what's up guys today i'm going to show
you how to use flying research
print on demand research tool what's
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right let's talk flying research
now like i said you can find a link
right there in the description
to sign up you'll be brought to this
page
go ahead and click uh sign up here
underneath the login button
and create your account again you don't
need to add any payment information so
when i say free it is free now
in mid february i think it was like
february 18th i think is what they told
me
at some point you're gonna have to pay
and if you choose
if you like the tool enough to pay at
that point and you want to use the code
ryan50
it'll take 50 off but you don't need to
worry about that for at least what
three four weeks so just wanted to let
you guys know though
all right so this is how i would
recommend using it the first thing i
would recommend doing
is clicking the gear in the top right
corner so i've actually been using
flying research for
i don't know maybe even two months now
at this point i got early access the
perks of being a youtuber in the
print-on-demand space
but i've been using it for my top five
niches of the week for i think like two
months now and i've really liked it
because i noticed it was
generating ideas that i wasn't seeing in
some of the other research tools
so that's always good if you can get
some sort of an edge and find some
niches that other tools aren't
suggesting i mean that's
use that to your advantage so click the
gear in the top right corner
and then when you get the flyout menu
click settings this is the first thing i
would do now
under settings go to email notifications
on that left hand side
and then where you see email
notifications for tm watch list
check that and then make sure that your
email address per on file is something
that you actually monitor because that's
going to
let them email you if any of your
trademarks that you want them to monitor
for you
come up with a hit that somebody has a
registered trademark
also underneath that if you would like
you can also turn on event reminders and
they'll email you
relevant event reminders like you can
set the period of time you can see it
right next to me right here
you can set the period of time before
the event and then they will shoot you
an email
letting you know that it's coming up so
if you're interested you know you can do
that as well you can also set countries
for events to have events relevant to
that location
all right once you've done that you
should probably head over to tm
watchlist which is on the left-hand side
navigation
and then you can create a list of
trademarks that
you are well it doesn't have to be
trademarks i guess but you can create a
list
of niches and keywords that you're
selling already
on merch by amazon redbubble etsy
wherever it is you sell
you can add your list of relevant
keywords here and they will perform
recurring checks
on your behalf and if they notice that
something has an
active trademark registered they will
alert you via email so that you can pull
your stuff down ahead of time so it's
pretty useful
uh and i mean again it's not something
that you should be taking time to do
manually every single day so why not
just
you know leave it to the software and by
the way when you
search a keyword and you want it to be
added to your recurring checklist
make sure you click it in the list and
then where you see the tm name and you
see the clock make sure you click the
clock that's why it's highlighted
there all right the next one on the
navigation it's called niche
lists all right i just want to make you
aware this is not something critical
that you have to look at i just want to
want to let you know that this is there
so if you go to niche lists
they'll generate a list of high-level
niches as you can see
family is the top one and then there's
sub-categories within
family and you can click any one of
those and it'll take you to a page where
you can see more information
next you can go to niche analysis right
next to the
niche lists and with niche analysis you
can go ahead and
enter in a niche so i typed in chocolate
you know very broad very generic and
they rated it a
c which is not great you can do better
than a c
the score that it generated
algorithmically and you can see it
underneath the letter c
there was 43 out of 100 so again it's
not the best
but i'm going to use this as an example
to show you some of the data that it
pulls
it gives you the average bsr which to me
is not that important this is averaging
quite a few different shirts so the
picture painted by average bsr is really
not that useful
as you can see they're also showing us
the average bsr of like the top three
shirts on that keyword as well as the
sales reviews etc and the top ten
additionally you can scroll down in the
page you can see
a chart of the bsr averages over time
for the
entire niche which is interesting and
you can find
niche statistics basically the number of
designs making
a certain number of sales so you can see
the average design is making zero sales
and then there's kind of a wide
disbursement ranging from 1 to 15 sales
obviously it's a little bit rare to be
making 15 sales
regularly but anyways it's interesting
that they included that data in here
you can see the focus keywords within
the niche so related to the
seed keyword that i typed in which is
chocolate they say things like chocolate
lover
chocoholic and they rank it in terms of
most used so if you're thinking like oh
what additional keywords can i use to
get
you know ranked on similar words
synonyms for instance and this could
also be used in redbubble as well
you can say chocolate chocolate lover
