[Income Report] The Real Numbers From My First Six Months

My first month selling print on demand made me 820 dollars.

That is the honest answer to the question everyone asks before they start: how much can you actually make with print on demand on Amazon? Not a screenshot flex, not a range some blog invented. Real figures, from a real store, from someone still in it.

If you are weighing up whether this is worth your time, that is exactly what you want to see. So here are my numbers, month by month, from the day I started.

First, how I do it, because it changes the numbers

I do not hunt for one winning design. I run print on demand on Amazon FBM, which just means I sell on Amazon's own marketplace and a supplier prints and ships each order for me. I pay one flat monthly fee, and for that fee I can list as many products as I want.

So I do not bet on a handful of best-sellers. I build a big catalog of good designs and let the sheer number of them do the work.

That one choice is why my numbers look the way they do. If you want the whole method laid out step by step, it is all here. This post is just the money.

How much you make mostly comes down to how much you build.

The real numbers, month by month

I started in July of 2024.

That first month I got 35,000 products live. They pulled 3,108 page views, converted at around 3.5 percent, and turned into 82 sales. At roughly 10 dollars of profit per item, that is about 820 dollars.

Here is how the months ran from there:

• July — 35,000 products, 82 sales, about $820
• August — 48,000 products, 120 sales, about $1,200
• September — 54,000 products, 140 sales, about $1,400
• November — 60,000 products, 294 sales, about $2,940
• December — 65,000 products, 542 sales, about $5,420

Those 10 dollars a piece already have Amazon's cut and the supplier's cost taken out. What they do not count is my one fixed cost, the 39.99 a month for the seller account, and I was not running ads yet. So my real take-home was each of those numbers minus about forty bucks. Month one, call it 780 dollars actually in my pocket.

And here is the part I want to be straight about. Looking back at those first three months, I did not really know anything. I was guessing at half of it and learning the rest as I went.

I made most of that before I understood what I was doing.

Then the holidays came. Same simple system, more designs in the catalog, more people shopping, and the season did the rest: 294 sales in November, 542 in December. I did not change the machine. I just had more of it running.

So how much can you make?

For a beginner, in the first few months, while you are still figuring it out, a few hundred to a few thousand a month is a real outcome. Not promised, not the same for everyone, but real. I am proof it can happen. I am also proof you will feel clueless the whole time it does.

You can start clumsy and still make money.

That is the part that kept me going. The catalog earns while you are still learning how to build it, not after you have it all figured out. You do not have to be good yet. You just have to start, and keep adding.

If those numbers look like a path you would actually walk, come build alongside me and watch the next ones happen in real time.

Talk soon,
Nick T