what's up guys this is my february 2021
passive income report i'm going to share
with you how much revenue and profit
i made from my passive income vehicles
including amazon fba amazon merch amazon
kdp
uh non-amazon merch print on demand
which i call drop ship print on demand
when i'm reporting it and my google
adsense numbers so if you guys want to
see how much money i took home in
february
let's get started
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all right let's get started with this
february income report all right we'll
look at my amazon fba business
first i had 863 sales generating 20
399 dollars in revenue my profit that i
took home was
5 241 and my margin was roughly
25 percent uh you can see right here uh
the
month of february charted i use software
called fetcher
you can also see that my sales kind of
taper down as we get towards the end of
the month that's because i was going out
of inventory
um between like you know if you missed
my video from last week i can link to it
here
uh where i talk about some issues i've
been having with my
two best-selling products from my
best-selling brand
and uh i mean they were just removed
from it by they were removed from
amazon's catalog for no reason by amazon
so i spent over three hours on the phone
with amazon support on friday
i believe i have a method of getting
them back however i'm still like kind of
taking it slow with getting them
back on the catalog um it was really sad
i mean because amazon couldn't even tell
me what happened
and basically right now i'm still it's
not 100
i don't want to bore you with the full
story but at least like i do have them
listed it's just
not how it was prior i need to get it
back to that optimal state if i want to
carry forward with the sales velocity
that i was used to experiencing
in addition to that like the inventory
issues are partially because i guess i
didn't order enough but i was hamstrung
by
amazon not allowing me to send in as
much inventory as i really needed
to so for instance like i throughout
january and february
i had or maybe it was like mid-january
to mid-february but i basically ordered
what should have been two months worth
of a
separate sku and it sold out probably
mid-february and then you see that taper
off and then i'm pretty much sold out of
this other
uh branded product the one that was
removed i mean i've got about 150 units
left between the two
but these can sell as many as like 20 a
day so in between the two probably 30 a
day
and so that's not going to last long you
know so it's just you know a little bit
of a headache guys but still making some
money is better than making no money so
i'm not trying to
you know hate on amazon fba too much
anything like that
but it doesn't come easy i guess you
know it did for a while like you can go
back and look at my previous income
reports when i didn't have these hiccups
in the road
and um yeah that was nice you know the
gravy train was rolling and all i really
had to do was keep inventory in stock
and it was much easier because amazon
let me send in as much as i needed to
and right now it's like when i'm looking
at my uh inventory re-ups
it's like i i can't order based on how
much i need i can order based on how
much amazon
lets me send so pretty annoying what are
you gonna do so i guess that pretty much
wraps my amazon fba
my advertising statistics were green on
the month
less ad spend actually no i increased my
ad spend a little bit but
my sales went up 1200 bucks and my row
as went up 1.15 so everything's good
uh amazon merch i did 853 sales
revenue generated was sixteen thousand
four hundred sixteen dollars
for a royalty that i got to take home of
two thousand
eight hundred thirty nine dollars and
that is with me converting all the
international sales as well and then
adding them
in usd average royalty was three dollars
33 cents
and here i updated my income report
format um in the past i was like you
know what i'm not going to add
the uh italy spain france
and japan but i ended up just doing that
so moving forward you'll get to see all
of them
listed here usa brought in 2638 dollars
uk
67 pound sterling germany 70 euro
france zero i don't upload that much to
the other markets like really almost
none
if i do upload there it's something that
i think actually has relevance to that
market
if it's something that i think that i
optimized for the us market then i'm not
