what's up guys today marks the end of
the first quarter of 2021 how crazy is
that
like let that set in for a second the
first quarter of 2021
is already over how far along are you
with your to-do list if you're not that
far along
i'm not trying to be like ryan the life
coach but seriously like it's your life
as far as we know we only get one of
them whatever's important to you
set some time aside and do just that
with no
distractions that's what i want to
challenge you to do in the second
quarter of 2021 and just chip away at
your goals
anyways back to why you're here today
i'm gonna do my march 2021
income report i'm going to show you how
much money i made from my amazon fba
amazon merch amazon kdp businesses
my non-amazon merch print on demand
business
and my google ads so let's get started
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let's get started with this income
report let's take a look at each
individual income stream
talk a little bit about it and then at
the end bring them all together so my
amazon fba business i did 579 sales
bringing in 14
928 in revenue 3500 was
profit and my gross margin was 23
so this isn't a great month for my fba
business
relative to previous months um i mean
definitely i think i average at least
five to six k profit a month but
unfortunately i am running very low
or am out of inventory on a lot of
products and one thing that's been
consistent
from various suppliers that don't know
each other right like i can work with
different suppliers for different
products and
uh they all seem to be running into
supply chain issues with raw materials
for instance one supplier
you know to their credit they are one of
the slowest suppliers that i work with
like typically it'll take them a month
and a half to create my orders
which is not normal in my experience
with other suppliers it'll
typically be like a month or less but
they're taking like almost four months
it's three and a half roughly by their
by their newest estimate
to produce an order that really like
isn't that many units it's not like a
massive order where there's so much raw
material required
uh and they just keep pushing it back
and like that product
i sell it like a 35 profit margin and
it's been out of stock i mean i didn't
make a single sale of it in the month of
march
so things like that definitely eat away
at your um
your business and it's not ideal um that
being said
i'm still able to make you know 3 500
bucks so not too bad but i will show you
that my amazon merch profit actually
jumped ahead of my amazon fba profit
oops i need to fix this in my blog post
by the way if you guys want to follow
along in my blog post i'll put a link to
it in the description
i published this on my reinhardt.com
website so you can see my ad statistics
here i spent 462 dollars in ads on the
month
made 74 orders totaling just under 2 000
in sales so as far as that goes that's
pretty good advertising statistics
i absolutely crushed it though in
february with
um with my ad spend like i think i spent
a hundred dollars more but generated a
thousand dollars more in sales
all right let's talk about amazon merch
so i did 1032 sales
bringing in aggregate total uh just
under twenty thousand dollars in revenue
nineteen thousand five hundred forty
four
dollars uh royalty total and this is me
also lumping in the international
marketplaces after doing a conversion to
dollars
3734 dollars of profit
royalties generated from my merch by
amazon business my average royalty was
three dollars
and 62 cents so that was a really good
month i know other people had some
really good months i've been looking at
instagram
a lot of the merch by amazon instagrams
that i follow are posting huge numbers
so
um props to everybody that crushed it in
march hopefully this is a sign of things
to come for the rest of the year
and we can just keep seeing these
numbers increase during the slow times
of years so that means that like
i mean and i should mention like i
didn't have i can scroll down here and
show you
uh these are my top five highest
grossing royalty skus
and none of them are trends they're all
evergreen even the top one that sold 25
shirts
and 130 of royalties that's not a trend
that that sells
every single month it's one of my best
sellers and when you start to like stack
up those evergreens that's how you
really
build a you know long-term sustainable
like high
profit amazon merch business and i mean
130
a month i mean that's not even that
great but imagine if you have a couple
shirts doing that reliably you know
that an old or a shirt doing more than
that right that's that's even more ideal
so amazon merch and if you come to my
blog you can see like a more in-depth
breakdown on my analytics
of uh i guess i didn't include the
legend here but this also shows the
international sales
um breakdown by product type standard
t-shirt 87
hoodies four percent premium t-shirt
three percent tank top three percent the
rest one percent
breakdown by fit type um mainly men 62
percent 25
women 6 percent unisex 6 kids color
breakdown 49
black 8 percent navy 6 royal blue 5
heather gray five percent white you can
see the rest on my blog post and
