My First Year Selling On Amazon FBA - The Honest Results

Calvin shares the HONEST results of his first year selling on Amazon, including his revenue/profit, Amazon fees, mistakes, and the TRUTH ABOUT AMAZON FBA!
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0:00 Intro
0:24 Calvin's Product
1:39 How Did Calvin Start his Business
2:32 Branding
2:46 Product Design
3:14 Setting Up Business Legally
3:54 Production Run
4:33 Shipping
5:14 Product Listing
5:25 UPC
5:51 Trademark
6:41 Monthly Numbers
12:58 1st Year Numbers
13:51 3 Big Mistakes
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[@TravisMarziani]

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[@CaliVapor]

Thank you for putting so much effort into these videos. I really appreciate it.

[@TravisMarziani]

Glad that I could help! Thanks for watching!

[@chrismurphy7922]

Travis, maybe you should start doing videos on how many people tried and failed. Maybe we can all learn from the mistakes of others

[@wilsonfelixhernandezcasado8505]

Thank you Travis for running these numbers. I am quite impressed on how much money he made as a beginner.

[@aryanasmith4426]

I extremely like the video, man. Very helpful and informative. Thank you very much. It is presented so well too. Great, positive work.

[@TravisMarziani]

Glad you think so, Aryana! Thanks for watching!

[@S-u-r-e-n]

Oh wow man. Can't wait to start!

[@TravisMarziani]

Awesome! You can do this!

[@octvius9448]

This success will be mine too!!! ❤❤ thanks for this video Travis

[@TravisMarziani]

Awesome! You can do this!

[@omidnoorshams4280]

2nd month, he ran out of inventory. I assume he did in the middle of the month and he placed an order. You are subtracting the order which is for the future sell from the monthly revenue which does not make sense. If you run out of inventory you may lose the opportunity, amazon ranking, and etc but you do not directly lose money. I am not an accountant but well that did not sound good. One reason that he lost money is because of returns, so the first month he actually did not make that amount since the returns would hit the second month.

[@cleoong17]

Hey Travis! How would you suggest going about looking for a product controller?

[@TravisMarziani]

Thanks for the question! This needs a more in-depth answer, I'll get back to you on this!

[@myobjectivescoding]

thank you travis love these videos

[@TravisMarziani]

Great to hear that! Thanks for watching!

[@TWENTY6ENTERPRISE]

When doing these videos can you ask how much time and effort each interviewee did per month/week. Some people work 40 hrs a week trying this and give up when really the *magic* number is 60 hrs 2 make $40k per month. Knowing how much time and effort needed will really demystify more of the Amazon selling process. Also, some people dont realize that you may make a profit of say 10K in a month but some of that will be used to buy inventory for the next month due to rolling inventory costs. Talking about rolling inventory costs will also be a big help. I alpreciate this video, very informative.

[@TravisMarziani]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[@faryalkhan1563]

Informative video. One question Was he selling only one product? If yes , is this the right strategy to sell one product only?

[@TravisMarziani]

You can use this method even if you're selling multiple products. However, I would recommend starting with one first and then adding more later on

[@markhagen3559]

Travis, at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="906">15:06</a> you said that you can hire a quality control agent around for around $100. What is the name of the quality control company that you recommend?

[@TravisMarziani]

Thanks for the question! I'll get back to you on this

[@daniyal5082]

Show the money spent on PPC/Amazon Advertising also next time, thanks!

[@TravisMarziani]

He wasn't using ppc if I remember correctly

[@ImranHussain-kd1vm]

You showed how much he spent on ppc

[@DanielaGrande-Koren]

@@TravisMarziani you said in your video he used PPC.

[@cheyenne3380]

@@TravisMarziani how he generated the sales?

[@ahrarahrar7416]

Hi how we can whole sale fba model selling in uae market with out LLC and company???

[@TravisMarziani]

I'm actually not a fan of that method. I talk more about that here kzbin.info/www/bejne/nH-cdKaLr7-Ijqsfeature=shared

[@shewasnumber1]

Good for him! Se nota que es un muchacho humilde 😊

[@ecomlyfe]

Why would you not just up the price instead of always running out?

