hey what's up guys in this video i just
wanted to tell a quick short story that
i think really helps refresh our
perspective
on merch by amazon what kind of a
long-term print-on-demand business it
really is and also this applies beyond
just merch by amazon it really applies
to
any automated passive income business
that you can create and every time you
create a new one i call it planting
seeds and as we show up day to day or
whatever it is week to week with
whatever frequency we can to continue to
scale and grow them
it's like we're watering the seeds and
helping these plants grow so in this
video
i finally made it over to my parents
house and remembered to check my mom's
merch by amazon account because she had
texted me
a picture i don't know was like a month
ago maybe she's like man look at this
deposit into my account and i was like
whoa i need to check like what has been
selling in your account now i'm not
gonna blow anybody's minds here with
these numbers but while i was over there
i took pictures of her laptop screen so
you guys don't have to take me at my
word you can just see uh that she did
quite well over the last six months and
made 475 dollars and 20 cents now that's
not making anybody rich but here's the
thing
she didn't upload any products to her
account in like the last year plus
probably alright so this is like
basically a dead merch by amazon account
nothing about this account is special
this is about
the least work and the least effort you
can put in now she's one degree removed
from me and of course like i was the one
that told her about merch that got her
started i mean i uploaded all of her
products in tier ten uh i've told the
story before on this channel how
when she was in tier 10
i ended up like doing a cross niche of
halloween plus something that was
trending at the time this was years ago
and she ended up making like i think 80
or almost 90 sales of one specific
t-shirt by the way i had uploaded the
same exact design to my account and i
think i made like
maybe maximum 20 sales so she crushed me
selling the exact same design because
for whatever reason like the one that we
uploaded to her account performed better
or maybe it's some secret
merch by amazon algorithm that like
wanted to
help out a low-tier tier 10 seller i
don't know right we can all
come up with theories about it but
unless we're a developer at amazon we
don't really know
uh but anyways like
a dead account this is basically a dead
account is doing you know 25 sales
a month 54 sales a month five sales a
month in january um april of 2022 20
sales
february five sales again so january
february were slow after a pretty big
december uh and then um
what was it did i get these backwards
actually yeah so may may was 25 sales
december of 21 was 26 sales but 96 in
royalties they also automatically
converted some of her listings over to
the international markets and she had so
far uh three international sales which
again like we're not even doing anything
like she's hardly even logging in and
they're taking her us market uh listings
and moving them to international markets
making them available for sale when they
sell they do all the fulfillment they do
customer service we sit back and don't
even like unless we're checking our bank
account for these deposits we don't even
know this is going on behind the scenes
so
it's not just merch by amazon it's any
business you start keep a good long-term
perspective even if one day you call it
quits kind of like my mom has um you
know i'm not logging into any of her
accounts from you know my house because
the last thing i want is like any weird
issue
where maybe the merch
team thinks we're like sharing accounts
or anything like that so she has her
account i have mine do i help her with
some designs and whatnot yes of course
i've shown her the upload process and
all that good stuff but this has her
excited and ready to get back in there
after you know i sat down and i was like
hey look at your analytics you're not
doing too bad so and i need to get her
pretty merch pro plus by the way because
this is the uh the ugly standard
dashboard it would have been nice to be
able to use the analytics tab and i'm
gonna hook her up next time i go over
there but guys i'm excited about merch
by amazon i'm excited about passive
income in general no merch isn't dead
passive income online is not dead even
if you can't get into merch by amazon
like you you can still do really well
selling print on demand on etsy on
amazon you know i'm starting that new
etsy shop that i'm super excited for uh
my amazon seller central sales i post my
printful to amazon seller central sales
every day on my instagram story along
with my merch sales
along with my fba sales so you can
follow me on instagram if you want to
see those every single day guys but
hopefully it's just providing a little
bit of insights and inspiration into
what's possible i'm not the apex of
what's possible by the way because as
you can imagine it takes time to do the
youtube channel and you know provide
assistance and guidance to all you know
students in my online courses and
whatnot so i'm spread pretty thin but
i'm still able to you know push this
stuff along using the various tools that
i talk about on this channel and always
looking to like streamline and refine
and improve the processes that i use um
the automated processes for the most
part that i use for my print-on-demand
businesses and i'm excited for what's to
come guys but anyways i managed to make
this video longer than i expected to i
hope that you enjoyed this video though
and got to see that you know hey 500
later zero effort we're still doing
pretty good on my mom's merch by amazon
account and you know what maybe i need
to text my dad tell him to open an
account as well because we know we can
push it further than 500 in six months
you guys you know just as well as i do
we can do a lot better than that so
anyways guys thanks for watching please
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