uploads updates do i still have my uh
previous month open i do let me look at
my side monitor first so in one month
in the month of march i went from 110
000 uploads to 135
000 uploads so what is that i got 25 000
products uploaded
all thanks to merch titans upload
automation by the way i keep that
running like pretty much all the time
recently
uh because i'm using automate pod to get
designs created using automation
and merge titan's automation to get them
uploaded basically on autopilot
as you guys know i could do merch
full-time and then just disappear from
youtube
stop doing fba all that but i'd rather
just kind of like
do a good enough job with my merch
account to keep scaling it up to make
almost four thousand dollars but also
free up a lot of time
because of the automation to do stuff
like this youtube channel so i'll put
links to both of those in the
description and then also those of you
guys that are kind of scared off by the
concept of automation
you know it was probably four or five
months ago i'm losing track of time i
mean heck the first quarter of 2021's
already over
it was probably like five months ago if
i had to guess i did a course
just covering the merch titans
automation
suite of tools if you are interested in
that i can also put a link in the
description and you know what i'll put
like a promo code attached to it
for the next like week so the first week
of april um seven days from when i
released this on
thursday um i'll take like 50 off in
case you guys want to check that out so
it will walk you through step by step
exactly how i use the full suite of
merch titans automation tools
to basically automate every aspect of
print on demand including
merged by amazon automation drop shipped
print on demand this is my
non-amazon merch print on demand sales
so everything complementary to amazon
merch i did 363 sales bringing in 1
926 of profit and you can see a
breakdown by platform i did 256 sales on
amazon.com
seven on amazon.com uk and those are
both via the printful integration i also
use the gear bubble integration
on amazon.com but i always like to
remind you guys i don't recommend you
pay for gearbubble
they're one of the few production
partners that charge monthly and i'm not
a fan of that
i have lifetime integrations for free
because i paid them two thousand dollars
back in like 2017
but i'm not recommending you guys do
that because you don't really need to
when i did i didn't know printful was
around as an option so that was my bad
uh ebay 13 sales etsy zero uh redbubble
72 spread shirt four t public zero
teespring zero
zazzle 11. so here's a breakdown
on the blog post if you guys want to
follow along of course link in the
description
of my printful to amazon seller central
sales you can see
day by day um i guess i should have
probably shown how many sales i got on
these days with the larger spikes but i
think i my average is like seven sales a
day so that's probably the midline so if
you see a spike that's probably like 10
11 12
ish uh amazon.co.uk sparse
sales but still profitable and amazon to
ebay
by the way recently i've did more of a i
mean recently
a couple days this week i set aside time
to upload more products to ebay and ebay
rewarded me they saw me pushing products
and just auto
automated uh email came that was like
we've increased the number of products
you can upload and uh
they do it in a weird way where it's
like it's not if you upload a shirt it's
like the number of
units you have available for each size
totals to like your number of products
that you can upload to ebay it's weird
so they increased my limits um they also
do like an aggregate value of all your
products combined
and it's like a massive number so the
way they do it is super i just keep
saying it's weird but
it is if you you should not skip ebay
like if you have best sellers you
definitely want to be able to push it to
ebay otherwise you're leaving money on
the table
uh but the way that they do like their
limits on sellers is weird
um i just said it again it's weird it's
weird it's weird uh all right here's a
breakdown of the profit i made by
platform amazon.com 1
490 of profit redbubble 177
ebay 159. hopefully that'll be larger
next month because like i said i was
pushing
a bunch of products to ebay recently and
i've already seen sales
so it's always nice when you're
validated like i'm like hmm i think
these will do well on ebay and then
within a day
or two days i don't remember when i
pushed i did two two separate days of
upload sessions and i don't automate
uploads to ebay i do it manually
amazon.com uk 59 dollars of profit
generated as well
ultimately this resulted in a printful
silver volume discount of seven percent
applied to all of my sales in the month
of april
all right next amazon kdp i did 88
sales bringing in 165 dollars and 70
cents of profit
average royalty was a dollar 88 cents
per sale so you can see there my
dashboard of sales behind me
um there's a nice increase month over
month i mean february wasn't a great
month so
um that's a break i need to fix this on
my blog post i just realized i didn't do
262 sales i did 88
um but i will fix that here you can see
