hey what's up guys hope you're having a
great day i was on vacation but i got
back last night and that is why i am
doing this video today i probably would
have done it last week but i did just
want to
give my thoughts on whether or not we
should be selling t-shirts related to
anything
russia ukraine ukraine russia
uh generally speaking
i like to play it safe most of you guys
that are already subscribed to my
channel you already knew that i was
going to say that
i believe in this as a long-term
business model and i know
that and you know hopefully by now that
we are really at amazon's mercy when it
comes to merch by amazon specifically
which just so happens to be
my number one opportunity if i had to
rank them
to make money with print on demand and
not just make money but let's just say
to make a full time wage with print on
demand i know more people doing it with
merch by amazon than anything else
so i really think that you know given
the uh long-term
time horizon that
you can kind of set for your merch by
amazon business is it really worth
potentially putting your account at risk
for any niche right like i know it can
be enticing when we see
you know i mean i took a screenshot as
you guys could probably guess too that i
took a screenshot of some research tools
i'm going to show you how well some
shirts are currently selling but i'm
going to give my thoughts as we go and
we're going to do a quick refresher on
the content policy to see if we should
be allowed or shouldn't be allowed you
know based on the policies to uh sell in
this niche so why don't we get started
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so i came back after like five days or
so in florida just relaxing didn't work
at all and expected to see you know some
activity in the facebook groups like
this post
asking if uh you know are the ukraine
designs a no-no you know are the russia
designs a no-no
obviously if you look at research tools
you're going to see them popping up
amongst the best sellers so here from
pretty merch pro plus research tab we
can see that the you know bsrs here of
just the first row of shirts
it's crazy i mean you got one at 900 bsr
you got some uh under 2 000.
you got a couple right around 3 000 and
you've got the of course the i'm not old
i'm classic shirt which has absolutely
nothing to do
with uh
with conflicts and um in geopolitical
affairs but that shirt just always has
to be amongst the best sellers because
for whatever reason it just is um good
design i guess so guys
there's a huge spike in
interest in this topic over time uh you
know i do i even dare to say it's
political that there are people on both
sides i don't know right you make up
your own mind i'm not trying to even go
there uh the whole point is you know out
of sight out of mind and then the
inverse of that is is also true insight
in mind which is part of the steps
towards making in this case a t-shirt
sale right in this channel we're talking
more about e-commerce right i know you
could go into tangents about like all
the other
talking points but no we're talking
about selling t-shirts today oh i just
realized i'm blocking the interest here
let me hide myself check that out check
out that spike
so this is the search term ukraine shirt
over time all right over the last five
years
and it is
probably safe to say
you know 12 to 15 times higher than it's
ever been based on previous highs over
the last five years
suffice to say guys there's interest in
selling shirts related to ukraine all
right we already knew that that's why
you're watching i go to redbubble i
check bubble scout
like three of the top 10 things and
maybe even more i didn't check all of
them uh there was one related to like
hillary clinton's emails i don't know
where that came from but
said hillary clinton emails now this
video will probably definitely get uh
suppressed by the youtube search
algorithm but anyways hit a like hit the
like button though if you want to help
me because it has nothing to do with any
of those things but that's just the
world we live in now you can't talk
about certain things or you get
suppressed um three of the top ten
things in the red bubble trending
searches were related to ukraine
and
now it's like okay we know people are
buying what should we do with our
accounts now i already told you up front
my general
recommendation is to stay away stay away
stay away because
even if let's say you were able to get a
couple shirts through
number one they could
update the approval rejection the
approval slash rejection algorithm the
next day right and all of a sudden
reject everything so you might think oh
i got it through yesterday so i'm gonna
get a couple more through today get
rejections
they could remove the existing designs
that we're able to get through
again i don't work for amazon i don't
have any contacts there this is just me
speaking to my five years experience
we've seen basically everything at this
point so i'm just reminding you that oh
i'm still i'm still hidden by the way
