Heading into 2024 with:
-All credit cards paid off
-Leftover inventory from Q4 still selling
-$20k set aside for taxes
-A full 12 month year for the first time as I started June 2023
Not bad for 7 months 🙏
Happy new year everyone 🥂
$1 mil rev/$175k profit is my 2024 goal 📈
Put about 11 hours into the Amazon biz today (new record) between FBM prep/shipping, unboxing and organizing new inventory, and completing admin tasks such as updating sellerboard and tweaking my repricer.
Looking to break the $75k mark by EOD tomorrow, goal is $125k by EOM 🙏
✅Milestone achieved✅
My goal for my first full month as a seller was $10k revenue. Managed to reach that goal in just 19 days 🙏
New target is $15k by the end of my first 30 days 💯 have learned a lot so far, but got a long way to go!
Life changing, mindest shifting experience right here
Very healthy 27% margin on $62k in sales in ONE WEEK of December
6 months ago I had no clue where to start when I first got in touch with
@flips4miles
Crazy how fast you can grow if you put the work in 🙏💯
The best Q4 tip I can give after a solid 5-6 months selling on Amazon (I’m by no means an expert but I know a few things I guess 🤣) :
Stop
Posting
Public
Photos
Of
What
You
Are
Selling
😭😭😭
The goal is to maximize profit, not the number of people hopping on your listings 😅
$100k August achieved ✅
Been a wild month full of late night FBM prep and drowning the post office in packages 😂
As the graph indicates, sales definitely slowed down after the midway point of the month, but still pretty decent 💪
First back to school season was a success 💯
First 30 days are officially in the books!
Generated about $17k in revenue which blew my $10k goal out of the water 🙌
Ended my first full month with my second $1k day yesterday also, while doing absolutely zero work on vacation. Super grateful for the progress!
Easily the craziest experience of my Amazon journey occurred today
Got 90 units of an ASIN in
Listed them by 2PM (FBM/0 day handling)
Caught buy box $2 above lowest price and I’m now completely sold out just 7 hours later 😳
Time to buy 1,500+ units 🤑
S/o
@0DayHandleTime
2 authenticity complaints within 48 hours has caused my account health to plummet in the blink of an eye.
After taking a few hours to gather my order receipts and all related documents, both appeals are submitted. Praying things go well, as I’ve done nothing wrong 🙏
Ran into TJ Maxx to make a return for my mom real quick…
Line at the register was long so I said to myself let me take a quick lap around the store and see if anything catches my eye
5 minutes later I’m walking out with 20 units for $45 with an expected profit of about $105 💰
$160k trailing 30
$66.7k this week
$87k this month (9 days- took a day off due to a death in my family)
$417.3k YTD (1st sale June 5th)
Very grateful for everything I’ve achieved so far 🙏 out of town the next few days for a funeral 💔 so will have my store on vacation mode.
Ended yesterday at about $9.4k, a new record by a long shot 💯
Prepped everything all night. Time for a quick nap, then off to the post office and visiting family out of town for the day ✅
🥶Happy Black Friday🥶
Repriced tons of ASINs upward by a significant amount and they still kept selling 💨
New sales record for both revenue and units sold 📈📈📈 spent almost $70k as well for December
Dipping into my RA toolbox 🧰
$1,200 spend on 4 ASINs, estimated profit of about $1,835 after all fees/shipping 🔥🔥🔥
One store, one hour spent scanning with
@SellerAmp
💪
It pays to pay early!
Depending on your spend level, you could be saving thousands with Amex early pay discounts just for staying on top of your balance 💯
Essentially acts as a more extensive cashback extension.
Month two officially ended at $29.86k in revenue and I had my largest single sales day yet at $2,408 (screenshot is two hours before the month turned over)
Huge progress so far, but nowhere near the end goal. I hope everyone on the TL including myself has a killer August 💪💸
Picked up 200 units of one ASIN about 2 weeks ago…
Only 30 left 😳
150 unit replen today ✅
One thing I’ve learned is that it doesn’t take hundreds of ASINs to see success.
