#1057: Full time Amazon selling after leaving a corporate job - the reality of day to day
Release Date: 09/01/2025
Silent Sales Machine Radio
There's a reason we start all new Amazon sellers in our community with the same proven, time tested, low risk, low cost, high odds of success model. It works. It's the core new seller model taught in our award winning training and our coaching. What is that model? Filling the underserved and unstocked shelf space at Amazon's 100s of warehouses in the US with common, boring and easily sourced inventory is simply a beautiful, expansive and fully automatable biz model - as evidenced by the 100s of success stories on our show! But many new sellers go down different paths and regret...
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On today's show you meet someone who has been full-time on Amazon and Walmart for about four years after leaving her corporate job. She shares the details of the lessons she learned and the victories she's had along the way. She's also one of the most prolific users of Amazon seller tools so we spend a lot of time talking about the different tools she's using for various aspects of her business. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel here: Check out our sponsor for this episode: eCommerce Accounting LLC Cindy Smith's Proven Accounting Training inside our Proven Amazon...
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3PMercury software is changing the game of Amazon reselling. Step 1: Find viable asins (products) and pour them into the software Step 2: Let the software tell you what products to buy. Let's talk about it! Also - the price of the will go up soon unless you're locked in and grandfathered in to our current pricing. So many great updates coming and just added recently! Show note LINKS: My Silent Team Facebook group - 100% FREE! Join 82,000 + Facebook members from around the world who are using the internet creatively every day to launch and grow multiple income...
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Hitting $10K–$20K a month feels like you’ve “made it” until you realize the bottom line doesn’t match the top. In this episode of Coaches Corner, Brian and Robin Joy Olson unpack the messy, exciting, and sometimes frustrating shift from simple growth to true scaling. They share real coaching stories, personal business lessons, and vivid analogies (yes, even drums and bikes) to explain: Why working harder isn’t the same as building smarter The “book of business” mindset that keeps you from being sunk by a single ASIN How to spot when it’s time to bring in...
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If you want to virtually eliminate the risk of failure in building an Amazon business, get these three things right. It's not complicated, but you can easily get derailed by distractions and procrastination. The three: The right MODEL The right COMMUNITY The right TOOLS/TRAINING Selling on Amazon has created more millionaires than any other e-commerce opportunity, but you must approach it the right way! Check out our sponsor for this episode: eCommerce Accounting LLC Cindy Smith's Proven Accounting Training inside our Proven Amazon Course has helped thousands of you, and her team can...
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On today’s episode we hear from an online seller who has been in e-commerce on and off since the mid 90s! He tried a lot of things that haven’t really amounted to much… until now! Perhaps the most powerful thing he shares today is the fact that, “the game has never been as easy as it is right now” from his perspective. He’s a big fan of the reselling strategies as taught in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com training as well as the software that has completely systemized his approach to running a profitable Amazon business. “I run out of money way before I run...
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The latest strategies and tools are making it possible to manage a massive list of ASINs almost entirely on autopilot. Let software do the heavy lifting and remove nearly all the risk from Amazon selling! Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: Show note LINKS: - Our virtual conference August 15-16th 2025 has passed and the recordings are available! - The best price you'll find anywhere for full access to 3PMercury - First wave of users get free access to this powerful Chrome extension. It's a feature-packed on-screen calculator for all Amazon...
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New sellers on Amazon run into a frustration that is very common. It’s the challenge of being gated from selling many of the great products, ASINs and brands that they otherwise would be excited to sell. Earning Amazon‘s trust is not as hard as some have made it out to be however. On today’s episode I give you a couple of very specific strategies and resources that will have you flying through the gating process sooner than you thought possible! Watch this mini episode here on our YouTube channel: Show note LINKS: - A great open discussion on the...
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In this Coaches Corner episode, Brian and Robin Joy tackle a truth that every Amazon seller, and every business owner, needs to hear: success doesn’t start out looking like success. Drawing on stories from their early days (including apartment prep chaos, failed inspections, and a very confused schnauzer named Rudy), they unpack why disorder is not a sign of failure; it’s proof you’re building. Using analogies from the Eiffel Tower to busy restaurant kitchens, they show you how to navigate setbacks without losing momentum, create systems in real time, and turn clunky...
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Today’s episode is an interview with a successful proven Amazon course student who has recently built an incredible business and now can't wait to retire so she can go full-time in continuing to expand! She’s a huge fan of 3PMercury () as well as our coaching program (). She shares with us today that she’s nearly 80 years old and her desire is to be an encouragement and inspiration to others because she has never had this much fun building a business before and her entire life. She’s a lifelong teacher and entrepreneurial thinker and she’s a delight to spend time...
info_outlineOn today's show you meet someone who has been full-time on Amazon and Walmart for about four years after leaving her corporate job. She shares the details of the lessons she learned and the victories she's had along the way.
She's also one of the most prolific users of Amazon seller tools so we spend a lot of time talking about the different tools she's using for various aspects of her business.
Watch this episode on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/abh3JmI8VXs
Check out our sponsor for this episode:
eCommerce Accounting LLC
Cindy Smith's Proven Accounting Training inside our Proven Amazon Course has helped thousands of you, and her team can handle your books completely, plus help with income tax prep and tax planning. Remote, professional, eCommerce-focused.
Visit bit.ly/ECAMeet to schedule a time with her team today.
Show note LINKS:
SilentSalesMachine.com - Text the word “free” to 507-800-0090 to get a free copy of Jim’s latest book in audio about building multiple income streams online (US only) or visit https://silentjim.com/free11
SilentJim.com/bookacall - Schedule a FREE, customized and insightful consultation with my team or me (Jim) to discuss your e-commerce goals and options.
My Silent Team Facebook group. 100% FREE! https://www.facebook.com/groups/mysilentteam - Join 82,000 + 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!
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 free for life!
OAsimplified.com : training for Tactical Arbitrage- this is a free module inside the ProvenAmazonCourse.com library
SilentJim.com/keepa - The service we use to help interpret all of the selling data. Keepa is discussed in depth on episode 369 at https://silentjim.com/podcast
3PMercury.com/friends - The best pricing anywhere on the full 3PMercury software
SilentJim.com/ess - If you don't find 2,500 product leads, we will give you 2,500 product leads! Others paid $1,500 to get this info taught live, but you get it for a fraction of that price!
ProvenAmazonCourse.com/revseller - RevSeller an on-screen calculator. The above link gives you a huge discount
Seller365 by ThreeColts - SilentJim.com/365 with Tactical Arbitrage (Part of seller 365)
Seller Snap - Jimc.biz/sellersnap
Replen Dashboard - Silentjim.com/replendashboard
Sellerboard - SilentJim.com/numbers
SellerAmp - Selleramp.com/mst
Humnbird.com - branding, trademarks, accounting services
Today's guest: Cris Beam