Proven Amazon Course Review

The Proven Amazon Course is full of information, too much for one person to sit through.

The point is to provide many different options and paths for you to follow along your journey.

In the end, what you put into learning and executing what you have learned is what determines how much you are going to get out of it.

The community and customer support are excellent, and the podcast is a big eye-opener companion to the courses.

Very highly recommended.

The Proven Amazon Course is much more than just an online portal of information. It’s one branch in much larger ecosystem of ways to learn how to creatively sell things online.

While the course itself is great, all the other aspects that complement it such as the Facebook group, podcast, conferences, and relationships within the MySilentTeam (MST) community, is what give it value, especially when it comes to implementation.

As an operations director for a travel startup, I once tried to build an Amazon FBA business, so I enrolled in the Proven Amazon Course (PAC).

Throughout the course, I had positive feedback on the program as it introduced me to practical and actionable insights, enhancing my knowledge and success on Amazon. The training helped me build a very successful Amazon business, with sales of over $10,000 in 3 months.

PAC provided access to learning platforms, comprising videos and webinars that made it easy for me to understand the learning materials and content. However, the course was overwhelming at first due to the sheer amount of content. It was difficult to understand where to start.

Overall, Proven Amazon Course proved to be an effective learning course as it covers a wide range of topics for people looking to establish a successful Amazon FBA business.

PAC doesn’t just guide you through the A-Z of selling on Amazon, but teaches you multiple selling methods, going into detail for each one and even giving you the pitfalls. The only con it has is that it’s got too many modules.

I’m being dead serious when I say this, because there isn’t a clear guide that says: “You should start with this module and move on to this one, and then this one and this one”. There are only three very basic modules that you’re advised to start with.

Once you’re done with the lessons in those modules, you need to watch all the rest of the multiple lectures in each separate module and really piece them together yourself.

It also doesn’t help that there are multiple versions for each module, such as “Sourcing 1.0” and “Sourcing 2.0”. And it’s not as simple as just taking the more updated one. Some of the more outdated modules could be more applicable depending on your budget, sourcing preferences, and so on.

The only way this course could improve is if they explained the rationale of each module and had something like a roadmap so that beginners would know exactly where to go as soon as they enter the course homepage.

The concept of becoming a third-party seller on Amazon can be quite intimidating. The Proven Amazon Course is designed to help new sellers with their first sale, all the way through advanced strategies for seasoned sellers. It’s a cafeteria menu of different proven strategies sellers can use to grow their businesses.

I wanted to have our virtual assistant in the Philippines take some of the modules so she’d understand more about the business and how it works, and that there are things outside of just sourcing that we can get her help with.

I reached out to the PAC team and explained that I didn’t feel comfortable just giving my login credentials to my VA and wondered if there was some way I could add another user to my PAC account. Jim’s team responded instantly to inform me that there’s technically no way to add another user to a PAC account. However, they offered me the PAC course for my VA at a very steep discount to the normal price. Now my VA has its own PAC account for life. A very generous gesture from the PAC team.

The Proven Amazon Course is easy to digest and full of actionable steps. With effort and perseverance you will start making money with Amazon, no matter what your skill level is.

The course teaches you the basics and foundations for creating a full-time or part-time income selling products readily available with a low-risk, high-reward approach.

The Proven Amazon Course is not a course but a library of lectures with wide-ranging topics relating to the Amazon business. I joined back in 2014 but never took a serious look until recently. I’ve observed that more and more courses were being added to the collection.

As I said before, it’s a vast collection currently holding over 140 different courses. My beef is that it’s not very obvious in which order you should be watching the courses. But they have a Facebook group that has guided me in the right direction.

My other complaint is that there are no dates associated with the courses. They are a bit disorganized, and you will need to ask in the forums for guidance. Because of that, it’s hard to tell which ones are newer and which ones are so old that you should probably skip them altogether.

My main problem is with some outdated training where the screenshots and demos are hard to follow because the sites in question have changed so much. I wish they would retire them because the information could be misleading due to Amazon policy changes.

Also, a few of the courses have more than one version. For example, there are three different Bundling courses – V1, V2, and V3 – so it’s good that they are releasing a new version of more important topics.

Overall, the courses cover various topics, from selling books on Amazon to retail arbitrage, wholesale, and accounting.

The coaching is unique because you get assigned a coach who is usually a former student doing well. You will have access to the coach for one year and unlimited sessions to analyze specific issues or questions. They will also try to match you to a coach based on interests, technical level and personality.

