what's up guys welcome to top five
niches of the week episode 65. we have a
themed
episode this week because there aren't
really too many standout niches i did
mention
one earlier this week except i mentioned
it in the context of
do not sell this niche if you guys
missed that video i can link to it right
here
every now and then there's a niche that
creeps up into the best sellers
where i'm like cancel cancel cancel um
you might be putting your account at
risk
and i'll do my best to warn you if it's
something similar to what we saw this
week
but all of the ones i'm going to show
you in this episode are going to be
completely safe
they probably won't surprise too many
people it's a seasonal thing
but nothing's really standing out head
and shoulders above the rest so
this week we've got a themed episode
some sub niches within a bigger
niche that's going to be selling really
well for the next month and what i love
about all of the niches i'm going to
show you are that they have
scaling potential meaning you can take
one good design
scale it out into multiple designs
in basically what i would call parallel
sub-niches so why don't we get started
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niche number one who's ready for top
five niches of the week uh
as mentioned it's got a theme all of the
five niches this week have a theme the
theme is back to school
some of you guys might have saw that
coming uh it is august i'm actually
basically this week maybe even today if
i have time i gotta get ready
for i'm not going back to school i'm
teaching online ever since uh
ever since i guess early last year we
transitioned in the spring semester to
online after spring break
and i've been teaching online ever since
after going to um i teach at a local
university but
it had been what six and a half no i
think at that point it had been five and
a half years
of me going to campus and um you know
that was my alma mater as well did my
master's degree there did my bachelor's
there
and i kind of miss being around the
school environment but you know what
is what it is but i gotta get my online
section uh ready to go probably after
at some point this week because school's
starting up in two weeks
and the other theme as i mentioned is
that you can scale out these designs
that i'm going to be showing you these
these niches i should say well
in the designs meaning you can make one
really good design template
and then change out where you can insert
some variables
and you know we already mentioned it's a
school theme so if it's preschool
then it's kindergarten then it's first
grade then it's second grade
you see where i'm going with this make a
really good template
and then swap in and out all of the
different grades and then make some
sales all right you can do it manually
or i didn't want to mention you can use
automate pod
who also is sponsoring this week's
giveaway and you can basically use a
chrome extension
create a csv list of all the grades and
then hit go
and it'll just do it for you and
download all of them for you and this is
really useful if you want to do like
you know things beyond just the the
grades you know if you want to do things
like
um professions or states or countries
et cetera you just hit go and then it'll
work for you anyways
let's get to these niches thank you for
waiting for me to go through that spiel
niche number one is i'm ready to crush
x grade where x is the variable it could
be first grade second grade third grade
fourth grade fifth grade
um who knows maybe even tenth grade if
somebody wants to wear a big t-rex shirt
to
middle school or high school i guess
10th grade would be high school wouldn't
it yeah
been a while but i'm ready to crush
whatever
grade all right and you see bsrs 400k
479k
193k 996 000. um i don't i didn't
exactly capture all the best sellers in
the screenshot by the way there's
definitely some
um ones doing better than that including
this one i'm ready to crush
preschool you've got like a t-rex in the
back of a monster truck love it
and 36 000 bsr by the way if you do some
research
using either maybe flying research like
you see here where the screenshots taken
from
or even just ds amazon quickview it's
free it puts the bsrs in the search
results underneath each listing
what you'll probably notice what i
noticed is that the
younger the kids are the better selling
these shirts tend to do and i mean that
honestly is kind of in line with what i
would imagine
i don't have kids i've got a micro
chihuahua named pablo who's sleeping
next to me
um so maybe one day you know what i mean
but for now i'm good without them
and i imagine the younger they are the
more likely they'd be to wear a shirt
that says i'm ready to crush
and then some grade all right so maybe
favor
preschool kindergarten first grade etc
favor the younger
grades and uh make sure to check the
youth checkbox and then also remember
when you check the youth checkbox you're
subject to a stricter content policy
so just if any word you're not sure of
um do your validation or just kind of
skip that word all right
niche number two and this is
hello x grade so you see hello
fourth grade hello third grade hello
fifth grade
i know this is not anything crazy this
is like very
easy to think of it's not got like any
cross niching with anything
2021 you know and by the way there's
