💰 Income Report: July 2020

Amazon FBA

Sales: 1,722
Revenue: $42,646.58
Profit: $8,454.70
Gross Margin: 19%
2020 💰 Profit to Date: $51,633.65

* sales data from JungleScout Sales Alaytics

I was sold out of multiple best selling products in July, unfortunately.

Some due to increased demand, others due to supply chain issues.

One interesting note: intake of products that arrived at FBA warehouses reminded me of Q4/Holiday times.

Just yesterday, I had a shipment of one SKU arrive at the Amazon warehouse. The "Available by" date was 9 days out into the future (10 if you include the fact that they arrived in the morning yesterday).

My guess is that they're being inundated with fresh shipments of re-orders of products, as the world turns to the internet to purchase more and more goods.

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Month-over-month you'll notice the difference in my "most profitable skus" graph as a result of my inventory issues.

The most unfortunate one was the supply-chain issue... as I would've definitely been able to move a lot of units had they been able to fulfill the full order.

And here's my Campaign Manager statistics from Seller Central:

• Spend: $726.82 $255.27 MoM
• Sales: $5,164.75 $204.72 MoM
• ACoS: 14.07% 4.56% MoM

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Amazon Merch

Sales: 297
Revenue: $5,347.36
Royalty: $948.72
Avg. Royalty: $3.19
2020 💰 Profit to Date: $4,273.93

• USA
  $918.64
• UK
  £15.76
• DE
  €8.03

* sales data from PrettyMerch Pro

My Amazon Merch sales finally picked back up to normal levels pre-pandemic!

It feels awesome to see consistent sales once again. I even almost considered re-enabling the "Cha-ching!" noise =)

Oh yeah, and on July 30th I was (finally) granted access to selling phone cases!

Here's my sales breakdown by day:

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Breakdown by product type:

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Breakdown by fit type:

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And last, breakdown by color:

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Uploads Update

My buyable products has been consistently hovering around 99% (18,476/18,536) or higher for the past few weeks, which has no-doubt helped increased my sales.

18,536 / 20,000

I cracked the 15,000 mark and have 5,000 uploads to go before maxing out my 20,000 upload slots.

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Dropshipped Print-on-Demand

Sales: 405
Profit: $1,910.78
2020 💰 Profit to Date: $14,255.70

Sales by platform:

• Amazon.com
  208
• Amazon.co.uk
  16
• eBay
  2
• Redbubble
  153
• Spreadshirt
  6
• Teepublic
  15
• Teespring
  0
• Zazzle
  5

My dropshipped print on demand sales fell month-over-month.

I want to attribute it to a lower demand for my products. For whatever reason, lots of people were buying in June... and not as much in July.

I also had to delete some semi-trending products from Amazon because I had seen them get removed from Redbubble and/or Teepublic (I consider this the "canary in a coal mine").

Protecting my Seller Central account is a top priority of mine

Here's my Printful sales chart for my Amazon (.com) Seller Central account (Gearbubble sales no pictured):

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Here's my Printful sales chart for my Amazon EU (.co.uk) Seller Central account:

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April was a huge month this year for my .co.uk account's POD sales, unfortunately I haven't been able to reproduce that level of success since (Q4 maybe?).

Here's a breakdown of my profit from my top 4 platforms:

• Amazon (.com): $1,249.12
• Redbubble: $398.61
• Amazon (.co.uk): $143.64
• Teepublic: $76.50

Every extra dollar from POD sales on a "Tier 3" market helps! And with Q4 quietly approaching, it's more important now than ever to be uploading to as many marketplaces as possible.

Last, my efforts were rewarded with a Printful volume discount of 7%!

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This means that in August, the base-cost of my Printful-fulfilled products will be reduced by 7%,

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Amazon KDP

Sales: 40
Profit: $74.38
Avg. Royalty: $1.86
2020 💰 Profit to Date: $1,329.13

$74.38 of profit was generated on 40 sales @ an average royalty of $1.86 per paperback book.

My KDP sales were OK on the month, but I am not deterred by a slow July.

Regardless of my sales in the middle of the year, I'm eyeing a huge Q4 (hopefully), which motivates me to upload no less than 500 books per week.

You read that right.

I'm only uploading 500 books per week because I am worried about "pushing the limit" as far as weekly upload limits go, and I'd rather play it safe than potentially put my account at risk.

(I've gotten two automated violation warnings about exceeding the 1,000 books/mo limit... even though on the second time, I absolutely didn't hit the 1,000 mark.

Profit breakdown by market:

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Here's a breakdown of my profits by Amazon marketplace:

1. United States: $43.24
2. United Kingdom: $21.15
3. Germany: $6.33
4. Canada: $3.66

Sales breakdown by day for July:

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Sales breakdown by market:

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Google Ads

Earnings (Total): $3,959.01
YouTube: $3,686.75
Website: $272.26
Page Views: 2,414,906
Ad Impressions: 2,368,485
2020 💰 Profit to Date: $13,549.65

* data from Google Ads

I run a few popular websites where I collect advertising revenue via Google Ads (formerly Google AdSense). I also collect revenue via direct partnerships with advertisers & from affiliate links, but for times sake, I'm going to omit those deals.

I won't be doing month-to-month write ups here because I don't spend much time maintaining these websites. They started out as passion projects that allowed me to become a better web developer, but today I spend very little time working on them.

Here's a glimpse into my Google Analytics for my website:

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YouTube Revenue

My YouTube channel (Ryan Hogue Passive Income) monetizes most videos that get posted.

As a result, I see a bit of additional income each month from Google running video (AdSense) ads.

Earnings: $3,686.75

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