really going to worry about
pushing them to the international
markets and i do primarily push for
u.s market sales not the other ones so
just so you guys know i might get a few
sales but i'm not expecting to get many
uh but france zero italy uh 1206
spain 4.29 euro and then japan 284.66
yen all right and here's a
look at my is this u.s sales only it
says 810 let me see
yeah this must be u.s sales only that's
from this is from pre uh pretty merch
when you just click previous month and
it pops up
so it looks like this is just us only
sales
you can see that my highest grossing
product was actually a hoodie i think
that's back to back months i've been
increasing my
hoodie royalties to where i make 10 and
change on a sale
so you can see there on 16 sales i
brought in 172.48 cents
in royalties not bad um second best
seller standard t
third best seller pullover hoodie fourth
and fifth
uh standard t-shirts and today for
instance like i can show you real quick
if you want to see
my daily sales today but i've sold a lot
of like the the high premium generating
products so you can actually see here
um on 20 sales 99.22
generated so on 20 sales basically 100
bucks that's that's really nice so
increasing my royalties
has worked out pretty well so far maybe
i'll do a separate video talking about
that
and even my girlfriend was experimenting
i think she was charging like 25 bucks
for a premium shirt and like
didn't see a decrease in sales if
anything she saw an increase so
that may be something we want to
experiment with um i'll link to my blog
post in the description in case you want
to come check out like a breakdown of my
sales by product type here obviously
mainly standard t-shirts followed by
hoodies followed by premium shirts
break down by fit type breakdown by
color 50 were black then heather gray
navy heather blue white royal blue pink
purple red
baby blue and after that it's like two
percent
and i forgot to upload this or sorry
update that in my uh blog post but my
live
products is now 110 694
of 200 000. so a lot of again i'm very
transparent about
i use automation to create these designs
i try to scale out like i'll make one
good template
scale that out to 100 designs or 500 or
a thousand depending on like
what template i'm using that that fits
the design that i'm doing
but i try to scale that out and occupy
as much quantity as possible since
amazon merge is giving me the ability to
do so
and you know like i said internet real
estate is cheap right so i'm trying to
occupy as much of it as i can especially
on the world's number one e-commerce
marketplace
where we're selling prime eligible
print-on-demand products right so
110 000 um hopefully next month on my
income report you'll see that 125 130
000 who knows um trying to be consistent
here though with pushing them
and that's not even that this is just
amazon merch i'm also pushing
products to my seller central every day
as well so i really practice what i
preach
drop shipped print on demand i did 302
sales generating 1
642.29 of profit so
breakdown of sales by platform
amazon.com 199 amazon.co.uk5
18 etsy 0 red bubble 73 spreadshirt 6
t public teespring 0 zazzle 3
and on my blog post you can find a
breakdown of my printful
sales charts i also use gear bubble via
pod turbo
a lot lately you know i manually
uploaded probably like 15 or 20 000
products using gear bubble and then i've
been using pod turbo which does it for
me and i'm getting 200 a day
uh pushed via so it's like gear bubble
will fulfill those orders but pod turbo
pushes them automatically i just have to
queue them up like once a month or once
every other month
depending on how much i do queue up so
that's been really nice i've been seeing
almost daily
pod turbo sales sometimes multiple sales
a day and that's only going to grow
so pod turbo's not bad although it sucks
again i always say this caveat you have
to use
gear bubble and then gear bubble charges
you monthly which i'm not a fan of
paying monthly
for a production partner but also when
you see this chart this is just from
printful so it doesn't
capture all the sales that i actually
have funneling in
and i took a picture of my printful
amazon.com.uk
and my printful to ebay chart as well
you can find all that in the blog post
so a breakdown on my profit
from top four platforms amazon.com
represented twelve hundred fifteen
dollars
this is profit uh ebay 184.
