In this episode of Marketplace Mavericks, we get real about the Amazon coaching world. How did three guys in their 40s and 50s end up learning from a 25-year-old? We dive deep into how we met through Miles’ coaching group (Flips4Miles), what we learned, and how the Skool platform completely changed our Amazon reselling journey. We also break down why SellerAmp is essential for beginners, how it organizes our sourcing game, and why it’s worth every penny. If you’ve been debating getting a coach, using tools like Keepa and SellerAmp, or joining a support network — this is the episode you need. 🔧 Topics Covered: Is coaching worth it in 2025? How Flips4Miles helped us shortcut success Why older sellers should embrace mentorship Tools that changed our business: SellerAmp, Keepa, Google Sheets The truth about the Skool community Listener Q&A: Should you avoid Amazon listings if Amazon owns the Buy Box? Interested in joining Miles' program? Put "MM" in your application where it asks how you heard about it so he knows we sent you there! https://www.flips4milescoaching.com/private-inner-circle1709691968056 💬 Got questions? Email us at marketplacemavericks@gmail.com 📌 Don’t forget to like, subscribe & drop your comments below!
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Pete: All right, everybody welcome back to another episode of the marketplace. Mavericks.
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jon cutler: 3 over the hill. Guys talk about their journey starting out in Amazon. We're back.
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Blake Jennings: We're here week. Number one. Guys, what week are we on here?
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Pete: This is 5, I believe.
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jon cutler: Is this 5?
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Blake Jennings: Week, 5.
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jon cutler: Time.
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Blake Jennings: Time flies when you're having fun. At least, that's what you guys tell me. It's a lot of fun hanging out with me so.
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jon cutler: I mean, of course it is.
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Pete: Help you help boost your ego a little bit.
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Blake Jennings: Yeah.
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Blake Jennings: Whatever helps me sleep. Better.
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jon cutler: So we've we've we've we've made it through another week
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jon cutler: of selling on Amazon, and I know everybody's got to be wondering like, how did these 3 handsome.
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Blake Jennings: Random.
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jon cutler: Random guys meet each other?
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jon cutler: and I think if you guys have been anybody out there who has been doing any sort of
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jon cutler: starting out in Amazon. You're researching Amazon. You see a ton of online coaches
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jon cutler: constantly all over Youtube. They all do coaching.
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jon cutler: And
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jon cutler: we're gonna talk a little bit about the online coaching. And all we can do is talk about our experience. We met each other through an online group
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jon cutler: called Flips for Miles.
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jon cutler: And I think he's I would say, Miles is the goat of online coaching.
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jon cutler: He is. He was. Yeah, he is the 1st video you see on Youtube. And he's got a little crew of guys, and they all kind of started around the same time.
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jon cutler: They're all way younger than us, and they do coaching.
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jon cutler: There are bad coaches out there. There are good coaches out there. All we can do is talk about our situation, and I don't think I would have made it
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jon cutler: without miles.
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Blake Jennings: I think we would all confirm that in our journey, you know, doing it alone and doing it with somebody who knows what they're doing. There's just a massive difference in that. The 3 of us had no idea what we were doing right, but we were able to partner up and and let Miles coach us and miles coaching is.
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Blake Jennings: It's 1 of those things that really just help propel you. Otherwise you're going to be spinning your wheels, for you know whether it's in your gating issue, or whether, whatever your issue is that you're in, you'll you'll be spinning your wheels. But when you have a coach.
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Blake Jennings: and all 3 of us can speak very highly of Miles that dude is legit, and he does nothing but help us get to a place where at? Because if we didn't have him, we would probably be stuck in the week. One week, 2 week, 3
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jon cutler: Forever.
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Blake Jennings: Hamster wheel
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Blake Jennings: trying to make traction and just simply getting nowhere. So yeah, this this school that we've partnered with miles with has been absolutely incredible. That's what's brought us and given us the ability really to even have this platform and be able to help other people.
