hey what's up guys welcome to my
september 2021 passive income report i'm
gonna be sharing with you how much money
i made as a seller of amazon fba amazon
merch uh non-amazon merch print on
demand amazon kdp and google adsense
let's get started
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so let's start with my amazon fba sales
i did 768
sales in the month of september bringing
in 16 822 in revenue my profit was 4 385
dollars gross margin about 26
and uh just to be transparent with you
guys the software that i was using
called fetcher i love that software it
was owned by jungle scout but they
didn't really maintain it and
unfortunately um like a week before the
end of the month something like that
maybe it was like the middle of the
month uh they basically
it's gone so they got rid of fetcher and
that was the software i used to get my
exact profit analytics so i'm not gonna
lie these are more estimates as i
transition over to jungle scout profit
analytics which is their replacement for
fetcher um i will not know my exact
numbers until i input all of my costs
which i haven't really done yet because
i just got the product sync working over
the weekend and i have a ton of products
in my seller central account and it took
a while um i know i hate making excuses
but
probably by the time you see the october
income report it'll be back in some like
standardized way where i'll know my
exact numbers um but i know that my
revenue at least was 16 822. the profit
was where i estimated a little bit
because i need to input all of my costs
which takes a little bit of time for the
various skus that i sell
um about halfway through september
i got my best-selling brand of products
restocked i've also got another shipment
to restock um one of my other it's not
even a brand anymore it was a brand at
one point i think back in like late 20
probably 2018 if i had to guess i get
the years confused now it feels it
doesn't sound like it was that long but
it really was when i'm like man it
really was a while back
i had launched probably seven skus
inside of a brand and i think to date
like one of them i still sell and i wish
i could like honestly revitalize a
couple of them because they were very
very nice as far as profit goes um my
issue was that it wasn't brand
registered and a couple of the listings
got hijacked and
it just becomes like a pricing war at
that point so i ended up just cutting
ties with them unfortunately right but
you live and you learn guys it's a
learning process we evolve as we go
through it this is also why it's nice to
learn from other people's experience and
not have to replicate the issues the
problems that they go through
um anyways advertising uh on the month
571 dollars spent
again the skus that i keep in stock
all rank very well organically so i'm
not like pressed to run a lot of ads to
you know what i mean like your your a
cost your acos goes up a lot higher when
you're launching new products and trying
to get them ranked and you know
operating at a loss or maybe breaking
even trying to defer profitability as
you boost your organic rank whereas like
if i'm just selling my same old products
like i don't have to spend that much
because i'm doing pretty well i just
want to keep it keep the the ad spend
you know i'm still going to advertise
because i don't want to make it easier
on my competitors so 571 dollars spent
generated 99 orders
300 uh sorry 3 800 in sales eight costs
15
um across you know my products my
average
profit margin is probably
floating around 30 which is pretty
healthy
um
i don't know how common that is these
days but you know like i said like when
you're up and you're boosted your
organic rank is high you can typically
increase your prices as well i don't
need to get into pricing wars with
products that are established with lots
of reviews and whatnot which by the way
start your business sooner than later
because the longer you saw on amazon the
more reviews you get the more the
algorithm learns your listing and what
converts and all these things work to
your advantage with time okay amazon's
not get rich quick anybody who sells it
is get rich quick is misleading you in
my personal opinion
let's talk about amazon merch i did 1
237 sales on the month uh bringing in 24
499 in revenue the royalty that i kept
from there was four thousand eight
hundred twenty seven dollars and ten
cents my average royalty per sale was
three dollars and ninety cents
um if we look at the international
marketplaces so i've been hustling
cranking out um the daily uploads trying
to be as good as possible about it
meaning like i want to max out
my daily product upload allotment which
was 8 000 and then sometime in the month
they increased it to 10 000.
