AS 91: Expanding at 60 Million in combined sales with Jamie

Today I’ve got Jamie Davison on on the show, Jamie and his co-founders Jason and Brad combine to sell over $60 million per year on Amazon. He is the co-founder of AMZ Insiders, a coaching program focused on helping new sellers create their own successful Amazon business and provide insights and tips to existing sellers.

* Selling on Amazon

* How to build an Amazon business

* How Jamie and his partners business scaled very fast

* Jamies path to getting where is today

* How he quit his job and why

* Amazon strategies and secrets

* How to scale an Amazon business

* How to grow an e-commerce business

* How they are divvying tasks and diversifying

* Important networking tips

* How they plan to double their business

And much more

Free Video Training: www.AMZInsiders.com

Blog: www.AMZInsiders.net

Free Facebook Group: Amazon Insiders – FBA Sellers https://www.facebook.com/groups/AMZInsiders/

Email: [email protected]

DAVID ALADDIN: Great to have you on the show, Jamie.

JAMIE DAVIDSON:   Hey, thanks David. Great to be on and I appreciate you having me on.

DAVID ALADDIN:    Yeah. So can you take us to the beginning, before selling on Amazon? Where did your journey begin?

JAMIE DAVIDSON:               Sure, yeah. My journey I guess, everyone has a different path, of course. On my end, I was, way back when actually a military officer, had attended WestPoint and so. In my 20s was kind of had the military background eventually jumped into the corporate word and probably like a lot of people’s careers kind of worked up the corporate ladder the best I could so I had a—I was in banking early on, I’d been recruited over to Home Depot, so I had some retail experience there for a few years running a Home Depot store and then, I kind of fell into the education space with a big test preparation company, Kaplan.

DAVID ALADDIN: Oh, yeah.

JAMIE DAVIDSON:  Yeah, yeah. And so then which great education minds and could use some help on the business side so I kind of found that space and stayed in there for a good while. Had some success there and again, worked my way up through just kind of a Senior Executive there and then was part of some private equity deals. We brought in as a Chief Operating Officer and a CEO of another company where essentially, these private equity companies are buying the company. Basically about 50 million dollar businesses or so and they hope to flip them in about four to five years. So I was kind of the hired gun through that approach, so, yeah. So I was kind of—I felt like I had this big title but at the end of the day I was a hired employee, just a senior employee to help kind of lead businesses in these spaces here.

DAVID ALADDIN:    I feel like when people amass so much money, they just create so much more money. I mean, 50 million, equity deals, and then they’re trying to flip it to 200? It’s pretty insane.

JAMIE DAVIDSON:  Yeah, exactly. Exactly. They’re trying just to take it across the river and in four or five years, probably at least sell it for double, if not more.

DAVID ALADDIN: So, how long was this before you got into Amazon? What year, you think?

JAMIE DAVIDSON:  Yeah. So I was in 2000, I mean, kind of the education run I think with Kaplan and a couple of these other companies was 2000’s, early 2000’s, up through 2013.

DAVID ALADDIN: Okay.

JAMIE DAVIDSON:  And actually even through the last couple of years. Yeah, so for a while, I came down to—I’m in Atlanta here but I came down to Atlanta ...