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Pete: Yeah, like, I think that anytime that anybody jumps into any sort of endeavor they don't really know much about. And they need that guidance. You typically look for a mentor to help you sort of guide your guide you down the path of profitability. And I feel like that that we really had a unicorn with Miles in that.
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Pete: He's been really a positive influence, you know, not only just with helping guide us through Amazon, but also, generally speaking, you know. He seems like he's, you know. He might be a 20 something year old in a 20, something year old body, but I feel like his mind is, is much more, much older, much more mature in terms of helping helping guide us mentally through the process, as well.
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jon cutler: Yeah, I know for me looking on Youtube.
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jon cutler: the constant and nothing wrong with it. If you make a bunch of money on Amazon, and you want to go. Buy yourself a Bmw. And drive around and be flashy. That's cool. Those videos for me kind of turn me off. Miles doesn't do that. You know he is just all about business.
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jon cutler: the boy, the man. I shouldn't say, boy, because he is a man. He hustles, and the the website that he uses called School is how we all met each other. And then he really introduced us to networking.
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Blake Jennings: Yeah.
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jon cutler: He just put us all in a group chat in a text, he said, here you go, guys, you're all gonna be. You're gonna be friends, and you're gonna learn from each other.
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Blake Jennings: And honestly, he knew our demographics of you know not necessarily where we live, but probably more age base. But that's kind of how that's why we start out with guys 40 years, or you know, or John, in John's case, maybe a little older. But that's miles Miles literally just paired us together. And it just started this relationship friendship that we've encountered here, where it's been very unique. And one of the things that Miles always says
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Blake Jennings: is, you know in your hometown that you're from. There's probably no other sellers that are no other human beings that are doing what you're doing. And so your group, or your network is very limited in your small space that you're in. But when you open it up to the web, like, there's people all over the world who are doing what you and I are doing right now. And so it just opens up the network opportunity. And so that's exactly what happened with us.
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Blake Jennings: And so it's been. It's been a great thing with the 3 of us, and we have. There's a couple more people who who are in the same group as well. But we're doing this podcast together, 3 of us. But one of the things I was, gonna I was gonna ask, maybe even pose a question to you guys because it was, I wouldn't say it was a challenge for me, but it was definitely not an obstacle. I think it was just a question, and it was.
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Blake Jennings: I'm taking advice from Miles. Here I am. I'm 44 miles is 25. What did that look like for, you guys?
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jon cutler: I mean for me, I quickly had to say to myself, like when he started pushing, Hey, get online.
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jon cutler: go on. X,
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jon cutler: go on, Instagram. Talk to each other. Document your progress, I said to myself. At 1st I was like, Why do I want to do that like I got a million other things I need to be doing with this, and then it like for me, it clicked. It was like, Wait a second. I come from the taxi business
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jon cutler: that doesn't exist anymore because it didn't evolve.
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jon cutler: So maybe I need to evolve
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jon cutler: and miles along with Miles. He's got this crew of friends that all do it together, and
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jon cutler: they are just impressive.
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Blake Jennings: I agree. Man.
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jon cutler: Absolutely.
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Blake Jennings: Not not the last year right?
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jon cutler: Not flashy. They are smart.
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jon cutler: they are smart, and they are. They're probably very mature for their age, because I'm assuming most 25 year. Olds
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jon cutler: are not like that. But it is.
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jon cutler: You know.
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jon cutler: you guys can look up and see what it costs. We're not gonna say what it costs because we don't know how much miles changes it from month to month, or what it is, but you know it costs money, but you have it for a lifetime, and the way it's set up is in the beginning.
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jon cutler: You're screenshotting your Keepa charts and your Amazon listings, and you're sending it to Miles through this school website.
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jon cutler: and he's telling you this is good. That's not good. This is good. Look at this. Keep a chart. This is why it's good. This is how you make it good, and you do that constantly. For the 1st 3 weeks.
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jon cutler: you know you're sending them everything, and then it starts to build
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jon cutler: your confidence, and then you just find yourself not sending everything to him. But you switch over and you start using the school group
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jon cutler: for all of your networking and for your questions. So it is infinitely helpful. For years.
