hey what's up guys today i wanted to
share a success story from my merch by
amazon facebook group which of course is
linked in the description below but
we're going to be highlighting
somebody's story that they shared where
they basically took a year off from
merch by amazon and you can actually see
in their sales screenshot which is in
the thumbnail behind me that they were
not rewarded for taking a year off i'm
looking i'm doing the math in my head
they maybe made
uh like let's say 20 sales over the
course of a year when they weren't
uploading new designs but then they
rededicated themselves to generating a
new well new slash to cultivating this
income stream i don't know if you want
to call it new if you take a year off
then you come back to it it probably
feels new
and they rededicated themselves to it
and in the month of july which is not
like historically a really great month
they absolutely crushed it and that was
while in tier 100 so in this video i'm
going to share their tips with you and
hopefully you'll learn something new
that you can implement but let's get
started
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alright so here is again a glimpse at
the sales increase the massive spike in
sales that was a direct result of this
member of my facebook group rededicating
themselves to their merch by amazon
efforts and growing and scaling their
account they did this while in tier 100
so i'm gonna i kind of broke up their
they wrote out a kind of a long post of
just some suggestions and i figured this
is a great opportunity to hear from
somebody that's not me
uh on you know somebody who's achieved a
level of success that i think most of us
are impressed by and just hearing from
them some tips so let's go through it
really quickly so they say
straightforward tips and motivation
disclaimer i'm not a pro or expert just
trying to share suggestions based on my
personal experience with merch by amazon
so if you stop hustling you'll hardly
see any sales like i said i took around
one year gap from merch by amazon and i
was at tier 100 then
a couple of sellable items were there
that made me very few sales sometimes
i'm a freelance graphic designer and i
have a full-time job
that's why it became hard for me to
invest time in merch by amazon and had
to take the gap
one note that i would just throw in here
guys is like if you're feeling like you
don't have time to
dedicate to merch by amazon just please
keep in mind that like
doing something is always better than
doing nothing and you can create text
only designs where you just go into
uh photopia or photoshop or canva or
wherever
pick a big bold font and just write a
word it doesn't matter what the word is
then go upload it that's better than
doing nothing okay i just want to
quickly make that um statement because i
promise you it is better than doing
nothing and it only takes like two
minutes to make a text based
white text against a black t-shirt
design and upload it to merge by amazon
so i would highly suggest considering
doing that even if you feel like you
don't have enough time in the day um two
minutes two minutes
in reality maybe it's three minutes but
two minutes all right
for me it's two uh all right next
continuing
but on last june i rethought about it
and set a determination that enough is
enough i have to invest time in merch by
amazon
now i'm working hard and double time for
merch by amazon plus plus my full-time
job you can see my efforts are reflected
in my sales from july
so here again
is a screenshot of his sales
and i guess he probably rededicated
himself if i had to guess in june
where his sales jumped from like the
previous uh what 10 months or so
ranging from one to nine on average
probably four or five sales june we see
it spike to 17 and then july 256 sales
and then august 63 sales and hopefully
that number will continue to grow and
then for sure as we head into the fourth
quarter uh he'll be rewarded like
honestly if you're going to rededicate
yourself to merch by amazon or to print
on demand or e-commerce in general
right now in september is a really great
time to consider that because
we already know december is where it's
at november is where it's at even
october it really ramps up so you want
to capitalize on the uh increased sales
potential
all right resuming so please keep
hustling research upload quality designs
lots of free resources are on youtube
and blogs to learn just go for them
project a timeline where you want to see
your account at the end of the year what
is your target revenue per month from
merch by amazon etc once you pass your
learning curve you'll enjoy this merch
by amazon journey for sure mark my words
and yes everybody enjoys guys everybody
loves seeing those sales hearing the
cha-ching sound
i think it's a momentous day for any
merch by amazon seller when you get
tired of hearing the pretty much
cha-ching and you turn it off all right
that's like honestly one of the best
days ever because then you don't have to
hear it anymore uh but also it's kind of
like you know what you climb that
mountain and you've heard it enough
