hey what's up guys welcome to top five
niches of the week this is episode 114
and i got five new print-on-demand
niches for you to target in the near
term to hopefully make you some sales
right away now if you missed last week's
episode episode 113 i can link to it in
the description
but it was a forward-looking episode
where we were really planning ahead for
august because i'm not going to lie the
back half of july
a little bit of a slow time in terms of
predictable niches now something could
change this week where the news cycle
takes it and runs and we know that
oftentimes when that happens a lot of
money is made
with making t-shirts related to whatever
the the current thing is right so i
don't know what's going to happen this
week if anything happens i'll let you
know but or as far as t-shirts go but
anyways this episode a little bit harder
to pull together than a lot of the
previous weeks episodes but that said
why don't we just get right into it
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all right here's my amazon merch sales
update for the last seven days got 440
sales uh definitely a nice week we had a
couple what was it back to back days of
uh prime day even though prime day
implies one day i guess we have prime
days don't we
uh and you can see here the royalties uh
pretty good week um i think this is
about a hundred or so extra sales week
over week than what i'm used to
so definitely pretty good there
all right niche number one for the top
five niches
now i'm just going to go ahead and say
that i went ahead and i just
screenshotted the top six shirts from uh
pretty much pros research tab here
and what you see is a nice wide variety
of evergreens
and that just means we're back to a kind
of i don't know i don't know what's
normal is this normal it's probably not
normal to have evergreens selling this
well normally we have some trend that's
just like
way above everything else at least
lately since like 2020 i feel like the
the world just feels so much more
centralized right um pretty much due to
the mainstream media but anyways
separate story
what do we see though we see the pluto
shirt pluto never forget uh this shirt
has made another comeback i feel like it
just will come out of the blue and be
the number one shirt any given week
when there's a lack of like an
overarching
trend then we have a dinosaur shirt then
we have the i'm not old i'm classic that
just sells all the time
uh admit it life would be boring without
me we have the tree of life or phases of
the moon retrograde i don't know what
that is and uh in my defense i was left
unsupervised so you have a nice mix of
evergreens so what is niche number one
niche number one is hey
if you normally chase to trends
and you're not in like tier you know if
you're in like tier let's say 100 or
higher with merch by amazon or if you're
selling on etsy redbubble
this might be a nice time to either take
a vacation and just chill out
or
sell some evergreens like this is
probably a good time to get some
evergreens listed because there isn't a
current thing that is like very much
obvious and in our faces as much as
normal so anyways i went to google
trends i did a five year uh search on
pluto just to see like why is the pluto
shirt back trending did i miss something
it does not appear so it doesn't appear
it looks like of the past five years
though the highest it was trending was
in about
maybe february early february or late
january of 2022 which is interesting
uh so yeah not really sure why that
shirt is doing so well but niche number
one is evergreens and i'm putting a
specific slant on maybe look into pluto
or the planets etc
uh if there's a reason why this is
trending let me know i couldn't figure
it out google trends did not help me out
either
but
yeah when it's when it's a top selling
shirt right now we gotta take you know
take notice
all right niche number two is
i had not seen this uh niche before so i
don't know how new it is but i'm
assuming it's relatively new based on
the lack of reviews on the top six
shirts looks like only five reviews on
the top six shirts
and they say donkey pox the disease
destroying america okay so definitely
getting political there
and hey who cares when you're making
sales as we're selling t-shirts right
bsr's fifty thousand seventy thousand
hundred nineteen thousand hundred twenty
thousand hundred twenty thousand hundred
fifty thousand
and yeah these are just the types of and
there's a lot of different ways to spin
it too as you can see here um
the one in the middle looks like it has
you know symptoms include etc although i
don't know if i would even put the word
symptoms just because you're getting a
little too close to
um whoever it is that is like the
central planners of what's allowed and
not allowed to talk about like even me
just saying it right now we know youtube
this this video is going to take an
extra like hour probably just to publish
because their like
algorithms are going to have to
determine whether or not i'm talking
about things that they've deemed us not
being allowed to talk about you know
what i mean a little bit weird but they
want a central source for all
information that is the tv the person
wearing a lab coat even though they read
a script who writes the script i don't
know
but question nothing just
listen and download your programming and
act on it right uh anyways
sorry for that rant but you know i'm
leaving it in today i don't care uh
donkey pox the disease destroying
america hey be careful with this one
because you never know if the sensors
are going to change their mind on what's
allowed overnight and then you would get
these removed but that being said it's
selling pretty well and it seems
relatively new
all right niche number three
it says okay this is more like the
boating niche all right because it's a
nice outside warm weather if you can who
doesn't love to
uh go out and go boating okay and it
says i hate pulling out now we've
definitely seen
pulling out as like a funny
meme shirt in the past uh used for
things other than boating but right now
it's like the i hate pulling out uh
boating shirts and you can see some of
the shirts have like little uh anchors
on them of course associated with boats
so that that to me makes a little bit of
sense
and yeah um what more needs to be said
boating you know what i mean we're
outside we're doing summer activities um
i was out you know boating um
was like two weeks ago or something for
july 4th definitely like beautiful day
and uh hopefully everybody gets to go
and experience that sometime this summer
that'd be awesome
uh anyways i hate pulling out retro boat
captain shirt so yeah so some keywords
for instance by the way so this is
pretty much pro plus they have the
analyze button you click that you get a
