hey what's up guys welcome to top five
niches of the week episode 124.
this episode
is
a really interesting one because i'm
doing something that i don't normally do
and that is that i went backwards in
time by one year and looked through
about a month and a half worth of top
five niches episodes
and what i came across was actually
really interesting like i could have
made this a top 10 niches of the week
and really we're gonna do a
forward-looking episode today but we're
gonna learn from the past because a lot
of these especially the ones i
hand-picked i think have a lot of
potential to um and they're not all like
the most obvious ones like oh halloween
oh i'm glad i tuned in today ryan it's
not gonna be like that but i've got some
good ones in here that i think have
potential that were successful niches
last year that we can set ourselves up
for success just from learning from what
worked a year ago and make money this
year so let's get right to it
all right let's get right to it uh the
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giveaway are actually going to be
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number 100
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end up winning
so guys also in the description like i
said got the link to the giveaway a link
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course and a link to my print on demand
facebook group so i hope you check those
out
here's a sales update so i'm actually uh
traveling i'm in denver this weekend so
i pre-recorded this by a couple days my
sales update for september 2021 so this
is kind of like a let's learn from last
year episode september 2021 i made
1237 sales now i know i'm gonna beat
that number this year but the reason i'm
sharing this is just to show you with
fourth quarter right around the corner
i went last year from 1237 sales
in october to
1538 sales so basically 300 more sales
just from entering the fourth quarter
that's a pretty significant spike guys
so i just wanted to get you excited
this is crunch time and that's just
october sales right so we just went from
september not q4 to october q4 and saw
what is that
it was like a 25 spike and it's early
it's early 1200 to buy 15. it's what i'm
on camera i think okay 20 spike i swear
i knew that but then i psyched myself
out at the last second no 1200 plus 300
no it is 25
i typed it in google wrong please don't
judge me i swear i'm not that bad at
math all right that's about a 25 spike
because 1200 divided by 300 yeah 25 all
right stop second-guessing yourself ryan
all right and by the way if you want to
see daily sales updates check me out on
instagram as well i post daily sales
updates to my story it's i'm in a room
by myself yet i'm getting like freaked
out about getting math wrong as if you
guys are like in the room with me
watching me as i record these it's
pretty funny all right niche number one
and this is orange day okay so i'm
projecting this forward for this year
because it was in the top five niches of
the week last year all right and we're
looking for
some less obvious trends okay now always
do your trademark research always do
your
uh just general like keeping your
account safe research that's why i
recorded that video that i always linked
to in the description called is this
niche safe please do research um because
also keep in mind that like
all of these shirts say every child
matters let's say that from last year to
this year maybe that got trademarked
well you don't have to make an orange
shirt that says every child matters
right when when i google orange shirt
day i get something like this it says um
september 30th orange shirt day every
child matters canada's national day for
truth and reconciliation so there may be
a way to market to people who want an
orange shirt day shirt without
infringing on any intellectual property
now i'm not saying you're gonna infringe
if you sell something that says every
child matters i'm telling you to do your
own research like it's always good to
do the full process and not understand
like like i still get people that
message me every day asking binary
questions like can i say this is this
okay is this safe and i'm like i just
linked them to my video is this niche
safe right because it's about the
process it's about that we're building a
long-term business and that these are
recurring things that we're going to do
for every shirt we upload okay so every
child matters orange day niche number
one we're projecting forward right now
by looking backwards
niche number two is
and this is uh anti-bullying awareness
okay so i don't have the dates in front
of me i can pull them up on the side
here but essentially i think this is a
november holiday if i recall let me see
uh national bullying day second
wednesday in october okay u.s national
stop bullying day is the second
wednesday in october
so mid-october these shirts are going to
have peak demand
but also leading up to them you should
anticipate having some additional sales
by the way notice sometimes the color of
the shirts you upload to matter the
first two niches are printed on orange
shirts okay but just because
you know these organizations who created
these holidays are calling them orange
shirt day does that mean that no one can
sell an orange shirt on amazon merch
anymore no of course not right it's
orange shirts are just a color of a
shirt okay don't lose sight of that um
so anyways there's probably a lot of
different ways to sell within the
anti-bullying niche and it's not that
this is the only time anti-bullying
shirts are gonna sell so this is
actually a niche where you could
probably make evergreen sales
organically throughout the year but also
see a spike in interest
in you know mid-october
okay
niche number three
and this is uh red ribbon week okay red
ribbon week is late october i don't know
the exact date but it is going to be
basically end of october transitioning
right into halloween
with all of these ribbon shirts like i
always highly recommend
watching my is this niche safe video
because there may be specific keywords
that are just fine but there may be like
a single trigger word
in the you know what i mean there may be
a trigger word that you need to avoid
right it's not because we're trying to
work our way around committing ip
infringement it's that the amazon merch
algorithm is absolutely far from perfect
and is easily tripped up into rejecting
things that shouldn't be rejected right
so we're doing things by the book here
