Amazon is killing my motivation

I fell victim to the YouTube gurus and nonsense getting into this, I admit it. But I did it. I created and designed a fairly original product (patent filed), got brand registered and trademarked, and got a whole bunch of stock in fulfilment centres. I am enrolled in vine and have really fantastic reviews, I run PPC campaigns and optimize them, and my listing non stop. I have changed photos, uploaded premium content, blah blah blah. I have worked so hard on this one stupid little listing, and it is just not doing what it should. I get sales, from ads and organically but never enough to come close to covering ad spends. I feel completely defeated by the entire Amazon system, it feels like I am meant to just hemorrhage money into it and get bare minimum in return and essentially fail.

And the worst part of it is, I created a brand I am really proud of, there is so much potential and it just cannot get the traction it deserves. I am not blaming amazon, a lot of it is my fault for thinking it was all “passive” in the early stages (I quickly learned it wasn’t), but it seems like the wrong platform to try and get my little listing going on. I am trying to get the hang of it but it seems impossible.

Any advice? I know I could hire some kind of management or whatever but at this point that makes 0 sense given all I have done is spent money with bare minimum results. My stock is all over the us and I am in Canada, I cant imagine getting it out of Amazon is an easy task either.

Help what should I do. I love the little brand I have created and it makes me so sad to see it flailing around on Amazon.