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Blake Jennings: Yeah, so so what does that look like? You said, there's this school thing online, which I'm obviously aware of. But what does it look like to someone who is maybe either looking to get into something like that. What can they expect? Because it it is in a sense it's a school like you will learn right? But it's what what does that look like for the for the average person to say to explain what is school. What are you getting in there.
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jon cutler: What is.
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Pete: Yeah. So you know, school is something
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Pete: relatively similar to if you've ever heard of discord. If you've ever heard of telegram these are these are, it's, it's basically a
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Pete: a site that everybody that is part of Miles program can go on, make comments, ask questions to Miles or into the entire Amazon or the entire group, and they can respond to you and and kind of help you help answer the questions that you have. If miles not available.
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Pete: It's just it's just a way to collaborate with everybody in the same group. Just like you would with any other. You know, online source like like discord or or a telegram. Does that make sense.
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Blake Jennings: Yeah, it does. And and what if I have a dumb question? What if my question I mean, I think that this is a I mean, I can't get past this simple thing. To me it seems dumb. But.
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Pete: If you have a dumb question, Blake, then there's like a search function on there that you just type in. If you don't want to ask the dumb question. Just type in a couple of key words from from your question, and 9 times out of 10 somebody's already asked that question.
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Blake Jennings: Well, that's that's what I was getting at is that's exactly what I was getting at is you're not your questions, not dumb, your questions just unanswered. You don't know it, and so you can even search for it.
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Blake Jennings: if somebody else has already had your question, and they've more than likely, answered that. So that's what I'm trying to get at is that there is a resource there for you. If you would join into this school thing where where you will find the answer, or you have the community of people who have been there done that who are there to help you? That's 1 thing I think probably all of us have recognized is
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Blake Jennings: we've all we've we all had to start small. We all started, you know, week one just like, you guys, week 2, like you guys are. And so everybody's been there and everybody is willing to help you in in.
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jon cutler: Yeah, there's.
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Blake Jennings: In many many ways.
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jon cutler: They're so helpful, and he does zoom calls.
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jon cutler: was it once or twice a week and minimum? I don't usually go on them anymore, because I've been doing it long enough where you kind of learned you learn them, and you don't need to go on them all the time. But he sources right in front of you.
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jon cutler: like he gives you all the secrets. This is the, you know. This is how you make this brand good. This website is always good. This is where you get gift cards. Don't go here, you know. If you're buying from Walmart, make sure it's sold by Walmart, not a private seller like he kind of helps you through all of that especially with the ungating. Just lets you know he can't get anything ungated for you, but he lets, you know, like it's normal.
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jon cutler: Just keep going. Don't worry when it says a hundred units just keep doing 10, and he just
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jon cutler: breaks down that wall. The funny part is when you go on the zoom calls, you know, there's 30 or 40 of us on there, and sometimes I flip the screen over, and there's miles 25 years old, and everybody in the school group is so we're all doing it. So the age thing you just real quickly realize like, oh.
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jon cutler: this is what younger generation is doing. This is the small business.
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Blake Jennings: Yeah, and I think one of the things.
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jon cutler: Company. It's not brick and mortar.
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Blake Jennings: Correct. You're exactly right, and I think that's 1 of the things that we that I had to come to, and I've always known it. But surround yourself with people who are better than you. Even if they're 25 years old, they know what they're doing. They know their crap like. Let's take advantage of those things. They're there to help you. It's okay that they're smarter than you are, John. It's okay
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jon cutler: Yeah, yeah. I mean, it doesn't take a ton. Right? Yeah, that's.
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Blake Jennings: I wanted to use a real, simple example, and so that was easy.
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jon cutler: That's a basketball
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jon cutler: than that. Yeah, you don't know what you don't know. And mile, you know, these guys have been doing it for. Well, not that long, but it just also goes to show how fast you can grow this business
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jon cutler: and how fast you can really become an expert in it
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jon cutler: like. It doesn't take all that long. It feels like a long time. Every day is long right now. But when you look at these guys like within a year or 2 they were.