but we're also understanding that
the engineers who write these algorithms
are only human and they're going to make
mistakes all right and anybody who's
ever gotten a rejection knows those
rejection emails don't typically tell
you what the actual trigger word was
that you submitted so it can be a real
pain that's why that's pretty much what
i focus on in my is this niche safe
video
by the way it does appear that there is
a record in the uspto for the text red
ribbon week it doesn't say t-shirt but
it means to me that i would definitely
not submit that string of words in any
of my submissions in this niche however
red ribbon week is all about being drug
free so what if you just submit red
shirts
that have you know being drug free
messaging on them also be very careful
about including the word drug in a
submission if you check the youth
checkbox
all right i know i'm saying a lot and
it's kind of complicated but like i
didn't make these rules right we're just
all amazon merch sellers
trying to sell t-shirts to the masses
and they you know the masses don't have
any clue that the algorithm is you know
kind of this crazy but anyways like a
red shirt that has an anti-drug
messaging uh message on it
that to me is the type of shirt that i
think will sell and it's perfectly fine
all right
niche number four
and this is halloween sub niche
matching costumes whether it's you know
for couples or whether it's just you
know this could be for friends right
these are just complimentary shirts that
people are often going to buy more than
one of at a time
one of my favorite examples of that
are the fire and ice shirts i mean
there's a bunch of examples but this is
just you know one that comes to mind
right away uh also be careful this one
says it's a frozen shirt from disney not
that you can't you know submit ice
shirts but uh if you're going and doing
your niche research and you're like oh
wow this one's selling the best out of
all of them you're like oh it's a disney
shirt uh maybe skip you know
anything about that shirt and just look
at the very basic ones i mean we're
talking about fire and ice shirts here
it should be pretty straightforward also
you know why not make i i can definitely
see you know ways of
changing these designs up and uh in a
way maybe improving them in a way that i
think would uh would stand out and work
so maybe i'll do that on my own here and
see if i can make some sales in this
niche
so that was uh this niche niche number
four is a sub-niche of halloween and
it's
complementary shirts i'll probably do a
separate video on this just because i
think i did one last year and it was a
lot of fun and i really get excited
about the potential here because we
already know halloween soaks up a ton
of sales but this is taking you know the
idea of selling one shirt to one person
and increasing the average order value
by essentially attempting to sell
multiple
all right niche number five
and this is again halloween sub niche
trick or teach again the teaching
cross niche with any big holiday
is almost a sure thing throughout the
year like even during the summer there's
teacher niches that sell really well so
trick or teach
don't overlook this one
and this is one specific example but
there's probably plenty of other
halloween sub niches that have to do
with shirts for teachers so that's
definitely something that there's gonna
you know
easily overlooked when it comes to
halloween because people are like okay
gotta make you know scary shirts or
gotta make costume shirts well what
about just like
halloween plus teachers teachers sell
all year halloween plus nursing we know
that the nurse shirts sell all year
they're just kind of those low hanging
fruit type niches that generate tons of
sales very reliably
all right seller trends from
flying research
shirts that have seen a big jump
recently in september we wear gold by
the way i was seeing more and more of
those type of shirts recently so that's
a childhood cancer awareness that also
could be like niche number six right now
because not only are they on the recent
kind of trending shirts but in the uh
when i'm doing my research like through
the research tool which i was doing and
then i was like no i have a different
idea for this episode specifically and
then i started looking back one year
but in the actually currently trending
right now shirts there are quite a few
like september wearing gold type shirts
looking ahead if you want to sell shirts
or products related to random holidays
at least one month out we have october
25th world opera day october 26 national
mincemeat day
october 27th black cat day october 27th
also navy day and october 29th national
cat day so some big ones there
all right in a bonus shirt i just like
this design
how simple is this right we have like a
distressed vertical american flags
design we've seen we've seen this
people sell successfully in various
niches using the vertical american flag
sometimes they remove the stripes a
couple of them and they put text in in
this case they just did the
standard distressed american flag but
then they also added a camouflage
clipping mask so just a very easy to
execute design with broad appeal
that has 150 reviews so clearly selling
quite a bit guys
when i show designs like this it's to
inspire people that don't maybe have
like a lot of faith in their ability to
create good designs like you can find
how to do this and i've probably done
videos on this in the past but like you
can you know watch a five to ten minute
video and then go do it yourself
and yeah it's meant to be inspirational
that we can all make good designs that
can earn you know 150 reviews which
means they've sold probably
i don't even want to do the math again
because i already embarrassed myself but
probably a lot more right i think about
five percent of sales on amazon on
average generate a review so
all right deleted designs brought to you
by merch ninja
a lot of like big brands sugar daddy
coca-cola surge sprite like i don't know
if one person was just getting away with
making money off of submitting a bunch
of you know big soda brand shirts for
for years but
airheads there um a lot of sugar a lot
of sugar in these shirts uh but a lot of
them got removed and i'm guessing
whoever was selling them probably also
was d-platformed and rightfully so you
know what i mean that's that that is the
definition of big brand intellectual
property infringement
all right and guys as we sign off here
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