In this video I'm going to show you seven ways where you can increase your uploads,
your live designs, on Merch by Amazon or any other pod site that
you have and this way increase your chances of making a sale. Let's go!!
Thanks for joining me on this video. My name Is Juna with Detour Shirts. I've been designing and
selling T-shirts online since 2005 and in this video I wanted to share with you how to increase
your uploads more specifically your live designs on Merch by Amazon or any other pod site but in my
case I'm going to try and increase my designs on Merch by Amazon right now I have about 10
000 designed live designs and I've been doing it for a long time but what got me excited about this
was the interview that I did last with Cameron Scott who has a hundred and fifteen thousand live
designs I know I probably can't get there right away but these are some tips that's going to help
me increase my live designs and I think that's a really great way to get more and more sales
especially on Amazon who gives you so many slots to upload daily I think I can upload up to 10 000
designs a day so I have so many things so if you want to just pad your portfolio like Cameron said
these are some techniques to do that I'm going to use in the coming years and some of them I've used
already and some of them I haven't used so I'm going to share with you all of those so stay tuned
there's going to be seven of them and then at the end I'll share with you the whole list so that
you can take a snapshot so let's get right into it and I'll share with you uh techniques that you can
use to increase your live designs so technique number one can be used for everyone and this
is just getting faster at designing now there's several ways that you can get faster at designing
of course using the application that you're using whether it be Affinity designer or canva or
whatever the more you use it the faster you'll get so just keep designing keep cranking out
things you'll also want to learn how to do some shortcuts there's lots of places to find shortcuts
kiddo has them canva has them Affinity designer has them most graphic design applications have
shortcuts and you can go find that you'll notice those when I when I do the tutorials you'll notice
me saying command C or option command whatever right so those are the shortcuts that you can do
and that really speeds up your time on creating a design another technique that you can do to speed
up your design is to have a ton of graphics on the side so if you have as you design things
and you're creating Graphics maybe you created a heart that you can use at another time maybe you
created a vintage Sunset so having these graphic assets already in your application or near your
application where you can drag and drop and things and that's why canva is really easy and fast to
do it and Kittle and all these things because they have the assets already so you basically
just kind of putting things together so make sure to use those favorite those things that you like
to use over and over again and so those can really help you speed up so imagine you you don't have to
really start from scratch right you you can kind of have an idea in your head and then drag and
drop some of those things so using shortcuts using Graphics already there and just getting familiar
with the apps and getting faster and faster at it as you as you do it this is tip number one and
this can help you get more designs up quickly and in increase your live designs so technique number
two is to simplify simplify your designs simplify the way that you're working mainly the kinds of
designs that you're doing now again this one is probably one for the higher tiers you may not want
to start off by doing these simple designs because they may not sell as much as maybe something
that's well researched and trending and things like that but these could pad your portfolio
and these are getting more and more popular so geometric designs have no text on it and
you can do simple designs with different shapes and colors and things like that and so you've
seen these here are some examples of them online on Amazon and they do pretty well they're not in
the top 100 of them but they get sales regularly right every now and then and that's kind of what
you want to do when you you're kind of padding your portfolios to put up designs that will sell
um you know like an evergreen design not necessarily the the trending designs another
thing you could do is just do simple Graphics as well so not necessarily certainly geometric
Graphics but some simple Graphics that you can use to put together a t-shirt so this is a really
easy way to increase your uploads is to do some t-shirt designs that are just super simple either
shapes or colors or things like that where you can really do it real easy maybe just a word you
know maybe just something real simple so simplify your designs you still need to do some research on
like what kinds of things may be selling you just don't want to put every word in the dictionary on
t-shirts but you know you may want to find a good font or find a good phrase or things like that
where it's still pretty simple to do and you can put it on a T-shirt and increase your uploads that
way so tip number two or technique number two is to just simplify your designs so tip number
three or technique number three for this video is to use templates so there's a lot of different
applications that have templates canva has some templates uh place it has some templates kiddo has
some temp uploads in my opinion kiddo probably has the best templates out there and it's really cool
that you can use their fonts and things like that so whichever one you want to use there go and use
the templates the nice thing about templates is it's mostly done so all you have to do is maybe
change the word change a color to switch out the graphics and so it gets you going a lot faster and
a lot of these templates are really good again I would do the research and figure out what kinds of
things are selling then go to the templates and then change the words to match the phrase that
you want to do so don't just go and take the templates that are there and just upload them
that's the thing about templates you don't want to just use the same thing on there you want to
change it to make it work for something that will sell so templates can really help you speed up
your designs and you can crank out a bunch more designs this way by using templates instead of
starting from scratch because you're more than halfway there with the template so go look at
some of these applications that have templates I've I have lots of videos for these kiddo canva
playset and I'm sure there's lots more more that have templates and that can get you started really
quick and help you get more live designs so technique number four is an old graphic design
technique and that is to design in batches so if you're just designing one thing and then uploading
that and have to switch your brain to do like the titles and the keywords and things and then go
back to design and then design that and do this over and over this is going to slow you down so
if you design in batches what I mean is design 10 things at a time 20 things at a time while you're
in the design mode maybe have a specific date just for Designing and that way you can design things
more quickly because your brain's already thinking about design and how to do that kind of thing
where you don't have to make that mental switch to do keywords and then batch your keywords and
uploads and things like that so do these things in batches and that will speed up the process
this kind of goes back to the way that they used to they make cars right the Ford Model is where
everybody has a specific thing that they're doing and so they can get faster faster at it because
that's the thing that they're focused on so do a lot of your design at once and then do a lot of
your uploads at once and you'll see that you can do this a lot faster because you're doing it doing
the same task at once so this is technique number four and that is design in batches so technique
number five that can be really good to help you increase your uploads is to do scale design so