chocoholic food choco funny i love
chocolate
cute love sweet cocoa yummy candy bakery
you guys get the
the gist then you see best sellers in
the niche interestingly enough
the number one design is of a chocolate
lab not actually of chocolate actually
number two is sexual chocolate
from i guess 1988 so um maybe that's
like a tour shirt for for an
artist anyways interesting interesting i
would a picture to be more um chocolate
i was actually eating a chocolate bar
here
and i was like what word should i search
for and i'd like oh well i'm eating
quinoa crunch this stuff is actually
pretty delicious by the way
completely off off topic but i think
that's from like trader joe's thing was
delicious
all right so you've got um the top three
designs and they actually compare them
a line chart analysis and bar chart
analysis as far as the
bsr goes and even further down the page
you can see things again like
again comparing those three products
comparing their sales their bsr their
seller ranks
price reviews and focus keywords so
again this is just more in-depth
information collecting
the scope in this case what you're
seeing here is refined to the top three
results
all right additionally on the left-hand
side navigation you can go to categories
and they actually pull this list
together
for us so you can see here for instance
chinese new year was trending i probably
should have moved my arrow there from
down from architect
to chinese new year because i actually
clicked chinese new year
as i believe that's approaching right
let me see is it chinese
new year uh february 12th yes it is i
was like i know
something is coming up because i just
reordered some products for my fba
business and they said that there's
going to be
an extra long delay and then i was like
you know i it wasn't my fault though
honestly it was the you know anyways
fba we'll talk about a separate video
but it was related to how much inventory
i'm allowed to send in right now
to the fba warehouses anyways best
sellers
so as you can see here it when you go
ahead and you click
see all from the categories page it will
take you to the best sellers
from that category and that's what you
can see here and you can keep scrolling
down and it'll keep pulling in more and
more designs
by the way i don't think i show it here
but when you see these boxes next to me
when you hover over them a little like
toolbar pops up and you can click like
an icon to
see it on amazon you can click another
icon to see the information page
which i show in all my top five niches
of the week videos and i'll also show it
to you in a second
for this all right brands there's also a
brands option
on the primary navigation if you click
that you can search for
any brand that you want you don't
actually have to do a brand search it
will show you the most popular brands on
amazon merch but it won't surprise
anybody to know that
it's those big brands like star wars and
marvel
you know it's a lot of those bigger
recognizable brands that aren't doing us
any good as t-shirt sellers that don't
have the rights to sell those
so i went ahead and i typed in l-i-q-u-e
leak
they're one of the most successful if
not like the most successful independent
brand on amazon merch
they've got really skilled graphic
designers
artists on their team that know exactly
how to design for the internet
i use them in case studies whenever i'm
trying to do a new design i'll often
reference the
leak designers and how they approach
things and try to learn as much as
possible so i went ahead and i searched
leak and then you can see the leak brand
variations and how many shirts they
actually have
in these um sub-genre brands that they
offer on merch by amazon on the
navigation you can click get inspired
mba and that's going to take you to
merch by amazon results only
and you'll notice there's a drop down
that says marketplace i like to set that
to
com because that's where i primarily
focus although if i wanted to upload to
a different marketplace obviously i
would swap that
and you can do things like change your
product and change
how they're sorted so when you're doing
get inspired
if you just leave it at random this is
really just for you to be scrolling
through products that are listed on
amazon merch
for inspiration maybe it's design
inspiration maybe it's niches
um it's just a way of generating some
ideas one thing that i will note though
is just because you see it here
listed on merch by amazon does not mean
it's safe for instance i wouldn't sell
any slayer shirts
nor would i sell nike shirts however
those two designs that you see all the
way to the left
infringe on slayer and nike so i
wouldn't do either of those so i'm just
saying always do your
validation uh the way i recommend doing
it is typically just at least to
check what's already selling on the
marketplace now that's not a catch-all
but again i'm just a youtuber i can't
spend like five minutes on every single
video going over how to validate if a
niche is safe
okay so i'm just saying that like as a
general rule of thumb one thing you can
do that's low hanging and easy is go to
the market
do a search and count the number of
results if it's not that many
stay away if it's a lot you might be
okay but you can also obviously do
additional validation check trademarks
check copyright etc
all right there's also get inspired pod
now you'll notice
in this pod one it says platform instead
of market and
under the platform drop down you can
search redbubble spreadshirt
and all of spreadshirts international
marketplaces you can sort it by
relevance random or newest so
in this case you might want to check out
the relevance and i watched the tutorial
i didn't actually get a technical
breakdown of
