Ep.6 REAL Amazon Insight with Amazon Seller Jo Cumberpatch

Welcome to the Sprint to Profit Podcast. This is Kirsty and Isaac and we developed this podcast to help highlight the very best strategies on how to grow your Amazon business.

Today we’re talking with Amazon seller Jo Cumberpatch. She shares her ups, her downs, the lessons she’s learned, advice for new sellers, and fun stories and anecdotes from the journey.

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 Talking Points:

• 00:20 - Introduction and Who We Are
• 01:00 - Jo’s background 
• 02:38 - How Jo became an Amazon seller
• 06:30 - Why Jo chose that particular product 
• 08:44 - The challenges Jo faced when moving forward
• 10:20 - Meeting and learning from Isaac 
• 14:17 - Building a mastermind and a community
• 16:22 - Things that have made Jo successful 
• 20:30 - On problem-solving 
• 21:42 - Advice to new Amazon sellers 
• 25:45 - Jo’s Cyber Monday experience
• 29:22 - Jo’s remote team 
• 33:31 - New sellers that might think it’s “too hard” 
• 37:54 - Assigning yourself a role in your business 
• 41:28 - Conclusion and getting in contact with Jo

 Resources/Links:

Our website: www.goteamreal.com

Quotes:

04:20 – “Basically what it did was, it allowed us to--well, I was going to say market but we never really got good at marketing. It allowed us to finesse the game.” – Jo Cumberpatch, on practicing her strategies with overstock.

10:00 – “I just needed to have something. You get called--when you’re a mom--you don’t have a name.  You’re just ‘Alex’s Mum’. You’re ‘The Twins’ Mom’ and that’s who I’d been for a few years.” – Jo Cumberpatch

07:00 – “You were friends with other moms that you could ask, ‘Ay, would you buy this?’ You kinda did your own market research without actually doing market research.” – Kirsty

22:45 - “You will learn way, way more if you fail at something than if you were to just walk away and give up.” - Jo Cumberpatch

40:50 - “Procrastination and lack of action is definitely not going to get you success.” - Jo Cumberpatch