Getting started making money selling physical products is easy. Building a sustainable model however requires a roadmap. Today's show is that roadmap based on the experiences we've had coaching literally thousands of online sellers to success. You'll start out "an inch deep and a mile wide", and if you choose to grow, you'll wind up "specializing" with multiple income streams to show for it! This episode really ties together several lessons from earlier shows - we hope you love it! As always, get all show notes at SilentJim.com
30 sources of inventory to sell online (many free!) YouTube video
Multiple income stream discussions
Episode #4 Building Multiple Income Streams Online
Episode #7 Only Three Ways
Episode #8 From Losing Their Home to a Multiple Online Stream Income Empire
PPI (keyword research) discussions
Episode #2 How Brett Turned $400 into an 8 Figure Amazon Business
Episode #16 Spend $10 and Uncover Gold Mines
Episode #31 Unless You've Sold Tens of Millions on Amazon in Private Label Listen Up
Episode #32 Everything You Need to Know about Sourcing Wholesale to Sell Online
Episode #6 Making Your First $100 Online
Episode #28 Imagine High Profit Products Flying into Your Life on Autopilot
Episode #5 Is This the Lowest Hanging Fruit Model for Amazon Success?
Sourcing profitable products online
ProvenOnlineSourcingStrategies.com
Our free Facebook group: My Silent Team Facebook
Show Notes SilentJim.com/podcast
It really can be amazingly simple to launch your own branded products (Private Label) on Amazon.com! We've sold a few hundred million dollars of private-label products on Amazon and have also successfully taught many others to do the same. In this show we "tell all!" We've also recently updated our ProvenPrivateLabel.com system to cover the whole process. We can say now more than ever (with extreme confidence) that your success in private label doesn't have to be complicated! If you've been listening to the way PL has been taught by most "experts," you've probably overspent, overeducated yourself and gave up frustrated or worse yet lost a pile of cash! End the madness! Today we'll pull back the curtain and expose the simplicity of the PL model - and you'll be kicking yourself for ever thinking it was complex or expensive! As always, get all show notes at SilentJim.com
The book Ryan bought for $1500
101FreeMarketing.com
Our free Facebook group: My Silent Team Facebook
Show Notes SilentJim.com/podcast
Imagine having product after product on Amazon selling steadily at great profits WITHOUT competitors swooping in to crash the pricing! On today's show Jim invited Teresa Rose, one of the best JimCockrumCoaching.com coaches to the studio to teach us all how to use simple Amazon searches to uncover countless hidden gold mines of opportunity! We are taking all the guess work and mystery out of sourcing on today's show and we have hundreds of success stories and loads of examples to prove it! You'll love this one! As always, get all show notes at SilentJim.com
Brett and I talking wholesale PPI episode 32
http://www.JimCockrumCoaching.com/
The Wholesale Strategy videos from Teresa are in this course!
Proven Amazon Course
Our episode Step Away from the Keyboard SSMR episode 11
When it comes to the topic of getting suspended on Amazon as a seller, there are a lot of rumors, half-truths and legitimate precautions to consider.
If you'd like to learn how to avoid suspension, how to navigate a suspension if it ever happens, and how to improve your odds of reinstatement, we highly recommend Cynthia's book "Suspension Prevention". You can get a full free copy of the book inside the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course, or grab it on Amazon by title.
In this episode we also talk about the new income replacement insurance that we are very excited to introduce to you. Get details here: ProvenAmazonCourse.com/insureme
As always, get all show notes at SilentJim.com
Get the 'Suspension Prevention' book free inside the
ProvenAmazonCourse.com
ProvenPrivateLabel.com - our private label course
Get a sample of Cynthia's 'Suspension Prevention' book here: MySilentTeam.com/sp.html
Have you ever been worried about your account getting suspended? Stop the worry! You can now insure yourself against income loss if you sell on Amazon (or eBay, Jet, WalMart.com etc.). Today we are talking about a brand new policy for online sellers that is a total NO BRAINER! The price is right, it ends any worry you might have about account loss, and it's easy to apply and get covered fast! Get full details on the policy at ProvenAmazonCourse.com/insureme As always, show notes at SilentJim.com/podcast
provenamazoncourse.com/insureme
Join the Facebook discussion about account insurance
ProvenAmazonCourse.com Members: FREE Suspension Prevention eBook (full version)
FREE Suspension Prevention eBook for everyone (summary version): http://www.mysilentteam.com/sp.html
Come hang out with Ashlin and Jim sometime if you live near Indianapolis! We have occasional live meetups!
