Merch By Amazon August Sales $17,000 Profit $3600

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Martinez reports his August print-on-demand results, saying it was the best month he had ever had even though it fell short of his goal. The creator reports $3,682 in royalties for August against a goal of $6,000. He says the month behaved oddly because eclipse shirts were the big trend and he got into that trend late, having spent the prior two months focused on evergreen shirts; he estimates only a few of his shirts caught eclipse sales. He describes his team structure for August: one designer producing 15 designs a day, a second producing 5 a day, a third producing 2 a day, plus an uploader. His number-one shirt, he reports, made 71 sales in August, averaging roughly three to four sales a day with some six-sale days, and has sold at a similar rate every month — the kind of consistent evergreen seller he wants to replicate. For September he says he is already tracking several trends, has holiday designs uploaded except for Christmas, plans to spend the first two weeks on evergreen shirts before switching to Christmas designs, and is raising designer output: the second designer from 5 to 10 designs a day and the third from 2 to 5 a day, with his lead designer taking Sundays off.

Key takeaways

• The creator reports August royalties of $3,682 versus a $6,000 goal, while calling it his best month ever
• Missing a trend hurts: he got into eclipse shirts late because he had been focused on evergreen designs for two months
• His operation uses multiple outsourced designers at set daily quotas plus a dedicated uploader, with quotas raised as the business scales
• A single proven evergreen shirt can anchor income — his top shirt reportedly made 71 sales in the month and sells consistently every month
• Plan the calendar in blocks: evergreen designs first, then switch production to the next holiday (Christmas) weeks in advance

Episode details: published September 1, 2017 · 4:13 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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