My coach was a pleasant person doing pretty well in her business, but she was not the coach for me. I had some specific targets that the sales person told me were achievable while having a full-time job.

The Amazon business started distracting me from my job, and I could not risk losing it. I’m making almost double what my coach earns with her Amazon business. Therefore, I dedicated 100% of my time to my full-time job.

A word of caution: getting involved in an Amazon business is not a get-rich-quickly scheme. Be prepared to invest a full year of hard work before thinking about making some money from it. You will have recurring monthly expenses to run your business in the range of $300-$1500+ per month, depending on which tools you decide to use and what to offload to a virtual assistant.

I am extremely happy that I came across the ProvenAmazonCourse, and I am even happier to explain my experience and share my gratitude to others about Jim Cockrum and the MySilentTeam community.

I had originally come across the PAC course when I found out about the MySilentTeam Facebook group through prior experience in e-commerce. I had never sold on Amazon before and only made very minor progress in e-commerce (1-2 sales in the past on a Shopify store). When I found out about MySilentTeam and the PAC course, I truly didn’t expect much, simply because everything else I have tried was all the same and didn’t really work.

Before I started, I did not purchase the PAC course, instead, I joined the free Facebook group. I still was interested in selling on Amazon, but as a beginner, with absolutely zero experience with Amazon or FBA, and living in Canada, I didn’t think this would work for me. I was basically going into it blind, and when I finally got my Amazon account verified, I had no idea what to do. For a while, I forgot about the PAC and the Facebook group, and just did my own thing trying to learn on my own.

Thankfully, before I started making some expensive mistakes, I started asking questions in the Facebook group. I was actually pretty shocked to start receiving some pretty incredible advice, including some individuals personally reaching out to me to help. With this, I was able to navigate my way through FBM, and a very small, 2 unit shipment of FBA. I was completely lost back then, and looking back now at the questions I asked, I’m pretty surprised I managed to get a response, let alone from some of the experienced sellers in the group. This help – which I got completely free of charge – gave me an idea of how the community is; Honest, helpful, and truly nice people, that treats everyone like family.

I knew what I needed to do next to scale, I had to invest back into myself and my business, so I decided to purchase PAC. After studying, and learning what was shown in the course, I took it step-by-step, and followed the intuitive, and user-friendly course outline, with separate modules for separate levels of your scaling journey. Between following those, as well as going out and buying products, I started making some pretty consistent sales. I took the knowledge and training provided in the course, started very slowly, and worked my way up with what I had. (Started with $300 Canadian dollars, which is like $230-ish USD.)

Every paycheck I got from Amazon I immediately reinvested, and still do to this day, and at the start, I didn’t lose a dime, because of just how low risk this model is. I’ve seen stories out there of people investing thousands, if not tens of thousands in courses and inventory before making a single sale, and almost saw it happen to someone firsthand. I didn’t have to go out and fork out money I didn’t have and didn’t have to put a lot at risk. I still remember for my first sale, I only bought the product after I sold it and got paid by the customer.

Beyond the incredible lessons and knowledge that the PAC has to provide, and the community of family-like individuals that treat you with honest respect, no matter what your situation is, I am most grateful for the fact that I saved a lot of time and money doing this instead of doing the private label business model as shown in the hundreds of ads I see on Instagram and Facebook.

The Proven Amazon Course allowed me to scale a business that I can wake up to happy and genuinely excited, and allowed me to quit my part-time job with the reason that it no longer became worth my time working there. I have been able to scale to multiple tens of thousands of dollars in revenue (FBA sellers that follow the PAC average between 20-40% profit margin), even with my situation of being in a different country than most of the course members.

I also got to build an amazing relationship with this group. I can’t wait to hopefully one day start the coaching program that is offered, and I am continually inspired by the success stories of other students and podcast members that share their journey. If there is absolutely anything you can take away from this review of my experience, it is that you have come across a community of people that really do care to see you succeed, and I can vouch for the fact that, no matter what situation you are in… this stuff works!

I spent a lot of time watching all the gurus, but this course and community stood out as honest, helpful, and encouraging. Love all the information, tremendous value, and the community of people.

Any time I have questions, people are quick to answer and help me resolve them. Very happy with my experience!

Before taking the Proven Amazon Course, I had a fledgling business that was barely making any revenue. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I knew other people were making it work and were successful.

