hey guys hope you had a good weekend
it's sunday so we are doing a new top
five niches of the week video this is
the 28th
installment and we're gonna be talking
about a lot of christmas t-shirts in
this episode because we're already a
little bit too close to thanksgiving for
it to really make sense listing
more thanksgiving shirts and the next
big holiday
is the holiday season you know it's
christmas it's hanukkah
it's whatever you celebrate um festivus
from
seinfeld which i'm pretty sure you can't
sell i wouldn't touch that
uh but so there's gonna be a lot of
holiday themed t-shirts for the next
foreseeable future most likely and yeah
let's get started
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all right let's get started with the top
five niches niche number one
and this is the christmas pajama shirt
niche and this is kind of one of those
that uh
it's easy to see coming you know because
what is it about
christmas morning putting on some
pajamas putting on maybe a onesie if
you've got a funny one
or for those of us that maybe don't have
a onesie we go to
amazon and we search for funny christmas
pajamas and then we see
a bunch of these amazon merch listings
indexed on there and as you can see they
are selling
particularly well look at that first one
bsr of 3000
the middle one 20 000 and then this one
right here 28 000
so quite nice bsr and then from merch
ninja the research tool i use to get
these suggestions
you can see here the bsr history of that
best seller
and it has steadily been on a decline
since
you know the window it shows is one
month back so one as of one month ago it
was
by the way a month ago it was still at a
bsr of like 35 000 or so
but it has just been steadily improving
in sales
and improving its bsr
also just wanted to throw out an idea of
how you can
attack this niche from a different angle
so this shirt and i didn't put the bsr
on here i should have because i know it
was selling relatively well
um this wasn't just this wasn't like a
random shirt that like hadn't sold or
something but like
they put a basketball spin on it and
they're charging you know a healthy 1795
uh price point and they are i think it's
like 3
and 50 something cents per sale and they
put like a basketball spin on the
christmas pajama shirt niche so go ahead
and get creative i mean there's room to
work within these niches
and i know a lot of times i say like oh
yeah niche down or find a sub niche and
like this can be an example of just that
it's christmas pajama
slash hobby or you know slash passion
in this case basketball and with it by
the way with the nba season coming back
which by the way don't touch the nba
like don't infringe on any nba stuff but
with the nba season coming back soon
which you may not have known but you
know those of us that like you know
watching sports and whatnot
like just like the golf shirts were on
people's mind uh was that last week
because we had the masters or maybe it
was the weekend before yeah i think it
was the weekend before
you know it's like when there's major
sporting events that's going to be on
people's minds so basketball is probably
a good one
right now because it's going to be on
people's minds all right niche number
two
this is my ugly christmas sweater shirt
right because we can't sell sweaters
through amazon merch
we can sell sweatshirts and that
definitely does present some opportunity
like if you're gonna make any of these
designs maybe not the
i don't know if you're gonna do the ugly
christmas sweater shirt the one on the
left there
maybe upload that to a shirt and not a
sweatshirt but like the other two that
you see here
upload them to sweatshirts you know take
advantage because that it's not a it's
not a christmas sweater it's a christmas
sweatshirt but it's close enough you
know you got to work with what we got
here
so this these are selling particularly
well um you can see some of these bsrs
uh 350k 38k 2.2 i mean
sometimes they're not you know amazon
doesn't just rank them all in order of
bestseller to worst sellers so they're a
little bit scattered
um i didn't take a bunch of pictures of
the search results but you can trust me
like the average bsr was
under a million on page one so
definitely representative
of opportunity and also again
opportunity if you have the extra upload
slots
to push the design to at least
i would say uh sweatshirts and probably
i mean honestly hoodies i
i think the pullover hoodies are usually
worth um uploading to
and by the way one of the benefits of
using like merch titans automation which
by the i'm like recording this video
right now and it's uploading for me
while i'm talking
so let me see what i'm at by the way so
you guys can see my update for upload
slots but
when you use the upload automation it
will convert your standard
dimension um your standard dimension
designs
into the dimensions for pop socket
for hoodies for cell phone cases etc it
does all that for you
so it's a big benefit because you don't
have to slow down to convert them
yourself
and i'm currently at 85 590 uploads
so working my way there i was hoping to
be maxed out at 100k right now but i
think some of my uploads from a year ago
because i usually re-upload my catalog
as we approach the fourth quarter
uh so a lot of them are falling off as
i'm uploading more but anyways you can
see here again from merch ninja
this design is selling well about one
month ago it had a 500 000 bsr
and it has steadily uh declined and a
declining bsr is a good thing indicating
sales
it has declined to around 38 000
bsr today so that's the last time merch
ninja looked i'm pretty sure it's uh
38 000 okay so that's a good niche to
attack and again there's lots of
flexibility there for ugly christmas
sweater ugly christmas sweater 2020
so many ways you can niche down there
too niche number three
this is the cats for everybody niche
and it's not just a cat shirt it's a
christmas cat shirt and if this is from
like some pop culture reference tv movie
i don't know
it's it's completely lost on me but this
popped up in merch ninja i did
some extra validation and it's selling
it's selling well
so if you understand it and it is a
singular reference
then it probably would not be something
you could scale out to also be like dogs
for everybody
um but if it's not and this is just some
some funny meme that like i just don't
get for christmas
then you could scale it out include
other animals other pets
other things but at a minimum cats for
everybody is selling
well and it's a christmas shirt that i
don't understand but you know what you
don't have to understand all these
niches
to make money selling them but always
obviously like do your research check
trademarks
do validation and whatnot as you can see
here
