hey guys ryan here thank you for joining
me for a new video it's sunday
so you know we're doing another top five
niches of the week and this is gonna be
a good one i've got some new
entries into the top five that you're
gonna like i've got
one shirt particularly there's only 53
results currently on
amazon and they're all selling pretty
well because it's a relatively new
sub niche of a familiar parent niche so
look forward to that one also if you
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let's dive into the reason you're here
the first niche of the week is going to
look familiar no surprise
it is still black lives matter it's
still uh the movement
you know human rights i and again i
combined the the
broad global human rights parent niche
with the black lives matter movement
um just you know because it's been over
it's been like 10 weeks in a row i think
at this point where this
has been the top niche you know nothing
wrong with that but you know because
it's repetitive
instead of splitting them up i decided
you know what black lives matter all
lives matter
um politically correct stuff like that
whole movement that people are
protesting about
that's going to be the top niche and
there's plenty of sub niche potential
there
one thing to mention though i'm just
going to do a reminder i mentioned this
a couple weeks back but black lives
matter is
has multiple people attempting to
trademark it they have three people
actually so this is one
and also when you do trademarks i know
we're not lawyers here but you have to
uh file a like class of goods for it to
be trademarked on so this is what's
interesting right
they this one says uh where is it
t-shirts for adults
women men alright so there's t-shirts
that's what matters but also like
sweatshirts hooded
sweatshirts etc that's also you know
sold by merch by amazon so that's
relevant but
t-shirts is what i really care about
there this one says
retail clothing which if i saw that when
i'm looking up trademarks for amazon
merch purposes
if i see retail clothing i'm staying
away
and the third one athletic apparel
namely
shirts so these three people filed
trademarks for the exact
same thing to protect it on the same
thing
the same goods classification and all
got them through but the thing is
they're not live they're published for
opposition because they're all recent
you can see june 8 2020
june 9 2020 june 8 2020 so
these are not live yet that's why you
can still actually i don't know i don't
want to say you can still push black
lives matter stuff to merch by amazon
but if you search for it which by the
way is
the next thing i want to show you if you
use my free search merch tool and you
just type in your keywords and then
click the product type
you will it will filter out non-amazon
merch results which helps you
it basically helps you figure out if
it's safe to use certain keywords
it also helps you gauge your competition
so in this case if i want to know if
it's safe to do black lives matter
well i go to search merch i type in
black lives matter then i hit search
t-shirts
all right look at that over a thousand
results
of merch by amazon products that say
black lives matter well
in my mind that means that this should
be safe which means that those trademark
records that are being attempted
are not live so just so you know if you
decide to go after this
um if any of those do go live you're in
trouble you need to delete your shirts
pretty quickly at that point
by the way there's software that can do
those trademark checks for you
automatically alright niche number two
uh pro trump shirts so there's plenty of
sub niche potential
i included the one behind me
intentionally so the uh i don't know if
youtube's going to censor me for saying
this but
the q anon movement which has been like
heavily censored on the internet
lately um you know as t-shirt sellers
hopefully we
don't you know we're ambiguous or
disambiguous i don't know what the right
word is but we don't get influenced one
way or the other when it comes to making
money
we want to sell to the pro-trump people
and the anti-trump people now the q
movement
is closely associated with pro-trump
which is why i associated it here but
one thing i wanted to mention is that
you know i've sold some q anon related
stuff
and like i always list across multiple
platforms well
redbubble the day after twitter
did a massive sweep and banned q anon
accounts from twitter
redbubble started removing q and on
stuff from their platform which to me is
like the canary in the coal mine if you
see something removed from redbubble
and you're selling it on amazon merch go
delete it from amazon merch
because you need to protect your account
it's not worth
the risk all right before you know
regardless of the fact that they're like
censoring people and
you know it's heavily politicized
regardless of all that stuff we're
talking t-shirt sales here
protect your account that's all i wanted
to say all right niche number three now
this one popped up in the top sales
on merch ninja which is the niche
research tool that i use to prepare
these top five niches of the week and by
the way a little preview here
merch ninja licenses will be included in
the giveaway if you stay till the end
but this person woman man
camera tv go vote now i didn't know what
this was
in reference to but clearly right here
you can see
you see this one right here not the one
that the one in the third spot right
here not the one that my finger was on
but right here
bsr of 10 000. now i
dug down into what this niche was okay
it's a trump thing cool and it's by the
way i didn't include this in pro-trump
even though i did see that there were
some pro-trump ones there were some
anti-trump ones i think it's mainly
anti-trump
but i was like what is this niche i've
never seen it before it's interesting
right
well this was published on july 23rd and
it
jumped down to 10 000 bsr which by the
way as you can see here
it's got a bsr of 86 in men's novelty
shirts
2778 in men's shops and 56 in women's
novelty t-shirts
so this is selling really well i mean
that's that's all i'm really trying to
illustrate and this is a relatively new
shirt i'm recording this video on july
26th
so it's just going to show you that guys
if you're paying attention to the news
cycle
if you're watching politics every day
you're watching the trump interviews and
he says something
that you may think is funny jump on it
throw it up on
amazon and see what happens but people
who took advantage here
are making a killing i also ran the
numbers through
jungle scout which is mainly an fba
product validation tool but
they're projecting that this is doing
about 48 sales a day
and 1 815 sales a month which if we just
crunch the numbers real quick 1815