The Replens model made all the difference for me and I realized that it was the missing link in my business. The most important thing that it taught me was the power of replenishable products, as opposed to one-off clearance/sale purchases that you have to constantly hunt for. The Replens model was a complete game changer and when we implemented that, my business took off.

I found the Proven Amazon Course to be effective and the online community even more so. It had real content that was easy to understand and follow, and had tips for people of all abilities to start. The skills learned from the course were effective for online business. Be prepared to listen carefully and know what to expect going in as it will take time.

Since taking this course I have been able to use the skills in different areas of e-commerce. Skills such as sourcing, pricing, testing, and customer relations were valuable in other e-commerce ventures I’ve been a part of. Many of the skills are not strictly related to Amazon but are transferable to business in general. These skills allowed me to operate e-commerce stores for other sellers and take over their operations.

This course and community have taught me way more than just how to get started selling on Amazon. It has taught me the fundamentals of building a lasting business.

It is great for getting started. They stress going an inch deep and a mile wide on products, so you are risking very little. Then you can go deeper on products once they have been proven to sell. You are learning from people that have several years of experience and it is by far the cheapest quality Amazon course out there. You can cancel any time as well, so it’s a no-brainer!

I have purchased about 5 Amazon courses including The Wholesale Formula, Book Arbitrage from SimpleBizPlan.com, and Proven Amazon Course (PAC); I got the best results with PAC. Specifically, the Replenishables (Replens) course within PAC.

The optional paid Facebook group is invaluable and less noisy than the free group. Within the first year, I was able to sell $117K with around $30k profit.

I chose to buy this course after listening to about 200 ‘Silent Jim’ podcasts and spending a lot of time in the Facebook group. The wealth of information and kindness in that group is next to none. I had my account for about 5 months and ended the year at $64k. I kept hearing information on the podcast that would’ve saved me some heartache if I had known them a week earlier.

Once I purchased the course, I realized that it works well with the podcasts, but gives you an indexed and organized compilation of everything discussed and taught in the groups. Had I purchased the course earlier I probably would have been able to achieve the same or better revenue and profit by spending less money and wasting less time on duds. My learning curve would’ve been shortened drastically.

There are four modules alone that I believe a complete novice could watch and implement to create a successful business. I have since gone back to those modules to relearn the content and correct bad habits.

I highly recommend this course and appreciate the 40+ people that dedicated thousands of hours to making it what it is. If you are considering making part-time or full-time online income on any platform, I believe you should start with the Proven Amazon Course.

I joined the Proven Amazon Course after searching for some guidance to take my approximately one-year-old Amazon business to more full-time sustainable levels.

I enrolled in their OA Simplified course first because I was interested in taking more of my sourcing online. It by far met and exceeded my expectations and has brought me to a point of about 80% of my sourcing being online.

The Proven Amazon Course offers so much practical and timely content. One of the key benefits is that it offers a wide range of perspectives from different (and successful) practitioners of e-commerce, instead of just from one person.

My biggest challenge was finding the time and resources to implement all taught strategies. The best part is that all those valuable nuggets of information are presented basically for the price of a Netflix subscription.

My e-commerce business went from $0 to almost half a million in annual sales in 2 years, in huge part due to PAC.

My overall experience with this course is completely positive. The coaches truly care about your business success. Their sincerity, expertise and care are the three components that give each student the capacity to continue.

The material is well explained and incrementally shared. This gives you the baby step mentality to continue and build on the foundation that is laid.

PAC has helped me achieve the confidence to make actionable decisions for my business. Instead of being paralyzed by fear, the community has encouraged me in such a way to continue moving forward with actionable steps each and every day. This has yielded an excellent first year of growth for my business

We have grown the business from a starting point of zero dollars to a total sales in 2021 of over $330,000. We have put almost all of our earnings back into our business to continue the snowball of growth.

We did extensive research into all of the many Amazon selling programs that are available before we purchased the Proven Amazon Course.

The PAC is the absolute best source for e-commerce sellers. Jim Cockrum and his team are honest and completely transparent. This is hands down the best course for your money. The modules cover every aspect of selling online.

There is also a free Facebook group that gives you access to the thousands of other sellers and all of the PAC leadership.

I did $14,800 in sales last month with a net profit of 23%.

The community is super supportive and one that everyone can learn from. Even if you are not selling on Amazon, it will be good to spend time with business people who are always willing to answer questions.

I am really impressed with how the established community members are all willing to help each member be successful in this business. The encouragement is out of this world. I am forever grateful.

The course has not only helped me to see what is possible with hard work, it has expanded my understanding of how to run a business.

