A lot has happened with performance and nut butter since the last time I talked about it I haven’t done a vlog update in a while. So let me give you an overview of everything that’s happened the last vlog video I did is an update I was just sending a palette of Performance Nut Butter into Amazon and I haven’t done one since then and it went really well. So sales have been great. So this video I’m gonna have a bunch of different lessons a bunch of different mistakes I made a $10000, mistake I’ll talk about that mistake and how you can avoid similar mistakes some of the lessons learned from that and we will go over just everything that has happened. So a huge lesson for first-time sellers I thought I was gonna be selling a certain amount of units but I ended up selling x as many units per day than I had originally projected for which is great that’s a that’s a huge success that means that things are going really well but on the flip side I ran out of inventory in Amazon I sent them one pallet full of units and they ran out of that much quicker than I had anticipated about and half the time or even less.

What did I do now once I saw that sales were x what I had projected for I sent them another pallet they received the pallet about a week before I ran out of inventory but it was just sitting in their warehouse I had shipping confirmation that that they had received it but they had no then they didn’t have it in their warehouse like they didn’t have it checked in they didn’t have anything as far as I could tell. So what happened they ended up finally getting it in and I had a few days where I didn’t have any inventory didn’t have any sales but as soon as my inventory came back sales more or less picked up back to where they were. So that’s the good news obviously the bad news is I ran out of inventory. So the second part of this this means I need to get ready for my second production run which is a huge huge accomplishment I’m really happy about this and in getting ready for my second production run I bought the cashews again from the same person I’m buying macadamia nuts from the same person but I shipped the $10000, with the macadamia nuts to my supplier or to my manufacturer my co-packer and they got him and they said hey sorry but these these nuts have a allergen warning an allergen warning says that they were manufactured in the same facility that manufactures peanuts now I knew my manufacturer did not allow any peanuts I couldn’t send them peanuts they couldn’t do a peanut butter for me but I didn’t know that that meant that I can’t send them nuts that have also been manufactured or processed in a plant that manufacture peanuts. So what does this mean well they told me I got to get those macadamia nuts out of their crud like that’s a curse a little bit usually it’s I don’t know I said credit but crap you know like I don’t know why I don’t know what I’m gonna do cuz I’ve never had to deal with you this much this big of a return in my life I don’t even know if they would return it because it’s food and all kinds of weird things and I already paid for shipping which is $10000 because it’s a pallet full of shipping which is expensive it’s very very expensive about $10000.

I called turns out they would return it turns out even the company that I bought it for would coordinate the pickup. So they’d pay the trucking fee basically. So that’s great news I found out the other day that they did pick up my pallet full of macadamia nuts they organized everything except for my manufacturer gave them the wrong thing they gave him cocoa beans instead of the macadamia nuts which means they screwed up I just talked to them today and they said they’re gonna fix it but you know this is one of the things about starting a new company there’s always issues after issues after issues and it’s not as easy as everyone on the internet makes it seem.

So there’s there’s constantly something going wrong there’s also stuff going right like I said sales were way higher than expected and I think I started to get a little cocky and started thinking like wow this is really cool like not too cocky but just like really excited about it and I feel like it’s at moments like that when you start to get really excited about things the things get challenging or difficult. So that’s the big thing I’m gonna be I’ll be sending in obviously more inventory to Amazon very soon I also. So here’s another big update if you don’t know about bulletproof or Dave Asprey he’s big in the biohacking space. So he’s the perfect target demographic for my product like this kind of a product and him have a lot of cool app. So I found out that I know a guy that runs his quarterly box. So it’s a subscription box that he sends out to people cost about a hundred dollars and in the box they send a bunch of treats and goodies and I know the person that runs it and he reached out to me he said hey we’d like to buy you know twenty-two hundred units from you uh for this bowl up for a little bit more than twenty two hundred units for this bulletproof box and I’ll be making a little bit of money off that it won’t be a lot of money but it’s gonna be some great great exposure. So things are going well like things are going actually much better than I thought they were gonna go originally which is really good sign yeah I’m pretty happy with everything I’ll keep you guys updated about everything that’s going on if you enjoy this video make sure you click the subscribe button like it and get my free e-commerce success fact if you are starting a business you can get my free ecommerce success pack by clicking up here last but not least if you have any questions about e-commerce online stores leave a comment down below and thank you. So much for watching