times 5.23 would be 9492 dollars granted
the bsr is a moving target
so what we're seeing here in these
projections are based off the bsr today
and a lot of things related to like
political
niches that that news cycle moves very
quickly so it's probably safe to say
that this
may not sell that well throughout the
entire month but hey right now they're
doing quite well
all right niche number four all right
back
the blue now if you guys follow the news
cycle and i know there's a million
things going on right now but you know
defunding the police which i don't know
if that's the best idea but
you know unless you can afford private
security but defunding the police is one
of those things that's been in the news
cycle
a lot lately i don't know if necessarily
the
the amount that we've heard about it
necessarily reflects people's
sentiment towards one side or the other
uh
fairly or accurately i think more people
probably are not in favor of defunding
them so anyways as a result
if you believe that you may want to
allow people
that support the police to show that by
wearing a t-shirt saying so
maybe in the format of a back the blue
t-shirt now if you've never seen the
american flag with the blue
middle line uh that is a
police uh solidarity or at least like
pro police
supporting the police design so you may
want to consider um throwing up a couple
shirts like that
on merch by amazon this was selling uh
pretty well lately
as you can see here by the bsr history i
just wanted to point out their pricing
strategy this is something i can get
behind
so all the way on the left hand side
there you can see that they were selling
for
roughly 15 maybe 14.99 probably
and then as their bsr was consistently
dropping they
upped their price to i believe 16.99 yup
16.99 and they probably got a couple
reviews and then as you can see here the
bsr continued
to lower even after raising the price
which is
one thing worth noting a low price
doesn't necessarily mean more sales all
the time
but this is a good sales strategy in my
book at least to get that first
sale you want to start with a low price
and if you want to keep building
momentum
you know while this doesn't necessarily
support that the price has to be low
to get a sale uh it definitely doesn't
hurt if your product has no sales
history behind it because amazon likes
to
see their you have to train their
algorithm with customers searching
relevant keywords clicking your listing
and buying it then the algorithm learns
that hey your product is relevant when
people search those keywords again so
this is a good strategy you marry that
up with price increases
the conversion rate boosts your organic
ranking
niche number five all right this one is
funny so
this is literally just called like retro
cat um and the thing is it wasn't just a
fluke
like creating black cats with these
multi-colored designs these multi-color
retro vintage sunsets there's multiple
shirts
all in the best sellers just sprinkled
in there
and i mean look how simple this is it's
just called cat shirt retro style
like this is crazy uh and like i mean
there's there's
there's literally like all three of
these are sprinkled in amongst the top
niches right now
so this one specifically it's saying
it's doing about 472 monthly sales
so again 1999 price point let's see 472
times 5.23 doing about 2500 a month
in profit not bad at all um i'd be
more than happy with that doing about 14
sales a day
so yeah i'll take that all day all right
looking ahead if you want to plan some
shirts around specific like holiday
events
august 9th is book lovers day august
10th
lazy day now i can already think of some
good niches for that
by the way if you're in merch ninja they
actually have let me see if i can pull
this over
so they will um just give you a calendar
and with this calendar here like lazyday
you can just click it
and they'll generate for you a bunch of
lazy day
t-shirts so if you don't have to get too
creative you can kind of just look at
what's selling
and they pull it right into the app one
of my favorite things about merch ninja
is that it's fast it's the fastest one
that i've used
as far as niche research tools go so
again hey stay tuned
stay tuned until the end i'm going to be
giving away three licenses for merch
ninja amongst other things
so i'm giving away bundles little
preview there
august 16th telejoke day august 19th
world photo day
august 28th bow tie day i do not wear
bow ties but i have friends that do hey
maybe they want a bow tie day t-shirt
who knows
all right bonus round this pluto shirt
was selling really well it was
niche i would have put this as niche
number six if it was top six niches of
the week
because this one had a nice spike in bsr
well i guess it would be a downward
spike because again
lower the bsr higher the sales but it
just says never forget pluto shirt retro
style funny space
science t-shirt so if you guys aren't
familiar pluto used to be the ninth
planet and then they decommissioned it
i guess back in 2006 it didn't feel like
it was that long ago but that's 14 years
ago that is crazy
um yeah never forget pluto all right and
then also this
this is a funny one so merch ninja also
has a
you can search for shirts that have
gained bsr
in a short span of time which could
indicate like a new trend
so it's good to keep an eye out on that
section in their tool this was the
number one
uh shirt under gained bsr when i looked
it just says protected by flying monkeys
granted it says wizard of oz
so you would not want to use those
keywords because that is a uh
definitely a copyrighted and most likely
trademarked um
phrase you know it's definitely a
popular movie in america so flying
monkeys that's towards the end when they
go after the wicked witch
and yeah i just thought it was funny
because flying monkeys to me is just a
funny visual but
i like the t-shirt all right real quick
deleted shirts
and you're gonna notice a lot of
similarities between
all of the almost all of the shirts here
it looks like they started going after
uh some fraternity t-shirts i didn't
look that in depth
so i don't know if it's all fraternities
or if it's just like kappa alpha now
is trademarked for use on t-shirts now
in the past i've thought about selling
t-shirts to fraternities and sororities
i know i had seen them selling well and
i know there's big sales potential
having been in a fraternity myself
however i decided to stay away because
honestly with merch i think it's best to
just
stay away from trying to make money off
of other people's like organizations and
whatnot even if you see other people
doing it
sometimes it's better to just play it
safe as many people appear to have
learned the hard way all right now the
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