here i'm back now i'm still just
reminding you guys that like anything's
possible in this case and uh i'm
laughing because it's like man it really
shows that i was uh on vacation and not
on my computer at all whatsoever but
here we go we are back at the amazon
merge content policies now that i've
reminded you guys that i think it's
generally a best practice to stay away
from anything that you're not a hundred
and ten percent sure okay 110 meaning
not only are you sure that it should be
okay but you have that extra 10 that
doesn't actually work with 110 but i'm
just saying you want to be above and
beyond confident and not lose a wink of
sleep at night
over your merch by amazon account
because unlike pretty much every other
print on demand opportunity out there
merged by amazon you know when it's gone
it's pretty much gone
um so you really want to protect your
account plus you know how hard it is you
got to put blood sweat tears and time
into scaling up your account so i really
think over the long time horizon
whatever amount of money you think you
can make in the short term by risking
something not worth it okay so here we
go content policy i will link to it in
the description in case you want to
check it out for yourself as well they
have rewritten this thing many times
since i began selling uh they have
condensed it quite a bit which is kind
of like their way of saying we reserve
the right like they don't want to
explicitly state things i don't think i
think they want to keep it generic
so that they can reserve the right to
pretty much do whatever they want also
keep in mind that like what's the market
cap of amazon really quickly all right
this is a company
that is worth
currently 1.54
t who knows what t stands for in this
context yes yes you in the back of the
class trillion okay 1.54 trillion
dollars who thinks amazon wants to risk
their reputation
over
selling t-shirts that may piss off some
people and
you know what i mean there's typically
two sides of a coin so let's just say
may piss off a lot of people yeah they
don't want to do that that's probably
why they also even though they love
making money hand over fist don't let
you advertise politics
right
so
that being said here we go they do not
want to allow content that promotes
incites or glorifies hatred violence
racial sexual or religious intolerance
or promotes organizations with such
views
i'm not gonna say anything actually
content that graphically portrays
violence or victims of violence content
depicting children or characters
resembling children in a sexually
suggestive manner uh youth size products
that may contain adult content profanity
and or sexual references content related
to human tragedies
so again that could easily be expanded
uh to say nothing related to ukraine and
natural disasters content using
profanity to attack a group or
individual content that promotes illegal
activity sexually obscene content and
inflammatory content so very generic
very high level i would say they did not
get into much detail they certainly if
you remember some of the older content
policies which you could probably look
up on archive.org for an old copy um
used to definitely get a little bit more
specific now they're just like you know
what no we're keeping it high level uh
so ultimately guys i think it's safe to
say to stay away now have some of you
guys probably gotten into this niche
you probably have successfully um does
that mean that
generally speaking everybody who watches
this video should try to
here's the thing if you can't i know
some people get the itch and they just
cannot resist
if you're gonna go for it my one
recommendation would be
don't do it through merch by amazon do
it through fbm you know amazon seller
central
do it through redbubble do it through
anything else i just think that the
merch by amazon account needs to be kept
especially safe we know that they're by
far the strictest with the approval
algorithm but guys as i wrap the video i
did just want to show you a couple of
the best sellers and some of the uh
dates that they were posted so
this one uh i guess i cut off the bsr
it's got like a 5000 bsr
posted february 27th 2022. so these are
all posted recently the best sellers uh
this one posted march 1st 2022
this one posted february 26 2022 this
one february 23 2022 last one february
28th 2022 so a lot of them got through
recently but even when you're doing your
research applying the process to
validate and verify um just remember
that these things can turn on a dime and
these existing ones that got posted can
be removed i'm not saying they will i
have no insights i just know that it's
better safe than sorry all right i keep
saying that so you guys get the point
thank you for watching guys as i wrap
the video did want to remind you i have
a full amazon course well merch by
amazon course walking you through how it
went from tier 10 to tier 200 000 you
can find out more link is in the
description thank you for watching guys
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