always potential to cross niche
so if you have some crazy idea by the
way if you're a teacher watching this
you probably know
you know what i mean like i'm teaching
college level so i'm not thinking
i'm not brainstorming anything crazy
here cuz i don't know how many college
level people would be buying these
shirts but like
if you're an elementary school teacher
you probably got some ideas so go ahead
and run with them and don't tell anybody
all right maybe
you know if it makes its way into top
five niches that's kind of a good
problem to have because that means
you're successful
but yeah it'll stay off the radar until
you hit some level of success so
anyways hello whatever grade is the
second niche
there's definitely cross niche potential
there too and i didn't see a lot of that
going on
you can see bsr's 280 000 175 000 440
000
600 000. here from flying research
you see hello kindergarten and it's got
a bsr of
42 000. actually the sales have been
pretty
pretty pretty flat meaning consistent
sales since about
uh late july actually it's only about a
week ago isn't it i thought that was
over a longer times fan i was like man
people are buying that all through
summer but nope just about the last week
niche number three i'm ready for
kindergarten but is it ready for me
i'm ready for first grade but is it
ready for me you get where i'm going
with this i'm ready for second grade but
is it ready for me
and then they're mixing in the standard
you know unicorns
t-rexes guys i you don't have to spend
money on graphics but if you're ever
going to spend money on
graphics hopefully you're noticing a
trend of like what graphics seem to work
really well
like for the last four years i mean not
last four but like skip a year and then
say last
four if you had like one really good
trump graphic
like president trump you could sell
anything in the trump niche
so anybody who spent like a dollar five
dollars even if you paid a graphic
designer for an original one and paid
like 50
you made that back 10-fold i mean more
than 10-fold honestly
if you were actually consistent but you
get what i'm saying so it's sometimes
okay if you're noticing when you're
doing your research like all right
the t-rexes are selling well all right
the unicorns are selling well the
monster truck
invest it's okay like it's a business
right so
then at the end of the year when you
file your taxes how much money did you
spend to generate that income oh you
paid for a graphic deduct that from your
profits
and you're not it's not like you're
getting free money and doing that but
you're also paying slightly less
and don't take advice from me i'm not a
tax advisor but um it does work pretty
much like that so
here we go i'm ready for grade but is it
ready for me bsrs
389 600 90 three hundred thousand
hundred thirty nine thousand and here
you go from
flying research you can see this one
right here the unicorn one with the
rainbow text by the way
when you see a color scheme like that
that you really like if you like it
like i think that's a good one go ahead
pull it into photopia photoshop
use the little eyedropper tool borrow
the hex color codes
and just write them down you know i keep
nope i mean i'm a developer or i was a
developer i guess
now i'm a youtuber but i keep notepad
open
all the time it's always open when i'm
on my computer and if i
want if i'm doing designs or something
and i need like a good rainbow color
scheme
like i guess this is where being a
programmer helps but like i don't wanna
do the same thing twice ever
right if i'm gonna do it once and i
think in the future this may be useful
i'm not gonna like screw myself over
down the line the first time i do it i'm
just gonna say okay save this color
scheme
so write all the hex codes down in order
put it in notepad
make some label next to it so you can do
a ctrl f search type in rainbow
and then it jumps you right to where you
need to be and you've got the hex color
codes boom
you just save yourself so much time and
you know you like the color scheme
and you see it's validated it's working
this is a shirt that's selling really
well so
a little tidbit there niche number four
and this says kindergarten dude and i
didn't see a version for girls i don't
know but i'm sure there is one but these
all say kindergarten dude kindergarten
dude kindergarten dude kindergarten dude
you could probably go pre-school dude or
pre-k dude first grade dude
um you know you can also validate your
niches if you have limited upload slots
like if you see kindergarten dude is
selling best
prioritize that if you don't have extra
upload slots it's all good hit this one
and move on but if you do have extra
upload slots and you have a good
template
make at least a separate version for
preschool dude
or first grade dude you know whatever
you see is selling the bsr is your
indicator
as far as sales go uh 491 thousand bsr
42 000 bsr
389 000 bsr 175
000 bsr and this one from flying
research you can see here 67
000 bsr and uh pretty consistent
range as far as the sales velocity
going between 50 000 and 70 000 bsr
there so that's a nice range to be in
probably making a couple sales a day
loving it niche number five
and this is roaring into kindergarten
roaring into first grade
roaring into preschool take note too man
the color schemes that they use are
