Bootiful Cream

@joeypraete So you’re looking at 15% net profit as your min and not looking for a min ROI correct?

2. I Raised My Minimum Margin I used to source at the 30% ROI everyone recommends. But here’s two realizations I came to. A. I don’t have a ton of capital. I had roughly $20-30k which was good, but I wanted to stretch this as far as possible. And sourcing higher margins would allow me to do that. B. This one is huge… I NEEDED MORE PADDING. The best way to raise margin is to have MORE margin. Because I knew even if more sellers flooded my listings, I have enough margin to sacrifice before the product truly becomes unprofitable. So I decided to strictly source a minimum of 15% margin or more. I literally did this until I couldn’t spend more money at this threshold.

In August 2024 I barely ran 10% margin. Made $1500. 1 month later Sept 2024, I DOUBLED to 19% net margin and made $6,000. And the crazy thing? I changed small but impactful details in my sourcing process. Here’s what changed🧵

@SteveFrenchAMZ Damn Nice!

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@Pcoghlan They are in my area. I use to talk to them back in 2012 😂

I just got cold called from 888lots 😂 🤦‍♂️ How are those guys still in business?

@michaelpatron0 He’s so good he has 6 followers. What a clown 🤡

If it is only their 2nd month on Amazon, how are sales up 50% over last year? lol.

@SaulSellsStuff 10 units on anything is a win

Here’s an interesting follow up. I sent the asin to some friends. Neither got auto approved. One can’t even apply. One has a requirement of 10 units. What a coin toss.

Amazon definitely loosening the process of approvals. Shocked on this one.

@TonyGainzzz Great to hear. What changed from last year?

Q1 has been amazing for me tbh. Not sure why people say Q1 is the worst. Last Q1 had no clue what I was doing but right now, this has been an average Day for me. 😎

@SteveFrenchAMZ Great!!! What’s your breakdown for the month. RA/OA/Wholesale?

January 2026 Recap AMZ 1. Revenues were fantastic. I believe this is our best non-q4 month ever. Sales slowed at the end of the month due to not having my prepper/shipper for 2 weeks. He’s in the Army Reserves and duty calls every January for him. Even so, sales have been STRONG. 2. “Returnuary” has been anything but. Returns never spiked over 4% and are actually LOWER than what we were seeing in November. Product selection is key in this! 3. ASP continues to climb at $41.17 in the last 30 days. Profit per sale at $8.53 has been great as well. I want to keep pushing this up ($45 and $10 would be amazing) for our product mix. 4. RA has been 🔥. What an amazing month. There have been some amazing sales to chase for flips and also sales for holds. It’s nice to be building both buckets back up after Q4 depleted our inventory of so much. 5. OA/Wholesale has been amazing too. So many opportunities are “falling out of the sky”. In reality, it’s just hard work continuing to compound over time. It’s a great feeling. 6. I couldn’t be more excited for 2026. So many things are lining up for this year to be special. I’m hoping for a really “boring” year. Boring = amazingly profitable in 2026!!

@SteveFrenchAMZ Damn come to NJ lol

Great night with some RA killers…and Matt 😂 Imagine what the cashier was thinking when 5 grown men asked for this picture! Haha

@JeffSendsIt The repricer makes the money, the wife takes the money 😂😂😂

The next few days are a great time to spend some quality time with your repricer. I've been spending more time with SellerSnap then the wife this week. Lots of money can be made pricing up, using strategies to raise ASP and just unloading losers while demand is nuts. It's not much fun, but needs to be done.

@SaulSellsStuff Wow when is this rolling out?

Amazon to eBay launch is nearly here! This will unlock the doors to every Amazon price drop or restock. Gated? IP issues? Storage limits? Every brand, item, and category is now a viable opportunity to profit. 800,000+ items UPC or title matched from amazon to eBay with full profit calculations, sell through rate, historical graphs, and more. We will even give you an estimate on shipping costs based on dimensions and weight and build that right into the profit calculator. All of this is done in real time with live data. This is just the beginning for @FlipAlert

@ReezyResells I pay mine monthly with my mortgage. It’s all factored in together

Just paid half of my annual $11.4K property tax.... on top of a $5K mortgage that's $10K+ going out right before Christmas How is this legal??? #buyahousetheysaid

@joeypraete I’m up too 😂😂

Up at 4am. All I have to say is everything is your fault. Every success and failure. All of it Is your fault

@SteveFrenchAMZ My man like a true Boss

@bootifulcream All me!

I did some calculations... In the last 30 days my sales breakdown to: 38.47% RA 33.28% Wholesale 28.25% OA RA ROI is the highest. OA is second. Wholesale is a distant third. Top 10 sources for ROI with at least 1% of revenue: 1. RA 2. RA 3. RA 4. RA 5. OA 6. OA 7. OA 8. RA 9. RA 10. RA All the models work if you have the right tactics!

@joeypraete Bro I was stuck in the plane today 4 hours today coming home lol

Flight home got canceled due to gov shutdown, puts into perspective how crazy internet money really is. Can literally make money from A-Z as long as i got a WiFi connection. Can’t trade that type of freedom up

@FBA_Dylan Temp agency

100+ FBM orders going out today... all prepped by me. Really need to outsource this, it's eating all my time. Haven’t sourced properly in months because of prep. Any tips for hiring local prep (I would prefer for this specific inventory to not be at prep center)?

@coreyganim Been great following your Journey. Wish you nothing but the best

After 8.5 years I am drawing my Amazon selling career to a close. Please watch this video. It explains everything. If you're interested in the offer mentioned in the video, I've included a link to it in the next tweet. Post coming soon on what's next for me. Love yall ❤️

@cleartheshelf What if it’s like apparel where return rates are high? Do you feel the same?

Don’t be afraid of low ROI if the product is a proven fast mover. A 15% ROI on a product that sells 100 times a month will beat a 50% ROI on a slow seller. Money loves speed and so will your cashflow.

@1000asins 25k eBay listings?

Another day in the office: – 102 FBM orders were fulfilled – Held our weekly full company meeting – Tiffany paid invoices totaling $129k – Shopify has done $15k in sales over the last 30 days – 25k new SKUs planned for eBay upload – Nick continues reviewing MAP pricing and making necessary updates

@cleartheshelf Great job!!!

214 days ago. 7 months to the date. I decided to change my habits. To no longer allow myself to be so heavy. To be in pain. To fear for my health. Today, I’ve hit a massive milestone. I’m at a weight I haven’t seen since, perhaps, middle school. I started at 272.8lbs. Today, I stuck the sub-200 landing. 199 lbs. 73.8 lbs down. Back to work.