Welcome to November! It seems like October just flew by. My October stats for Merch on Demand are very disappointing. I was doing great in September and then it was like a switch flipped and my sales died. I also didn’t get all my goals completed in October. I spent most of my time working on KDP or Etsy and neglected Merch. Here’s what happened with Amazon Merch on Demand in October:
October 2024 Income Report
In October 2024, I made $64.84 with 14 sales and 2 returns for a total of 12 sales. Compared to the 32 sales I had last month, that’s a big drop. It’s very disappointing. I have 500 designs uploaded to 7,655 products. I sold 9 unique designs across 2 different products in October – 10 standard t-shirts and 2 pullover hoodies. The 2 returns were standard t-shirts. I also sold 1 shirt in Japan for 285 yen or $1.86 US dollars.
I guess the good thing about October is that I spent less money on advertising. I spent $22.82 and had 4 sales for an ACOS of 27.18%. I am not happy with these numbers. While I’m glad I spent less money on advertising, my ACOS was horrible. It didn’t help that I spent over $11 on one shirt with 45 clicks and no sales. I’ll definitely be turning off ads to that shirt for November. It’s weird that it was my best selling shirt in September but I didn’t sell it once in October. Customers are a fickle beast. LOL!
Total Amazon Merch on Demand Income for October 2024: $43.88
Previous Month’s Earnings
September 2024: $131.50
August 2024: $44.19
July 2024: $50.67
June 2024: $41.19
What Did I Do In October?
I gave myself one goal for October and I couldn’t even do that. I made 4 designs for one of the quotes I came up with in September. My goal was to make 10 designs for 10 different quotes. I created the designs using Ideogram but I’m not sure if I can even use them because I don’t have a subscription for Ideogram. They let you make free designs but you can only download them in low quality jpg. Plus, it takes forever to create the designs if you don’t have a subscription. I might just give in and sign up for a subscription for a month and knock out a bunch of designs at one time. That might not happen until the new year or I might even wait until after I get tiered up to T1000. That could be another 6 months at this rate.
Goals for November 2024
- Create 1 design for each of the 10 quotes, jokes or puns.
This is the same goal I gave myself for October. It should be an easy goal, especially if I use Ideogram to come up with the designs. I just need to take one whole day focused solely on Merch. It probably won’t even take a full day to create these designs. In fact, I’m going put it out there in the universe that I’m spending all day on Tuesday, Nov 5, election day, working on designs for Merch. I already voted so I shouldn’t have anything else going on that day.
Note: I just wanted to let you all know that my November income report is probably going to be late. I’m going to be on vacation from Nov 24 – Dec 26. Starting on December 1, I won’t have access to the internet. I’ll try to get the income report done at the hotel on the night of November 30 but I might be too tired from all the fun to work on it. đŸ™‚