a breakdown by market uh
united states was my top grossing market
followed by uk
followed by canada followed by germany
followed by italy and last but not least
spain one cool thing about kdp is you
push a book
you can have it listed in what does it
say right here the uk germany france
spain italy canada and japan
in addition to the united states so that
is something that we should all take
advantage of plus you can do expanded
distribution
and what do i always say cover as much
online real estate as possible kdp makes
it very easy to do that
and they don't have the same like upload
slot restrictions that merged by amazon
has
all right let's move on to google ads so
my earnings on the month
were six thousand one hundred and three
dollars
my and that's all profit youtube brought
in
five thousand eight hundred six dollars
my
one big website that brings in a decent
amount of money brought in 297 dollars
of
ad revenue page views for that site 324
000 ad impressions 1.1 million so pretty
good month there i'd say
and um you know i always say that i also
do on this website i do some additional
like direct
deals people that basically want to
either buy like an
ad direct or they want to buy a backlink
to some other site
for seo purposes so i do make a decent
you know bit of extra money there
um you know and then i spend it on gifs
for my girlfriend right
because i'm no dummy so here we go
estimated earnings you can see a
breakdown from my google analytic or
google google adsense this is from
google adsense right here
when you see the earnings if you scroll
down further you can see
my google analytics dashboard for the
month of march
and you can see it spikes on weekends
the traffic tends to spike
uh youtube revenue i mentioned fifty
eight hundred dollars and you can see a
screenshot of my youtube
rev rev the revenue dashboard right here
five thousand eight hundred six dollars
you can see some days
it was cranking up there at like 250
bucks a day other days it would dip down
to like 150
i'm not sure why that happens but um i'm
happy with the extra money either way
when i started youtube it wasn't like
something that i ever really
intended to make money on like i always
knew you could monetize a channel but
i just so happened to learn along the
way that
this e-commerce passive income space
that i'm in
the ads tend to pay more than if i was
to start like a
travel channel because i've actually
talked to travel channel youtubers
that have way more subscribers and they
don't make nearly as much money i looked
at the makeup youtube channels you would
think that those channels would do
really well with ads
they make like less than a tenth um as
much from the ads
if you guys are wondering i mean this is
stuff that again i never set out to
to do it's just you know along the way
i'm like oh that's not bad they're
paying me to do youtube and i'm not even
doing it for the money
and you know now i'm making like 5 800
bucks a month but subscribers gained
thank you to all the new subscribers 3
800 month over month by the way if you
guys aren't subscribed and you want to
do that that would be awesome
and um yeah here we go socialblade
showing my 64
100 subscribers however we are not
stopping this train until we hit at
least 100k
that is when i'm gonna actually like i
think sit down and celebrate and feel
like i accomplished something
i like to set high goals for myself so
100k or bust
all right scrolling back up to the top
of this blog post here let's look at the
aggregate total for
march 2021 so you can see here on this
pie chart
that i've got on my website check that
out isn't that cool you can click it and
it pops out the
various income streams so the
grand total from amazon fba was it's
behind my chair here but it was 3
500 and 97 cents of profit amazon merch
thirty four dollars a 3734.00 drop ship
print on demand one thousand
nine hundred twenty six dollars of
profit
amazon kdp 165 dollars a profit all of
those i would consider to be very
complementary
and you could in a way like you know how
i always talk about like
find a way to make money and then find
complimentary ways
to milk that for additional money i feel
like everything i just talked about
are all complementary to each other and
then because the year is 2021
and we're starting to realize that there
is this like knowledge economy
whether it's like oh sell a course or
just go on youtube and start talking
and then all of a sudden youtube's
paying you 5 800 bucks a month for
ad revenue you know the google ads you
could almost say is complimentary too
because
all i do is i talk about how i made the
the other chunks of the pie
that you see here right i get on youtube
talk about how i made those chunks so
you could say it's complementary
and that totaled 6 100 on the month so
the uh grand total for the month though
let me pull it up over here
fifteen thousand four hundred thirty one
dollars of passive income
in march 2021 guys thank you so much for
watching this video thank you for all
the support on youtube on the facebook
groups
um let me know how i can continue to
help you guys if you have suggestions
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