hey what's up guys in this video I kind
of just want to do a fourth quarter
check-in I feel like ever since Black
Friday we really should have seen a nice
spike in sales that is if you've been
really uh putting forth consistent
effort in scaling your Ecommerce
business throughout the year this is
when we can kind of I don't want to say
we can kick back but this is at least
when we can you know when we go to our
our sales dashboard we can expect to see
bigger numbers than we're used to at a
minimum right now I want to share some
of my numbers with you in this video and
then reiterate the main thing if you had
to choose one thing to really focus on
uh that I would recommend as we head
into the New Year all right as we are
wrapping up 2022 somehow some way it's
about to be 2023 as we all know so I'm
gonna share all that with you in this
video Let's Get Right to it
foreign
plug guys I did put together a free
print on demand mini course for you it
is linked in the description if you want
it all you have to do is give me your
email address and I'll send you one
lesson a day also I've got a great
Amazon merch Facebook group also linked
in the description that's where I got
the inspiration for today's video uh
because John was talking about he wishes
Q4 would never end he called his sales
unbelievable all right and I know he's
not the only person feeling that way
also he got over 80 likes on his post
and a bunch of comments yeah guys I mean
this is that time of year I'm not trying
to rub it in if anybody is um if you're
not feeling the same way you know
Focus long term I always say long time
Horizon anybody promising you you know
get rich quick schemes we know how those
typically end with regards to print on
demand I'm always thinking about a year
out so as good as this year is I know
next year is going to be better and it
keeps happening year over year over year
and that's why I think that's probably
how I was able to get really where I am
just in general in business and in life
I mean honestly at the same the same
perspective I think can help you with
almost anything it's not just a
print-on-demand thing to say hey keep a
long time Horizon when it comes to
whatever it is that's important to you
you know what I mean me personally I
love
cash flow businesses I love investing I
love working out you know what I mean
and then doing physical Transformations
all those things guys I like living a
healthy life by the way you know what I
mean putting good food in my body
keeping my brain Clear so that I can go
and like work on all these businesses
but be really efficient be optimal
um all those things matter to me guys so
I mean hey it's about to be a new year
why don't you think about whatever you
think you could do a little bit better
or even just run a little bit of a test
on whether it's business related health
related I think they're pretty
intertwined but now's probably the time
to be considering hey what am I going to
be doing next year differently to get
closer to where I really want to be
right why not you know it starts up here
let it at least resonate in your mind
and then if you can if you think it
makes sense to take action you know what
I mean try to make that happen try to
manifest whatever your dreams are
uh so here let me show you some of my
Amazon merch sales so far in December
and then I'm going to kind of talk you
through as we go of how I think you can
get here all right how I know you can
get here if you'll put in the work all
right uh December 1st so we're just
starting out in December 1st 70 sales uh
one return and that totaled fourteen
hundred dollars in revenue of which I
kept
317.27 in royalties now that's US market
only but that is by far the majority of
the sales that I made uh that day
standard t-shirt being my primary best
seller and if you missed my video last
week uh standard t-shirts sold on the US
market you're gonna get a reduced
royalty by about six percent so let's
just say if we go fast forward for a
year uh 317 times 0.06 I'll make about
19 less all right so put me right around
299 uh that you know I mean if we're
projecting forward just so we know but
obviously one year from now I'm gonna be
I'm gonna have done so much extra work
that I should see bigger numbers also
another thing that I do mentally that
helped me push to where I'm at is I
thought of my income in terms of dollars
per day okay so 317 in my mind I would
say times 365.
