yo yo what's up guys so in this video we're gonna talk about how to sell shirts on merch by amazon
welcome back to my channel my name is rj martinez and in this video we're gonna talk about how to
sell shirts on merch by amazon uh personally myself i have sold over 160k in royalties all
time with merch by amazon uh over 50k and products right all time on my account but
uh my favorite thing to sell on Merch by amazon is shirts right t-shirts and the ones that do really
well on my account are the black colored t-shirts right with that being said it's when it comes to
t-shirts it's like ninety percent of my account that i've sold uh so there's other of course
there's other products but t-shirts are number one um and that's uh so it's a sign right so
when i make a design i focus more on t-shirts designing for t-shirts okay um yeah so uh first
things first if you guys haven't uh subscribed to my channel subscribe to my channel hit that
notification bell and give this video a thumbs up and if you have any questions
um please comment down below and i'll be getting to all of them okay and it's very important that
you guys stay to the very end of this video if you guys want to be successful on merch by
amazon when it comes to selling t-shirts right or even just generated streaming income right
so what is print on demand print on demand is basically what you're going to do is create a
design put it on a t-shirt amazon printed on the shirt takes care of the customer
service the returns it ships it off to the customer and you just collect the royalty
for us it's literally that simple it's really awesome really amazing time that we live in
and this is a really amazing opportunity um i recommend you take advantage of it definitely
take advantage of it and let's make some money baby all right so step number one is uh getting
accepted if you don't have your account already one of the most important things is when you're
filling out the application process make sure you fill out all the blanks fill out everything right
a little tip too as well if you have a fba seller central account from what
i've been seeing and what i've heard you'll get accepted faster into merch by amazon so that's
a little tip right there but yeah do not leave nothing blank okay very important step two is
research and learning the algorithm so important okay it's like number one a side of besides
getting accepted and stuff like that number one is researching and learning the algorithm and how it
works learning how if a customer is searching for a product and figuring out what they're searching
for and then give them what they want right basically it's that simple give the customer
make it easier on the algorithm and yourself if you see a customer searching for a certain product
or certain searching for a certain phrase give them what they want give them what they want the
algorithm is going to reward you and you're going to make money for else it's literally that simple
you're just researching understanding the platform stuff like that learning the algorithm usually
that's how you're going to make money okay that applies to pretty much every single platform
whatever platform you are in a marketplace that you're on it applies to it if you can learn
that so you can get more eyes on your product make more money step number three number three
uh is learning uh your niche right select a niche pick a niche pick any niche it could be any niche
but i recommend you starting off with a niche that you understand that you like that you enjoy
it makes it more easy and more funner for you to design for right a niche is basically
a dog like a dog niche and then the subnation into that is like like a certain dog like for
example english bulldog a cat and then submission into like different types of cats anything tacos
burritos okay that is a niche right and then you sub niche down you're getting getting more
passionate to the customer and more direct right so um very important that you like understand like
your ideal customer and what they want and stuff like that selecting your niche all that stuff
all that learning stuff about your niche all the all the uh the knowledge that you need to learn
about your niche is uh very important to you making your first sales on this platform and just
in general like long term too as well rinse and repeat and applying this once you even grow your
account to that level or even if a a beginner right all right so step number four it's design
right once you get your research down all that stuff designing comes next uh simple does sell
text based designs do really well illustrations do really well illustrations you create less
competition for yourself and be honest with you less competition for yourself text based designs
a lot of people like to copy those and make their own version of it or whatnot now with the
illustration it's more unique and different from everyone else right you have an artist on your
team if you're not an artist you can outsource okay find a illustrator that can draw and help
you make designs i do it text based designs you can make them on your phone don't complicate it
real simple real easy okay don't overthink none of this stuff that i'm telling you
you can make it on your phone you can make a text based design on your phone using the over app you
can use canva there's a lot of tools out there that you can use to help you design if you suck
right i suck at designing so i outsource okay and i built a team stuff like that it's uh something
that i like to do right saves me a lot of time so i can create content to help other people um
and and it's literally it's that simple for reals step number six i'm going to say it's going to be
uh like studying your uh your competition um when you when you go into a certain niche right and
you're designing for it you're going to see some some people just come into your niche and compete
with you right as you start to do designing and stuff like that and be the best in your niche
you're in a way you're almost you're creating competition for yourself because people are gonna
see that on the platform that this design is doing really well this t-shirt's doing really well and
it's selling really well so i'm gonna make my own version of it and yes and that's normal um but at
the end of the day you're competing with yourself but you're going to see your competitors come in
and try to knock you off and that's that's that's part of the game right so what you need to do is
make sure you're on top when it comes to learning your niche and just outdoing yourself if you have
a top selling t-shirt in one niche make another one make another one okay um try to beat yourself
try to be the best try to outdo yourself and you might by you doing that you have three or four or
five shirts on the front page making consistent sales cells also too if you have ams right if