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jon cutler: They're up and rolling.
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Blake Jennings: Yeah.
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jon cutler: And making a lot of money.
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Blake Jennings: Yeah. And it really just comes down to finding finding a good asin or 2 or 3. You know, you want to diversify some of that. But once you find some good Asins, obviously you want to keep looking. But, man, when you find some good Asins like you can really start begin making money. Maybe, like John is John, have you found, like one or 2 Asins that are just like popping for you?
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jon cutler: Yeah, yeah, you find a couple. And
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jon cutler: what miles also does is like help. You get organized.
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jon cutler: You know. He tells you like, you need Keepa, and you need the other one, Celeramp.
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jon cutler: and not only seller ramp. I think we we talked about it briefly in like our second episode.
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jon cutler: but it is a chrome extension that breaks down
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jon cutler: all of your profits. How much you need to buy it for all of the back end money that Amazon charges is there? It makes it really simple. And it's connected to Google sheets
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jon cutler: where you can really start to organize yourself because once you start getting going, you can get unorganized.
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Blake Jennings: In a quick, fast hurry!
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jon cutler: Real, real quick, and the in the Google sheets
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jon cutler: just make it really simple. I had never used excel before.
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Blake Jennings: Yeah. So what I was gonna say is, if John can do it, you guys can do it.
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jon cutler: Yeah, because I was computer.
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Blake Jennings: That's the truth. It's not even a knock on John. It's just the reality of it, like. If if we can figure this out, you guys can, too. I can promise you I never use. I've always been pretty savvy with computer. But I never use Google sheets. I was able to do it. John, on the other hand, never had to do any of these things, and he's got it. So that's what I'm saying, like, you don't have to be smart, to be able to do these things.
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jon cutler: Yeah, Pete, do you want to go into a little bit because you're you're you're our analytical guy, and you know how to slow things down and explain something. So I know you're the guy to explain. Seller, Amp.
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Pete: Sure. No, I think that you know the 1 1 thing that I'll really focus on with Sellers Amp, that I really like. Because
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Pete: Miles does talk about reverse. What's it called reverse door stocking? Is that right?
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jon cutler: Stocking.
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Pete: Yeah, so what? I really like.
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Blake Jennings: Stop.
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Pete: About seller's amp is that you can
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Pete: see a list of everybody selling the same product that you're interested in, and not only that, but you can. It gives you a better idea as to how to price your products. So it's it's very. It allows you to to have that information.
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Pete: to know how to how to run your business. And so it's it's a really powerful tool. And in order to get to see other people's stores to see what what they're selling. You essentially, you know. See that list on Sellers, Amp, and you you click on it to view their store. It'll pull up their store and show all their products. And then it kind of helps you evaluate. If that's a product that you'd want to add to your store as well.
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Pete: so that's 1 of the really impressive, I guess. Features of Sellers Amp, that I really gravitate to whenever I go out and start start scanning doing the retail arbitrage in the stores. But yeah, I think there's a lot of other functions on there as well like they have keepa as as sort of like a widget.
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Blake Jennings: I would say, dumb down, keep it. But it's just not an expansive, right? What you would see on a computer screen. But it is, there is some data there that you can look at and be able to make judgment calls on because of that. So yeah, there's there's a lot of things inside seller Amp. That is extremely extremely beneficial, I mean, can you do, John? Can you do? Can you? Can you do any Amazon business? And at least what we're doing without seller. Amp.
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jon cutler: I mean, you gotta have a pen and paper and a calculator.
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jon cutler: I mean, I I guess you technically could, because there was a.
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Blake Jennings: Why would you? Right.
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jon cutler: But yeah, but I mean.
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Blake Jennings: Use the product that's right there, use. It's all we all have phones. And you just download the app. And it's right there on your phone and.
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jon cutler: Or on your computer when you're at home.
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Pete: Don't get me wrong. There are alternatives to Sellers, Amp. But in my experience and all I think all of our experience, we found that Sellers amps really provided everything you need in order to be successful. And so.
