so it's new year's eve and i thought
what better way to put an end
to 2020 than to recap the top five
niches
of the year and this is not necessarily
me saying hey go sell these shirts
because a lot of them have probably run
their course but
certainly not all of them so let's just
look back really quickly
on some of the most profitable t-shirt
niches that we covered in top five
niches of the week
in a year review
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alright let's get started number one
niche of the year
and i did try to put these ones in order
so
i am thinking and this i mean if you
disagree let me know in the comments
below but it's probably fair to say that
niche number one was the biden harris
niche um when that was announced it
wasn't even that they won it was that
when they were announced
this one went absolutely crazy with
sales
and i even interviewed dominic who came
on the channel by the way shout out to
baddie's passive income i'll put a link
in the description if you want to show
him some love
he does print on demand videos and he
talked about how he made a couple
thousand bucks
in a couple days selling uh biden harris
shirts when essentially there wasn't too
many big other trends to compete with
you know he was early to this trend and
he knocked it out of the park but
you know obvious reasons a lot of
excitement around the prospects of
your new president and new president
well vice president
and ultimately they ended up winning and
then people who came early to this trend
probably made even more money when they
ultimately won the election so niche
number one biden harris
niche number two any guesses
i went ahead and i put the black lives
matter shirts as niche number two i mean
these sold
really really well for maybe a third of
the year
running up to the election especially
they were running or they were selling
really well i mean it was all over the
media
and uh you know for better or worse
because i mean there are a lot of uh
what do we say like burning of buildings
and looting associated with it which i
don't think is the purpose
of the message behind the black lives
matter so
either way let's not get political here
we're just selling t-shirts and the blm
t-shirts
sold quite well all year
niche number three
and at the same time the blm stuff was
selling really well we had these
t-shirts of kind of
human equality let's say you know the
first one what does it say kindness
peace equality love inclusion hope
diversity
uh essentially while we maybe lived
through i mean i don't want to say it's
the most polarizing
year ever because i don't know that to
be true but maybe during my lifetime the
most polarizing year
where the mainstream media just seemed
to really want to highlight
um things to divide us
at the same time just through people
voicing
their whatever their opinion through
purchasing t-shirts because again
on amazon we see best seller rank we see
people
uh voting with their money you could say
because we see low bsrs indicative of
high sales
we saw these shirts selling like crazy
as well so you had
the black lives matter movement then you
had the kind of all human
lives matter regardless of you know x y
and z that they want to say
is there to divide us and that's a nice
positive message to take away from 2020
that these shirts sold really well
as well niche number four
how could we leave ruth bader ginsburg
out of the top five
niches of the week uh now here's the
thing
i wouldn't list any of these for sale
and i didn't list any of these for sale
because i just
was not sure if it was gonna be safe and
like i always say guys before you list
anything go do your market research
and when i say that what do i mean i
mean go do a keyword search
on the marketplaces you intend to list
shirts on
and evaluate what's already there
because that tends to be indicative of
what's allowed
if you're unsure about some keywords go
look and see if those keywords exist
you know and typically like you have to
do the keywords in order
because sometimes they like a way to
game the merge keyword system which you
shouldn't do by the way not a good
long-term strategy
is to insert words in between your
phrases and you can typically get
indexed on them without getting
the approval rejection algorithm to
reject you but anyways you don't want to
do that that's not something that i
condone
but with the ruth bader ginsburg stuff
we had people making
thousands and thousands of dollars and
then we also had people's accounts
getting close that's why i'm saying like
i don't think you should try to sell any
and i don't understand why amazon merged
to this day still has hundreds of them
left up
and yet at the same time had removed
hundreds of them
i don't work for amazon merch i'm not a
decision maker there i don't have a
contact there that i can just call on
the phone and ask unfortunately if i did
that'd be awesome
if anybody's watching call me uh but
seriously rbg
this was one of the best-selling it
might i mean it probably wasn't the best
selling but it might have been
like the rbg shirts went nuts this year
and uh rest in peace
to ruth bader ginsburg niche number five
of the year five out of five any guesses
what this
is gonna be so i bet you you might be
able to guess
niche number five are the social
distancing
world champion t-shirts and no i don't
mean that this was the fifth best niche
of the year
what i really meant by this was the sub
niche
and cross niching of things related to
the cerveza sickness
without violating the merch content
policy meaning we don't want to
capitalize off human tragedy and
essentially you have to kind of work
your way around
certain keywords and as long as you do
that you're okay
and in this case this is like my
favorite example of people that found
a creative way of in this case cross
niching bigfoot
and social distancing which is closely
associated with the
response from our leaders our
politicians
to the cerveza sickness so i really like
this as niche number five and i mean
people did some really creative
uh jobs of finding ways to
implement them in their designs and put
a 2020 spin on things
all right my looking ahead as in
you know normally i would say well these
future dates and you know what for
looking ahead this time
i'm gonna point you to my video top
trends of 2021 that i released a couple
days ago where i tried to predict some
of the big macro trends of 2021 that
will have
plenty of sub-niche potential for us to
um
to attack as far as our t-shirt sales
and i'll even give you
uh the first niche election or sorry
inauguration
2021 which is i think january 20th so
it's coming up it's only a couple weeks
away
and i know that's gonna move some
t-shirts and i'll put if you missed that
video i'll put a link to it right here
in the youtube
cards oh bonus shirts of the year you
guys excited
all right actually i only selected one i
thought this one was fitting
so it's our 2020 shirts with the one
star review and then it says things like
terrible do not recommend would give
zero stars
awful started bad got progressively
worse would not recommend
horrible would not recommend by the way
people found a way of making this their
own which you gotta love you know they
they didn't all just write the same text
underneath you didn't have to write text
underneath but it seemed
like again people the customers vote
with their dollars and we can see bsr
and we know which ones
got purchased the most if you use ds
amazon quickview for instance my
favorite way of
spying on bsrs of t-shirts and
yeah these were some funny ones that i
really liked as the bonus
shirt of the year selection and they
also made it into the top five by the
way so these were selling really well
they weren't just bonus shirts
deleted designs of the year so if you
have any of these listed this might be
your uh suggestion from me to consider
removing them
shirts that are too closely related to
the human tragedy
aspect of the cerveza sickness you
definitely want to
remove those if you got any through and
you know just based on the deleted
designs that i saw all year i know there
were a lot of rejections
that just towed the line too closely
here
we also noticed every week in the
removed designs that there were
greek fraternity sorority like the whole
greek letters just stay away
these were getting removed left and
right all year so keep your account safe
and steer clear of those
and curse words you know amazon merch
made a
change they said that they are not going
to be in favor of some of the like
harder
curse words on t-shirts i also try to
stay away from saying them on youtube
just because
the algorithm is constantly listening
and spying and determining who sees what
not that i know for sure if they like me
cursing or not but i try to not curse on
this channel because hey
family show family show it's the first
time i've ever said that on this channel
but i like when when shows that i like
say that
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