#964: My top 10 rules for sustained success in e-commerce
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Are you looking for SUSTAINED success in your online business? I've got a great podcast episode for you today if so.
With over 22 years experience coaching nearly 10,000 students in e-commerce training organization, as well as having influenced and trained many more in various courses and conferences, I've definitely noticed some glaringly obvious patterns emerge among those who succeed and those who ultimately bail out.
It's my top 10 list of rules for SUSTAINED (long term) success in e-commerce.
Here's the list:
- Start with something proven, low risk, stable, systemiz-able and highly scalable
- Fail often but big risks just aren't necessary, so don't take big risks
- Pursue these key relationships constantly
- Don't start with multiple streams, but that's where you should head eventually
- There are 10 possible pivots for every one challenge you face
- Tell your story - it's not a "hustle"
- The elusive "magic button" doesn't really exist, but there's something better
- Embrace the fact that YOU are the bottleneck. Your leadership skills are the throttle.
- Only do the things that ONLY YOU can do
- Follow PROFITS not PASSIONS if you want to survive
Stick around for a couple minutes at the end of the episode to hear an update about the kind of low cost insurance you should have as an ecommerce/Amazon/Walmart seller! We spend a few minutes with Ashlin Hadden of http://ecom-insure
Watch this episode on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/hy2cfz-MV-k
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, business building warrior. Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio. I'll be your host today, |
| 0:06.0 | Jim. It's just you and me hanging out. As we approach a thousand episodes, it's a good time to point out |
| 0:12.0 | that over the past several years, as we've recorded hundreds and hundreds of shows, |
| 0:18.0 | like I said, approaching a thousand. A couple things stand out before we jump into today's content. |
| 0:23.4 | One is, this is the only show, to my knowledge, |
| 0:26.6 | that has interviewed hundreds of students who are succeeding following the strategies taught on the podcast. |
| 0:34.4 | That, to me, from my vantage point, is the greatest validation, the greatest proof that you could ever ask for or get that the ideas work. |
| 0:43.9 | Our Facebook group, as I'm recording this, is also approaching 80,000 members, a very transparent forum where people come. |
| 0:51.1 | They discuss, the challenges, the wins, the hurdles, the opportunities |
| 0:57.1 | that they're facing in their business, the pivots, the relationships that form there, |
| 1:01.5 | all these conversations any given day, a great place to be. We've got 2,500 plus success stories |
| 1:07.8 | posted in that group as well. Again, very validating of the fact that the things |
| 1:13.7 | we teach around here, the things we talk about around here constantly, there's huge potential |
| 1:19.1 | there. I saw a post recently in that same Facebook group. Someone popped in. I would credit them |
| 1:25.0 | if I had it in front of me. I apologize. But you can see this data |
| 1:28.2 | all over the place online yourself as well. And basically was showing all the different business |
| 1:33.4 | sectors in the United States and their projected growth or shrinkage over the next, say, I think it |
| 1:40.1 | was five to ten years, something like that. There was one huge bubble that dwarfed all |
| 1:45.9 | other bubbles. It was the projected growth of e-commerce. That's right. The sector that we're in, |
| 1:53.4 | the topic of this podcast, the reason that this podcast exists, the reason our community exists |
| 2:00.6 | in this particular niche opportunity is |
| 2:03.9 | because the growth prospects are so big and beautiful. This isn't a podcast about how to set up |
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