Merch By Amazon Income Report February - (How Much Can You Make On Merch By Amazon)
About this video
The creator breaks down his Merch by Amazon income for February, comparing years and then subtracting ad spend to estimate profit. He says February 2020 brought a little over $5,000 in royalties from 1,480 products sold at an average royalty of $3.42, while February 2021 brought, in his figures, 1,966 products sold and $7,764.27 in royalties, with 106 returns and an average royalty he had pushed above $4. He says standard t-shirts were again his top product, black was the top color, and his top design alone earned over $1,268 in royalties that month. He then reports his Amazon Marketing Services results for the month: $4,083.44 spent, $17,946.62 in attributed sales, about 22.75% ACOS, and orders he describes as almost close to a thousand, and he calculates his February profit on the US figures as $3,680.56 after ad spend. The bulk of the video is his AMS method: do not panic over single bad days or turn a campaign off — lower the bid instead, even to a penny — review performance over a full month or lifetime, mine search-term reports for converting terms to move into manual broad or exact campaigns, and adjust bids by match type based on which segment is dragging ACOS up. He states his goal for 2021 is over $100,000 in royalties, even if that requires heavy ad spend, and suggests creators without AMS access drive outside traffic via influencers or their own niche pages instead.
Key takeaways
- Judge an income month net of ads: the creator reports higher February 2021 royalties and volume than February 2020, but subtracts his reported $4,083.44 ad spend to get his profit figure
- Raise average royalty deliberately by pricing and mix — he says pushing his average above $4 was a central focus
- Never turn an ad off on one bad day; lower the bid instead and evaluate ACOS over a month or lifetime, where daily spikes often average out
- Use auto-campaign search terms as research: move proven converting terms into manual broad and exact campaigns and add wasteful terms to negative targeting
- If you lack ad-account access, spend the same budget on outside traffic such as influencer shout-outs matched to the design’s audience, or build your own niche page
Episode details: published March 8, 2021 · 20:17 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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