hey what's up guys in today's video we
are gonna talk about getting out of tier
10 because it's not uncommon I know a
lot of you guys want to get out of
Amazon merch tier 10 and those of you
guys that aren't in Amazon merch when we
talk about getting out of tier 10 what
are we really saying we're saying we
want sales yesterday you know we can't
go back in time so we want sales today
the next best thing and if we ain't
getting them today we want them tomorrow
we want sales as soon as possible that's
how you get out of tier 10. so in this
video because I know this is such a
common thing I'm going to kind of tell
the story of somebody who recently
messaged me on Facebook really wanting
to get out of tier 10. uh actually
asking me to promote t-shirts and I said
well I can't promote your t-shirts
because like my audience is t-shirt
sellers you know what I mean what am I
going to do sell sell ice to an Eskimo
like it's not not a great marketing
strategy but at a minimum we'll look at
their t-shirts and they said hey I don't
even mind provide some feedback on the
shirts and hopefully everybody can
benefit from it so that's our plan for
the video today uh Satoshi my little
puppy wanted to say hello and uh yeah
let's get right to reviewing these
t-shirts
jump on over to Amazon and review these
shirts in just a second but I wanted to
remind you I wrote a free Amazon merch 7
Day mini course all I need is your email
address and I'll send you one lesson a
day for seven days the link is in the
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a link to my Amazon merch Facebook group
so I hope you guys will check that out
all right so it looks like they are
selling Halloween shirts now first thing
we're going to look at is the design all
right and we have a couple shirts that
they sent me so we won't spend too long
on any one of them but we'll kind of
Breeze through hopefully make this
useful to everybody watching first thing
uh you didn't make the shirt available
in black and black is the best-selling
shirt color now if I'm not gonna do that
then what I would probably do since it's
a Halloween themed shirt is sell it only
on an orange shirt like it's Halloween
we know the two main color is black
orange if you're not gonna do black
which I understand why you didn't do
black
because the foreground design is black
why not just do orange you know I mean
it pops it stands out and it fits the
theme of people actually looking for
Halloween shirts now in terms of a
design
I I don't honestly really understand
what's going on in this design it looks
like there's a whole lot it's very busy
it's asymmetric and
it doesn't really seem cohesive to me so
I don't like the design much at all all
right I'm just keeping it real here like
we're trying to be productive I'm not
trying to hurt people's feelings but
like you know we're trying to make money
here right and it's crunch time it's Q4
it's crunch time we need to get going I
don't like this design I would be like
this to me I look at it and I'm like
okay they probably got home from their
nine to five job had a bunch of stuff
going on they only had five minutes to
upload something and like I always say
something is better than nothing so they
took my advice they spent five minutes
or less on this design and moved on you
know what I mean because they but again
that was great you know because you did
something you didn't do nothing but now
you need to Circle back and delete this
because it sucks I'm just keeping it
real this isn't good nobody's gonna
watch this video and say this is good
all right let's be real here uh so yeah
on to the next design we're not even
going to look at the keywords I don't
think it matters all right this design
uh you know it's a Halloween design
right like what are the primary keywords
for this design
Halloween shirt you know what I mean
haunted haunted house maybe right but
but haunted house shirt
you know I don't know how prominent
of a search term that is haunted house
shirt
and if you want to get indexed on more
prominent words what is it what is it
going to be Halloween shirt right and
you're going to be like one of you know
10 million t-shirts indexed on Halloween
shirt so I really suggest honing in on
specific sub niche
themes for Halloween if you if you
really want to sell Halloween stuff
right Halloween is selling right now but
you gotta pick some sub niches if you
want to do hyper generic shirts like
what you know you're lost in the mix
you'll never show up on page one if
you're not on page one it doesn't matter
if you're on page two or page 99 No
One's Gonna See your shirt so you know
really hone in on a sub niche of
Halloween
um go with the pick a graphic and add
some text make it symmetrical simple
things like that you know I do offer a
design course just the print-on-demand
design portion I mean I have a full
print on demand course as well
um but like for 49 you can get the
design course I'll link it in the
description it is well worth its uh its
cost of admission that's you know not
that that's like 10 sales 10 10 sales at
19.99 you've paid for this yeah or you
know if you don't want the course just
go look at the best sellers at a minimum
just look at the best sellers and learn
from them okay because you're not going
to see any best sellers that look like
this with a square you know Square
design uh you know on a shirt that it
just doesn't look good you're not going
to see best sellers like that all right
so next up
this is a much better example of a