I started selling using this course in mid-October 2020 with the expectation that I might be able to reach $100,000 in sales in 2021 if I work hard at it and put in the time. It went much better than I could’ve ever imagined.

My sales were over $400,000 in 2021 with my best month being just shy of $60,000 in sales. I have a margin between 25% and 30%, so I made over $100k profit in 2021 selling on Amazon before taxes. It was my 1st full year selling on Amazon. I passed $50k in sales again for the 3rd straight month and have a slight chance of breaking $60k in sales in a month for the 1st time if I hit $2k in sales today.

I honestly never thought I could make this much selling on Amazon, let alone this quickly. I went ahead and attached a screenshot of my last 12 months in sales so you can see it for yourself…

When we joined and signed up for PAC coaching back 2.5 years ago, we got paired with an amazing coach and started training sessions immediately.

In our first month selling on Amazon, we sold $10K and second month $20K, and the third month $30K. In our first year selling on Amazon we sold just over $500K… fast-forward last year both my wife and I quit our high-paying jobs as engineers and went full-time selling on Amazon, and last year 2021 we closed with $1.8M in sales doing all that from home. We are running on a 28.7% profit margin.

This year 2022 we have secured a lease on a 4000 SF warehouse and have 2 full-time employees and god willing we should hit $2.5K to $3M in sales for 2022. All the above would not be possible without the grace of God and the PAC course. The key to this success is putting massive action on what has been taught through PAC. We love our community and the great PAC team.

I’ve spent many thousands of dollars on courses and education for Amazon FBA and other industries of interest. The Proven Amazon Course was an abundant source of relevant teaching. There are a lot of great courses available but what really made the investment in PAC worth 10x the price was the community.

At first, I found it hard to implement sometimes because I was intimidated, other times because I didn’t understand its true importance until I was further along. Today we’re growing faster than ever before and I still find this to be the case. I circle back to the information I reviewed early on only now to understand how it best fits into the trajectory of my business.

Many great improvements have been made in how the course is presented and course material delivered since my purchase. At my time of purchase my only complaint was that it was sometimes hard to extract the info I needed at the moment. But even then the community more than made up for it.

We’ve done some RA, a lot of wholesale and thanks to Jim Cockrum coaching our Private Label brand is off the ground and growing month over month (we’re 2 years into our brand at the time of writing.)

I did a podcast with Jim back in maybe around October. We were at $50k/month at the time and had been up and down at that level for the last year. This year I guess experience finally set in and I really began to apply the lessons. We hit $62k in December and will maybe touch $80k this month. Our net margin on Amazon all said and done is now 18-20% steadily. For the longest time was much less, that piece finally came together last fall as well and is why our sales are growing too.

I started the PAC course a little over two years ago after spending thousands of dollars on other training and inventory that led nowhere. I started my Amazon business with the Private Label way but ended with my garage full of unsellable inventory.

When I started PAC I learned that I didn’t have to import products from China to make a profit on Amazon; I could find thousands of products right in my own city, in regular stores. That discovery made an impact on my business and put us back on track.

Right now we just crossed the $20k in monthly revenue thanks to the training I received from the Amazon Proven Course.

This is for folks still on the fence about starting, or perhaps you don’t know if this business is the real deal. You can achieve anything by learning from this group and working your butt off.

Jim Cockrum and crew teach real methods to succeed. No gimmicks but instead solid techniques and positive mindset. Stop watching YouTube videos looking for shortcuts. There are none. If you want it, go get it. God bless!

I started looking into this as a side hustle. As I’ve barely scratched the surface of all offered, I am doing so great and growing. Potential is amazing and decided to sign up for coaching. I’m excited at what’s to come!

Content is well rounded, but my fave is the support from the community. There is so much knowledge that is shared.

The course was a very affordable monthly payment. After spending lots of money attempting to sell a product I knew nothing about and was ultimately unable to sell, the course steered me in the right direction and taught me how to actively find profitable products and build a sustainable business that after 6 months is selling 10k+ a month (with a profit margin of 25-30%).

The course is easy to navigate and understand and comes with membership to a Facebook group filled with active members who support and help each other regularly.

My husband and I started this course in September of 2019 knowing absolutely nothing about selling online or Amazon! We were able to have our first sale fulfilled by Amazon a month later.

The courses equip you to learn and jump in right away. You do not need to know everything and watch every single course before beginning. Just start implementing the methods the course teaches and don’t give up! The information is laid out in a way that it is so easy to understand and put into action. We made the initial investment with some skepticism but we were determined not to fail.

