The eCommerce Blueprint w/ AskJimmySmith

Jimmy Smith

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Welcome to the eCommerce Blueprint Podcast w/ AskJimmySmith! If you’re here, chances are you’re looking for the tools to scale your eCommerce business, break through plateaus, and finally achieve the freedom you’ve been chasing. After selling over $7 million in products online and coaching thousands of sellers, I’ve discovered what works—and what doesn’t—when it comes to building a thriving eCommerce business. From sourcing profitable products to mastering cash flow, scaling systems, and avoiding costly mistakes, this podcast is your guide to constructing a business that not only makes money but also aligns with your goals. Each episode will dive into the strategies, systems, and mindset shifts that have helped my students and me turn eCommerce dreams into reality. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced seller, my mission is to help you build, scale, and enjoy the process of running a successful business. Enjoy the show—and don’t forget to subscribe for weekly episodes packed with actionable insights! To Your Success, Jimmy Smith P.S. Check out my YouTube channel for even more content: https://www.youtube.com/@AskJimmySmith

Recent Episodes

OCT 13, 2026
Episode 221 : 3 FREE Chrome Extensions Every Amazon FBA Seller Needs
As an Amazon seller, there's always another tool pulling at your wallet. But three of the Chrome extensions I use every day are completely free, and one of them replaces a paid calculator I used for over a decade. In this video I walk through all three: what they do, how I use them for sourcing, and why you don't need to pay for most of this.👉 3P Mercury free extension (full Amazon calculator, Keepa charts, above-buy-box alerts): https://www.askjimmysmith.com/3pmfree (affiliate link if you ever upgrade to paid)👉 ReplenScout, my free extension (competitor tracking, shared ASINs, Keepa filler sets): https://www.replenscout.com👉 DS Amazon Quickview (sales rank and FBA seller counts right on the search page): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ds-amazon-quick-view/jkompbllimaoekaogchhkmkdogpkhojgAmazon sellers and eCommerce entrepreneurs over $5k per month in sales:If you're ready to scale your Amazon business to new heights, APPLY HERE to join the Business Building Legends community: https://www.askjimmysmith.com/legendsNot there yet?If you're just starting out or earning less than $5,000 per month on Amazon, YOU are why I make all my best resources FREE. I have nothing to sell you. Access my FREE 30-day training and other tools here: https://www.askjimmysmith.com/freetrainingChapters:00:00 Introduction to the 3 Free Amazon Chrome Extensions00:31 Tool 1: 3P Mercury Free Calculator & Features09:37 Tool 2: Replen Scout for Keepa Integration & Sourcing15:47 Tool 3: DS Amazon Quick View17:28 Workflow Example & Final RecommendationsOther eCommerce Training and Business Building Links:Free Amazon Facebook Group:https://bit.ly/mstgroupThe Proven Amazon Course:https://bit.ly/paccourseeBay Training Community:https://treasurehuntingprofits.comAmazon Coaching (affiliate):https://bit.ly/jimcockrumcoachingeCommerce Accounting Services:https://ecommerceaccountingllc.comAffiliates and Discount Links:Aura Repricer:https://www.askjimmysmith.com/auraDisclaimer:While all of these success stories/testimonials are from real people and we get more each and every day, please understand however that the results posted are not typical. I'm not implying you’ll duplicate them or that you’ll get any results at all! Your results will vary greatly and will depend on many factors including your experience, work ethic and other factors as well. The fact is, the average person who buys any business course or training gets little to no results. The results I share here and in other places are for reference only. Business always involves risk and your best chance of success is to take consistent, intentional action. We can equip and inspire you, but no one, including me, can guarantee your results!#AmazonFBA #AmazonArbitrage #OnlineArbitrage #AmazonTools #AmazonSourcing
19 MIN
OCT 1, 2026
Episode 220 : Keepa’s New Filter Builder to Speed Up Sourcing: First Look!