now this isn't the best thing to do
during the fourth quarter because these
numbers are higher than what we'd
probably project to see on an average
day during the year but if you do 317
times 365 that comes to 115 700 and five
dollars uh per year in terms of like
think of it as like a salary right
not that you probably have to choose
between Amazon merch and working in nine
to five I know a lot of people do work
themselves out of a nine to five though
just from their Amazon merch royalties
so that's an awesome awesome thing if
that can be you uh and I mean hey 115
000 salary would be pretty nice uh if
you could leave your job and just do
merch full time from the comfort of your
own home
all right December 2nd 101 sales two
returns that brought in 457 dollars in
royalties on
2117 in total sales again a really nice
day in December I'm hoping to see more
days like this up until we get to uh
basically Christmas minus the number of
days required for fulfillment plus
delivery right so that means that hey if
someone if it's like December 19th or
20th uh the customers are going to find
our shirts on Amazon and they're gonna
see arrives by remember how Amazon was
doing that last year they were putting
it in red text so that customers didn't
purchase it and then cancel the order
you know what I mean especially because
it's made on demand Amazon's trying to
save themselves some money with the
cancellations and whatnot you know the
cancellations
they suck a little bit more when it's
print on Demand right so they put that
pretty prominently but last year I can't
remember exactly I should probably go
back and look at my videos
I feel like Amazon did a really good job
being able to fulfill and ship and
deliver these products uh really close
up until Christmas so that's one thing
that they've always been like you know
top innovators uh with their you know
Prime shipping that now everybody takes
for granted you know one day two day
same day shipping right
December 3rd uh 88 sales three returns
total royalties 383 dollars on
1757 in sales
and yesterday December 4th 88 in sales
two returns brought in 431 dollars in
royalties on one thousand eight hundred
eighty nine dollars in sales so I'm
really trying to inspire you guys to
keep this long-term perspective for
anybody that's not you know doing these
types of numbers yet it's okay all right
uh by the way someone's gonna ask about
ads I do always post my ads at least
monthly on Instagram by the way right
now my Instagram I don't even know what
happened they told me I was
impersonating myself so I'm hoping to
get my account back I don't know what
the heck is happening but okay uh
normally I post daily sales updates and
then once a month I'll post my monthly
numbers and my ad spend but my ad spend
is minimal like last month in November I
spent 100 125 I think was the total
advertising for Amazon merch so it's
pretty much all profit
um
and then I just wanted to show you guys
too that I do sell on Amazon Seller
Central uh one easy strategy very low
hanging strategy is you can take your
you know merch optimized designs like I
said I'm optimizing for standard
t-shirts typically and you can integrate
printful with Amazon Seller Central and
you can just upload the same design on a
t-shirt like maybe the Gildan 64000 uh
and it'll push to Seller Central the
integration it probably only takes like
five minutes to do if you've never done
it before and then once it's done you're
good to go okay so I will link to
printful and I'll link to Seller Central
if you guys want
um it would have been nice to start this
six months ago or a year ago or you know
five years ago of course if you had a
time machine like that I think I started
in really early 2017 so what is that 8 9
20 21 22 to 23 almost six years ago you
know what I mean
um and I've been pretty consistent about
it but that being said to keep in mind
guys I'm spread pretty thin with a bunch
of complimentary income streams so I'm
not all my eggs in one basket and all of
a sudden I lose my account and I'm
screwed and I also work my day job for
the majority of the time since I started
my eCommerce journey in late 2016 early
2017
anyways so the numbers the thing that
you probably really care about
in the last four days okay December 1st
through 4th on Amazon Seller Central
print on demand this is fbm okay not FBA
fbm fulfilled by Merchant with long
handling times and pretty high price
points okay I'm not just trying to get a
bunch of sales really quickly to impress
you guys with numbers I'm doing this to
make money just like everybody else here
and I charge it you know quite a bit for
these products because I mean it just is
what it is it's based on what you know I
have to pay the Fulfillment Partners
printful gear bubble Etc
I did twenty eight hundred dollars in
sales
it cost me 1 627 in fulfillment fees by
the way this doesn't account for gear
bubble fees by the way they're gear
bubble sales this is just printful
fulfilled and I kept one thousand two
hundred twenty six dollars in profit
except of course Amazon has to take
their fees out of there so
um why don't we just round up and say
deduct like 20 I don't even know uh they
take just an absurd amount uh so we can
probably subtract about 240 bucks from
there and let's just say I made you know
980 in profit and that's in four days
and that's with the Amazon fees taken
out all right so
just so you guys know man this is what
we're working towards this is and by the
way there's other things out there that
I've never heard of that I've never
thought of uh what I'm doing I consider
to be very much like low hanging I don't
think it's anything exceptional like
anything that's far-fetched that you
don't need to take any leaps of Faith uh
in what I'm talking about doing I'm
literally talking about selling
basically t-shirts online
and Outsourcing fulfillment and that way
it's streamlined and we can focus on
scaling the business instead of doing