design that looks like it belongs on a
t-shirt right it's not a square right
it's not asymmetric asymmetric's fine
but you got to be good when you execute
asymmetric designs
this to me looks like it was created by
a graphic designer that knows what
they're doing right like this is a
cohesive design it doesn't look to me
like there's any elements out of place
great color contrast offering it on a
black T-shirt by the way looks great and
if you're gonna do Halloween you know
you could just do black and orange I'm
not saying you have to do just black and
just orange but
a quick aside right uh there is a thing
where it's like paralysis by over
analysis of choice there was a good Ted
Talk I wish I still had it uh bookmarked
but it was like somebody gave a TED Talk
years ago talking about like if someone
has too much Choice it's almost like
they can get paralyzed in the
decision-making process and either go
with nothing or make a decision and then
second guess themselves and not get any
enjoyment out of the decision they made
because they don't know if they made the
right one or the wrong one so it was an
interesting one I think it was about
like tomato sauce or something anyways
um so sometimes like less colors is okay
like in this case specifically Halloween
I think it's just fine because you know
why you're wearing a Halloween shirt
right because it's Halloween so it
doesn't have to be Halloween but you
know what I mean it's it's this it's the
season so black orange just fine uh this
is a shirt though that I think you uh
you know may actually make a sale in you
may want to hone in on some specific
phrases right and instead of me guessing
what phrases those should be why don't
you go to Amazon search bar start typing
you can can either use the default
autocomplete which is a great way to
find phrases that people are searching
right because it won't auto complete
things that people aren't looking for it
will auto complete things that people
are looking for right so you might type
which shirt and it may give you some
long tail keyword suggestions there's
also a free Chrome extension all right
free called AMZ suggestion expander I
can link to that in the description as
well it'll it does exactly what it
sounds like it takes the autocomplete on
Amazon and it expands it so you can find
even more long-term keywords long tail
keywords
when it comes to a title like I always
try to get my primary uh keywords and
phrases in the title
try to get a couple good phrases that
aren't super generic right so it's like
witch Halloween costume you know which
Halloween costume that's okay
but you're selling a Halloween costume
shirt so you probably shouldn't have put
the four women I mean maybe that works
because that is like an example of long
tail right but
um you're basically hoping to get an
exact match you know given how generic
this is with Halloween shirt and how
many listings are in Amazon's catalog
like be realistic here there's Millions
plural you're hoping for an exact match
you're hoping someone types in which
Halloween costume for women's shirt
which I mean why not right now let's
just type it in let's see if you show up
all right I don't see you don't see you
if you're not unpaid not that you won't
you not that you can't be on page one
but they're not gonna give you like a
Mainstay spot on page one they're most
likely if they do give you a chance
because Halloween's so generic they'll
give you like one impression in search
results and then that'll be it then
you're gone you know what I mean so no
you didn't show up in page one in this
test so that's why you really want to
hone in on sub niches and cross niches
and not the Super generic stuff all
right this design says throw the dice
witches throw the dice witches and let's
get out of full screen real quick throw
the dice witches is that a thing
throw the dice witches
okay I guess it is okay so this is an
example of what I was talking about here
uh throw the dice switches
I I didn't know I mean I don't I
definitely don't know everything when it
comes to niching niching down and sub
niches and that's why we just type it in
the search bar and validate you know you
can use Chrome extensions to view the
BSR in search results and that is
definitely a nice way of getting to a
glimpse into a niche as a whole at least
page one and checking the bsrs and
seeing how well they're they're selling
which is basically a way of gauging
demand
um I think you got some nice fonts there
but those cobwebs and the size of your
font like the way that I would have
designed this and I'm just being
nitpicky here like I think this is
definitely one of your best designs so
far is I would put throw on its own line
so I can make it big and then the on its
own line so I can make it big like
if you're going to use a font with those
weird cobwebs it makes it hard to read
so you need to make the font bigger in
my opinion
um that being said though I think this
is still like a good design relative to
the other ones we looked at uh and then
you switch the font up on the bottom I
don't know that you needed to do that I
think in this is a good example of a
design that you just pick one font
family roll with that switching it up
there I don't know that that made much
sense
um okay
this design says spooky teacher so I'm
not going to try to validate this Niche
for you I think the design looks
definitely like good enough to make a
sale but it's weird that there's like
random like white dust on the design as
if it was like a Photoshop
