Today we're going to talk to James, who's going to give us unique insight into why going

to Amazon seller conferences is beneficial. Also some definition of supply chain terms such as

1P and 3P and which might be the best bet for you.

How's it going, everybody?

Welcome to another episode of the serious sellers podcast.

My name is Bradley Sutton, and I'm very privileged to have James Thompson on the line with me.

James, how's it going?

It's going great.

Thanks for having me on today, Bradley.

It's a pleasure to have you here.

Now, James, you bring a lot of unique knowledge.

That's one thing I like doing on the show is bringing people from different backgrounds, different specialties. And you have a couple of specialties that I wanted to talk about today. And we just recently went to the Prosper Show, which you are one of the co-founders of. And this is something I wanted to talk, not necessarily just about the Prosper Show, But, you know, my personal experience, which I don't think I've ever told you before, some of the listeners have heard, is how I even got started in the whole Amazon, you know, game, really, was just one day I just on a whim went to a conference, you know, an Amazon conference. It was in Chicago. It was called Zon Squad Live. I don't know if you had ever heard of that one. I think it only in one or two years, but it literally changed my life. The networking there and just the information just opened my

eyes. So I'm sure the great, great majority of our listeners probably have never been to an Amazon

conference, let alone, you know, maybe a conference about

entrepreneurs. But can you talk a little bit about why you think people should attend conferences,

what some of the benefits are and some, maybe some experiences that you've heard?

Well, let me start by saying, in my time working with Amazon sellers, I would have to define this as potentially one of the most lonely existences possible.

Most Amazon sellers are basically islands onto themselves.

And whether they're working out of their home or their garage or a little office, trying to figure out what's going on, what other people have done, how to learn

from folks that have already gone down this path.

You've got north of three million sellers today on Amazon.

And the reality is there's only so much secret sauce to go around.

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