the stuff manually right nothing I'm
saying is that crazy and it's like but
I'm also showing you the bottom line
right here saying hey guess what I
charge a lot because I'm actually trying
to make money even if the customers it
probably hurts my conversion rate but
that's what I want to charge so that's
what I charge you know what I mean uh
and generally speaking without getting
into numbers and making this an
hour-long video I aim to make at least
ten dollars profit
before factoring in Amazon fees so if
printful charges me you know ten dollars
for a guild and 64 000 that means I can
charge 19.99 to the customer plus I like
to charge shipping on top of that so
they get to pay me 19.99 plus shipping
and that gives me my 10 cushion Amazon
takes their fees and I'm left with
whatever's left after Amazon takes their
part
all right guys and if you're wondering
and I before I even show you how I'm
filling up these slots because I do
spread myself pretty thin how do I do it
well
the purpose of that next slide was
honestly to show you how I'm doing a lot
of my design work
but I promised you to focus on one thing
like there's a lot of things you can do
that will help you scale your business
and replicate My Success with these
numbers that you see behind me right
there's a lot of things you can do but
if I did recommend one thing
one thing
no leaps of Faith required hopefully it
makes sense when I say it but I'm gonna
tell you I'm gonna challenge you to try
to occupy more online real estate try to
occupy more online real estate if we
want to open a franchise of 7-Elevens we
want to have a bunch of them scattered
throughout the country right because the
more real estate the more land we occupy
the more likely people find us they walk
in the store they make a purchase we
make some money but we're not talking
about 7-Elevens we're talking about
selling whatever the product is insert
product right it doesn't have to be a
t-shirt it doesn't have to be a coffee
mug it's whatever you want it to be
we're talking about selling those online
all right now we can either go and carve
out our own real estate you know start
our own website but then we have to
figure out a way of making people aware
that we exist which is easier said than
done and get them to trust us enough to
provide their credit card and make a
payment right we have to do all that or
we just follow the customer to where
they like to shop you know what I mean
do a Google search for whatever you
intend to sell where is Google sending
people
can you open a seller account there I
recommend you try all right keep it
simple occupy online real estate sell
things that people are looking to buy
simple Concepts all right but they can
make us a decent amount of money you see
what I'm doing here and nothing I'm
doing is like even that crazy
um are there like some you know more
edgy things you can probably do yeah
there probably are but at a high level
like I don't want you guys not to trust
me so I say some pretty generic like
basic stuff and then I show you that it
actually works so that's really what I
wanted to do in this episode and just
kind of inspire you
I love that other people are killing it
this fourth quarter anybody that's not
there yet just keep in mind you're
working towards next year always be
thinking that and if you want to give up
on the way hopefully you found something
better otherwise don't give up what are
you doing come on
and by the way a big way like that I
fill my upload slots if I don't have
time to design you know what I mean even
though there's definitely like I said
there's tricks there's Nuance to
everything I say this is how I wrote all
these crazy courses right that I charge
for and some of the content is behind
the paywall it is what it is but you can
definitely you know I'm not charging
anybody for this information uh go to
creative Fabrica go to vexels go to all
sunsets right the easiest one go to all
sunsets grab one of their Sunset
Graphics add text above add text below
Ryan what text like I said go to Amazon
perform a keyword search go to Etsy
perform a keyword search look at what's
selling uh and then just make your own
custom version of that right make sure
it's not trademarked
um simple Concepts guys you don't need
to like get get too uh complicated with
your approach study what works follow
the customer occupy some online real
estate make sure you're automating the
Fulfillment process which is literally
the only way to do it if you're using
these Integrations uh in order for it
not to be automated you'd have to break
something so that's what we're doing
here guys that's what we're working on
that's what we're focusing on that's how
I'm almost six years into this and I'm
getting paid for the work that I did in
early 2017. you know what I mean I'm
still getting paid for a lot of those
products I posted way back then
also so those this is for design and
this is for upload automation should you
want to use upload automation neither of
none of these services are required all
right none of the design services are
required none of the upload Automation
Services are required that's what I'm
using today which allows me to run these
businesses while also doing daily
YouTube content and more alright so I'll
link to all these in the description
on my way out wanted to remind you guys
I have a full Amazon merch course I will
link to it in the description if you
want to learn my entire my entire
nuanced approach to running this
business so it's linked in the
description also I have a private
Community I do weekly live streams
weekly office hours it's the easiest way
to contact me instead of paying you know
200 an hour for one-on-one calls but you
know there's only so much time in a day
guys so that's all down there in the
description thanks for watching if I can
do it I know you can do it
please like And subscribe and I'll see
you tomorrow with a new video
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