👉 Get ReplenScout free (save your Keepa searches, no account): https://www.replenscout.comKeepa just released a new filter builder, and in this video I give you my honest first look at how it works. Instead of scrolling through a long list of filters (or hitting Ctrl+F to hunt one down), you can now search for the exact filter you want and build your whole product finder search faster. I walk through the new builder, the jump-to-filter feature, how to search filters, and how it compares to the classic view you may already be used to.I also show how it works with my free Chrome extension, ReplenScout, so you can save your favorite Keepa searches and filler sets and load them with one click.You'll need a Keepa Pro subscription for the product finder: https://keepa.comAmazon sellers and eCommerce entrepreneurs over $5k per month in sales:If you're ready to scale your Amazon business to new heights, APPLY HERE to join the Business Building Legends community: https://www.askjimmysmith.com/legendsNot there yet?If you're just starting out or earning less than $5,000 per month on Amazon, YOU are why I make all my best resources FREE. I have nothing to sell you. Access my FREE 30-day training and other tools here: https://www.askjimmysmith.com/freetrainingChapters:0:00 Introduction to Keepa's New Filter Builder4:28 Comparing the Old View vs. the New Filter Builder5:21 Advanced Features, API Queries, and Saving SearchesOther eCommerce Training and Business Building Links:Free Amazon Facebook Group:https://bit.ly/mstgroupThe Proven Amazon Course:https://bit.ly/paccourseeBay Training Community:https://treasurehuntingprofits.comAmazon Coaching (affiliate):https://bit.ly/jimcockrumcoachingeCommerce Accounting Services:https://ecommerceaccountingllc.comAffiliates and Discount Links:Aura Repricer:https://www.askjimmysmith.com/auraDisclaimer:While all of these success stories/testimonials are from real people and we get more each and every day, please understand however that the results posted are not typical. I'm not implying you’ll duplicate them or that you’ll get any results at all! Your results will vary greatly and will depend on many factors including your experience, work ethic and other factors as well. The fact is, the average person who buys any business course or training gets little to no results. The results I share here and in other places are for reference only. Business always involves risk and your best chance of success is to take consistent, intentional action. We can equip and inspire you, but no one, including me, can guarantee your results!#Keepa #AmazonFBA #AmazonArbitrage #OnlineArbitrage #AmazonSourcing
8 MIN
SEP 29, 2026
Episode 219 : What Should Amazon Sellers Do EVERY Day
Get Your $1 30-Day Trial of 3P Mercury here: https://www.askjimmysmith.com/3pm (affiliate)If you've ever sat down and not known what to actually do in your Amazon business that day, 3P Mercury just released a Today dashboard built to solve exactly that. It surfaces what needs your attention, shipments to send, late deliveries to check, leads to recheck, and it ties a buying budget to your available cash so you know what you can actually afford to buy this week.The buying budget is the part I like most. You set a weekly or monthly number, and it plans your purchases against it, restocks first, then new products, so your buying stays tied to your cash instead of your impulses.It's a new feature, so it's not perfect yet, and I still run my own processes alongside it. In the video I walk through every section and show you how I'd set the budget for the way I actually buy.This is part of my 3P Mercury series covering the lead finder, storefront tracking, filtering, and auto-sourcing. This one is about running your day.