sometimes that means i go to sleep and i
leave the computer on and i just let it
upload
but most of the time i get it done
during the day
so
yeah without upload automation it
wouldn't be possible i mean i would just
just be spending all day every day
sitting here
so us oh the reason i shared that is
because like i'm seeing more of an
uptick in the international markets
when i use the uploader like i i check
every product on every marketplace you
know i want to see i'm kind of being the
guinea pig to see what the real
potential is granted i'm not making
designs optimized for the international
markets i i know the profit potential is
highest on u.s market so my designs are
really optimized for there but i try to
upload
designs that are generic um yeah the
words that i put on them are english
but i know there's english speakers in
lots of countries when i was in china i
mean a lot of people had english shirts
like when i say a lot i mean a
disproportional at least in my mind
amount of people had like english
writing on their shirts
um which surprised me because i mean i
didn't expect that
anyways u.s market
almost 4 200 profit uk 172 pound
sterling profit germany 111 euro france
49 well basically 50 euro italy 43 euro
spain 53 euro
and uh
what is that what is the japanese one is
it juan um
i wish i knew yeah yen and wan okay so
it's yen i guess yen in one came up
according to google uh i got 11 300 uh
yen it's yen right for japan
if it's not i apologize i will figure it
out at some point um so here we go if
you want to check out my income report i
put some more like detailed information
in the blog post i'll put a link to it
at the top of the description
um sales analytics as you can see there
the big blue lines behind me are us
market sales and then the colored lines
correspond to
international markets by the way i pull
this this data from pretty merch pro
and not to
say too much but i know there are some
big
enhancements coming to pretty much pro
in the pipeline in the future i don't
actually know when it's going to go live
but they've got big plans for that so
stay tuned you know i'll keep you guys
in the loop and show you how i'll be
utilizing some of the changes that i
know they're planning to make so that's
that's exciting coming up
um breakdown by product type so i've got
85 standard t-shirt three percent
premium three percent hoodie two percent
v-neck two percent tank top and then one
percent everything else zip hoodie long
sleeve pop socket sweatshirt tote bag
raglan throw pillow
it's interesting right because i mean i
do make my designs available on
everything but you can definitely see
that standard t-shirt just crushing and
i mean i believe in selling at 19.99 i
think that's a fair price i don't think
people
hesitate to spend 20 on a t-shirt a lot
of people if not the majority have
amazon prime so they're not paying
anything extra for the shipping
i think that's where we should be aiming
to list our products at for the most
part it all depends i mean there's
definitely strategy based on tier based
on the niche based on where you see that
product
uh ranking in the near future if it's
related to a specific holiday you know
you got to factor in all those things
i upload primarily evergreens and like i
always say if i make one sale a year at
19.99 on 200 000 products i will break a
million dollars profit in a year so i
know it sounds good
of course i'll probably never get there
but i'm going to try
all right break down by fit type 62 men
27 women 5 unisex percent kids top
colors black heather gray uh navy white
royal blue uh heather blue slate gray
purple pink olive green i like that
olive green color by the way um i i've
definitely been expecting to see more
shirts selling like sometimes i'll even
optimize designs for the olive green uh
just because and then i won't check like
black you know because i want the
thumbnail to be olive green um
just kind of like an experiment i've
been running uh but haven't seen like a
massive uptick in sales there
a preview of my upload progress so i'm
at 151 000 of 200 000 designs allowed
and even though i'm uploading every day
that number doesn't always go up that
much because it's like i'm i'm battling
the older designs that didn't sell
getting removed from a year ago and
countering that with like new designs
posted you know today uh product
potential i'm at six percent 786 000 of
13.2 million that one's like taunting me
because i don't think it's possible to
get a 13.2 million you'd have to make
like sales on everything so but it is
possible so
moving on drop shipped print on demand
sales i did 420 sales bringing in 2 357
of profit amazon.com led the way 314 fbm
print on demand sales via seller central
uh amazon.co.uk for sales
ebay 18 sales etsy zero if you want to
check etsy i've been helping my
girlfriend out with her account so check
out her youtube channel i can put a link
to it in the description called mary j
halls
she uh definitely has been hustling to
get her etsy account
as big as possible for this q4 because
she wants to you know put out some good
youtube content about you know big sales
numbers for the fourth quarter so um you
know she's doing all the work i'm just
kind of in a uh
in a consulting role let's say i don't
want to take any credit uh redbubble 71
sales spreadshirt five t public zero t
spring zero zazzle eight sales
um i had you know in previous months
been getting some decent sales from
spreadshirt and zazzle but nothing too
crazy
in september
so you can see here from my printful
sales dashboard it's kind of my ups and
downs on amazon fbm i also sell through
gearbubble so
this does not encapsulate like all of
the sales that came in as fbm print on
demand through seller central because i
also have the gear bubble side of things
um but you know it's nice to at least
have a nice visual to include in the
videos
amazon.com uk i haven't been uploading
there honestly for for months probably
like three or four months i downgraded
my account so i don't pay the monthly
fee uh so i can't have the g10 exemption
so i can't post new products but i kept
