hey what's up guys in today's video i
want to share with you my favorite print
on demand niche and it is definitely
fueled by a personal bias because i'm a
huge fan of fantasy football and this is
probably like the second or third year
in a row that i'm gonna do a video
talking about how we can monetize and
make money from fantasy football even if
we don't know anything about it and
don't particularly like to watch
football or play fantasy football
this video is going to be all about
this niche that really flies under the
radar this is kind of my favorite
type of niche because it's not so
obvious that everybody jumps in but if
you bring personal knowledge and
expertise to it like i do and even if
you don't honestly because i'm going to
show you how you can still research and
find opportunities but you can
definitely make money in this niche you
can make sales we're going to look at
when you can expect peak sales as well
because this is something i always like
to do it's an easy data point to grab so
we'll start there and then we'll pivot
into niche research and then we'll pivot
into designs so let's get started
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advantage of those so the first thing i
want to do is go to google trends this
is not required it's just something i
prefer to do because i like to have an
idea of when i can expect peak sales i
think something that um some sellers do
is jump into a niche and don't make a
sale immediately and then move on to the
next thing because they think like oh
well i guess you know i must have done
something wrong or whatever
but you know it's best to know when to
expect you know peak sales all right and
if possible you want to be ranked
organically on your primary keywords
ahead of the peak season so i'm typing
in fantasy football
on google trends it is google.com
forward slash trends by default you get
the last 12 months and from here we can
see in 2021 it was the second week of
september that was peak season and we
can even split that out to like the last
five years and kind of get an idea so
second week of september last year
um second week of september in 2020
first week of september in and i guess
it really probably depends on the
kickoff of the nfl season if i had to
guess
and that probably just depends it looks
like it's always going to be the second
week of september but it's going to be
based on like how the days of the week
fall is what it looks like to me also
for what it's worth we notice that this
trend is going actually down and to the
right in terms of interest ideally we
want to see that reversed we want to see
you know higher highs
kind of like we're looking at a stock
chart or something we want to see higher
highs as time progresses forward so in
terms of like niche selection if you
could only choose one and you had to
compare fantasy football to
um something else like i don't know
let's just type in something you can
always do a comparison pickleball if
we're still sticking to sports
um you can see pickleball actually like
kind of going up in interest as far as
uh over time in the last five years but
when you compare it to fantasy football
obviously the interest in fantasy
football is absolutely massive also for
what it's worth with regards to fantasy
football
you see that interest kind of drops off
as the nfl season progresses so you're
going to see most of your sales around
kickoff and this is when it's like you
know the most exciting that's what
inspired this video i'm in a group chat
with some of my you know close buddies
and um while i'm in multiple football
leagues fantasy football leagues uh we
have this one that we started like four
years ago i think where it's like
whoever wins the league decides where we
go the next year to draft so we'll be in
denver uh not this weekend but the next
weekend so um can't wait to be in in
colorado and doing a football draft and
just getting the boys together so in
terms of a niche i'd say this is pretty
well validated even though we didn't
really compare it to something like um
what's one more we could do just to see
like halloween obviously halloween's
gonna be huge
but um so dwarfs fantasy football but if
we say like halloween shirt
get a little bit more specific and say
fantasy football shirt so it filters out
costumes
uh it gets a little bit closer okay you
see what i did there i added the word
shirt as a qualifier and pickleball of
course now dwarfs them but if i do
pickleball shirt
okay there we go um actually okay
halloween still crushed it uh anyways if
we're sticking to fantasy football not
every niche needs to be like massive
massive where it has the potential to
make you a million dollars in sales like
fantasy football kind of flies under the
radar every year it's one of those where
it's like if you're paying attention you
probably think of it otherwise you might
just let it go right by you but there
are sales to be made in this niche and
i'm already making sales as i mentioned
earlier so i wanted to let you guys know
that and it's a lot of fun for me just
to look through some of these shirts i'm
using pretty merch pro plus this is my
go-to niche research tool i love that
it's one click away on your amazon merch
dashboard
all right and it's on sale right now too
by the way i sent out an email earlier
this week but i'll also drop a link to
the sale i forget what is it like i
think it was like 50 something percent
off so um definitely worth considering
uh i personally have been loving it so i
went ahead and i typed in fantasy
football into the search bar