A mix of 30-50 slow moving/high profit and fast selling/low profit items can work very well!
Crazy expensive but you bought it anyway 😭😭😭
Enjoy that restocking fee 😉
Happy FBM season everybody, December is just a few hours away and then it’s onto returnuary and 2024 🤣
Been quiet on here, won’t get deep into it but things have made life tough the last few weeks, and these college classes aren’t getting any easier.
Amazon had to be placed on the back burner for the interim, but back on the grind soon! 💪
Blessed to see 20 years old today 🙏❤️
Day 59/90
4th day in a row with a new sales record. $4,246 so far on 95 units.
The growth has been very rapid, super grateful.
Up @ 6am tm to pack FBM, quick RA run at 8am, then off to an amusement park for the day with my family. Right back to FBM prep upon returning home 🫡
$200k sales/5k units achieved ✅
First sale was June 5th, still only FBM, ripping OA/RA, packing/shipping everything between myself and one other person + in college full time.
Bum September but bouncing back this month.
If there’s a will, there’s a way 🙏 grateful everyday
Day 60/90
$9,033 and counting in sales, currently at 162 units sold as well 🥂
Monster day, will be up all night tonight packing orders but wouldn’t want it any other way 🙏
Going to squeeze the bag as much as humanly possible the next few weeks before school starts (🤮)
Day 62/90
150+ FBM sales being shipped out in the AM 💪
100+ units sold for the 3rd day in a row, sitting at $4,762 in sales for today
Last 7 days is at $33.6k revenue and $31.2k so far for the month of August
Time to spend more $$$ ✅
Day 43/90
Already hit $1k in sales today. Will hopefully hit my first $2k day.
One thing I noticed today is that I have to source more. I have sizable capital, plenty of free time, and friends/connections in the space. Just need to double down on setting time aside to source.
I try to be positive but this has to be said…
The way AMZ allows buyers to get away with WHATEVER they want is truly sickening.
A customer centric approach is only beneficial until you allow them to repeatedly wrong the sellers that make your marketplace as dominant as it is.
Day 2/90
1 on 1 call this morning with
@flips4miles
, had a great sourcing session and found a bunch of new leads. Big spend day inbound 🙌
Step by step 🚀🚀🚀
✅Week one is officially in the books ✅
$2,203 in sales and 39 units sold. Around $400-450 profit. Solid start to the journey but nowhere near finished!
Shoutout the homies
@flips4miles
@notreallymadd
@PetesFlips
@DeAndreFBA
for welcoming me with open arms and supporting 🙏
Slow sales day today.
Sold at or way above $4k every day the last 7 days.
Today only at $1.5k so far, few items I was going deep on are no longer available online.
The solution? $10k spend on a few new SKUs, the next few weeks are going to be insane 🔥
So who’s gonna tell her that FBM is a thing… 😐😭
Does she think I somehow got her address and mailed her the item she purchased without permission or what? 🤣🤣🤣
Successful 3 hours of slamming orders
All on one website, got to the point where I was getting triple captchas AND iMessage text verifications from AMEX on each order near the end 🤣
September was slow, October has been slow so far as well… trying to juice things up 🧃
(1/4)
General thoughts regarding Christmas rush, been on my mind all day today:
-Must have TONS of deployable capital (liquid and credit cards)
-Build in plenty of time to prep FBM
-Buy, buy, and buy some more
It’s still a few months out, but it doesn’t hurt to think ahead…
First 1 ⭐️ review on AMZ
Customer says that I’m a bad seller bc I did not refund them & they had to contact AMZ to get refunded.
I check their order, and the return hasn’t even gotten back to me yet.
What is wrong w people!? 😂
Hopefully AMZ rightfully removes this review.
Day 23/90
Sales dipped a bit today but still cleared 20 units.
Placed an order for my first deep replen today. My test buy of 20 units sold out in 4-5 days, this time I snagged 100 units 🔥
I’m in a really nice rhythm with FBM right now, but eventually I’ll mix in FBA also.
Day 37/90
Phenomenal day. New sales record in both revenue & units at $1,420 sales/36 units so far. Very grateful.