you don't i don't know what to say you should have it right they're giving us all access to
it with the new advertisement tab up there on the merch by amazon dashboard but if you don't have it
you need to figure out a way but use ams to your advantage i made six or seven new shirt sales
last week right and these are new niches right that i've just jumped dived into but i put some
ams behind it um it's very important as soon as you upload a design run some ams as soon
as possible to it because you get more eyes on it more eyes on it uh increases your chance of
making your first sale right understanding that um it's gonna it's gonna push your design more ams is
gonna make more sales and you're gonna stand out from your competition a lot of these uh people
that are copying your designs pixel for pixel they can't compete when it comes to ams because
um they're scared they're scared to spend money invest in their business spend money
on advertisement they don't want to spend money they want to uh they just want to leverage the
platform and make easy money well newsflash in order for you to stand out and be to make more
sales running ams is not a bad idea it's actually a really good idea right you're going to increase
increase your chances of making sales but not only that um make your first sale then you start
ranking in the algorithm and this is how you get like a best seller in a niche right that amazon
choice badge and uh number one new release okay whatever it is right get one of those back one of
those fancy badges next to your shirt it's be um and right running ams will increase the chances of
that happening too as well after everything you're collecting your royalty making some money right
uh how much can you make right and this is like collecting your royalties it's easy right getting
you setting your makeup bank account and getting it transferred over to your bank account and all
that stuff but how much money realistically can you make each month i want to say if you
work at this really hard for a year okay you can make anywhere between three thousand and
five thousand dollars a month consistently okay but you gotta work at it this is not it's not
before it was a lot more easier because we had not that many uh we're not that much competition
uh but now it's a little bit more challenging you have to be different when it comes to your design
that makes you stand out that increases your chance of your sales right but realistically
three to five k a month but i want to say you want to work at this for a whole year for you
to be able to have that consistent stream of income that will pay for your bills or whatever
it may be it's it's definitely a challenge but as you rank your products rank your t-shirts
they're going to make those long-term sells for you and rank better the more the better
that your shirts rank in the algorithm the more sales you'll get okay um and and that's pretty
much like uh one of the most important things to having consistent sales every single month right
and everything that i've we talked about it plays a factor into you to make consistent sales and
make money uh when it comes to tearing up on your merch by amazon account i always recommend just
start because you'll make more sales if you price your products low it's just proven fact i've done
it over and over and over so if you're not making no profit at the beginning for you to focus on
tearing up to get out of the lower tiers to your under under the lower tiers of 500 you have to
of course have 80 uploads so 400 over 400 live designs and of course over 500 cells um in order
for you to to do that um you have to have the sales volume right and and to tear up to that
next level to have the design space for you to put up designs me personally myself i'm over i'm over
at 100k tier so i have you know i can upload a ton of designs um but of course i want designs that
sell right it doesn't matter what tier you're at at the end of the day but because the goal is to
have designs that sell if you can have you can be at 500 tier and have 400 designs that are selling
consistently right and next thing you know it two months three months from now 400 designs
are selling consistently you're going to have over 1200 to 1600 cells right so at that point the tier
doesn't really matter because you're going to have double the amount of cells but when you're first
starting to get to learn the algorithm for you to understand to learn the out learning the algorithm
and understanding the algorithm for yourself right personally yourself it's all about testing testing
trial and error right making mistakes getting rejections that's all part of the game right
learning how to price your products what works for you i can't tell you to price your pr how to
price your products but i can tell you what data that i've received personally myself um i know the
pricing really low will help you get out of the lower tiers because you'll make more sales faster
right now person myself i'm uploading straight to 19.99 with standard t-shirts and they're making
a 5.5 royalty so those those five or seven shirts that i listed that made sales last week that were
new they're all listed at 19.99 and it's really cool and of course have ams running each of them
and yeah it's the name of the game right so a lot of valuable value in this video a lot of content
follow these steps and you'll definitely be making three to five k a month in the over the next year
right um so but of course remember it just takes work right it's not going to be easy definitely
not going to be easy because i want you guys to think that okay if i it it's it's a process right
and just work at it for a year work at it for two years right you might not get it in the first year
two years right you may get it then and then some of the experiences like when i first started this
uh this journey with merged by amazon at the very beginning it was just it was all about testing
right pricing low getting that first initial sale ranking to the front page and then all of a sudden
i noticed that i was making consistent sales uh for me personally and then it went from uh
400 a month to 15 to two to three to four to five to six right and it's ever since like i have one
video where i did uh over 10 or like 13 000 or 12 000 in one month and i believe that was in
june um if you guys want to go check that video out too as well i'll link that down below in
the comments or the description wherever the heck that is but yeah man it just it's you know i mean
it's all about learning and testing at the end of the day right what works for you what things what
do you think works for you what what you think works works for you it's all about testing and
testing is one of my most favorite things for me to do in this freaking world so um yeah with that
being said check out these videos right here to help you grow your merch by amazon business