what's up guys today i'm going to be
talking about my amazon print on demand
sales from 2020.
i'm not going to be talking about amazon
merch or kdp
i'm just talking about sales that i made
through seller central
the majority of which came through the
printful to amazon integration and
speaking of printful
they were very kind as to sponsor a
giveaway for this video so stay tuned
there will be more information about
that in a second
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real quick before we get started just
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alright so my amazon print on demand
total sales i'm not gonna bury the lead
they totaled to 68 758.66
in 2020 this is not my fba sales this is
not my amazon merch or kdp sales
it's just print on demand that i sell
through seller central
using the gear bubble and printful
integrations and when i say the
integrations
it's not that they're some like special
thing it's the same
amazon like api but not a lot of
print-on-demand production
companies that we partner with have
amazon seller central integrations for
some reason
and i favor printful because it's free i
do use gear bubble as well because
i paid for lifetime integrations i think
i paid like 2500 bucks
four years ago so i've had that ever
since but i wouldn't recommend to you if
you're getting started selling print on
demand through seller central
to pay monthly for anything especially
when printful is a superior service
and it's free to get started so use my
link in the description by the way if
you don't have a printful account yet
and um you can get started for free now
68
758 dollars i'm gonna break down the
various types of products that i sold
to get to that number and i'm going to
tell you how much of it was profit but
first
let me um just tell you more about this
giveaway that printful is sponsoring by
the way i don't just use printful to
sell on amazon
i use it to sell on through some of
their other integrations as well
yesterday i talked about in my video uh
two of my least favorite printful
integrations one of them being bonanza
one of them being wish
i'll link to that video right here in
case you want to check it out but they
were not nearly as successful as the
amazon integration but printful was very
generous to sponsor a giveaway for this
video
three lucky winners get a 10 off coupon
for a um fulfilling an order
through printful so if you sell a hat
like the one i'm wearing
through any of the printful integrations
uh oftentimes i mean they don't have any
hats that have a base cost less than ten
dollars
so let's say you sell a um there's a
yupong dad hat the base cost is 16.95 i
sell those
all day they're probably it's probably
the most popular hat that printful sells
if you sell that you can knock 10 off
bringing the price down to 6.95
using one of these coupons if you're
selected as a winner and all i want you
to do
if you're interested in entering is
comment on this video
let me know your favorite printful
product
to sell and if you're not using printful
yet just you can google it really
quickly look up the printful product
catalog
and find some of the products they have
to offer it they actually have a huge
array of products that you can sell if
you use their integrations like i do
to hit that 60 000 number and just let
me know what you're most interested in
selling they also do embroidery which is
really cool
and i'll talk more about how i sell
embroidery uh through printful on amazon
as well in a second but yeah leave me a
comment below
three winners will be selected and um
i'll probably do like a youtube
community post and i'll mention it in my
video tomorrow so back to the numbers
in total i sold 2838
units the reason i say units is because
if i said products it may imply that i
sold that many unique products
which is not the case oftentimes because
of how amazon's algorithm works if you
sell a product
on their marketplace that will reinforce
to the algorithm that whatever keywords
that customer searched for that then
clicked your listing and purchased it
that we should rank higher on those
general keywords
so oftentimes if you get one sale of a
product you may see in the future
it followed up with more sales so units
sold 2838
the average cost of these products was
23.25
that's based on what i collected from
the customer
and i sell a wide array of different
product types and i actually break down
in this presentation
the primary product types that i sold
the average
cost of goods per unit meaning what i
paid
to printful or gear bubble to fulfill my
products
was thirteen dollars seventeen cents so
if you do the math real quick
twenty three dollars twenty five cents
average collected
minus thirteen dollars seventeen cents
leaves me with about 10
profit per sale and if you guys i don't
know if i talked about it on youtube but
i know i talk about it in my print on
demand
full course which you can find a link to
in the description but i do usually
recommend aiming to make 10
profit per sale so this is me practicing
what i preach i'm actually happy that it
worked out to be
within uh eight cents of ten dollars so
pretty good
uh the average amazon fee four dollars
fifty five cents uh oh remember how i
said ten dollars profit for sale well
i'm not trying to mislead anybody we
also pay amazon
for each uh conversion each sale they
need to get their cut you know jeff
bezos he's pissed he's not the richest
man in the world anymore
elon musk passed him and so who knows
man those am those amazon fees may go up
until he's the richest man in the world
again so you got to go in and take that
23.25
minus 13.17 minus 4.55
and then what you're left with is about
5.50
or 60 cents profit per sale on average
this is me aggregating everything by the
way
because i know you don't want some like
super long video where i go into every
single breakdown
which would have to be done based on
product type all right total ppc spend
zero dollars i didn't spend anything on
ads to generate those 2 800 sales i do
often talk about that i don't think
advertising is necessary but in certain
cases
you may want to consider advertising
typically for me that's when it's
related to trends that have a really
high up potential upside
but a lot of the trends in 2020 to me
were political and amazon does not let
you run ads
for political stuff i've even tried to
kind of game the system
with advertising and not like mention
anything political but
know that behind the scenes it is
political and they manually review
everything you submit
and they got every single one of them
they sniffed it out so it didn't work so
here's a high level overview of the
product types that i sold on amazon now
coffee mugs represented about 15 percent
of my total sales on the year
i sell the coffee mugs through gear
bubble
not because printful doesn't offer them
but because gearbubble has a lower base
