TIE #092: How to Make $1,826 in Profit on Amazon in a Single Month (while hardly working)
Come see how much money my Amazon business made in July 2025
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I have been documenting how much profit my personal Amazon business makes in this newsletter for over 4 years now.
While running this type of business was never a dream of mine, it is what laid the foundation for me to live a lifestyle full of freedom and fulfillment.
Last year, it generated $158,652 in profit without stealing a ton of my time:
If I had to start over from scratch, I would still start with this exact same business model.
It is the perfect companion for someone with a full-time job and real responsibilities or someone like me who is obsessed with running multiple businesses.
This post is #54 of this series, you can read post #53 here:
My Amazon business is not typical and has three branches:
Branch 1: Non-fiction book arbitrage (read here if you do not know what this is)
Branch 2: LEGO investment sales (read here if you do not know what this is)
Branch 3: Any and all other online arbitrage
Depending on the time of year, they all rise and fall independently from each other.
I aim to target the highest profit margin possible while aiming to work as little as possible.
This often means buying products and waiting a while before selling them.
The game I play is efficiency, I do not play “number go up” simulator.
Let’s take a look at how we did in July:
Total Sales: $5,766.53
Items Sold: 72
Cost of Goods + Fees: $3,939.66
Total Profit: $1,826.87
Hours Worked: ~5
Average Profit Per Item: $25.37
Total Profit for 2025: $46,866.24
Okay, the summer slowdown that I was warning about finally hit.
After July, this business picks up for August and September back to school season before going quiet again until December.
I expect a quieter back to school season this year due to a few different reasons:
There are a lot of book titles that got brand new editions this year, meaning there isn’t any used inventory out there at a profitable price
I am focusing a lot of my attention on Diald (my supplement brand) and monitoring the LEGO investing market
If those things pull from the back to school performance, it’s a worthwhile trade-off long term.
There is a strong likelihood that this business underperforms this year vs. 2024 for the same reasons, but the profitability of Diald more than makes up for it.
When one area of business takes a hit because you’re focusing attention elsewhere, it’s natural to want to beat yourself up over it.
I’ve learned that this is normal and that I should expect it as I spread myself around between my different ventures.
This is why hiring and delegation is encouraged, but I prefer operating as a one-person business.
I like to see what I’m capable of on my own.
If I didn’t have an Amazon business, I would still start one today by reselling textbooks and finding anything I possibly could to arbitrage.
The roadblocks that exist today for brand new sellers do exist and they are large, but they aren’t insurmountable.
In fact, the harder something is to do and the longer it takes, the more rewarding it ends up being.
This is one of the many great rules of business and life itself.
If it’s hard… GOOD. You should want that.
If it was easy, everyone would do it and it wouldn’t be worth doing.
Just my two cents.
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