what I mean by scale designs is using basically the same design but switching out a word or phrase
or thing that kind of makes it look the same but you're just scaling it up and so these are some
topics that you can use for scaling Your Design so I put 10 here but there's a lot more but you
can scale by using years so think of made in 1970 1971 1972 right same thing with months I
was born in February or March or my birthday's in whatever right family names you could do Mom
Dad and so on occupations you can make one that says I am a or this is what an awesome
nurse looks like this is what an awesome blank looks like doctor and engineer or whatever right
cities states countries those are all gimmies you can say I visited or do some servant souvenir
shirts or things like that those are really good uh Sports of course I love to play blank
um basketball baseball right tons of them animals uh I'm just a girl who loves frogs or dogs or cats
right and Foods I love to eat tacos I love to eat whatever right so do some research and find
the right phrase for these but you can switch out the words and basically anything within a group
you can do so you can do types of fish types of birds types of food types of whatever it is
so these are just 10 to get you started if you do some research on different groups and research on
what kind of things so you'll see that there's a tons of things that you can scale here so this is
a great one for people in the higher tiers again this one's this one specifically isn't for the
lower tiers because you don't want to fill your your whole 10 slots with just scale designs this
is more for people who have lots of designs and kind of push this out and what Cameron was saying
is Amazon kind of is looking for this because they don't do the model like Zazzle does like
I showed where you can come in and personalize things they already have it on their site so if
someone's looking for one for Mom or one for that it's already there instead of having to switch out
the years or the day or whatever so this is kind of the opposite model of Zazzle that I showed
in my video but this is a great way to increase your uploads exponentially and can do it really
fast and I would do these in batches like I said before so you're going to do all the scale designs
in batches and then upload all those designs at once so this is a really powerful one and that
is scale designs I have a video right here of some scale designs it's it's old but it can help you if
you're interested in doing those scale designs for Merch by Amazon and other things I would say merch
by Amazon's probably the best thing to do for scale designs the other pod sites aren't really
um quick to handle that kind of thing but if you're on merch by Amazon skill designs is the
way to go to increase your live design count so hopefully this one helps this is technique number
five and that is scale designs so technique number six is one that I haven't tried yet and
that is automating your designs now Ryan talks about automating your uploads but he also has a
video about automating your design so I'm kind of excited to try this it's kind of the idea
of the scale designs but doing it in an automated fashion so once you have your idea you know maybe
I'm a girl who loves frogs and can switch out and have all those different animals on there you can
automate it to kind of just switch out the word so you don't have to physically go in there and
do it you have the computer or app do that for you and that's pretty exciting that's going to
really help you scale up your designs and get you designed a lot quicker now again I haven't
tried this but Ryan has a video I'll put a link in the description it's it's several months old but
I think it can really help I'm excited to try it I'm gonna try it next year and see how that that
works so this is tip and technique number six and that is automating your scale designs so last tip
tip number seven is probably an obvious one and this one is to get help get more help get a team
build a team have people help you design you can only do so much as one person but you can do a lot
more as a team and so that's what Cameron has done he's built a team around it he has a team
that can actually help us um for price of course I'll put that link in the description but there's
lots of places that you can find a team you can go to upwork you can go to Fiverr the caution I
would say is to make sure that the people that you hire are doing things that are um not copyrighted
not trademarked make sure that they do things that nobody else is using so this may cost a little bit
more but at least you're safe and your account is safe so and and make sure you give them some
ideas on what to do so you're gonna have to have a good eye for design and things like that so if
you really have one person that's done it a lot and has some good design skills and also has some
good portfolio pieces that they know that this is sell sold before online then probably go with
those it's you don't want to go super cheap on this and but again it's also print on demand so
you need to watch your budget so that you can actually make money on it so you don't want to
just keep dumping money into this um so this is why this is a higher tier one because you you're
going to need some money on this one for to hire a team but this is a great way to kind of build
your live designs really quickly and this is one I haven't used it so far I've been doing all my
designs by myself so in the next year or so I'm going to try and hire some people to design for me
and and make sure that I can upload more designs and increase my live design so that's tip number
seven uh again this is probably a higher tier one when you actually have more spots to do this and
it can have the buffer of of getting some designs in there but this is getting help and not doing
it all on your own so here's a list of all seven techniques that I talked about in this video now
some of these you can use when you're in the lower tier so just getting faster of course you can use
that simplifying your designs you could do that I would save that one for a little higher tier
I would think you want to do more complex designs in the beginning to kind of get things that stand
out and stuff like that use templates you could use that when you're at a smaller tier but make
sure that you do well researched designs and then use the templates to kind to modify it and get
the right phrase in there and the right kind of things for the audience right design in batches
again this is a technique for anybody you can design you know five or six at a time maybe do
a specific day for design and a specific day for uploads that can really help you speed up scale
designs this one specifically is for higher tiers again I have that list of 10 but you there's lots
of things that you can scale and then automate those scale designs as number six use those
automated tools to help you scale up even faster and then lastly get help so this is one where you
may want to do after you've done this for a while and have some money to spend on advertising and
getting help this is one way to get more designs up there really quickly this is something that
Cameron does and provides as a service as well and there's lots of other places too that provide that
as a service look at upwork look at Fiverr look at other places like that where you can kind of
build your team and make sure to get the right people because having the right designer is
key according to Cameron I don't do that but I would I would imagine that this is key to have
the right person there to kind of knows what kinds of things sells and can I help you with
that so those are all the seven tips in this video hopefully this really helps you increase uh your
live designs this is what I'm going to be doing uh in the next year or so and hopefully increase
my design thing and the idea is the more live designs we have the more potential we have to
make some sales so hopefully you'll use these two and get more sales in the coming years so that is
it for this video hopefully this video is super helpful for you if you love these tips and these
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