[@TravisMarziani]

i wouldn't recommend that

[@blindluckproject1217]

Running inventory as a startup isn’t a mistake. It’s part of learning. Imagine ording $40K out of the gate on a product that flops?

[@gogemusicimprov4421]

I checked "Chef's Haven," the product this guy is selling. It says 200+ units sold last month. That means less than 300 sold per month. That is revenue of $15000 or less. So why is discrepancy?

[@TravisMarziani]

There's no discrepancy here. Did you check all the other variations?

[@Russell0]

wow

[@kaalamanathiwaga4889]

Does Amazon FBA has its own customer service and we were just the that will upload the product?

[@TravisMarziani]

Yes, they have their own customer database. You can check out this video to know more about it kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYWWhK2tZt-knacfeature=shared

[@MuhammadWali-ot6vg]

Hey we are launching a product in us market it was grocery catogory would you help me to scale that product❤

[@TravisMarziani]

You can fill out this form if you want to partner with me effectiveecommerce.com/partner

[@amalik441]

I need to contact this guy !

[@SimonSinekMotivation]

Hello brother your content is super helpful but why editing quality is low I can help you out by editing High quality videos ☺❤

[@TravisMarziani]

Thanks for the offer but I'm good

[@akshaysharma30498]

I am a software developer making decent income and I am used to this lifestyle now, but I do not wish to continue doing a job, I just want to have something of my own, have a source of passive income. I am not creative tho and everything seems saturated :/

[@TravisMarziani]

You might want to try out the passion product method. This is what I did to make a passive income business on Amazon FBA

[@PaulKitsos]

you guys don't mention ppc costs for the month. that is the biggest cost

[@TravisMarziani]

You don’t have to spend money on PPC, it’s optional. If I remember correctly he wasn’t using ppc

[@PaulKitsos]

@@TravisMarziani look at the 8:39m mark of video. He c learly mentions keywords and using ppc. you know you can't sell anything n amazon without ppc today's age. I am selling 5 products right now and without ppc they might as well not be there

[@alexiathemistocleous2493]

Indeed he mentioned ppc. Doing my research it is so difficult to be successful without using PPC.

[@vishnu2699]

No traffic getting to work or 9-5

[@TravisMarziani]

Agreed!

[@Platelunchexpress]

Amazon takes a huge chunk

[@brandondeakins564]

Ya, you can avoid that by starting your own online marketplace, growing it to 100s of millions of buyers, spending millions on advertising, investing in 100s of warehouses, 1000s of delivery trucks, and paying 1000s of employees. Just do all of that and you can skip paying Amazon a cut....

[@TravisMarziani]

It's just right don't you think since they are basically doing a lot to get your product to the customers. You also have to consider the amount of money, time and effort that Amazon spent to get where they are now

[@ImranHussain-kd1vm]

Doesn't matter how much you pay them, key points is you gey freedom

[@Submersed24]

@@brandondeakins564cool eventually when this becomes the only way of business and it’s making record profits while you make nothing remember that

[@Jamal-h8e]

‎أريد أن أشكر رولف سايبر على المساعدة الكبيرة التي قدموها في استعادة أموالي من هذه المنصة......

[@LeanAgile]

PPC Fee?

[@discoverybubble1481]

Pay per click

[@TravisMarziani]

You can check out this video to know more about that kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmHSYo15gJatma8feature=shared

[@toptips4880]

cool🎉

[@TravisMarziani]

Thanks!

[@beautifulllandescapes7849]

Amazon take my funds without any notice or reason the funds are not showing I was trying to call seller support the option also been disabled

[@TravisMarziani]

Is it not for the fees? You can open a case on this so seller support can address it

[@moshah2]

Hard to believe. I have product with 4.1 stars I’m luck to break even after PPC and Amazon taking all the money. He’s making all this money with 3.5stars and very little review.

