💰 Income Report: April 2020

Amazon FBA

Sales: 2,531
Revenue: $77,341.29
Profit: $9,315.97
Gross Margin: 12%
2020 💰 Profit to Date: $25,081.63

* sales data from JungleScout Sales Alaytics

April was a huge month for me as my "big" new product from 2019 (big both in size & in cost) was set to takeoff in the Spring/Summer seasons.

Not only did my sales see a boost... but after slowly building up sales in 2019 & increasing organic rank, I was able to crack the #3 organic ranking on Amazon!

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The result was the massive spike you see in sales on April 2019 in the chart above.

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

The two leading SKUs were variations of that same new product, that combined for $60,000 in revenue.

• Spend: $363.69 $129.29 MoM
• Sales: $1,382.15 $772.37 MoM
• ACos: 26.31% 3.43% MoM

I temporarily turned off some of my advertising campaigns as part of Amazon's COVID efforts include restricting how much inventory seller can send in (dramatically).

The result will be inventory stocking issues within the next month.

For instance, I sold just under 350 of a single SKU on 4/19, but Amazon will only let me send in 632 units...

Which would last me 2 days if sales resume where they left off before I ran out of stock.

/shrug... Your guess is as good as mine.

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Amazon Merch

Sales: 9
Revenue: $173.72
Royalty: $23.81
Avg. Royalty: $3.51
2020 💰 Profit to Date: $8,506.91

• USA
  $0.00
• UK
  £14.40
• DE
  €5.25

Breaking News!

As I was preparing this income report, the Merch team alerted us that they're planning on reopening! WOOHOO!

Per their March announcement, Amazon Merch was closed due to the Corona virus for all of April.

As a result, my Dropshipped Print on Demand business saw a nice boost in sales, as Merch remained flat.

The Merch EU locations remained open, but I only have a few listings set up on those international markets as they were not my priority (& we're unable to publish new listings there).

Merch UK Sales

Merch DE Sales

Dropshipped Print-on-Demand

Sales: 672
Profit: $3,988.84
2020 💰 Profit to Date: $8,007.06

Sales by platform:

• Amazon.com
  305
• Amazon.co.uk
  140
• eBay
  3
• Etsy
  0
• Redbubble
  129
• Spreadshirt
  3
• Teepublic
  89
• Teespring
  0
• Zazzle
  1

As predicted, I saw a huge spike in Dropshipped Print on Demand sales in April.

Much of this had to do with Amazon Merch being closed, which redispersed the demand that would've likely otherwise gone to the Prime-eligible Merch products.

This is why I always preach to stay agile & diversify where you offer products!.

It should be a no-brainer, but I think many people are guilty of thinking that it's enough to only list on 1 or 2 platforms...

(It's not!)

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

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And here's my Printful sales chart for my Amazon (.co.uk) Seller Central account, which saw a nice sales boost this month:

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When things work in America (.com), they often can be sold in overseas markets, but face less competition.

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

• Amazon (.com): $2,031.59
• Amazon (.co.uk): $1,289.47
• Redbubble: $381.31
• Teepublic: $232.00

Redbubble and Teepublic make it very easy to list new print on demand products.

I use the Merch Titans Automation software to automate the upload process. There's really no excuse not to use it!

I provide a free tutorial on how to use it in the bonus section of my Dropshipped POD course (link below)

Enrollment in Ryan's Method: Dropshipped Print on Demand is OPEN!

In it, I walk you through setting up your Amazon Seller Central account & integrating it with Printful + opening an optimized Etsy shop & cover selling on ~7 other platforms, to maximize coverage & get the highest return on investment from each print on demand design you create.

Amazon KDP

Sales: 44
Profit: $80.08
Avg. Royalty: $1.82
2020 💰 Profit to Date: $1,047.69

$80.08 of profit was generated on 44 sales @ an average royalty of $1.825 per paperback book.

Amazon KDP sales slowed down again, many people's budgets tighten around the world.

If the world returns to some semblance of normalcy, I'm planning on seeing some massive numbers in Q4.

Until then, I'll continue to upload an expand my offerings of a variety of low content books!

Profit breakdown by market:

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

1. United States: $64.41
2. United Kingdom: $8.34
3. Canada: $3.50
4. Italy: $1.94
5. Germany: $1.90

Sales breakdown by day for April:

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Sales breakdown by market:

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Predictably, the US lead the way followed by the UK.

After that, it's anyones guess which markets will bring in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc most sales.

If you'd like me to show you how I went from $0 to exceed $3,000+ profit selling low-content books on Amazon, you're in luck.

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Google Ads

Earnings (Total): $1,191.95
YouTube: $812.21
Website: $379.74
Page Views: 913,832
Ad Impressions: 2,000,291
2020 💰 Profit to Date: $4,484.71

* 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: $812.21

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