times where it's going to drive you
crazy if you hear it one more time the
little cash register
research tips go to amazon search bar
so these are research tips all right go
to the amazon search bar start with
anything any keyword that comes to your
mind if you're confused where to start
and honestly i agree this does work all
right you literally type in anything you
just drill down drill down drill down so
resuming he says
now dig dig and dig make sure to end up
with a profitable low competition sub
niche or make sure to come up with a
unique cross niche idea that you feel
might make a sale hey you got my
agreement there on both of those sub
niche down so that you're not competing
with you know 10 000 or 20 000 designs
when only i think 48 of them show up on
the first page of results or do a unique
cross niche idea you know world's best
nursing aunt right like you're now
you're targeting aunt's network as a
nurse things like that
uh resuming check trademarks make sure
you select the niche or idea
and make sure it's safe to use so always
go to
tmsearch.uspto.gov or trademarkia.com
they both work and uh make sure you
check your trademarks and also validate
on the marketplace you intend to sell on
as well because sometimes the trademark
isn't
is fine and you should be okay
but for whatever reason the marketplace
blocks your ability to post there so
again i agree there um also validate on
your on your marketplaces
all right then he says now comes design
take a snap of competitors design
and put aside your illustrator or
affinity artboard while you're designing
your own so use your competitors that
you see are working as inspiration is
what he's saying
now make sure your design withstands the
competitor's designs so design
accordingly this is what i call design
benchmark so i think he's suggesting
that you make sure your design is better
than your competitors or at a minimum
something similar you know you don't
want to clone anybody's designs but like
typically the best sellers in a niche
are best sellers for a reason like they
understood the niche or they're just
really good designers so use it as
inspiration
now comes the listing keywords part
which is very important use keywords
that are only relevant to your design
and niche try to make meaningful
complete sentences
don't just throw the keywords in a
listing so don't keyword stuff
open a notepad or excel sheet and
prepare your listings title brand and
bullets by the way i agree with that i
always like to have my stuff written
down in notepad i use notepad plus plus
i always keep it open but you know as a
web developer i was used to doing that
um but that way if you upload a similar
listing or you upload it to merch by
amazon but then you upload it to etsy
and ebay you've got all your keywords in
one spot so you don't have to retype
everything so it's good advice
all right resuming he says cheers you're
ready to upload your design one thing to
mention i'm never afraid of pricing i
always start with 18.99 without any
doubt once i get a review then i make it
19.99 but pricing is totally up to you
i agree there as well
um it's really you know you can get a
feel for what works as far as pricing
goes uh if you're under 19.99 which
again is the default then you have an
edge over the people who just keep the
default pricing which is 19.99 because
customers can always search by price low
to high and you're more likely to show
up before the 1999 majority of shirts
i'm just gonna guess that's the majority
because if it's the default it makes
sense to be the majority but
um depending on what your tier is you
may want to price at the floor you know
standard t-shirt 13.7 cents you're not
making any profit but you are
creating an extra incentive for a
potential customer to click your listing
instead of one of your competitors and
then you know you're kind of deferring
profitability but aiming to scale up
your account as quickly as possible
which i'm a big fan of to get out of
those lower tiers because obviously when
you have more upload slots you get more
coverage more flexibility
i think it opens the door to making a
lot more money unless you're in like
some hyper competitive niche and you've
got a really well ranking shirt in which
case you know get that money you know
what i mean increase your prices and uh
capture you know when you capture fire
in a bottle you know get that money from
it
so here again are his sales if you'd
like to meet him and maybe ask him a
question all you got to do is join my
merch by amazon facebook group i know it
was a very active thread and he was you
know active in responding to people that
had questions but um yeah guys i hope
you enjoyed this video please make sure
to hit that like button if you did and
before i leave just wanted to remind you
i wrote a full merch by amazon course
that i'm actively updating keeping up to
date showing you how i took my account
from tier 10 to tier 200 000 if you
would like to learn from me how i did
that check out the link in the
description
and thank you again for watching please
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