more in-depth look into the shirts the
niche you get the bullets the
description etc the title the brand and
if you scroll down sometimes it's
cropped out of my screenshots but you
get this keyword analysis so i just
wanted to show you that they split it up
this is by the way
this is very useful for running ads and
i just did like i think two videos in
the last week kind of talking about ads
at like a high level more or less
but
and i didn't go into the details of like
setting up manual campaigns but you know
because i because i don't want to scare
people off i know some people are still
scared of ads but like hey at a minimum
set up an auto campaign with low bids
but what's next after that well set up
manual campaigns but ryan what keywords
do i advertise on in my manual campaigns
well if you use pretty merch pro plus
which by the way is linked in the
description
they give you keywords to
to advertise on it's like literally
right here so you can go ahead and set
up like
um for maybe phrase matches on the
multi-words right and then go set up
broad matches on the single words all
right and again with broad match they
tend to spend your money so i would
recommend like be responsible with your
bids definitely come in a little bit
lower and inch them up over time is what
i recommend but i just wanted to shout
that out right there because it is very
useful to have those keywords
from the listings that are already
selling
all right niche number four
uh back to the roe v wade stuff although
this is one that i don't recall seeing
in the past so it says row row row your
vote all right pretty nice whoever
thought of that well done and your
reward for thinking of that is
everybody's copying you unfortunately
i'm laughing that it does suck but
whoever thought of that it is pretty
darn clever uh row row row your vote all
right bsr's 48 000 56 000
eighty six thousand ninety four thousand
hundred forty thousand
all right
and we're already pretty familiar with
the roe v wade stuff so niche number
five and this one was
uh you know it was a tough one to put
together there didn't seem like there
was a niche number five that really
stood out to me uh for me to recommend
so niche number five i noticed some
repetition
of cowboy related designs and
specifically the bull horns you see on
the very first one that says cowboy
killer
there was at least like one or two other
designs that had like the bull horns and
they were in like the top let's just say
maybe 200 trending merch designs
so i know i you know i was scrolling and
i was scrolling i'm looking for
something assuming something would pop
up and wasn't really seeing whatever the
next you know big trend was all right
like i said this week they really felt
like there was an absence of them so
while we're doing some evergreens this
week and we say evergreens those are
designs that can sell at any point in
the year
well
i don't know if it's gonna sell better
in the summer versus the winter my guess
is probably uh but how about some cowboy
designs of course be careful anything
cowboy related like
this past year we saw a lot of people
making money in this niche but they were
they were
i don't want to say directly infringing
right but they were definitely making
money off of people that were into the
tv show like yellowstone and then there
was uh what was 1883 i think the
spin-off so just be careful if you're
gonna get into this niche and you've
never seen those shows
it's going to be hard to exercise
discretion because you don't even know
if what you're seeing is selling because
people that watch the show understand
that it's a quote or something just
always be careful with that stuff guys
um
the legality side of it remember exists
independently of the
merch by amazon decided not to let you
sell side of it right legality side
merch by amazon decided not to let you
do it side right
and with this other side remember comes
the censorship related to anything they
want
all right we don't know who pulls the
strings but like just keep in mind we
we've been at it now
since 2020 we've seen a lot of um
changes in the landscape and it's not
unique just to amazon obviously but like
i said like i said this youtube video is
pretty gonna take an extra hour to
publish because you know i said the word
symptoms you know what i mean and
that's the world we live in welcome to
2020. welcome to 2020 plus right it's
the world that whoever
is doing it envisioned for us
meagre peasants trying to make a little
bit of side money selling t-shirts
online it's ridiculous but here we are
all right so western cowgirl so i guess
this is like a cowboy shirt for women
i'm not telling you to sell this exact
shirt i was just saying that
there was a couple shirts that kind of
were like the western slant
and so i said hey you know what niche
number five let's go for it it's
evergreen week get some evergreens or
take a week off
all right seller trends shirts that have
seen a significant spike in bsr recently
here we go you can pause the video take
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looking ahead if you want to sell shirts
related to seemingly random holidays we
have august 17th national thrift shop
day
august 18th bad poetry day
august 19th aviation day
august 20th national honeybee awareness
day
august 21st
senior citizens day all right
bonus design uh by the way since we're
doing evergreen stuff this week
sometimes just having a really good
design
itself can be an evergreen that just
sells like in the case of this it's you
know the kawaii style design i never
know if i'm saying that right the anime
kawaii style design and boba tea which
we know sells like very well um so no
surprise there but like these kawaii
style anime style designs it could be
like almost anything and i feel like if
you do a good enough job animating them
it can sell right by the way if you
don't use vexels maybe check them out i
always have a link in the description
under like the designs i think i labeled
it like print on demand design
um they take requests and they have a
team of professional graphic designers
and you can put in a certain number of
requests monthly for custom graphics and
i mean hey i'm just saying this isn't a
bad idea here with the kawaii style i'm
not telling you to replicate this i'm
just saying this design style we know
sells extremely well you don't have to
overthink that one
alright deleted designs i use merch
ninja to pull these so you can go ahead
and like pause it if you want to check
these out we see more let's go brandon
um what else anything the friday the
13th stuff
some anti-biden stuff john beer
doing the john deere stuff got boba you
know always check your trademarks got
boba maybe trademarked anyways
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