hey what's up guys in this video i'm
gonna reminisce a little bit about a
niche that really helped me get quite a
few sales on etsy specifically and i
noticed that uh when i say this niche
it's actually a big brand and you can
debate whether you know people are
infringing or not that sell uh shirts to
people who are familiar with this brand
because it is definitely a gray area but
i noticed that now they are officially a
um you know amazon merch partner brand
and they're running ads they've got an
amazon store
i know quite a few people have made
money selling to
um
to fans if you will of the franchise so
i'm gonna reveal what this is what what
niche i'm talking about in this video
and have a couple takeaways about where
i think amazon merch is headed as i see
more and more of these uh big brands
partnering with amazon merch so let's
get started
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all right so the big brand that i'm
talking about today is dungeons and
dragons no i've never played but i do
know that a lot of people that play this
game purchase t-shirts related to the
game but here's what's kind of the gray
area right i'm not talking about going
and selling the dungeons and dragons
logo on a t-shirt of course i'm not
saying that i'm not saying to sell
graphics from anything related to
dungeons and dragons right but what
about like
the dice right i've never played the
game by the way but there's i think a
20-sided dice that you use to play
well are you allowed to put that on a
t-shirt because that's what i used to do
back in the in the day back when i was
on my first etsy shop um not like i
planned it right but i remember just
doing niche research actually you know
where i got the idea from reddit just
reading a uh a reddit thread of like
what's your favorite t-shirt so i
literally just combed through that
thread for hours writing down
everybody's responses and ultimately
somebody said something about the
20-sided die so i put that on a t-shirt
start making sales you guys already know
what i did next i doubled down and made
a bunch more made them colored made to
make you know whatever but you know is
it wrong
to sell
a dice on a shirt if the dice is
involved in playing the game itself i
don't know you know should we hire
lawyers to litigate this um personally i
think it's okay to sell a dice right
like just a die
um that's like saying oh well monopoly
uses the six sided you know dice so we
can't put that on a t-shirt but what
about every other game too that also
uses that right what about the games in
vegas where you throw dice right so it's
a little bit of a gray area i know
everybody's got you know opinions and
some people get super triggered when you
imply that maybe you sold a shirt to
somebody who was buying the shirt
because they want because you know
because they like the board game or
something um that's okay let me know
your comment in the comment section i'd
love to hear from you but that wasn't
the point of this video uh what i really
wanted to share is that they are
officially on amazon and they're not the
only big brand to become an official
amazon merch on demand partner if you've
been paying attention there are a ton of
big brands that are partnering with
amazon merch on demand even like the new
top gun movie right that's just a movie
you know how movies kind of the if you
go to google trends and you search for
the movie title you see one big spike
spike and then it kind of just
disappears for 99.9 of movies but even
they
are getting smart now and partnering
with amazon merch and i mean hey power
to them we saw how well those top gun
shirts were selling so why not i mean it
comes at no cost as we know as amazon
merch sellers know
but what i'm really trying to show you
is that i think amazon merch is reaching
out to these big brands right because
what are the what's the odds that these
brands are finding amazon merch i think
amazon merch is reaching out
proposing that they form a partnership
because it's so mutually beneficial
especially when you're charging 29.99
for a long sleeve shirt they're probably
making nine dollars in royalties there
or 21.99 for a short sleeve shirt
probably making like you know seven
dollars a sale there
uh and notice this is an ad this is a
sponsored brand ad which leads me to
believe that when amazon merch probably
reaches out to these brands they
probably say by the way if you sign on
you know our onboarding team will
create t-shirt designs for you i'm sure
they have graphic designers on staff i'm
sure they have somebody that sets up ads
for them on staff i mean i'm not sure
but i'm
quite if i had if my life depended on it
i would definitely lean on that amazon
merch has an onboarding team that
probably sets up the shirts sets up the
ads you know sets up the sponsored brand
ads like you're seeing behind me here
the sponsored product ads who knows
maybe they get a better rate um you know
who knows uh but this is this is coming