the bsr has dropped from about 150 000 a
month ago down to
38 000 for this shirt um as of right now
niche number four i'm on the naughty
list
and i regret nothing there's so much
good christmas potential for funny
shirts
um notice that a lot of these ones we've
shown today and i don't think any of
them actually have had that like 20 20
slant
so there's always potential given the
hallmarks of 2020 kind of the crazy year
it's been
uh there's always potential to put that
20 20 spin
even if it's just putting the 20 20 with
toilet paper as the o's
so many people have done that on some of
these bestsellers and i'm sure like a
smart person's probably just like got
the png or the
svg or vector whatever whatever you use
um they've got the 2020 saved and they
just pull it into any shirt
right so you make your funny christmas
shirt and then you just pull the 2020
png make two versions make one the
i'm on the naughty list i regret nothing
generic shirt and then put the
20 20 cr uh you know with toilet paper
on there
and make it the 2020 version of it you
know and upload twice
so there's lots of potential here um the
naughty list though and i regret nothing
that's funny
again i'm not i'm like am i missing
something from a christmas movie
i feel like this might be from something
and i should know but uh
i'm not sure so as you can see the bsr's
here 350k
22 000 476 000 and i mean again scroll
through page one use the search merge
tool to filter out non-amazon merge
shirts
you'll see it's selling pretty well and
from merch ninja here
one month ago above 100 000 bsr looks
like about 130 000 bsr
today has declined all the way down to
about 26 000 bsr so
we call that a trend when you see
trending uh increase in sales you want
to jump on board you want to be in that
niche
and again there's plenty of ways to make
it your own niche number five so this
one i'm doing a little bit of
predicting the future so i think it was
last week when i suggested selling the
thanksgiving style shirts where they had
taken food from thanksgiving because
thanksgiving's a big food holiday
not that christmas isn't but you know
thanksgiving is all about the turkey
right and they had put the nutritional
facts
on a shirt and they were selling quite
well and they even were really
intentional with their color selection
which i really liked and that's
something that
whoever's making these shirts is not
doing because they're probably selecting
multiple colors and then defaults to
black
but and if you're wondering if you can
select the primary thumbnail color you
can't i know at least one of you was
um if you select black you pretty much
are guaranteeing that it's black so what
they had done strategically was they
said oh
it's turkey i'm going to select brown oh
it's pumpkin pie i'm going to select
orange you know something like that and
just done the one color but anyways
notice this sub-niche of that parent
niche of like the nutritional facts they
created a funny version
and they call it anti-vegan even though
it doesn't have to be anti-vegan i mean
if it's like a pecan pie you know it
could be anti-keto
you know because they can't have sugar
so if it's if it's
there's a lot of ways to sell this
basically and it's super easy to scale
out
because you can create the baseline
template calories i don't care total fat
not enough cholesterol
more please and you don't have to copy
it but just
take it into account it's a funny spin
on this nutritional
facts of food and project it forward to
christmas make it about
candy canes and snow cones and whatever
else whatever you do for christmas so
i like this niche i think it has
potential and you've got a whole month
plus
to get some creative christmas shirts up
that are spin off of these because you
can see these sell really well and
someone actually sent me this idea
earlier in the week for thanksgiving and
i clicked whatever link they sent
they had better keyword targeting
because whatever keywords they had
pre-populated were selling like
really well like average bsr was like
200k so i know there's upside here
and this is the zoomed in version of it
so in case you're wondering but you
again don't
copy other people's like just make your
own version it's it's not that hard to
come up with creative ways of doing
something similar
you know the nutritional facts stuff
it's not like the person who designed
the shirt created the nutritional fact
table that
is on all the food in the united states
like they just
mimic that so just come up with your own
creative version
your own spin of it all right looking
ahead november 26th thursdays
thanksgiving november 27th black friday
november 28th red planet day november
30th computer science or sorry computer
security day
and december 1st eat a red apple day so
some potential there to
make some money selling shirts for these
smaller holidays outside smaller
including red red planet day computer
security day eat a red apple day
thanksgiving and black friday a lot of
people are going to be
all over so all right bonus shirts and
this time i did a special edition
all these bonus shirts are shirts that
you might see that are selling well
that you should not be selling to keep
your account safe and i did a video
about this specific
niche earlier in the week and i think i
called it like do not sell this because
if you look at like redbubble trend
tools and stuff on and redbubble has
like 40 000 plus results but
these products are being removed
constantly and this person like gamed
the keyword system to get this on and
it's been on for like a week or less
so it's got that number one new release
and it's got a really attractive bsr but
this among us
niche you need to stay away from because
we don't have the rights to be selling
it
next up baby it's covid outside and you
see how they did
dot dot dot to again game the keyword
system to get some sales however
this is most likely just going to result
in their account getting
suspended and they probably won't see
any of the payouts so don't do it
and one last one cotton-headed nini
muggins
i think that's from the movie elf and
while you probably wouldn't think this
is trademarked and you might just go
ahead and sell it
it in fact is trademarked so it's one of
these that like pops up every year and a
bunch of people get rejections trying to
sell it
always do your research do not sell this
all right deleted designs
at a glance you'll notice remember when
amazon merch warned us they were gonna
remove
shirts that had uh curse words well they
are in fact
doing that and you see a mix of a lot of
those
you see a mix of some fraternity
sorority shirts
so just you know keep your account safe
guys you already know keep your account
safe
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