#939: What you resist persists: Overcoming business obstacles and first pancake fumbles

Silent Sales Machine Radio

Jim Cockrum

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

4.8 • 805 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this engaging episode of Silent Sales Machine Radio, Brian and Robin Joy dive into the lessons behind the "first pancake" analogy and why initial failures are essential stepping stones to long-term success.

From navigating clunky first attempts at sourcing products to overcoming roadblocks like Amazon's Section 3 investigations, they share practical advice and relatable stories to empower you in building a resilient, scalable business.

Discover why persistence, adaptability, and leveraging the right tools and teams are crucial for growth. Whether you're aiming for supplemental income or dreaming of replacing your day job, this episode highlights how to embrace challenges and transform them into opportunities. Plus, hear how "overcome-ability" can be your ultimate superpower in business and life.

Takeaways Include:

Why the "first pancake" is an unavoidable but valuable step in learning.
How to stay focused when faced with obstacles like Amazon's seller investigations.
The importance of building sustainable systems and scaling with a team.
How to balance ambition with realistic goals for long-term success.

Listen now to learn how to embrace the process, overcome resistance, and create a thriving business!

Our special guest and legal advisor at the conclusion of today's show, Jeff Schick of JeffSchick.com discusses transparency and enrolling in the Amazon program to keep your account health rating good. He gives us insight in how to get the transparency codes as a retail arbitrage seller and preventative measures to help ensure that your account is not flagged.

You can watch this episode on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/2Ljh-ssRCQI

Show note LINKS:

ProvenAmazonCourse.com/100 - Our pre-conference workshop titled Path to 100 ASIN's - The Replens Accelerator. Brian and Robin Joy are teaching live in Orlando in May!

TheProvenConference.com - Our May 2025 event - plan to join 100s of listeners to this show in Orlando May 29-31st, 2025!

Khang's "The System" (aka 3P Mercury) SilentJim.com/thesystem - The first ever complete workflow solution for Amazon FBA/Replens sellers.

My Silent Team Facebook group. 100% FREE! https://www.facebook.com/groups/mysilentteam - Join 78,000 + Facebook members from around the world who are using the internet creatively every day to launch and grow multiple income streams through our exciting PROVEN strategies! There's no support community like this one anywhere else in the world!

SilentJim.com/kickstart – If you want a shortcut to learning all you need to get started then get the Proven Amazon Course and go through Kickstart.

ProvenAmazonCourse.com - The comprehensive course that contains ALL our Amazon training modules, recorded events and a steady stream of latest cutting edge training including of course the most popular starting point, the REPLENS selling model. The PAC is updated for life!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, business building warrior. Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio. I'm just doing the
0:06.2	introduction today. We're going to have Brian and Robin Joy hop on here in just a moment covering
0:10.0	a great topic. I've already heard this episode. You're going to love it. The illustration they
0:15.4	used towards the beginning is it's kind of comical, but I just love the banter between the two of them.
0:19.8	And it's a great illustration of the fact that when you get started in business, and Amazon is no exception,
0:27.3	e-commerce is no exception. When you're getting started on anything worth doing, you're not going
0:31.2	to be as good at the beginning as you will be eventually. If you aim for perfection right out of
0:36.8	the gate, you're just going to delay
0:38.8	getting started. What we've built into the processes that we teach here is room for errors. We want you
0:46.1	to make some little mistakes. These aren't expensive mistakes. They're not going to cost you a lot of
0:50.5	money, but you're going to learn very quickly the right way by just waiting in
0:55.5	and doing the stuff that we teach. And so I love the illustrations that they use today along those
1:01.3	lines. Before we jump over and hear that great content from Brian and Robin Joy, I want to tell you
1:06.3	about our conference that's coming up in May. And you've heard me talk about this, maybe the last
1:10.5	three days of May 2025, in Orlando, Florida, the proven conference. our conference that's coming up in May. And you've heard me talk about this, maybe the last three
1:10.8	days of May 2025 in Orlando, Florida, the proven conference. Well, we've got a workshop that's
1:16.8	happening the two days prior to that. So now we're talking about the last five days of May,
1:22.1	2025. We'd love to have you there with us. This workshop will actually be taught by Brian and Robin Joy
1:28.7	Olson. You can read more about the workshop at proven amazon course.com slash 100. It's going to be a
1:37.2	smaller group. We get the laptops out. We really dive in and set a process in place to help you find
1:43.1	your first 100 replan products for your
1:46.7	business. You're going to spend a couple days and make potentially a few months worth of
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