hey what's up guys welcome to top five
niches of the week it's episode 117 and
i've got five good print-on-demand
niches for you to target this week and
hopefully make some sales in the short
term by the way last week was uh you
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let's get into these top five niches
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and here's my weekly sales update for
merch by amazon over the last uh seven
and a half days i made 525 sales uh 415
on the us market and i guess another 110
when you combine the other international
markets so doing really well i post
these sales daily to my instagram by the
way so if you guys want to follow me
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story along with my seller central sales
and uh
well i guess my printful sales to seller
central
all right so here we go niche number one
is
a niche that we talked about a month ago
and then it kind of disappeared then it
made its way back last week and now i
would say this is probably the biggest
trending niche
on merch by amazon that isn't in a
protected brand okay
and the niche is donkey pox the disease
destroying america now i gave my
thoughts on this last week so you can go
back check out that episode in summary
i would not feel comfortable selling in
this niche like i don't think it's worth
it given the last like two and a half
years we've seen
i don't know we've just seen like big
tech in general kind of like dictate
what's you know wrong think and what's
allowed what's not allowed etc in real
time so if overnight they change their
mind on this one and it disappears well
your account might get caught in the
crossfire i don't think it's worth it
also because i just said what the niche
is this just like last weekend that you
know the time before that it'll probably
take an extra like hour to process this
youtube video because they have to scan
it um algorithmically for wrong think
you know what i mean it's the world be
living guys it is what it is but i'm
always going to acknowledge it so at
least we're all on the same page because
it is true try it yourself upload a
video to youtube and say things that you
know go counter narrative and you'll
you'll see what happens um so here we go
guys uh donkey pox we see the video or
we see the shirt sorry uh bsr 12500 i
guess if we go back here we can see the
bsrs 20 060 thousand hundred thousand
hundred thousand behind me hundred
thirty three thousand also review counts
are quite low so new submissions are
getting sales and uh getting ranked in a
niche that you know is
generating a lot of interest again we
can't sell against these big brands
right so we have to find little pockets
that aren't you know intellectual
property that's protected and uh right
now this niche is doing really well
all right niche number two
and it's something that we see all the
time it's these kind of kawaii
uh anime style
boba tea uh we got the axolotl or the
babalottle
or the little kittens the cats
these are doing really well uh and it's
not just one shirt you know it's not
uncommon for us to see
uh that one shirt
in the number two slot right there with
1052 reviews that is always selling
extremely well but notice and i guess i
can hide myself and just show you the
other five designs in this screenshot
all have extremely good bsrs
you know eight thousand twenty nine
thousand seventy two thousand one
hundred thousand one twenty five two
hundred thousand behind me all right and
low review counts fourteen four forty
one hundred fifty and behind me six
so to me this represents some
opportunity i mean when we're starved
for a big trend you know all you tier 10
sellers tier 25 sellers i do really
think you should be uploading daily i do
get people messaging me saying hey i
filled my slots and it's like
okay but do you upload daily i mean if
you're not uploading daily i don't think
you're fully utilizing your account even
if you're just re-uploading something
that's still trending you know you
delete one
that hasn't sold okay because if it
hasn't sold and it's been up for a while
it may have gotten its impression you
know when i say impression it may have
been seen on page one when it got its
chance it didn't get clicked it didn't
get a purchase now it's buried forever
right there's no way for us to really
know that like running ads is our best
chance to monitor impressions
this is the downside of selling on
amazon versus shopify but i mean hey you
can do both
but amazon doesn't give us like all of
our statistics especially with amazon
merch where amazon is the seller not us
but i did just want to mention that like
you want to be in these trends right now
back to school is kind of ramping up
it's you know we're in august so it's
ramping up but we know peak back to
school is in about three weeks
so these trends that i'm showing you in
this video is probably better in the
short term
all right so and also i noticed this
while i was researching remember the
born brand uh that was just dominating
everything somehow was exploiting the
amazon search algorithm brands with the
brand name born we're getting priority
placement well this design that is
strikingly similar to the best seller
with 1052 reviews
when i say strikingly similar it looks
to be basically the exact same uh is
posted in the brand born and managed to
overtake the shirt that has 1052 reviews
even though it was a new submission and
it has a higher price point so it's
extremely interesting not sure exactly
what's going on there that's not normal
but hopefully we don't see another born
saga where people continue to abuse the
algorithm
and hopefully amazon engineers fix it
that would also be nice and hopefully
amazon engineers stopped making the full
resolution pngs available on the front
end of these product listings so that
bots can't steal and repost our designs
you know what i mean can we knock on
wood maybe knock on wood hopefully
that'll happen if we can get that before
the year end amazon that would be much
appreciated
all right niche number three
and this one also kind of came out of
left field but i'm doing my best here
trying to find new niches for you guys
that people are actually buying right
it's one thing for me to say hey sell
this and not actually be making sales
but check this out the skeleton hand
rock and roll okay i think the keywords
i typed in were like rock and roll
skeleton or something uh but check out
the bsrs 22 thousand
sixty thousand hundred thirteen thousand
hundred twenty five
uh 250 550 000 all right
it's not blowing me away with sales but
there's something to it right like these
are clearly making sales with the
average bsr probably hovering around a
hundred thousand out of the top six so i
don't know this could be indicative of
something to come or it could just be
evergreen and for some reason everybody
wants the
you know rock and roll skeleton um
hand sign so we see uh from pretty much
pro plus keyword rock
and it probably cropped out the next
keyword is probably uh skeleton
something like that
all right niche number four
and now we're getting into back to
school climbing the ranks
uh in this one i just typed in grade
vibes as the primary keywords so i
didn't say third grade vibes because
then it'll only show me third grade
results i just typed in grade vibes so a
prefix can be what grade is it
and after that you can type in anything