beautiful
um this one behind me i really like
they've got like a gradient on the
text on both texts actually roaring and
preschool
i just like the way that looks um you
know i typically do more like the one
you see on the left-hand side there
where each letter is its own color
but i don't think there's a right or
wrong way i think it's um subjective and
whatever you think looks good or you
don't have to use any color at all
whatever works for you guys just make
sure quick note
just throwing it out there if you're
gonna use multiple colors
please always consider contrast you know
what i mean
if you're gonna put like blue text don't
select a blue shirt because it's not
going to look good all right if you're
going to select these like rainbow text
it clearly looks good against a black
shirt but while you're doing your design
make sure you
you enable a black background and you
know that on amazon merch if you make a
shirt available in black that's what the
primary thumbnail is going to be okay
so a quick little tip there all right
and bsrs 219
600 570 000 and 600 thousand behind me
and here you can see uh bsr trending in
the right direction on this one says
roaring into
pre-school also another quick note on
that design
there is a lot of ways to approach
designing t-shirts you guys already know
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you already know
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take note these designs that are finding
their way to the top
you know how they say the cream rises to
the top well if there's all these
designs that a buyer can choose from why
is it the same ones that they
concentrate on
and as i know visibility is also a
function of it but
they use the canvas space available like
there's only so much space you have
available
to put your design in look at this
designer they used pretty much all of it
it's not a coincidence right because
then the design pops it's big it's bold
it's easy to read you feel like you're
getting value for your dollars
as opposed to some like small design
that's like hard to read or their font
selection wasn't good
or the contrast isn't good and you know
what i mean just like
check these boxes it's not that hard
just make a habit of doing it be
conscious
write notes open your notepad make notes
before you finish a design
did i follow the top five rules of
design by the way i did write
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let's go seller trends and here you go i
just
took a picture straight out of flying
research so i did not go ahead and
validate these
i didn't judge if they're safe or not
like for instance the duncan deez nuts
that looks like the dunkin donuts one
definitely i would not be selling that
so i would stay away
um these are just like significant bsr
gainers
over the last day or so so this could
sometimes be indicative of like a new
trend
uh that's brand new so you can catch
this in flying research by the way
who i also link to in the description
they're also sponsoring this week's
giveaway so make sure you take advantage
of the giveaway that again
completely free looking ahead if you
want to sell
t-shirts related to some seemingly
random holidays
call this the weird holiday calendar and
we're about a month out okay
september 8th international literacy day
september 9th teddy bear day
september 10th sewing machine day oh man
i can't wait for sewing machine day
that's going to be hype
uh september 11th uh some other
connotations there maybe skip that day
but if you wanted a
not so obvious one for september 11th
make your bed day
september 12th happy grandparents day by
the way september 11th 20th year
anniversary guys i would stay
away from a t-shirt perspective if you
don't know why go read the amazon merch
content policy you probably need a
refresher
also just me saying that date this video
will probably take an extra hour to
process on youtube so if it got posted
late today
that's why all right let's round it out
with a bonus shirt i actually left this
one in from two weeks ago uh i was gonna
change it and i was like you know what
nah i like this shirt um i definitely
could go for some faux
pha i believe it's pronounced right
either way i love this vietnamese
soup and it definitely would make my
throat feel a little bit better i'm
still getting back up to a hundred
percent after a crazy weekend
uh a week ago in miami for a bachelor
party you guys already know it was a
nice
it's a good time uh but definitely
losing my voice getting it back
to 100 but still here to make these
videos for you guys so make sure you hit
that like button
all right before we wrap up deleted
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you've got a t-rex being ridden by a
unicorn i don't know why that was
removed
i see one over here next to me that's
got the like supreme red box white text
uh would not recommend selling those
style designs on merch by amazon
definitely gonna get removed at some
point
um all right let's move on alright guys
the giveaway just a quick reminder we
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for this week
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thank you for staying till the end with
me and i hope you guys have a great
weekend i'll see you tomorrow
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