 | you about him is he's going to be one of the presenters at our upcoming proven conference. |
| 0:50.9 | The website for details on that, you'll hear us talk about it as well today on the show, but the website is three words. Remember these three words. The website for details on that, you'll hear us talk about it as well today on the show, |
| 0:54.5 | but the website is three words, remember these three words, the proven conference.com. |
| 1:01.0 | There'll be a link in the show notes to that and everything else we talk about today. |
| 1:04.2 | But let me tell you a little bit more about Grant's business before we jump in. |
| 1:07.0 | We spend some time today talking about one of the most recent changes that we've seen as |
| 1:12.0 | Amazon sellers where the shipping plans have changed a bit. Some of the pricing has changed. Grant |
| 1:18.4 | really breaks down what he's seeing. He's a high volume seller. He's doing six figures per month |
| 1:24.0 | in his business. So he's shipping a lot of product. He's primarily FBA, which means he's |
| 1:29.5 | sending his products to Amazon. He's primarily online arbitrage sourcing as well with our |
| 1:35.2 | replans model, which means he's shopping online, retail stores that you and I are familiar with, |
| 1:40.3 | sources this product online, brings it to his location. He used to use a prep center. |
| 1:45.2 | We spent some time talking about why he transitioned and how that's going. Now he uses family. |
| 1:49.5 | They send out one big shipment per week. A very unique arrangement I'd never actually heard before. |
| 1:54.9 | And like I said, he's a great coach on our team as well. So lots of interesting topics to dive into. |
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