👉 Try 3P Mercury for 30 days for $1: https://www.askjimmysmith.com/3pm (affiliate)Amazon sellers and eCommerce entrepreneurs over $5k per month in sales:If you're ready to scale your Amazon business to new heights, APPLY HERE to join the Business Building Legends community: https://www.askjimmysmith.com/legendsNot there yet?If you're just starting out or earning less than $5,000 per month on Amazon, YOU are why I make all my best resources FREE. I have nothing to sell you. Access my FREE 30-day training and other tools here: https://www.askjimmysmith.com/freetrainingChapters:0:00 Introduction to 3P Mercury's Today Section1:33 Overview of the Dashboard2:57 Managing Daily Tasks and Price Checks4:57 Setting Up Your Buying Budget9:37 Analyzing Results & Final RecommendationsOther eCommerce Training and Business Building Links:Free Amazon Facebook Group:https://bit.ly/mstgroupThe Proven Amazon Course:https://bit.ly/paccourseeBay Training Community:https://treasurehuntingprofits.comAmazon Coaching (affiliate):https://bit.ly/jimcockrumcoachingeCommerce Accounting Services:https://ecommerceaccountingllc.comAffiliates and Discount Links:Aura Repricer:https://www.askjimmysmith.com/auraDisclaimer:While all of these success stories/testimonials are from real people and we get more each and every day, please understand however that the results posted are not typical. I'm not implying you’ll duplicate them or that you’ll get any results at all! Your results will vary greatly and will depend on many factors including your experience, work ethic and other factors as well. The fact is, the average person who buys any business course or training gets little to no results. The results I share here and in other places are for reference only. Business always involves risk and your best chance of success is to take consistent, intentional action. We can equip and inspire you, but no one, including me, can guarantee your results!#AmazonFBA #AmazonArbitrage #OnlineArbitrage #AmazonSourcing #3PMercury
13 MIN
SEP 18, 2026
Episode 218 : How I Automate Amazon Sourcing With This ONE Tool!
👉 Try 3P Mercury for 30 days for $1: https://www.askjimmysmith.com/3pm (affiliate)3P Mercury just released an automated sourcing feature, and it's the piece that was always missing. Finding leads was never the hard part, finding a supplier for each one was. This feature does both: it finds ASINs that match your criteria, then crawls the internet to find potential suppliers for those products, checks whether you're ungated, and previews an AI profitability score, all on a schedule while you do other things.It's not magic, no tool matches with 100% accuracy, and you still verify every supplier before you buy. But in this video I show how I set it up on a storefront-stalking search, and I walk through the real results live, including finding a product with a 77% ROI I'd never have sourced by hand.This is part of my 3P Mercury series. The earlier videos covered the lead finder, tracking storefronts, and filtering your vault. This one covers how it sources the leads for you.👉 Try 3P Mercury for 30 days for $1: https://www.askjimmysmith.com/3pm (affiliate)Amazon sellers and eCommerce entrepreneurs over $5k per month in sales:If you're ready to scale your Amazon business to new heights, APPLY HERE to join the Business Building Legends community: https://www.askjimmysmith.com/legendsNot there yet?If you're just starting out or earning less than $5,000 per month on Amazon, YOU are why I make all my best resources FREE. I have nothing to sell you. Access my FREE 30-day training and other tools here: https://www.askjimmysmith.com/freetrainingChapters:0:00 Introduction to 3P Mercury's Auto Sourcing1:29 Setting Up the Lead Finder4:27 Configuring Product Criteria and Filters8:54 Setting Up Auto Sourcing and Automation16:05 Reviewing the Lead Vault Results19:59 Evaluating and Verifying Supplier Leads24:42 Advanced Sourcing and Scaling StrategiesOther eCommerce Training and Business Building Links:Free Amazon Facebook Group:https://bit.ly/mstgroupThe Proven Amazon Course:https://bit.ly/paccourseeBay Training Community:https://treasurehuntingprofits.comAmazon Coaching (affiliate):https://bit.ly/jimcockrumcoachingeCommerce Accounting Services:https://ecommerceaccountingllc.comAffiliates and Discount Links:Aura Repricer:https://www.askjimmysmith.com/auraDisclaimer:While all of these success stories/testimonials are from real people and we get more each and every day, please understand however that the results posted are not typical. I'm not implying you’ll duplicate them or that you’ll get any results at all! Your results will vary greatly and will depend on many factors including your experience, work ethic and other factors as well. The fact is, the average person who buys any business course or training gets little to no results. The results I share here and in other places are for reference only. Business always involves risk and your best chance of success is to take consistent, intentional action. We can equip and inspire you, but no one, including me, can guarantee your results!#AmazonFBA #AmazonArbitrage #OnlineArbitrage #AmazonSourcing #3PMercury