Connect in the Local Facebook Group here.
Today Jim wants to talk about the most stable business you can possibly have online and he tells you exactly where to start based on having seen thousands of success stories in our community! You can get all show notes at SilentJim.com/podcast
SilentJim.com/podcast is where you can see the video on how to subscribe
SilentSalesMachine.com: Jim's $5 book "Silent Sales Machine"
The world of e-commerce is rapidly changing with opportunity everywhere! Let's hang out today with someone who has traveled the world getting to know Amazon executives and Amazon sellers in a way that gives him a very unique perspective on the future of ecommerce, private label, the impact of China & a whole lot more. We give away some great freebies on this episode today as well with special guest Mr. Jeff Cohen of Seller Labs - enjoy!
SellerLabs
– Get Jeff's Free Book Here
Jeff's CES IV Presentation
– Traits of a Successful Amazon Seller
If you don't truly believe in the work you are doing you aren't alone. 80% of us don't find our work meaningful! Today we show you how to join the 20%! Today we had guest Dan Miller on the line. He's been a big influence on Jim and has helped him make several key decisions. He has also been a keynote speaker at our CES events (JimCockrumEvents.com). We talk about how to discover your true calling, how to know when you've found it and several other exciting topics that will propel your business forward! One key tip about meaningfully befriending millionaires and working with them is HUGE! Look for it.
There's no such thing as a business that is riding along safely at the same level long term. Growth is a vital part of ANY business effort. In this episode Jim dives into 10 of the most exciting things we have planned for you in 2017 to help you grow your online business and add more income streams! Topics discussed include more updates and additions to our best selling ProvenAmazonCourse.com course and details about our Sept 2017 live event (Tickets will go on sale in Spring 2017 - Get details at JimCockrumEvents.com)
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If you know how to sell stuff on Amazon or eBay - or if you have some basic internet business skills, then you are sitting on a gold mine that you probably don't even recognize is there! You see, 98% of the population has no clue about how online business works, but everyone around you KNOWS that online business is the future of commerce. Without building a website, without learning any new "techie" skills and without even getting a business card for yourself you could quickly have paying clients using ONLY the strategies that we teach in this episode. Today Jim invites a friend of his who started on eBay and now has hundreds of paying clients around the world! This is an episode that we probably could have charged a lot of money for! You are going to love it! Special guest: Mike LeMoine - aka Fireman Mike.
Free access to the OfflineBiz Facebook Group
OfflineBiz.com – Membership website for marketers to help small businesses
Mike LeMoine's Maverick Web Marketing
Mike's CES IV Presentation –How Local Marketers Hurt Themselves
SilentSalesMachine.com – the book that gets you Jim's $97 email marketing course for free
If you want a business that is bigger than you are, you are going to need a team. Any business that is a "one man show" is severely limited and easily crushed without notice. Do you have a team yet? Do you know where to start? Do you need help managing your team? This episode is for you. Jim and Brett talk about their 8 figure online business and share what they've learned about building virtual teams in this episode.
It's never too early to start thinking intentionally about your team growth, and it's not expensive at al because the right people make you money - they don't cost you money! The courses & training we talk about in the Silent Sales Machine Radio can easily be passed to qualified partners who do the work for you. You could find yourself growing very rapidly as a result using proven ideas!
SilentSalesMachineInsiders.com
ProvenPerformanceInventory.com
ProvenTeamBuilding.com/silentjim: (Deep discount: Only $7)
Do you ever feel like there are more opportunities and good business ideas out there than you even have time to investigate? I can help! After helping thousands of entrepreneurs and online business building warriors like you since 2002 we've detected some patterns on how and why many of us wind up on dead ends. Many of us leap before we ask the most important basic questions about all those "good ideas" we run into. Today I have seven basic questions for you - ask them all before you leap!
As always - show notes are at SilentJim.com/podcast
This episode is a short discussion of 16 of the top moments from our Facebook group in 2016! A link to each of the 16 topics is below for your easy reference (you'll need to join our free facebook group in order to access these links - click any link below to request free access to the group!)
The below notes each have a link to the corresponding discussion mentioned in today's show. Join the discussion on any topic!