All of my RA pickups that I got in Cali landed today and items from that haul are already selling.
$5k spent today on a few deep replens as well.
LFG! 🚀🥂
(1/3) What’s up Amazon family 🙏
December was extremely challenging personally. Death in my family. Right after that I got really sick for the past 2 weeks. Just fell into a really dark place and didn’t have the drive to stay active on here during the sales rush we all had.
Started getting declined due to high balance but was able to squeeze $30,000 extra spending power outta them to carry me to the finish line 🤣 happy Black Friday everyone 🥂💰
Day 38/90
Saw a dip in sales today after my record breaking day yesterday, kind of expected.
Spent the morning shipping out around 40 FBM packages from yesterday’s sales.
Tomorrow’s slate: $1-2k spend @ local Nike outlet, got notified that they have some good items in rn 💰
Got to link up with the homie
@fulfilledbymax
today in between our shows seeing
@andrewschulz
perform
Two future millionaires right here! 🤑
Pleasure meeting you my guy 🙌
One of those nights where I reflect and realize how fortunate I am.
Got to see my favorite team get a huge win in a FREE private suite and had a monster sales day without doing any work, s/o my sister for packing all my sales.
Grateful for this life! 🙏
Back to the lab 🧪
Day 22/90
Great day between local sneaker sales + Amazon FBM 💰
The last 3 days have all been great with over 20 units sold and $850+ revenue each day.
At $963 today on 26 units. Fingers crossed for another 1-2 sales over the next few hours so I can hit my second $1k day 🤞
No better feeling than finding a new ASIN on a site you last sourced over two months ago and an old coupon code is still working 🤩
Especially when it bumps the expected profit margin up 5%/ROI up 15% 📈
Makes the test order worth placing ✅
$40k profit in Q4 or bust 🤑
Day 57/90
FBM grind is real. Deep in the trenches, sleeping on a couch next to my prep station so I stay fully immersed in the grind 😤🦍
New sales record again today. Currently at $2,565 and counting.
$5k in sales the last 2 days. Just the beginning, back at it tomorrow 💯
Day 4/90
Chill day, little bit of sourcing practice, finally ungated in Puma after 10 declines, and crossed $1.5k in sales through my first 5 days 📈
Difficult to envision massive profits right now, but that will come with time 👍
Supreme Oreos in 2020. Had like 50 packs but these were the last few. $3 a pack retail and sold them for $15-20 each. Then moved on to PS5s and Yeezys and went from there. Good ole days when I first got started.
The quarantine flips were unreal 😂🔥
Day 8/90
Successful day today. First $1k+ sales day after just 9 days, finished at $1,353 in sales and 30 units sold. Roughly $475 profit on that after COGS/Amazon fees/shipping for a ~35% margin.
Feels good celebrating the small wins early, but nowhere near finished! 💰
We ❤️ BeFrugal
And Rakuten
And TopCashback
Been able to cover all of my typical daily expenses with cashback the past few months, these extensions can be so underrated sometimes ✅
Day 45/90
Went ballistic spending today.
Just under $20k spent after only a few hours of work 💰
Praying I don’t wake up to any order cancels 🙏
Maxed out for the next few weeks, but tons of new inventory on the way.
August is looking like it’ll be a great month! 🥂
(1/2) Random thought came up:
I have an item selling for ~$7.78 profit per unit. Buy cost $2.60, payout after fees/shipping is ~$10.38.
Minimum wage in my state (PA) is $7.25. I’ve sold 52 units of this item in the last 5 days, equating to ~56 hours of minimum wage work in PA.
Day 17/90
Another really slow sales day but I’m hoping the algorithm snaps out of it soon and gets me back on track ✅
Sitting at about $9.4k in total revenue so far after just over two weeks, hoping to hit $10k soon 🙏
Day 20/90
Really solid sales day today, fell a little short of $1k assuming no other sales come through but sold $903 on 25 units ✅
~45 FBM orders will go out tomorrow and will hopefully grind out a bunch more sales this week before I leave for a trip to Cali July 3-10th 🙏
Day 12/90
Bounced back today, 19 units sold for $745 after a slow day yesterday.