cost
for the coffee mugs now anybody watching
this that wants to sell coffee mugs
please make sure you're subscribed to my
channel not just because i want you to
be subscribed but because
in the very near future i'm going to be
doing a full video review
of a print on demand production partner
that specializes
in coffee mugs they have the lowest base
cost
coffee mugs in the game out of any of
the competition the best part
is that unlike gear bubble that will
charge you monthly to use their service
regardless of if you make any sales this
other service
is free to use now i think they're
working on their amazon integration but
you could always like manually fulfill
the orders
that come through for coffee mugs and
use their service because
they're by far the cheapest like from
the white coffee mugs to the colored
coffee mugs as well which typically cost
a little bit more
so i'm excited for that video and this
company sent me a bunch of products to
review
on that video so um look forward to it
it's gonna be a fun review i'm gonna
i'm gonna drop a coffee mug off of the
balcony outside and see if it breaks
so um yeah stay tuned for that one
anyways 15 of my uh products were mugs
about five percent maybe maybe a little
bit less may have been like four or five
percent i might have rounded that one up
but roughly five percent were shot
glasses and again i'm always interested
in differentiating myself because you
deal with less competition
when you differentiate and look at the
now guys some of you guys probably
already know where i'm going with this
but look at the
um that box right there is from
gearbubble
that represents the space on the shot
glass that we can put our designs on now
what does that
shape of a rectangle remind you of oh
yeah amazon merge
i can take all my t-shirt designs and
fit them right in it fits right in
perfectly
so i can literally take those amazon
merch t-shirt designs
hoodies sweatshirts whatever i'm selling
put them on shot glasses
push them to seller central and all of a
sudden i'm making a couple extra hundred
or thousand bucks
a year like what's not to love there and
i fulfill those through gearbubble
uh now hats this represented 75 of
my print-on-demand sales through amazon
i have told you guys that i sell a lot
of hats
cause hats are so easy to create you
can't actually make complicated hat
designs if you're using embroidery which
all of printful's hats
as of right now as of recording this are
embroidery the embroidery designs have
to be simple in nature
and what's cool is you can actually
upload a complex graphic
to printful and say you want to sell it
on an embroidered hat and it the
software will convert it for you
into the embroidery enabled
design i don't know what else to call it
really so basically it'll convert the
colors
into the thread colors that are
available through printful and then each
sale
goes through it goes over the desk of a
embroidery digitization expert so an
actual designer that knows how to make
these
come out looking good on the other side
and you have to pay an additional like
minor fee
when you sell a product for the first
time that has embroidery through
printful the price actually varies
based on the uh complexity like i think
it's 6.50 cents if it's your own complex
like i don't say complicated but
if it's your own design that could be
complicated it could also be basic
but if you use their text tool i think
it's like three dollars
or four dollars for the one-time
digitization fee so i just want to let
you guys know that
that is something that happens when you
sell embroidery through printful
but since it's a one-time thing it's not
that big of a deal like i said on amazon
after you make a sale you tend to rank
better which leads to more sales so it
offsets that pretty quickly
plus if you're aiming to make 10 profit
per sale you don't lose any money
all right in the last five percent we're
t-shirts because
it still makes sense if you're using
amazon merch and you're like why would i
upload the same t-shirt through seller
central
that i'm selling through amazon merch
because it's already on amazon well
what about april this year when amazon
merch was closed
and then the people like me that had a
bunch of t-shirts listed for sale
through seller central
made a killing now i wish i could have
made more of a killing but i'll be
honest when i'm not
like when amazon merch isn't closed you
know i'm not really
favoring using uh my upload
slots i mean there's not really slots on
seller central it's unlimited you just
can't upload too many at once
otherwise they'll throttle you so i kind
of just push a couple throughout the day
here and there
and i also use some software i should
have given it a shout out on this video
but i used some software called pod
turbo i'll also put a link in the
description
which is amazon seller central upload
automation
that fulfills the orders through
gearbubble so i know i'm saying a lot in
this video i apologize a little bit all
over the place
i do have some other tutorials for pod
turbo on my youtube channel though if
you want to go check those out just do a
search
however five percent of my total sales
for
amazon print on demand seller central
were t-shirts and again it's never a bad
idea you occupy more internet real
estate
by taking your winning print on demand
designs even if it's from amazon merch
and just saying well if anything happens
with amazon merch
i should also put it in seller central
because hey it can still be purchased
and sometimes i do get sales that come
through seller central
that i also have selling through merch
which is curious maybe merch wasn't
showing my product
because i know i charge more for it
through seller central than i do through
merch so
you should absolutely be doing this guys
all right my average profit
per uh unit was 5.51 and my total profit
for 2020
was 15 219 dollars
and 841 cents i don't know must've been
a typo there but let's just say 84 cents
so
15 219 in total profit selling print on
demand through seller central
if you add that to my amazon merch
profit it's over 30 000
and i certainly plan on exceeding that
in 2021.
now if you guys would like to replicate
my success and let me show you exactly
how i do what i do
which is start scale and then automate
your print on demand presence on amazon
plus
on all the other platforms that i sell
print on demand on
check out my full print on demand course
ryan's method drop ship print on demand
there's a link in the description
check that out and thanks for watching
till the end guys like subscribe
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to enter for the
free 10 printful coupon i'll be
selecting three winners before i do my
video tomorrow
so i got 24 hours from when i release
this video to enter
and i'll see you guys soon
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