1) She announced in 2015 that she would build her Amazon biz and get her first home in 2016- and did it…after being homeless!
http://jimc.biz/2iyqGcg
2) Our own Michael Brown of Death Wish coffee won a paid in full SUPER BOWL AD yesterday thanks in no small part to the votes of the MySilentTeam Facebook community! Full story at PickMikeBrown.com
http://jimc.biz/2iC4Ged
3) If a disabled single mom with $200 and some junk in the garage can do this, so can you!! Lisa has kept us up to date this year on “her story” It’s worth the read….all 5 “Chapters”
part 1 – Jan 2016
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mysilentteam/permalink/897837733665671/
part 2 – March 2016
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mysilentteam/permalink/915087628607348/
part 3 – August 2016
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mysilentteam/permalink/1017611385021638/
part 4 – September 2016
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mysilentteam/permalink/1057779124338197/
Part 5 – December 2016
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mysilentteam/permalink/1168528396596602/
4) A friend in the UK shares how he finds stuff to sell online for nice profits:
http://jimc.biz/2j35jwy
5) A member thanks the MST community and shares what they were able to do for Christmas because of the biz strategies they learned here:
http://jimc.biz/2hOP9FY
6) He is my heart, my purpose, my motivation, 16 years old, autistic, non verbal. I need to leave him a large trust fund.”
http://jimc.biz/2j3fzEY
7) How I do my wholesale planning – Everything I plan to buy from a supplier I map it out into a spreadsheet like this so I know what to expect after the product has been ordered.
http://jimc.biz/2j3fH7q
8) I just bought $500+ worth of stuff that will easily flip to $1000 net within a couple months. This happened about an hour ago. For those who say RA is hard, I gotta ask… Compared to what?
http://jimc.biz/2iCghKu
9)This simple report can be pulled down in a matter of seconds from Amazon and you can know what the “MOST VIEWED” items are among the hundreds or even thousands of items you’ve sold on Amazon.
http://jimc.biz/2i93zBK
10) Silent Sales Machine Radio podcast launched in 2016! Jim was asked to be the first ever keynote speaker at ASD in 2016. We recorded it and made it the opening episode of our new podcast at SilentJim.com. The show passed the 100K download mark in just over 6 weeks!
http://jimc.biz/2i8WhhE
11) Would you like to be set for life with a business model that will ALWAYS be vital, scalable and profitable? It’s this simple: Find products that become more valuable by merely moving them from a place of slow movement and low value to a different location where they are more highly valued and/or moving more quickly.
http://jimc.biz/2hPUfH6
12) Popular discussion about opening a wholesale account:
http://jimc.biz/2j34B2j
13) The best 15 second “Amazon private label” advice ANYONE has EVER given you in three steps:
http://jimc.biz/2hOExXG
14) A discussion about our coaching program. “I am considering using Jim Cockrum’s coaching program. If anyone has or is using this program, would you tell me of your experience with it?”
http://jimc.biz/2j3eeyb
(also listen to podcast episode #13 to help decide if you need coaching)
15) The best advice I would give to someone starting to explore earning income online is (great community participation on this one!):
http://jimc.biz/2hR54H8
16) An email we received after one member noticed another member in need of a boost:
“I am not rolling in cash but I feel moved to offer to buy the PAC for ***** please – and my only request is that they Pay it forward sometime in the future – i do not want them to know who I am.”
http://jimc.biz/2hR6xNz
UPDATE: The “stranger/student” WENT TO WORK and then WENT PUBLIC as he posted his results! He’s doing great (proof below) & we invited the “giver” to attend our live 2016 CES event free. She came! All the way from Ireland!
http://jimc.biz/2hOQ9df
What are the key traits we've observed over and over again among those who continue to grow their online businesses consistently to new levels? Is there any such thing as "enough success" in an online business where you can simply coast and relax? What does each stage look like as your business grows and what does it take to get to each new level?
Jim talks about all that and more in this episode!
ProvenPerformanceInventory.com
Amazon is shutting down RA & OA! Is it time to panic?