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jon cutler: Anyone.
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Pete: It just made sense.
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jon cutler: Yeah. And anybody who is researching on Youtube.
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jon cutler: By the time I joined Miles Group I already knew selleramp keeper.
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jon cutler: I kind of seen box them. But seller, ramp and keepa I already kind of knew like, Oh, I need those 2 things, cause they were just on every you know, they're on every single video. I don't think there's
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jon cutler: much else out there other than those 2. For just your use.
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Pete: The great thing about it also, John is. It's only like 20 bucks a month. I believe that that's.
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jon cutler: Yeah. So she.
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Pete: Great girl.
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jon cutler: Both of both of them are cheap, I think. Celebrate might be once you do like so many searches. It might go to like 29. But keepers like 20. Yeah, they're they're 2 of them less than expensive. You just can't do it without it.
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Blake Jennings: It's very low overhead to be opening or starting your own business.
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jon cutler: Oh, God, yeah, I mean a couple couple $100 at the most. Once you get all of your apps and all your chrome extensions and everything like that.
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jon cutler: I you're probably not even at $200. You're probably, you know, you're probably high hundreds
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jon cutler: and as far as anybody that's looking to do this reinvent yourself. If you've owned your own business, a couple of $100 a month is not exactly
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jon cutler: That's just the cost of doing business.
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jon cutler: So I really think Seller Amp
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jon cutler: is just needed. And then for me, it got me really organized with the Google sheets
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Blake Jennings: It automatically adds it to your Google sheet. So it's again, if you're if you're our age, you probably didn't use Google sheets. We didn't have that growing up. So yeah, it's very, very, very simple. So that's that's yeah.
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Blake Jennings: That's exactly right. So we've been talking about miles a lot.
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jon cutler: And if you type in anything to do with Amazon, Fba online arbitrage, he is going. His little baby face is just gonna show up.
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jon cutler: It was. It was a link on a video, because I did not see Miles on X or Instagram. I wasn't using that at all, I was just using Youtube.
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Pete: So you guys, I think we are really showing our age and showing why we've created this podcast because we can't even remember, I can't remember how.
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jon cutler: No, and so you can find them, though I'm sure if you want to sign up with them, you're going to be able to find them. But yeah, we're we're. We're definitely showing our age here because we can't remember.
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jon cutler: Or at least that's what Blake calls me. I'm always the teacher's pet.
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jon cutler: you know, and Miles is, I mean, the man is witty.
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jon cutler: he does. Uncle Flips is what they call him right.
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jon cutler: uncle Flips, Uncle Flips. Yeah, and he I mean he. I would not be here today if it wasn't for him.
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jon cutler: Close mouths. Don't get fed. That is right.
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Pete: We do have one more thing tonight. Oh, we have our mailbag.
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jon cutler: If Amazon shares the buy box?
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jon cutler: Is that something I shouldn't be afraid of?
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Pete: Well, actually, you know what I take that back. Maybe you should be afraid of it. Because they will be able to sell the sell the product at such a low price, regardless of whatever the whatever the margin is on it. Just to keep everybody else out of out of selling that product or or
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jon cutler: Yeah, I mean. So yeah, if when you go, if Amazon is in the buy box, 100% of the time, never, I would say, starting out something to stay away from.
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jon cutler: Once you get a little better, and you can start understanding how they come into the buy box. Come out of it. They might share the buy box. That's something that you'll just learn. But I would say.
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Blake Jennings: If Amazon's in the buy box, and you'll see that in your keep a chart again. That's 1 of the reasons you have to keep it. You'll be able to see if Amazon's in the buy box and how consistent they're in the buy box. If they are consistently in the buy box. It's you know, it's you can't beat Amazon. Right? So if Amazon's in there periodically, that's a different story.
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jon cutler: That. Yeah, like I would probably say, stay away from it. There's enough enough other stuff out of there.
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jon cutler: Number 2.
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jon cutler: and sometimes when I see sweatshirts or something, I'll spread it out to a year, so I can look back to this time last year.
