May Numbers : - Sales: $7,596.50 - Orders: 157 - Units: 160 - Gross profit: $940.24 - Indirect expenses (prep + software subscriptions): $390.25 - Net profit: $549 - Net margin: 7.24% - Refunds: 11 (6.88% refund rate) - Cash spent on inventory: $3,941.78 Last month I set a simple goal: have my first profitable month in May. Hitting that milestone feels really good, especially because it’s my first month fully on my own after finishing the mentorship cohort with @Anthony Mancini . The anxiety was definitely there, but the work I put in during those three months paid off. The buying decisions I made in April have started to show up this month in May. From a performance standpoint, I actually slowed my spending a bit this month. Life has been life-ing. Between my carpentry job and my commercial cleaning business, I’ve been working 60–70 hours a week, and that has definitely affected how much I can source. Even with that, I still managed to put in around 10–15 hours a week into sourcing. Some days just 1–2 hours, some days 4–5, and some days nothing because I was burnt out to be honest. One thing that’s becoming clear: if I want this to keep growing, I’ll need help. The goal is to get the business consistently profitable enough that it can pay for a VA to source while I’m at my day job or working my cleaning contracts. Realistically, a VA won’t be fully paying for themselves for the first month or two while they train and learn the software and techniques. If I can bring someone on in July or August, that should put me in a strong position heading into Q4. For June, my focus is to ramp up sourcing again and increase my spend, but be much more selective with what I buy. I want to push my net margins to at least 10% after all expenses. The last four months have shown me that this business really is learnable if you’re willing to put in the hours, make mistakes early, and keep refining your process. The first profitable month is a milestone, not the finish line but it’s a big one.

One year ago I was still selling in the USA I was waking up every day in fear that my business would be destroyed by tariffs I was stressing, but i never gave up. In june of 2025 is when i started gameplanning my transition to selling back on amazon Canada Come August I was 100% domestic - and in october I did 70k in sales 100% canadian... then december hits and I did $117,000 in sales... All Canadian sales One year ago is when I started to gameplan on taking Youtube seriously. If you look back at my videos a year ago, they were nothing like now. A lot can happen in a year. I went from an established US seller living in canada to a established Canadian seller, selling locally, i'm a software owner(CanFlip), I have the only youtube channel talking to canadian sellers every week and I run a successful Coaching Cohort Program. We tend not to stick things through long enough. Keep sourcing, keep showing up everyday and you'll stay winning

This is one of the things beginners miss when they read Keepa. They see the seller count jump. They see the price slide down. They see the ROI shrink. Then they say, "bad lead" and close the tab. Sometimes that is the right call. But sometimes it is just a timing problem. Everybody found the same product at the same time. Sellers jumped on. Price got pushed down. People started racing to the bottom. That does not mean the product is dead forever. On Amazon Canada, listings can move back when sellers sell through, run out of stock, or stop caring about the race. That is why tracking matters. You are not buying it today. You are telling yourself, "this might be worth checking when the market clears." The skill is knowing the difference between: Dead product. Bad timing. Good product with impatient sellers. That is where the reps come in. Have you ever passed on a lead, then checked later and realized it recovered?

Does anyone else new have problems sourcing. I've spent hours trying and so far I've come up with always being gated or super unprofitable using sellerID method or Amazon owns the buy box. This is frustrating. I'm committed but haven't found one thing that I can actually buy in Canada? Any tips would be wonderful.

In one of the coaching calls, I told the group that the weekly calls are good, but most of the value comes from people asking questions between the calls. Same thing applies here. If you are learning Amazon Canada OA and you are quiet because you do not want to look dumb, you are making it harder on yourself. Nobody starts this business knowing how to read every Keepa chart, calculate every fee in CAD, or know which Canadian retailers are worth checking. The mistake is asking questions that are too vague. Bad question: "Is this product good?" Better question: "I found this from a Canadian retailer. ROI looks good, but the seller count jumped and the buy box price has been dropping. Would you skip it or track it?" That second question gives people something to work with. It shows you did the reps. It shows where you are stuck. It protects the exact lead if you keep the ASIN private. If you want better help, bring better context. Your action today: Post one thing you are stuck on in your sourcing process. Not your exact ASIN. Not the full lead. Just the part that keeps slowing you down. Is it Keepa? ROI math? Buy box competition? Finding Canadian retailers? Actually pulling the trigger on your first buy?