From Non-English Speaking Waiter to $2 Million in Sales

In a recent interview, Jim Cockrum interviews Cong Tai Ha, who moved from Vietnam 🇻🇳 to the United States in 2019, not knowing any English…

Cong started working as a waiter in a restaurant, trying to make ends meet, but he wanted to start his own business at some point.

In 2020, he came across e-commerce and Amazon through Facebook ads 🤔

(Apparently he didn’t know what Amazon was before that.)

The ads got Cong curious. He eventually signed up for Jim’s Proven Amazon Course (reviewed here) and started selling on Amazon 🚀

He credits Jim’s course for helping him realize the importance of…

• Building systems
• Optimizing processes
• Hiring a team

Two years after starting his Amazon biz, Cong quit his job as a waiter to go full-time on e-commerce.

Fast forward to today, and Cong is on track to do $2 million in sales this year, having recently hit $100,000 in monthly revenue 💰

Note however that his profit margin is only about $10K per month, which is fairly typical when selling on Amazon.

Still, it’s a life-changing amount of money compared to what Cong was earning as a waiter just a couple years ago 😎

Jim says at the top of the interview…

This is one of those excuse-killing episodes, because our guest today has been in the United States only a couple years… he was very nervous because he didn’t think his English was good enough to be on a podcast… he’s worked very hard, he’s learned a second language, he’s hired a team… he has $2 million in sales so far…

Hopefully you’ll take inspiration from Cong’s story.

He’s obviously an exceptional person to have achieved so much in so little time, but imagine how people viewed him in that restaurant a few years ago.

Just a random waiter who couldn’t speak English very well… nobody special.

But he had massive potential, potential that he probably doubted himself many times.

Thankfully, he didn’t let those doubts or tough circumstances hold him back 💪