how they determined something to be you
know more relevant than others but you
know in this case i tried the relevance
sorting and these were the results i got
so again just another way of finding
inspiration on some of these various
other marketplaces in addition
to merch by amazon now we're getting
near the top of the
primary navigation you can go to product
search and if you want to perform
a keyword search and limit the scope of
search results
on amazon to only amazon merch
listings like i have a similar tool on
my website that i call the search merch
tool
this is basically the equivalent of that
except their supports the international
marketplaces
their supports all the different types
of products as well so here i typed in
valentine's day marketplace amazon.com
category raglan shirts which i'm not a
huge fan of they don't seem to sell too
well and the return rates
pretty high and i sorted by newest
arrivals
and this is where it took me it took me
straight to amazon.com
and it only shows raglan t-shirts
and it's basically everything that i
search for it's got valentine's day
as the primary keywords so if you want
to limit the scope of your product
research
you can use their product search
function
it'll filter out non-amazon merch
listings so also when i was talking
about earlier doing
niche validation this is what i would
use to do that so you're limiting the
scope
here to only amazon merch listings now
if you're uploading to amazon merch you
don't need to see
seller central listings that may imply
that whatever you want to sell is okay
because amazon merch
might not let you but seller central may
because seller central is not subject to
the same
you know rigorous approval algorithm
that amazon merch uploads are
next you can also go to seller trends on
the navigation
and here you can do things like sort by
trend winner
percent and you can see shirts that are
gaining a
massive spike in bsr and when i say that
i mean the
the opposite where it spikes downwards
implying lower bestseller rank implying
more sales in a recent period of time
so in doing that i didn't even have to
provide a search term it's just grabbing
random shirts that have seen a drastic
improvement in bsr recently
you'll notice here a lot of you know
high level trends
kamala harris you'll see kansas city
because they're going to the super bowl
super bowl again also just wanted to
remind you that you can hover over these
images that you see in the search
results
and you'll get this little pop-up bar
and what i like to do when i do my top
five niches of the week videos click the
little
i information icon and then it takes you
to a separate page with all this
in-depth information
on the listing that you're looking at
you can also obviously click the amazon
icon and go straight to amazon but
on this page you see like some
historical bsr data on the line chart
you see it's subcategory ranks you see
some information about the bsr here
overall trend
up current trend up so it's a good trend
to be in
average bsr and median bsr which to me i
thought were the same but maybe i need
to go back to statistics class
um you can also see the date of
publication by the way so 2020
uh january 24th so basically it's like
deja vu because kansas city won the
super bowl last year and then in 2021
they're going back to the super bowl
i did predict that the bills would go
because i thought that would be fun but
i was
unfortunately wrong um whatever it's all
good i still like the chiefs i still
like tampa bay it's all good
and then you see right behind me here
some keywords included on this listing
that you may want to consider including
on your own should you enter this niche
last but not least we have best sellers
and this is typically where i go when
i'm doing my
niche research for top five niches of
the week i might come straight to
bestsellers and just kind of scroll and
scroll and scroll
try to find something that looks new to
me because they don't unfortunately none
of these tools have an option for me to
exclude
things that aren't new or aren't
relatively new
so maybe in the future but anyways so
what i'll do is i'll just keep scrolling
for like an hour and just kind of like
if i see something that stands out then
i'll go use my search merch tool
perform a keyword search evaluate page
one page two
look at bsrs see try to gauge the the
demand there and
that's pretty much my process so anyways
best sellers this is where you can do
some damage because
this basically indexes kind of what's
hot right now now it's not
all-encompassing that's one thing i'll
say it is not all-encompassing so
you know these tools they i'm pretty
sure all use like an api that amazon
makes available and the api is not going
to like
allow some third-party to have better
data than amazon.com you know than than
the main platform itself so
keep in mind that like you can always go
to the actual
source go to amazon and do your own
research but also these
tools are especially useful for serving
you up the
you know what they try to make is or
deem as the most relevant information so
here bestsellers by the way under best
sellers and under most of these results
you can swap the grid view which is what
you see by default
and the grid view packs in more
information into a more compact space
so i typically use grid view but i just
wanted to make you aware you can also
swap it into list view
by clicking the list view button at the
top and then you see this
altered layout which by the way i think
is like really well done to whoever the
front end developer is that built this
site
i'm really liking it all right that's it
that's all i wanted to show you guys so
go ahead
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