the one thing i think they do best if i
had to pick you know outside of the
convenience of always being one click
away
also the trademark search actually is
really useful
but their search function works really
well so
type in fantasy football
and we can just scroll we can just have
fun just scroll through some of these
results i don't know if you guys play
fantasy football if you do let me know
in the comments below do you even watch
football who's your team uh so i i think
all of them are my team at this point
but
uh if you if you guys see my finance
channel actually i got a like a premium
nft russell wilson uh nfl partnered with
um the flow blockchain and they've got
like nfl nfts so i have like a
legendary russell wilson number one mint
worth like at the moment like 20 000
um i'm not selling it for less than like
200k so if anybody cares i think i'll be
rooting for denver this year just so
that russell wilson has a big year all
right so let's check out these t-shirts
who would jesus draft all right that is
currently the top seller and notice this
is kind of staying off the radar look at
the bsrs they're not that
low right like the best seller right now
is 99 000 bsr which you may be like oh
well who why even get excited about it
but hey if you can upload a bunch of
shirts and get consistent sales
but no one shirt is making you rich well
hey you're still making consistent sales
to me that's what it's all about
and plus you know these are kind of
evergreen even though there's definitely
a peak season for generating interest so
who would jesus draft
is the number one bestseller
i've never thought of cross niching
fantasy football with jesus
uh i suck at fantasy football see this
is where my my mind kind of goes
selling like a pink unicorn fantasy
football shirt that says i suck and you
can market it a number of different ways
like i know fantasy football punishment
those three keywords fantasy football
punishment generate a lot of traffic
around this time of year
where basically if you finish in last
place you must be punished right and
these pink unicorn shirts and you can do
like a pink you know toilet oh that's a
funny one here check this one out it's
got the like football bra and bikini
that's hilarious
um this guy sucks at fantasy football so
i'm kind of jumping the gun let's check
let's check out what else they got here
i'm just here for the snacks so maybe
you know that'd be like marielle if she
wanted to be there while maybe my
buddies draft
she might just be there for the snacks
because she doesn't really play the
champ is here all right perfect
marketing a shirt to the loser marketing
a shirt to the champion
uh fantasy football champion 2021
so i made a series i i don't know if i
mentioned this specifically but the
first t-shirt of mine that i was an
original design uh that i created this
was back in like 2017.
i made it for myself honestly and it was
like a fantasy football champion shirt
and i thought it was hilarious like i
put all this like trash talk in the
shirt you know and i tried to be
strategic about how i laid it out so it
wasn't ugly but it would say stuff like
i'm the best you suck you know in a big
trophy with the year and i made it for
different years but it was the first
shirt of mine that i ever caught being
blatantly stolen and ripped off and sold
on other websites so fun fact there
and i did buy myself one of those shirts
and wear it to my fancy draft i figured
if i'll wear it somebody else will
probably wear it i almost always almost
win at fantasy football another
hilarious shirt
the commissioner so every fantasy
football league has a league
commissioner that kind of brings
everybody together settles the rules
picks a date to do the draft
so the commissioner shirts are big ones
they probably just buy them for
themselves too fantasy football champion
i suck at fantasy football uh one thing
i would say right here you guys see this
design that i'm trying to highlight
do not use the nfl uh shield okay i have
no clue how this shirt is still live on
amazon but that person like you know how
some people are like oh i lost my merch
account
it's from stuff like this you know what
i mean they'll be like oh i didn't even
infringe no no if you use the nfl
logo the shield
and you just change the n to an f so
it's ffl for fantasy football league
you're asking for it so do not do that
world's okayist fantasy player there you
go so i always say world's okay is
doctor world's okay is teacher world's
okay lawyer great easy scalable
text-only designs how about world's okay
is fantasy football player uh i suck at
fantasy football with the bikini i think
that is absolutely hilarious
just here for the snacks fantasy
football goat for greatest of all time
respect the commish
show me your tds that's a classic i
would make sure that's not trademark
though cause that's one of those that's
been that's been like trendy for a long
time
better than my husband at fantasy
football how about that marketing it to
the ladies all right nothing wrong with
ladies that play fantasy football uh
show me your tds hall of shame this is
this is great you guys see this one
right here it's got the toilet it's got
the unicorn it's got an incredible
design with great color scheme it says
hall of shame fantasy football loser all
right i actually really like that one
for last place uh this guy sucks at
fantasy football the champ is here this
girl is a fantasy football champion
again hey
the demand might not be like as high
just on a relative basis not that women
don't win their leagues but i think