magic wand attempt that didn't go
through completely and it left like it
left some stuff behind I mean that's the
only part of this design I don't get it
looks like potentially it's like or like
a grunge pattern was overlaid and I
don't know
um again I'm being nitpicky here but I I
don't know if I was actually gonna buy
this shirt and I noticed that I'd
probably like just find another one
because obviously on Amazon there's
gonna be a lot of options
um so yeah I mean I don't know what's
going on with that design next one
uh this says
for some of us Halloween is every night
and again your font selection it's very
small it's a very thin font and in
between the letters you have like birds
so it's without getting into all the
details
you know you can definitely simplify
these okay if if shirts are selling that
say for some of us Halloween is every
night great you validated a niche for
your design just make sure the text can
be read easily okay now if you want I
will link in the description I will link
to
right now it's my favorite it's my go-to
um it's the first font that I think of
using I'm not saying I use it every time
but it's like one that's like I'll start
there and then I'll find another font if
I don't like it it's called admin
texture you can get it on Creative
Fabrica so either join creative Fabrica
for a dollar or just download the font
you know whatever it costs I've seen the
price fluctuates I don't know what it
actually costs right now but it's my
go-to like it is certainly paid for
itself
um in the case of me using it and again
just using this fonto won't solve all
your problems you still want to make
make the font size bigger all right and
then also I don't think you need all of
these extra elements like floating
around your designs like the the zombie
hand the witch hat the flying witch the
trees you don't need all those okay you
do not need all those um and I do like
that you made the word Halloween a
different color I know you did that on a
previous design sometimes it's okay if
the text has like one primary word that
that that really matters
I don't always change the color I think
more times than not I don't do that but
I'll make that word bigger right because
we are guiding people's eyes first thing
they see centered graphic of ghosts next
thing they see the big word after that
they see the small text right and we
guide their eyes like one two three this
is how you see our design
all right next design says spooky season
I think this design is fine it doesn't
need those extra like little floating
ghosts on the left and right side of
spooky
um this font right here honestly I don't
know what that's called but that that
font to me is like perfect for Halloween
it's got the grunge effect it's big it's
bold it's easy to read
whatever font that is um keep using that
one use that one more if you're going to
keep doing Halloween um that said though
spooky season shirt you know spooky
scene sorry spooky season Halloween
shirt very generic so sometimes you can
do everything right but then you're in
the wrong Niche or you didn't sub Niche
down far enough you know think of
Amazon's catalog and the algorithm that
has to figure out
whether or not to show your shirt or
five million other shirts especially
when your shirt has no sales history and
at least enough shirts indexed on these
generic keywords to fill page one of
search results do have sales history who
are they going to put in front of the
customer most likely
the ones the listings with sales history
so you can do yourself a favor by
niching down sometimes I know it's
random but you can put like the year
all right now customers may not search
for the year but at least the year
signals to the algorithm like hey this
is a little bit fresh I mean the
algorithm also knows when you created
the listing like that data point is
available but sometimes I think that is
like a maybe a chance to stand out and
get some additional eyeballs on your
listing all right this one says this is
Boo sheet so I I think this is you know
a pretty well-known Halloween sub Niche
and I don't know if I like the font
though again your font selection and
then you also keep adding these like
floating elements like the star of the
Moon the witch it doesn't need those in
my opinion if you're gonna do those
you have a little um green to red sunset
in the background
cut them out as Silhouettes in the
background of the sunset but when you
keep putting things in close proximity
to your text it just makes it hard to
read alright and the last design here
this or sorry tis the season all right
so tis the season and it is a Halloween
you know ghost shirt very generic
I don't know what to say here I mean the
design seems good enough it's got that
like 60 70s Vibe um you forgot to cut
out the the white portion in between
your letter a and your letter O at the
bottom there so it's a little you might
want to fix that design and then
re-upload
um because it doesn't look right at all
uh besides that though I mean this is
similar to you know a niche that was
definitely popping on Etsy at a minimum
over the summer uh that style of design
the 60s 70s and I mean I don't know I
think this one's definitely good enough
to sell so I would just fix the design
all right and that's it I hope this
video was useful not only to the person
that messaged me their designs but to
everybody that watched um if you have
any other questions or tips you already
know hit me up in the comment section so
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