it open
uh as an individual seller account just
so that i can capture some sales from
what's already up there
uh in ebay i had you know some big
months this year but it's kind of been
waning down over time uh but still you
know i'll take the extra 279 profit from
ebay that's not bad you know times that
by 12. um what do you get 280 times 12
you know i've had big months you have
small months too um but let's just say i
made 280 a month on ebay that's 3 360
profit a year
you know what i mean 3 360 bucks that's
that's a vacation you know
so who wouldn't be happy with that you
know what i mean that's not even
nobody's impressed when you guys are
watching this video like who's impressed
by 280 in a month no probably nobody
like we like to see the big numbers uh
but 280 bucks times 12. like think you
know in terms of a year also i
anticipate that number going up as we
head into the fourth quarter so while
it's 280 in september uh i bet you
october is going to be higher and i'll
bet you november is going to be higher
than october and i'll bet you december
is going to be higher than november so
really evaluate on the 12-month scale if
you're not giving it at least 12 months
i mean what are you doing
um
and then i was able to achieve i always
need to fix this i was able to achieve a
silver volume discount of 7 percent not
not a gold volume discount of 8 percent
i need to fix that on my website i will
do so by the time you watch this video
uh all right and amazon kdp 66 sales
107.42
of profit dollar 63 average royalty um
yeah i'm working i'm working on a plan i
feel like i say this every time uh where
i can make kdp
like where i can find time to really
prioritize kdp again if i'm running my
merch uploader i can't simultaneously
upload to kdp because it's ip based uh
throttling and it will prevent both of
them from working at the same time so i
can only do one at a time
and as long as i can get the merch
uploads finished during the day i can
run the kdp while i'm asleep
uh it's you know i got a lot going on in
my life but i and i don't like to make
excuses so i will eventually figure this
out but that's what's going on with kdp
it's really just kind of fell to the
side for me um that being said you know
there's still money to be made um the
fourth quarter is coming so i should be
uploading right now because this is when
i really get the most reward for my time
invested so i'll make a point of trying
to do that uh us market was my biggest
market followed by
uh the uk
and the rest are kind of just like one
or two sales canada i guess came in
third but not even close third
all right google ads so this is always
nice i mean this stuff is basically free
money to me because the stuff that i do
like youtube or some of the websites
that i run uh you know
i don't think i've really set out to
make them well i guess you could say the
websites i was hoping to make money but
i didn't know how much i'd make and
while it's not life-changing money it's
it's it is what it is it's free money
uh earnings on the month 4 274 dollars
from just ad revenue through google
adsense
youtube brought in 4 208
the website that i run 66 i mean that's
actually a couple different websites um
but one main one that gets most of the
traffic uh that one main website got 551
thousand page views and 419 000 ad
impressions
uh this is a screenshot from the google
ads dashboard like revenue report
or estimated earnings report
um google analytics for the month
in case anybody cares
youtube revenue for reinhood passive
income on the month brought in 4138
of estimated revenue
uh my second channel which i really did
not do a great job of posting videos to
over the month of september i think i
only posted one new video sorry about
that it still brought in 70 dollars of
ad revenue so not bad right i mean i'll
take 70 bucks
um
subscribers gained about 2300 i'd love
to see that get higher i'm thinking
about like kind of maybe
changing my approach to doing these
videos to optimize more for
um watch time because i think like the
percentage of the video that that
actually gets watched helps increase
like how many people they push it out to
um it's like you got to cater to the
algorithm basically just like we do with
you know the amazon algorithm if we want
to get seen by more people get more
sales i think the youtube algorithm the
name of the game is really
driving engagement so getting people to
like subscribe comment and then also
like what view duration you know as a
function of the length of the video are
they watching so i i gotta think about
that ways to change up my videos and
make them more entertaining
um but anyways guys thank you to all the
subscribers currently on my channel 81
000 almost 82 000 of you guys i really
appreciate that if you're not subscribed
and you want to consider doing so hey
that would be great i'd really
appreciate it
um so anyways let's wrap up so my
september 2021 income report if we add
everything together including four
thousand three hundred eighty five
dollars profit from amazon fba four
thousand eight hundred twenty seven
dollars profit from merch
two thousand three hundred fifty seven
dollars profit from drop ship print on
demand four thousand two hundred seventy
four dollars from google ads uh that
should bring the total profit up to let
me open up my spreadsheet and see where
i have the sum
uh and i forgot kdp hundred seven
dollars forty two cents total profit
fifteen thousand nine hundred fifty two
dollars three cents on the month in
september 2021 um definitely excited for
the fourth quarter to start in october
it is the october 4th today have you
guys been seeing an uptick in sales yet
um typically i think i start to see it
in like the back half of october
but i'm excited this is crunch time you
know make a point of setting aside some
time every single day to design to
upload um to do whatever it is that you
think is gonna make you the most amount
of money in the fourth quarter when we
know
customers are looking to spend the most
okay guys uh thank you for watching
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