28 MIN
SEP 14, 2026
Episode 217 : He Quit Amazon for This Live Selling Platform (Whatnot)
I've been selling on Amazon since 2015, and one platform I keep seeing sellers add on is Whatnot, a live auction platform where you sell to customers in real time. I sat down with Vernon Johns, a member of my Legends community, who went from a 50k to 70K a month Amazon business to going all in on Whatnot with his family.We get into the honest pros and cons of Whatnot vs Amazon: the cash flow cycle (Vernon gets paid in 3 to 4 days instead of Amazon's 60 to 90), no brand restrictions, what live selling actually takes, how he sources without Keepa-style data, and the real work behind fulfillment when you don't have FBA. These are Vernon's results and his experience, not a promise of what you'll do.Vernon shared two Whatnot links:👉 Buyer link (Whatnot gives you $25 to spend, no purchase required): https://www.whatnot.com/invite/namesyouknow👉 Seller link (Whatnot matches up to $150 of your first sales, time-limited): https://www.whatnot.com/invite/seller/namesyouknowThose are Vernon's referral and affiliate links, and the $25 and $150 offers come from Whatnot, not from me.Amazon sellers and eCommerce entrepreneurs over $5k per month in sales:If you're ready to scale your Amazon business to new heights, APPLY HERE to join the Business Building Legends community: https://www.askjimmysmith.com/legendsNot there yet?If you're just starting out or earning less than $5,000 per month on Amazon, YOU are why I make all my best resources FREE. I have nothing to sell you. Access my FREE 30-day training and other tools here: https://www.askjimmysmith.com/freetrainingChapters:0:00 Introduction to Whatnot and Vernon Johns1:54 Exclusive Buyer and Seller Deals2:43 Vernon's Transition from Amazon to Whatnot6:15 Comparing Profitability: Amazon vs. Whatnot9:30 Deciding What Products to Buy and Sell11:33 The 4-Day Cash Flow Cycle14:27 Shipping, Returns, and Refund Policies19:17 How to Attract Customers and Scale Your Shows21:38 Pricing Strategy: Bidding and Minimums24:41 Auction Formats and Shipping Bundles28:24 Equipment and Supplies Needed to Start32:54 Best Schedule and Times to Go Live36:30 The Quick Listing Process on Whatnot38:05 Sourcing Strategies for Profitable Inventory42:56 Whatnot Account Health vs. Amazon43:39 Exploring TikTok Live and Scaling Your Business45:35 How to Host a Successful Live Show48:55 Key Tips for Succeeding on the Platform52:00 The Importance of Choosing a Niche54:30 Sourcing Tips for BeginnersOther eCommerce Training and Business Building Links:Free Amazon Facebook Group:https://bit.ly/mstgroupThe Proven Amazon Course:https://bit.ly/paccourseeBay Training Community:https://treasurehuntingprofits.comAmazon Coaching (affiliate):https://bit.ly/jimcockrumcoachingeCommerce Accounting Services:https://ecommerceaccountingllc.comAffiliates and Discount Links:Aura Repricer:https://www.askjimmysmith.com/auraDisclaimer:While all of these success stories/testimonials are from real people and we get more each and every day, please understand however that the results posted are not typical. I'm not implying you’ll duplicate them or that you’ll get any results at all! Your results will vary greatly and will depend on many factors including your experience, work ethic and other factors as well. The fact is, the average person who buys any business course or training gets little to no results. The results I share here and in other places are for reference only. Business always involves risk and your best chance of success is to take consistent, intentional action. We can equip and inspire you, but no one, including me, can guarantee your results!#Whatnot #LiveSelling #AmazonFBA #EcommerceBusiness #SellingOnline
58 MIN