Whether you are experienced or brand new to the concept of selling on Amazon, today I go through the most common decision points involved in helping our students make a good decision. I discuss common issues of concern among our students such as: is Amazon saturated? What's the future look like for Amazon sellers and ecommerce? Can a virtual assistant really do most of the work for me? Do I need a coach? What are the start up costs? How big is the learning curve? Why have you been so bullish on the Replens model for so long? What if my passion is elsewhere?   Special guest at the conclusi ..read more

Today's guest is a yet another ProvenAmazonCourse.com student who has ramped up very quickly in his Amazon selling adventure. He and his wife work about 15 hours per week and are having success with both online and retail sourcing. They've been selling on Amazon for less than a year, but they are ramping up beautifully! He shares how they found 100 REPLENS in their first month at a local Walmart, as well as how they are now using online sourcing strategies so effectively that they are "running out of cash to buy more inventory" - they say, "there are so many winning REPLENS to be found!" Their ..read more

Prepare to be inspired! Although it hasn't been a smooth journey, the guest on today's interview has fought her way to a profitable seven figure sales business on Amazon and she credit this podcast and our community as the primary source of creativity and education that have helped her achieve such fantastic results. You'll hear her successes and failures today as this homeschool family has taken a long journey together through some nearly unimaginable challenges including the tragic loss of one of their teenage children, but they've come out with high hopes for the future and a beautiful busi ..read more

Today we meet a lead trainer on our team who lives in the Philippines. Janine helps train the virtual assistants who work in our ProvenReplensVA.com program. So far we've had about 400 clients join this program and hire the $4/hr workers who have passed our rigorous qualification process. The results (as you've heard on past episodes) are incredible. We thought you'd enjoy hearing a bit about the realities of working behind the scenes for our team as we are committed to training the best inventory hunting experts in the world for the ProvenAmazonCourse.com community. Special guest at the concl ..read more

Today we meet a coaching student who only recently joined our program after realizing she'd been spinning her wheels listening to others offering her helpful, yet incomplete Amazon selling strategies for a couple years. She works a full-time job she likes, but she hopes to make her ecommerce business her sole source of income eventually. It's a realistic goal based on her trajectory. Her story is a bit of a cautionary tale. Even before she found our community, she was working in the best Amazon seller model for her skillset (Replens), but she was making a series of classic mistakes including ..read more

On today's show I teach you literally EVERYTHING you need to know about Dropshipping, Private Label and Liquidations if you are new to Amazon! I'm not exaggerating - I cover it ALL! It's not a hard task to cover it all actually, because if you are NEW to Amazon selling, you shouldn't be doing ANY of those things and I'll tell you why! This is a great episode to share with someone who is just getting started or who is in "research" mode considering starting up as an Amazon seller. Special guest at the conclusion of today's show, Attorney Jeff Schick of JeffSchick.com answers the question: What ..read more

Today's guest is Jeff Schick of JeffSchick.com. Not only is he an Amazon seller and big fan of this community and podcast - he's also an attorney who has risen to the top of our list of experts on all policy issues related to Amazon sellers in the strategies we teach in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com course! Today you'll hear his background as well as specific advice and encouragement on topics like suspensions, selling liquidations and shelf-pulls, making sure you avoid bad ASINs and several other practical "do's and don'ts" that will help ensure you keep growing as frustration free as possible o ..read more

Today's guest has several years of ecommerce and Amazon selling experience, but after a couple of big pivots she's now getting the best sustained results she's ever seen thanks to the REPLENS training that we teach in the ProvenAmazonCourse.com modules. She's a coaching student from our JimCockrumCoaching.com program and has one of my favorite coaching stories ever for reasons that you'll soon hear. She has plenty of practical tips and insights that you can take to the bank as well! View this interview on ourYouTube channel: https://youtu.be/_gp8vcH1KFA Our sponsor: sellerboard - THE accurate ..read more

Are you characterized by POSITIVITY or NEGATIVITY? Is this something you think you can control? Did you realize that the answers to those questions have a VERY significant impact on your long term prospects for success in business? There's no such thing as a harmless post or conversation as a business leader. There's no such thing as a great leader who always has bad news to share. As you may recall I've done a couple other episodes now about "e-commerce leadership" in recent weeks, and this is a continuation of those discussions. Success in ANY business means working on your leadership skills ..read more

On today's episode we meet a ProvenAmazonCourse.com student who is also a client of our ProvenReplensVA.com program. He's a married Father of two who is rising quickly because he's getting great REPLENS leads (profitable products) every day from his virtual assistant. We discuss his big "WHY" (why he does the business), how he finds profitable products in abundance, the details of how it's going with his VA (virtual assistant) and many great tips for Amazon sellers both new and experienced! I think you'll love this episode!   Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/1R8 ..read more