Travis Marziani didn’t let a big mistake stop him from creating a business that’s now done more than $1 million in sales.
And he did it while traveling, only working a few hours a week, and actually enjoying his life.
If he can do it, so can you.
Over the last three and a half years, Travis has sold over 42,000 units of his product. Good for about $1.1 million in revenue.
But how much of that was actually profit? And what was the product? How ’bout the big mistake?
I’ll answer all that and more in this Travis Marziani review.
Starting with expenses.
Travis said he spent almost $320,000 on his product alone. That was over time; not all upfront.
Next, he had his flat 15%Amazon fee (to sell on their platform). That came out to about $173,000.
He spent another $150,000 on the Amazon pick and pack fee: basically, what Amazon charges to fulfill each order you make.
Then there was $23,000 in random Amazon fees.
Travis spent $69,000 on Amazon pay per click ads.
Plus $32,000 on virtual assistants, LLC fees, insurance, etc.
Minus all that out and Travis profited about $381,000.
That’s not counting any sales he’s made outside of Amazon, such as with his Shopify store, which has done about $34,000 in profit.
Okay, what was the product?
Travis jumped on the “eat more healthy fats trend” and concocted his own Performance Nut Butter (PNB) brand.
He spent $800 on a logo, $275 trademarking that logo, and another $200 to design product labels.
Next, he had to find a manufacturer. That cost him another $750 in startup fees.
From there, he raised over $15,000 on Kickstarter to fund the first production run (which was $25,000).
He spent over $9,000 on nuts.
He had to buy boxes, packaging, plus pay to ship everything – first to his manufacturer and then to Amazon’s warehouse.
There were fees for UPC codes, Amazon’s pro seller account, and he had to hire a photographer to take high-resolution product photos to use on his listing.
After an exhausting and expensive few months, Travis was finally ready to launch.
In month one, he made $15,000, about a third of which was profit.
Month two jumped to $30,000 in revenue. His profit margin was roughly the same, so about $10,000 of it was take-home.
The growth continued month over month which was great news except for one small problem: Travis was running out of inventory. And he was too cash-strapped to order more.
He ended up cashing out his 401(k) and wiping out his savings to do another production run.
After a few more hiccups, he was able to end year one at $365,000 in sales and over $120,000 of that was profit.
“I did it,” Travis recalls.
“I had created a business that was making over $100,000 per year,” he continues.
“But then something terrible happened. I ended up having a lot of competitors come in and sell similar products. I was terrified that my business was going to fail,” he admits.
Despite this, in year two, Travis hired overseas assistants to run the day to day.
He wanted to travel and enjoy life.
Even after outsourcing the work and with competitors copying his every move, the business somehow grew.
He profited $150,000 that year.
In year three, however, sales went way down. Travis netted only $62,000.
As for his biggest mistake, it was choosing the wrong manufacturer. He was scammed out of tens of thousands of dollars.
Travis sells a Passion Product Formula course. The cost is $997.
Or you could make what Travis makes on Amazon, and your only expenses would be domains and tracking numbers.
Tap below to see how.