[@aaronsandberg21]

Your margins suck then

[@venkputta271]

same i feel like half his videos have made-up numbers. But speaking about your product, do you spend too much on PPC's? or is your product not priced very high, I could be wrong but you should at-least have a 10% profit margin at the very least, and comfortably around 22%.

[@morphanok6932]

@@venkputta271 Would that figure be after PPC?

[@venkputta271]

@@morphanok6932 ya profit should be minimum 10% realistically between 18-22%, after PPC, selling fee, p&p fee, product costs etc. I had a few products do well over covid but I stopped since i went back to school for masters. I'm graduating this summer and want to get back into FBA that's why I commented under the video. what's ur story

[@TravisMarziani]

Maybe you should consider adjusting your margins

[@H3ll4Flush]

he never tell your name when how he started his business

[@TravisMarziani]

Huh? Did you even watch the whole video?

[@amalik441]

$997 for course ? not free then ?

[@TravisMarziani]

There is a free version as well as a paid one.

[@ahmedmustafa6493]

Can you give me this course for free

[@noulafrantz8589]

Why

[@TravisMarziani]

Hey man! Here's a free guide you can check out kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZisY3inf6Z0j8kfeature=shared

[@clothchair]

Too bad, Temu, I mean Amazon will be selling them for $14.99 in a few months.

[@Platelunchexpress]

Woaaaah that’s terrible though, he isn’t keeping much of his earrings

[@TravisMarziani]

It's understandable though with the costs and fees of selling on Amazon, but you also get what you pay for so it's all good

[@InspireToTravel2023]

this is way far from reality, first that they haven't talked that most knew seller faced is Amazon Ads that consumed lots of your revenue. do not fell in this trick, as they all want to make video and make money from this interview nothing else. not easy to make money from Amazon there are lots competitors that you can't even come close to them with your 4-5000 dollars.

[@TravisMarziani]

We did talk about PPC in the video. Did you watch until the end?

[@InspireToTravel2023]

@@TravisMarziani well, you have but wasn't the reality, you can launch a product and with one product you become rich. first when you launch a product until you don't do ppc ads, people will not find you even in the 50 pages of Amazon so you can sell. second, when you do ppc you have to have more than 1000 in stocks and you can do with 250, and selll 20 items in a day. however, the Jungle scout and Helium is bull sh*it, it shows the product that selling more but when you launch that product even with very low price no one purchase that, now you may tell me that listings and pictures and blah blah, don't worry every thing we done correctly even better than the one who sell more but the reason some thing else which review and having control of the market. you can not compete with 5000 dollar cash with the who has 50,000 dollar investment including experience. so I suggest be realistic and help people show the reality and tell the dark side too as you say the good side. thanks

[@naramehti9861]

omg speaking so fast, impossible to understand

[@TravisMarziani]

You can adjust the speed in the video to suit you. Anyway, thanks for the feedback

[@jabeddh]

Gosh, you are annoying. Can you please let him talk and also talk as an interviewer, not translate everything as if you are talking about someone third person.

[@TravisMarziani]

I am letting him talk. Did you not watch the video?

[@samira-uq9lm]

HI Travis , I just started my amazon seller account and I'm really in need of help from adding product to finding product and mu h more I would like your help please I don't want to keep paying Amazon monthly fee and not having product to sell. please if you could be my mentor for little bite and help me out to get my first product out would be very nice of you. please

[@TravisMarziani]

Hey Samira! would be happy to be your mentor. I do have a program where I help new sellers create their Amazon FBA business, from finding a product to sell to launching it on Amazon. You can sign up to the waitlist here www.effectiveecommerce.com/amazoncourse

[@samira-uq9lm]

@@TravisMarziani Hi, Thanks for your response. I have quick question regarding LLC and EIN number for the Amazon seller account. I have not open that yet I want to make some sells first and then open a LLC with EIN number is it ok to wait and do that after couple of sells? Or can I use my husband business EIN number and open a DBA under his LLC would it be ok with amazon please answer my question. Thank you inn advance.