you want but grade vibes as a back to
school sub niche is doing quite well and
hopefully you guys caught my collab with
juna from detour shirts we did a
research and design session over kind of
a two-part video series and i think it
was really well received and i can't
wait to show you guys how many of these
shirts we sell
as we get into the back to school
upswing all right
but grade vibes is clearly a validated
sub niche of back to school already
selling really well outside of the peak
trend and also these are all basically
new submissions i mean out of the top
six best sellers
there's two reviews okay two reviews so
definitely um there's some sales to be
made here and uh we see here bsrs thirty
thousand thirty three thousand forty
eight thousand fifty thousand fifty nine
thousand seventy three thousand
all right and here we go from pretty
much pro plus again i always like to
peek at the keyword analysis to see like
what keywords we might wanna advertise
on what we might wanna prioritize in our
title and our bullets etc so you can see
grade
third because this is third grade uh
school day so grade vibes day school etc
and those little pairings too you can
use from the two word column and three
word column as like phrase matches when
you set up your ad campaigns guys
niche number five is also in back to
school and for this one i typed in my
first day
okay and when you type in my first day
you actually get some like interesting
ones like the two behind me actually say
my last first day and their shirts for
seniors and i actually like that as a
sub niche that's kind of a pivot away
from the more obvious my first day of
school you know my first day as a
kindergartner my first day as a
sophomore whatever my first or whatever
it is um my my first day as a junior my
first day as a senior oh my last first
day as a senior um so i like that
thinking outside the box there
uh officially a senior my last first day
class of 2023 so guys again also class
of 2023 man we're getting old aren't we
any high schoolers watching this by the
way if you're watching this and you're
still in high school you're gonna be off
to such an incredible start because
amazon merch is gonna be making you
passive income for a very long time so
shout out to you
uh but check that out class of 2023 by
the way if you go for a design like that
this one in the middle here with the
gold glitter be extremely careful
about what keywords you use to describe
your design because those are in the uh
what do i call it i call it the like
restricted keywords uh the trigger words
part two right there's like the part one
trigger words and then amazon merch
resource section has a separate section
where they include a bunch of keywords
about like design descriptors like you
can't really say neon you can't say i
mean i don't want to say what you can
and can't say because i've been staying
away from those words for so long that
i'm just assuming you still can't say
them but the word gold even i'd be
careful with i think they even said gold
is on that list but i mean i haven't
read it in a while uh but check that
list out i also have a video where i
read through the whole thing so check
that out on my channel it's like the
amazon merch playlist for 2022.
all right and let's go to seller trends
so these are shirts that have seen a big
jump in bsr recently could be indicative
of trends to come
hello kindergarten
uh the power of yet oh i like that it's
kind of like positive thinking i can't
do this dot dot yet i'm not good at this
dot dot dot yet i don't understand this
dot dot dot yet and guys seriously i'm
about to buy that shirt for for myself
because
like i think our minds can manifest like
our reality for real to an extent at
least like if you're constantly thinking
i can't do this
and you don't think i can't do this.yet
because if you just say i can't do this
well what's more likely to manifest in
your life that you're ever going to
actually do whatever this is or if you
have the mindset i can't do this. yet
because you believe in yourself and
you're not closing the door on the idea
of you one day being the person that
does that thing
then what's more likely you might
actually go
show up like day by day chip away at it
right little by little and then one day
accomplish that goal okay the power of
positive thinking i have a course that's
completely free called business
productivity hacks and i go through a
lot of
mindset stuff because it's probably more
important than even executing a good
business strategy because if you don't
have a good like mindset or
understanding of business and also you
know actually like believing in yourself
to accomplish something um you almost
can like sabotage a project before it
even gets started so that's important to
me so that's why i made it completely
free ryansmethod.com link to in the
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donkey pox shirts team preschool so
again more back to school stuff uh crush
kindergarten behind me so a lot of these
um back to school stuff the crop top
with the corn that's kind of funny
all right looking ahead shirts related
to random holidays shirts or anything
else actually i mean you don't have to
pigeonhole yourself into just selling
shirts uh september 7th so we're at
least a month out here
national salami day
uh maybe with some cheese and crackers
otherwise no thank you september 8th
international literacy day september 9th
teddy bear day september 10th chinese
moon festival or i guess it says
mid-autumn festival in the picture
behind me
and september 11th is 9 11 remembrance
which was weird because when you google
september 11th like i was trying to find
an image to put on this slide
almost every image you find is like of
um
two towers having gone down in new york
even though three went down so it's just
weird they don't include the third but
either way um definitely like 911 just
be careful with that niche it is
one of those that you just got to make
sure that you look at the existing
validated shirts be careful with the
keywords all those things as you guys
already know
probably don't talk about the third
tower because i guess nobody's talking
about it and it's nowhere to be found in
google either so
um okay bonus design i just really liked
this graphic design although it kind of
reminds me of a pokemon in a way like
wasn't there uh when their pokemon that
looked like that wasn't that the one
that evolved into like the fire the
water and the electric i can't think of
the name um but either way i don't know
be careful with the pokemon aspect i
just really like this as a uh just from
a design perspective i thought it was
really well executed even just like the
the colors within instead of it just
being a flat color it's like a lot of
gradients and whatnot that kind of
reflect a single light source or you
know i don't know this is outside the
realm of what i can execute but i really
liked it so i put it as the bonus
all right deleted designs brought to you
by merch ninja so here we go a lot of
like paw patrol shirts people were
trying to infringe upon it looks like a
lot of harry potter uh
everything else winnie the pooh
the the shirt that says
this [ __ ] is getting married is
honestly hilarious um i don't know
exactly why that was removed but i do
think that's a funny uh funny design at
least
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