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Jim credits a handful of mentors for his business success. In these two episodes Jim spends time with someone who has arguably shaped his business philosophy more than any other mentor. Today the guest is Jim's favorite living author, Rabbi Daniel Lapin. Lapin regularly consults with everyone from large multi-million dollar corporations to small businesses who recognize his incredible ability to apply timeless truth to virtually any business or life challenge. Jim's two all time favorite business books are the Bible (the best selling book in world history!), and Lapin's book "Business Secrets From The Bible". Regardless of your worldview, you'll enjoy listening as Rabbi Lapin and Jim dive into topics related to Internet business strategy and how to virtually guarantee success as an entrepreneur in all areas of life.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin's store: youneedarabbi.com – discount code "cockrum" to save 20%
Business Secrets From The Bible (Amazon affiliate link)
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Jim credits a handful of mentors for his business success. In these two episodes Jim spends time with someone who has arguably shaped his business philosophy more than any other mentor. Today the guest is Jim's favorite living author, Rabbi Daniel Lapin. Lapin regularly consults with everyone from large multi-million dollar corporations to small businesses who recognize his incredible ability to apply timeless truth to virtually any business or life challenge. Jim's two all time favorite business books are the Bible (the best selling book in world history!), and Lapin's book "Business Secrets From The Bible". Regardless of your worldview, you'll enjoy listening as Rabbi Lapin and Jim dive into topics related to Internet business strategy and how to virtually guarantee success as an entrepreneur in all areas of life.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin's store: youneedarabbi.com – discount code "cockrum" to save 20%
Business Secrets From The Bible (Amazon affiliate link)
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Email marketing is boring old news to some, but it's the CORE of success for all of my top clients and my own multiple income stream businesses. My partner is growing multiple HUGE mailing lists right now and we've never stopped loving email! One of my clients just had a $1million week and credits email! If you don't have an email list tied to your online business then you have a business that could possibly vanish in an instant. The most valuable asset you can ever have is a list of people who WANT to hear from you and it's not complicated to get started. It's not nearly as much work as you might be thinking either! No matter what business you are in off or online, you need to be thinking about email marketing. Don't be nervous about getting dropped by eBay, Google, Facebook or Amazon. Grow your own audience! Let's talk about it.
ListBuildingClass.com
$97 on website, FREE with purchase of Silent Sales Machine
Aweber.com (affiliate link)
BONUS INFO: How to start your email list WITHOUT a website (YouTube video).
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Is the act of buying widgets for $10 and selling them for $80 a MORAL and valuable service or not? It's certainly one of the lowest hanging fruit business models of our time and many people in our community are succeeding wildly with this model, but is "buying low and selling high online" a VIRTUOUS business model or is it "price gouging"? Let's talk about it! (for details on this biz model see episode #6)
Is this the end of retail arbitrage?
Amazon is shutting down RA & OA! Is it panic time?
Come discuss this episode with Jim and SSMR community on FB here
– https://www.facebook.com/groups/mysilentteam/permalink/1169930496456392/
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In part one of this topic (episode #17) we talked a lot about how to AVOID buying bad inventory for resell online. In part II we dive deeper into how to MOVE inventory that you purchased and now have a hard time moving.
Learn to sell on Facebook marketplace – 3-minute video
– Facebook discussion on the FB marketplace opportunity.
Connect with Others On The MySilentTeam World Map
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We've all been there at some point. More time than money. Can you still build an internet business if you are broke? Yes you can and Jim has six specific business strategies for you in this one! Even if you have some cash in the bank, you should check this one out! You'll find some very creative investment opportunities in this creativity packed episode! Don't forget - show notes are always at SilentJim.com
Learn to sell on Facebook marketplace – 3-minute video
Learn to sell on Amazon from anywhere in the world – 8-minute video
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How do you ensure that you invest in ONLY the training, experts, events and courses that will take your business in the right direction? There's one simple test you can use that will help you avoid making a series of horrible decisions when it comes to your online business building adventure. In this mini episode Jim explains why just about every hyped up expensive expert course you've ever bought or considered buying was a total waste of money and he reveals how you can EASILY know well in advance who the good guys are and who the money grubbing scammers are. Show notes as always at https://SilentJim.com
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What are the tricks for selling a bulk load of inventory that is moving too slowly on Amazon? I get asked this question a lot - and I always give the same answer. It can be painful to hear, but remember - I only say it because I love you!
3 minute Facebook marketplace video
Amazon report for "sessions":
>Click on Reports
>Business Reports
>"Detail Page Sales and Traffic"
Then sort by sessions to see what's in your inventory.
Discuss this report strategy with others here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mysilentteam/permalink/1081227065326736/
ProvenAmazonCourse.com (the best keyword training in the world for Amazon is the PPI module in this course)
JimCockrumCoaching.com Need help moving your inventory? Need help getting started? We can help!