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jon cutler: But many times in fact, I would say 80% of the time when I go and look.
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jon cutler: people are buying that sweatshirt just as much in July as they're in as they are.
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Blake Jennings: for us necessarily, unless you're selling those markets, but people buy that stuff year round. It's bizarre what people buy.
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jon cutler: Yeah, you just you just believe the data if the data is there, and it shows that it's good. And it shows that it was good last year at this time. If that's something you're wondering, then you just go ahead and go for it. Now. Hats, mittens, maybe that's different. I haven't really come across that. But in general, like sweatshirts, pants, stuff like that.
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jon cutler: Yeah, listen. I have found that polybagging in some weird way is like therapeutic.
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Blake Jennings: Oh, come on, John!
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jon cutler: I don't. I mean, I don't need to do it forever, but polybagging in some ways I can like zone out. And also in the beginning, when you're sourcing so much on your own. It's a nice break.
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Blake Jennings: No, you just gave it up.
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jon cutler: I did, I did. And I so like, Yeah, I liked poly bag. Sometimes.
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Blake Jennings: Bless your heart. Okay? Well, you get in a groove, though. I mean, that is one thing you do kind of get in a groove with it.
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jon cutler: Yeah, you're getting a little groove and like.
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jon cutler: Yeah, it cost me ice cream.
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jon cutler: So there you have it. I think we covered everything tonight. We wanted to kind of let it let you guys know where you're coming from and and listen online coaching.
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jon cutler: You might not need it. I think so many people of our age need it, because the younger generation they really know how to use Instagram and X and Reddit and discord. They can almost make their own group
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jon cutler: within, like one of those social medias and really learn how to do it.
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jon cutler: And with us we just didn't know how to do that.
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jon cutler: It's just new platforms. It's new ways of doing things.
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jon cutler: Yes.
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jon cutler: Yeah, and it's good.
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jon cutler: Yeah, it's not cheap. But for us.
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jon cutler: I mean, it was just so worth it. So if you're, you know, if you're starting really slow, and it's just a side gig, and you want to just work through it yourself, like that's fine. You might not need it. But if this is something where you're really looking to do some sort of career change. Either your 9 to 5 job is gone like mine, or you're phasing out of your 9 to 5 job.
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jon cutler: It is just a huge, huge help. So you know, and all we can do is just talk from our experience.
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jon cutler: And what we went through I don't know. There I'm I'm sure there are some online coaches out there that are garbage but all we can do is tell you that who we use for an online coach, he put in the effort.
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jon cutler: And I think that's what.
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Blake Jennings: And I'm glad that I joined the school. I'm glad that I went through that, because otherwise I would not be where I'm at today. And you guys concur. I mean.
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Pete: So, you guys, thankfully, I have joined a couple of different mentorships. And I'm I'm able to say, comparatively so that this one out far exceeded my expectations.
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jon cutler: Yeah, you do not like one of the other ones.
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Pete: It's not even close. It's not even close. It's not even.
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Pete: Yeah, I I don't. I don't wanna speak poorly of of the other groups, but or the other group that you're referring to.
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Blake Jennings: Can speak highly otherwise.
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Blake Jennings: Shout out, to flips.
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jon cutler: So yeah, we we we're gonna start next week. We're thinking about possibly bringing somebody in next week. A little interview.
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Blake Jennings: Yeah, let's do it.
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jon cutler: Somebody in our school group. So I think we're going to figure that out because I'm sure that they're lining up to be on this podcast absolutely of course, they want to be on the podcast so we might be doing that next week.
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jon cutler: But again, if you like us, give us a thumbs up. Subscribe, hit that button.
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jon cutler: send us your questions in our mailbag.
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Blake Jennings: To marketplace mavericks@gmail.com marketplace, mavericks, gmail.com.
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Pete: You got. You gotta do this, too.
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jon cutler: Yeah.
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jon cutler: So until next time we will be back next week. Hopefully, with a 4th person.
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Blake Jennings: Until then.
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jon cutler: See you guys.
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Pete: Peace.