you know more and more brands are gonna
sign on board with amazon merch and when
i saw you know dungeons and dragons it
just reminded me of like wow you know i
i don't know about you guys you know i
do a lot of niche research shop reviews
et cetera like i've seen so many people
that were making money selling to the
board game crowd right i'm not saying
that they were infringing and using
graphics and you know the logo or
anything like that i'm saying that you
know you put the dice on you put a funny
saying on i think there was one i
thought i captured a screenshot but you
can go looking right now there's still
people that are not the official
dungeons and dragons brand selling
shirts to people who play the game
because they're putting like the funny i
mean again i've never played but um if
you kind of just kind of scroll through
the niche you'll see some repetition of
little phrases and whatnot like text
that you can kind of pair with the
shirts
um but if i was selling anything in this
space
i would certainly be proactive and go
ahead and delete it the the time has
come
if you ask me anyways uh to to get rid
of that you know and stop trying to
market shirts to fans of this brand
because as you can see they've
established a presence on amazon uh now
i wanted to mention here
this shirt which is it looked like to me
the best seller of the dungeons and
dragons official shirts uh was posted in
november 18 2021 so that's probably
about the time that you know this brand
specifically
establish their partnership with amazon
merch but i did just want to shout out
like if you're using research tool for
instance i really like pretty merch pro
plus as like my go-to when i'm doing my
top five niches of the week i love that
it integrates right with amazon merch
you guys know how how much i love amazon
merch uh they do a great job of keeping
up with filtering out these brands
because these brands that you see here
you know dungeons and dragons for
instance you have to manually filter
those out there's no way that i'm aware
of of detecting at scale when it's an
official brand and then filtering them
out so just another benefit of using a
research tool if you guys opt to do that
uh you don't have to scroll through a
bunch of protected brands they just get
filtered out automatically and you only
look at products
that you can sell that you have the
rights to sell um so
it looks like they also have their own
you know amazon store which i believe
you can set up i mean who knows how they
did it there's a couple different ways
uh but they definitely had somebody at
amazon or i guess if they have an amazon
expert on their staff set them up with a
whole amazon store and beyond just
amazon merch they've got uh
what is that campaign collection so i
guess that's part of a of the board game
maybe um probably have some books if i
had to guess maybe they're on kdp uh
it's just interesting you know we're
gonna see more and more of this
it's kind of like how fba
used to be uh just such a great
opportunity for normal people like you
and me to make money
and then you know what happened
there were i don't want to say like
paint in broad strokes but like amazon
starts launching a bunch of their own
brands and acquiring brands right uh
other big companies start acquiring fba
brands so if you're like a business
aggregator you know and you got like
venture capital backing you you just go
and you buy people's fba brands and you
kind of lump them together and then all
of a sudden you know you've got so much
capital behind you you can probably
afford to operate at a loss for any
amount of time until you like if you
launch a new product i'm just saying
theoretically you can throw so much
money into that new product launch even
if it's in a really competitive space
because you know you got the capital to
do so you've got you know it's not just
your money from your bank account you
know pre or post tax right it's it's so
hard you know for a normal person i get
it to be launching products and
especially competing directly with um
you know business aggregators and
whatnot that have much deeper pockets
and probably don't mind to defer
profitability especially if they own you
know multiple fba businesses so i'm kind
of rambling but it's just it looks like
it's coming to merch now where it's
gonna get harder as merch sellers for us
to make money if i had to guess i'm
guessing uh because we're gonna see more
and more like big brands um just just
occupying
space in search results you know what i
mean just think about it like there's
only so many spots on page one
especially when you type in very generic
search terms
and most likely what's gonna happen is
you know the big brands with the brand
recognition
will just filter out um or just get
ahead of like rank ahead of
are more generic t-shirts that we may
sell so those are my thoughts that i
wanted to share for this video guys let
me know your thoughts in the comments
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