there's less interest generally speaking
um
relative like men to women in fantasy
football which is perfectly okay
uh but women yeah you should give it a
shot too i tried to convince marielle to
to try it out this year but um so far no
luck uh two-time fantasy football
champion so there's another idea don't
just mark it to the one-time champ
market to the two-time champ market to
the three-time champ like there is so
much opportunity here and now i'm like
itching to go make some more designs
honestly because i love this idea
hopefully my head wasn't blocking it but
the multi-time champion i love that idea
you know better than my husband at fans
football i think that's brilliant as
well
there's lots of potential guys in terms
of like how you execute some of these
designs i just want to throw out some
really quick
ideas so you guys know i love all
sunsets
they make
the circle graphics guys you don't need
to like and it's not always a circle but
the reason i'm saying circle graphics
sell really well uh my buddy juna at
detour shirts if you follow him on
instagram he just did a post uh today i
think or maybe it was the other day
where he just did like a multi-part post
showing some of the best design styles
for print on demand uh primarily
t-shirts and like circle design styles
sell extremely well if you do any
research you probably noticed that
so i went ahead i grabbed like this
graphic right here okay this running
back
and
you can see a really nice graphic
pulled it into photoshop i've got my
curved text i have a template just that
i just
leave here right so i just double click
the template the text is already curved
drag and drop a circle graphic in here
and by the way they have a lot more
graphics for fantasy football i just
like this one i like the way it looks
and i think it's a new one because i
haven't used it in the past
and then i just add some text to it
right and then i'll download this design
and then you know what i'm going to do
is i'm going to switch up the text and
make a couple more different designs
where all i'm doing is switching up the
text because different people want
different things when it comes to any
niche including fantasy football and as
we just saw with our niche research
there's a lot of different ways to spin
it
so feel free to do something like this
but i think this looks really good um
you could even you know do something
with the text like color it to match the
um
the colors in that you know graphic if
you wanted to
but that is completely up to you
whatever you think looks best
i think that looks pretty darn good
though and that literally took me like
30 seconds just drag drop and your
change the text i already had life is
better with up there so all i had to do
was add a second text layer and just put
fantasy football
beyond that you can also check out like
creative fabrica i mean they just have
such a massive library of design assets
pre-made designs uh
in this case husband dad fantasy
football legend
you could even just kind of manipulate
those text layers and you know
use automate pod
at automatepod.com chrome extension and
you could scale out a bunch of designs i
love the color scheme though i mean
when you see something you like guys
save it right reference it later so the
next time you sit down to do designs you
can just go to your
design idea file whatever it is i look
at my side monitor because that's where
i like to stash a lot of stuff on my you
know google keep uh but yeah this is a
great design and you can just if you
have a creative fabric membership you
can just download it if you're not a
member you can join for one dollar right
now i will drop a link in the
description if you use that link you can
join for a dollar for your first month
and then you get a discounted rate after
that
they have design bundles okay i'll also
drop links to these bundles in case you
just want to check out the bundles
because i'm pretty sure they're only a
couple bucks so if you don't want to
have a subscription you can just grab
that
but these pre-made bundles are like you
can just use them as is i typically like
to make some alterations even if it's
just adding color
like you can see they're all in a black
foreground so sometimes i'll just go in
and just do a you know photoshop like
really quickly let me just show you guys
this so if i just flatten this design
let's just pretend that it was a
black foreground oh that's not what i
meant to do actually i want to keep the
black okay
you can just flatten this design so
pretend that this was a pre-made design
that maybe i grabbed from creative
fabrica i can just go right click the
layer behind me here go to blending
options you can do this in photoshop you
can do it in photopia go to color
overlay
and
turn it to white i guess not the best
example obviously because i guess we
just lost the detail in the football
player himself but what we just did was
we switched it from you know in theory
if it was a black foreground i like to
sell on the darker colored t-shirts we
know that they tend to sell better than
the lighter colored t-shirts so that's
just one example of how i might alter
these designs so that it's a little bit
different
and even another fantasy football design
bundle so
lots of things to like on creative
fabrica guys
all sunsets same thing keep it simple uh
do text only if you're not a good
designer and you don't feel like
spending a couple bucks on pre-made
designs and that's it that's it for this
video guys i hope you liked it please um
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