redbubble 168 and amazon.co.uk
59. and my
my volume discount from printful in
february only having
28 days in the month hurt me because i
was 33
away from getting bumped up to that
silver tier
volume discount which would have added
an additional
two percent off to my sales fulfilled in
the month of march
what are you gonna do though so um you
know i got five percent
volume discount applied to my uh sales
fulfilled by printful in march
all right let's look at amazon kdp for
the month of february i did 61 sales
generating 115 of profit and average
royalty of 1.89 per sale also
i got something in the works for kdp so
make sure you're subscribed
and if it works out of course i'm gonna
do a video and
tell you guys all about it so make sure
you subscribe so you don't miss that
video
and it's essentially going to be a
different approach than what i'm doing
that's reflected in the numbers here
which is really just me doing the
minimum that i can using the automation
tools that i've got available to me
so i'm going to branch into more
complicated kdp books which i think will
generate more income
and of course i've got a passive way of
doing it because i just don't have the
time to dedicate to
spending too much time doing kdp really
i'm spread too thin doing other stuff
you know these daily youtube videos take
a little bit of time as you can imagine
all right google ads uh my earning total
on the month was 5997.89
youtube was responsible for 5747
of that so youtube is pretty nice in
february
uh my website that the one that i built
like 10 years ago brought in 250
and 55 cents of adsense ad revenue
page views 353 000 ad impressions 1.1
million
that is all according to google adsense
so
down here you can see this chart out of
my adsense reports
you can see that i kind of spike on
certain days of the week
and google analytics for this site down
here as well
took a screenshot in case you guys
wanted to check that out
youtube revenue beneath it you can see
here youtube was kind to me and they
said that
great news advertisers paid more than
usual per ad
on your videos helping your channel earn
more revenue
than usual so thank you whoever you are
advertisers i actually use youtube
premium that's like the only
subscription service i pay for
so i pay like 9.99 a month and i don't
remember when the last time i saw a
youtube ad was
i think it was probably like looking at
my girlfriend's phone and i was like
what the heck is this what is this ad
you know it's been years since i've seen
one and then i'm like oh that must be
what people see when they watch my
videos so
um it does you know help pay the bills
the the minimal that's a joke
i mean come on i'm running a youtube
channel here there aren't really any
bills other than when i upgraded to this
microphone right here and dropped like
600 bucks on it
but besides that you know nothing really
to pay for so i appreciate it
uh subscribers gained on the youtube
channel 3700 in the month of february
welcome new subscribers appreciate it
happy to have you on board
and um socialblade update right here 60
300 subscribers let's go let's get that
pushed to 100k and then i'll definitely
everybody's like you're gonna do a
giveaway for
60k 50k i'm like nah like maybe at 100k
i got my sites set on bigger and better
things than 60k even though it is
awesome i'm not trying to complain
so that pretty much wraps up the income
report for february let me scroll up to
the top of this
income report to the pie chart here and
just one last reminder you can check out
the blog post and read it on your own
time if you would like to
the link is in the description so just
to recap google ads brought in 5
97 of profit amazon fba
5241 amazon merch 2
839 drop shipped print on demand that's
all my print on demand
profits excluding amazon merch and that
brought in 1
642 of profit and amazon kdp 115
of profit for a grand total on the month
of 15 836 dollars
of profit and in addition to that
remember
a couple months back when i said i think
it was november
2020 i'm looking over here i made 20 529
of profit and i said you know what i
bought one bitcoin with it well i uh
actually unwound my exposure to
cryptocurrency over the last um
let's just say 10 20 days probably like
20 days and
took home a pretty healthy chunk of
change
very nice profits very nice multiples
and this is my goal
it is to build businesses that i just
showed
that generate cash flow and then through
investing
you know it's it's ambitious to say
multiply my wealth via investing because
that's not always possible you know what
goes up must come down but you know if
you're
i think you can make money in a bull
market and a bear market in most cases
but i'm not going to get into that
but i was able to multiply a lot of the
wealth that i made
through these cash flow businesses at a
minimum via investing
protect my buying power because also if
you look at the dxy the dollar index you
know dollars have been losing
their relative buying power so it's just
something to consider guys like it's not
just about making money then you have to
be responsible with it
at a minimum protect it but also at the
um
ideally multiply it right so i was able
to do that uh pretty well but also just
wanted to let you guys know
that we're following me since i did talk
about getting some exposure to
cryptocurrencies that i've unwound my
exposure and i'm gonna chill for a bit i
do have an investing channel that i
dabble with
um on the side if you to kind of get my
thoughts on the broad markets i talk a
lot of macro
check that out i think i also put a link
in the description of all my videos
but that's pretty much it that's all i
wanted to talk about in this video guys
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