#971: Building an incredible US based Amazon business - from New Zealand!
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Today's podcast guest interview is with a gentleman who was desperate to find a way to connect and give purpose to his son who was struggling. They tried many things but eventually discovered that building a business together was the one thing that pulled them together and put his son on a great life path. That was a few years ago when they discovered our community...
Jump forward a couple years and they now have a thriving business built on the principles found in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com training!
Our guest last appeared on the show over a year ago, but he's now gone full-time in to his Amazon business after leaving his school principal career to pursue his e-commerce dreams with his son.
And get this - they live in New Zealand but do ALL of their buying/selling in the US without seeing or touching their products! They've built a thriving seven figure business and you'll hear all about it on today's episode!
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Today's guest: Jim Seumanu
He last appeared on our show in episode Episode 767: School principal builds incredible Amazon business selling in US from New Zealand and finds a new career https://SilentJim.com/podcast
www.palmymen.co.nz - The men's meeting website that Jim Seumanu set up for his hometown
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, business building warrior. |
| 0:03.6 | Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio, the show that features amazing interviews with very real people building very real businesses all over the world using the strategies that we teach right on this show. |
| 0:17.2 | Today, we're going to have a returning guest. |
| 0:19.7 | I love going back and checking in with people who |
| 0:21.5 | were on the show six months a year, a couple years ago, seeing how they're doing what income |
| 0:26.3 | streams they're building, how their business is doing. Today we've got Jim Sealmanue. He has built |
| 0:32.6 | an incredible business in New Zealand. He doesn't buy or sell anything in New Zealand. He lives |
| 0:40.3 | there. Like I say all the time, it doesn't matter where you live. But you can buy and sell in the |
| 0:45.4 | United States from anywhere. He and his wife built a beautiful business their first year, which is a |
| 0:51.3 | few years back. They had a $300,000 business, then it grew to a |
| 0:54.3 | half-million dollar business, and they started growing their team, all while selling stuff |
| 0:58.6 | in the United States. |
| 1:00.6 | They were shopping online, having the products delivered to a prep center partner, which |
| 1:05.6 | we've got dozens and dozens of them all over the U.S., and those partners would, prep partner |
| 1:10.4 | would ship the stuff to Amazon as it sold, and Jim and his wife would all over the U.S., and those partners would prep partner would ship the stuff to |
| 1:11.4 | Amazon as it sold, and Jim and his wife would get paid. |
| 1:14.7 | I love the reason he started this business. |
| 1:17.2 | He was just looking for a way to connect with his son who was struggling. |
| 1:20.1 | And if you go back and listen to the last time Jim was on our show, you'll hear him dive deeper |
| 1:25.4 | into that story. |
| 1:26.2 | If you want to go back and hear some of that, |
| 1:27.7 | we'll stick a link to that previous episode in the show notes today. But as his business matured, |
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