Had a zoom call with some other sellers which was nice. Always looking to make new friends in this space that I can grow/scale with 😎
The more people you talk to, the easier this business is! 💯
This ⬇️‼️
Always have a solidified backup plan in place 💯
Fall semester of my junior year of college ends in 10 days, presentations/projects/final exams left and right, still time to pump FBM while working toward my degree. Nothing wrong with that 🙏
Yo guys please stop promoting for dropping out of college , this is so dumb advice that you can give to any excited kid .
Let them learn , let them have social life , promote for a fucking skill , tell them they can do it on the side while they still getting a degree .
Please
When the homie
@fulfilledbymax
(🐐) hits you up after midnight with a stupid good lead, you move with speed 🏃♂️💨
This is the power of networking.
Out of bed and about to drop $10k in one hour 🤑
Who said FBM season doesn’t start until after Black Friday? 😈😈😈
Day 25/90
First calendar month as a seller ends tonight, though it is only day 26 of having active listings. I’m about to cross $15k revenue (hopefully tonight).
Wrapping up my bookkeeping/admin work tonight and will post an update tomorrow with how my first month went! ✅
Day 24/90
Worst sales day in the last week and a half but days like this will happen. It’s all about the bounce back 🫡
Organized a way to still fulfill orders next week while I’m away on vacation. S/o to my sister for offering to package and ship sales for me while I’m gone 🙏
If you ever catch a family member/friend/stranger at UPS returning a shoe from Amazon by taping the label on the actual shoe box and then plastering the entire box with tape like it’s a 3rd grade art project, the only right action is to clock them in the mouth.
That’s all! 😂🙄
Day 39/90
Nike outlet, tweaking my handling time, and watching the sales roll in
$775 rev/21 units today ✅
Not feeling the greatest so going to get to sleep early tonight.
@PetesFlips
@fulfilledbymax
@mjfba
@DeAndreFBA
@notreallymadd
catch me on the next sourcing call 🫡🥂
Day 26/90
Sales were lacking hard today, issue seems to be that my buy box % has plummeted the last few days from 12% to 3%.
Tomorrow’s goal: Fix/stabilize my repricer, though it’ll be tough to get it all in line before leaving Monday for vacation. Lots of loose ends to tie up.
Day 7/90
First time doing back to back days with $500+ in sales, feels pretty good 😎
Got around 20 FBM sales shipped out this morning which was my largest Amazon shipment yet.
Looks like I will be returning some 📉 inventory this week, but overall still making strides 📈
Day 58/90
Spectacular day today, about to break $4k in sales for the first time, 85 units sold 🤩
$8.2k spend to end the night off on a positive note, not much else going on just pumping as many sales as possible and shipping almost immediately 👍
Day 11/90
Few hours of sourcing this AM but no purchases. Glad to at least be getting reps in even if I didn’t spend anything.
Around 30 FBM sales also went out today, have yet to FBA anything but shipping myself has been manageable so far so I’ll stick with that for now 👍
Day 1/90
S/o
@notreallymadd
for the idea
I promise as I get better at this and network more I’ll look and sound less afraid 😂
The videos will also get longer after a month once I can get Twitter blue (new accounts have to wait 30 days, so videos have limited duration for now)
Day 27/90
Shoutout again to my sister for fulfilling my orders while I’m gone the next week 😂🙏
Not sure if I’ll upload the daily videos while gone, but I will surely be back on the grind once I’m home. Time to reset the mind and come back ready for back to school season 💰
Straight facts.
The most aggravating part is that Amazon usually refuses to do anything about it…
Meanwhile it is clear as day that the customer is scamming and you’re forced to give them a free item and take an L.
Horrible 🤦♂️
If you don’t get at least one:
“this package was marked as delivered but I didn’t receive it” message from a buyer per day.
You simply aren’t doing enough volume.
Will be an incredible day when amazon puts an end to this behavior.
It’s theft.