After selling for 2 years on Amazon my husband was able to quit his full-time job and pursue e-commerce full time. We are still watching training videos and always learning. This course is like having a personal coach with you every step of the way whether you are just beginning or you are expanding your business into different streams of income. We are incredibly grateful and blessed by Jim Cockrum and all of the content of PAC.

I found the PAC along with its subsequent podcast and Facebook community in 2017 and hopped on board after reviewing multiple other options.

What has impressed me, and continues to do so, is Jim Cockrum’s genuine dedication to his students and community. This is not a get-rich-quick scheme. This is hard work and a legitimate business.

PAC takes you step-by-step through various (and many) options to earn multiple streams of income with Amazon and beyond. Each module is designed with the beginner in mind, and updates are dropped continuously as new courses are developed or older ones are updated.

The courses are presented in an organized manner and developed by a variety of experts in the field, all of whom are active and supportive members of the PAC community.

This course offers all the information you need to sell on Amazon. What you do with that information is what determines your success. I was not completely new to selling on Amazon when I found this course and was more interested in coaching, but I found the videos informative and full of useful tips and actionable steps.

I bought the Proven Amazon Course in 2014 having been selling modestly on eBay for several years. I started slowly but over the next couple of years, my Amazon FBA business started to grow. I quickly saw the potential of the opportunity and alongside the community surrounding the course, I received encouragement and motivation to continue to grow.

Even though the content creators and the examples were mostly USA-based and I was in the UK, I had very little difficulty in applying the principles to my situation. There was already a lot of content in the course but this has continued to grow and been updated constantly over the years. The vast library of information that is now available has been completely revamped and is in a much more accessible format.

The main problem with it is that there is SO much information and different modules that it can be overwhelming. However, the very active free Facebook community is always on hand to offer help, guidance, and encouragement. There are now a lot more members and contributors from different parts of the world – and even though it is still primarily US-based, help and support can be given to any culture or environment.

Over the last 7 years, I have grown my business to a 7 figure turnover and added other income streams alongside – with the help and support of PAC and the My Silent Team community. Would I recommend the PAC to anyone looking at growing an online business? Wholeheartedly! The value of not only the material but also the community far outweighs the small investment. And while I understand and support the reasons for keeping the price low and accessible for virtually anyone, it does greatly undervalue to quality and depth of the material.

It’s the best on the market by far. The info is valuable and the Facebook forum is full of very kind helpful people. They built something that is difficult to find anywhere else. For me, it is the best method to learn about e-commerce and business in general. I would highly recommend it.

You also don’t need to buy the PAC course right away, you can just hang out on the Facebook forum or listen to the podcast. Jim is very involved in the Facebook forum and regularly comments on people’s questions. He is very hands-on with this.

Overall, I actually think they did have some good material, for the newbie. Much of what they offer is retail arbitrage, hustling at yard sales, even importing coffee. Hence my not-so-bad overall rating of the PAC.

However, their coaching was an ABSOLUTE SCAM! I excitedly signed up for their coaching (with red flags galore!), hoping I would get words of wisdom from gurus in the industry. What I got were clowns that offered little, if any, guidance or anything I didn’t already know.

I had two “coaching” sessions where all we really did was chat and bullshit. I was sold ten 1 hour “coaching” sessions. After two, I realized my mistake and demanded my money back. Long story short, it took me almost a month to get MOST of my money back.

In summation, the beginner info inside the PAC course is actually not bad, they give you a lot of courses but you should run away from any coaching offer they make…which some have said, is the WHY they have the PAC in the first place, to suck you into the coaching.

I paid $5,000 and received no coaching. The only sessions scheduled were when I had questions. Those were never answered. I was given random suggestions I could find on YouTube.

I was even suckered into buying programs my coach was selling, such as funneling. That cost me another $100.

My coach NEVER reached out to me first. When I contacted him via messenger asking for my money back, I was just given Jim’s phone number and they have never answered my calls.

I have since liquidated my inventory and claimed bankruptcy for my LLC. PLEASE DO NOT BE SCAMMED BY THIS. You can find this basic information for FREE on YouTube.

I like the Proven Amazon Course. I have also completed many other Amazon courses online, and PAC is one of the cheaper alternatives.

One of my friends had recommended this course. He recommended I go over the segment called the Proven Private Label 3.0.

This course really gives you value for money, all the other courses are way too expensive. Also, you can start on a low budget.