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slightly under $4M previous year · $2M about one quarter into current year (founder-reported)
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Maria Wendt says she has generated more than $11 million selling digital products through SamCart, which she says she began using around 2018. During the recording she walks through a SamCart dashboard showing a little over $11 million in cumulative sales. She says the previous year produced slightly under $4 million and that the current year was about a quarter complete with $2 million already booked. Those figures are seller-reported dashboard claims, not an audit.
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Join the Unicorn Club — $5/moCancel anytime, in one clickData credibility: Maria Wendt reports more than $11 million in SamCart dashboard sales and describes screen-shared dashboard figures. She reports slightly under $4 million in the previous year, $2 million about a quarter into the current year, a 5% average conversion rate and some pages at 25%. These are founder-reported claims; there is no third-party audit or independent verification in the transcript. Her current-year finish is a forecast, not a completed result.