there's a pretty big print-on-demand
Trend around the corner as you can see
here by the Google Trends chart that I
put over my shoulder and it's one that's
easy to overlook if you've ever sold in
this Niche then you're not going to
forget it because there are quite a few
sales that take place and it's one of my
personal favorites because there's just
a lot of fun designs and funny designs
uh in this Niche every year while it's
trending so I'm going to tell you what
that Niche is in just a second and I'm
gonna make some designs in this Niche
and show you how I did it so let's get
right to it
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so I was in merchant former just looking
back at their archive feature which lets
you set a date and time in the past to
see what trends were doing really well
at a specific date and time and when I
was looking at March of 2022 which you
can set the year up here you want to set
the year first so 2022 go to March and
then pick a date you can then hit search
and browse through I realized that Pi
Day March 14 3.14 I don't know it Beyond
three digits I know it's embarrassing
but that's a really fun Niche and after
I realized that was going to be uh
coming as a trend I went to product
search and I went ahead and I typed in
Pi Day all right and we I like to
personally just optimize for US market I
don't know how big Pi Day is outside the
U.S market I love this holiday because
it generates a lot of interest but it's
easy to overlook if you're just the like
the type of t-shirt seller that just
bounces from Niche to Niche to Niche
it's not big and obvious the way that
like Valentine's Day is but they move a
lot of t-shirts because there's a lot of
fun ones uh by the way you can set your
category here as well I like to just
optimize for standard T-shirt If you
guys caught my video from my
um Amazon merch 2022 yearly recap video
I shared that roughly half of all my
sales were in standard t-shirts so I'm
just going to optimize for standard
t-shirts and with Merchant former it's
easy you just enter in your uh Search
terms they do have a competition score
but again this is like I'm doing this
forward-looking based on the the results
we saw in the merch archive so I don't
care about necessarily how it's doing
right now I already know it's going to
be doing well in the future and the
competition score is going to change
over time as these Pi Day shirts begin
to see an increase in demand which by
the way that's going to happen anytime
now so I do recommend you guys jump in
if you're interested
um these designs I mean there's some
crazy ones here that are probably uh
tough to execute like I'm gonna be I'm
gonna jump into Kittle and I'm gonna
show you guys the type of design that
like I do personally now I don't
typically get the number one
best-selling spot
I just let the graphic designers who are
10 times better than me take those spots
and I just kind of make it work for me
um that's a big part of what's allowed
me to be successful in in my business
ventures just in general is I don't try
to bite off more than I can chew I like
to just be realistic look in the mirror
say these are my strength these are my
weaknesses play to my strengths and uh
move on right uh so you can see just a
ton of fun Magnum PI Magnum PI there's
some funny shirts math is a piece of
cake crossed out pie so there's just
some funny ones here guys so what do you
say we jump on over to Kittle and get
started with our design now typically I
like to use design templates so let's
type in pi and see if Pi comes up with
anything uh sometimes also depending on
the site you know if you use like a
really short word as your search it may
kind of trip it up so
okay it doesn't look like that happened
but oh they've got some pizza pies all
right how about we just type in math and
then see if we have like a jumping off
point if we don't though we can always
start from nothing
okay so I don't think there's really too
much that's going to be in our favor
what about cake or pie p-i-e maybe we
can do something with that
based on the inspiration we just got
from Merchant former
uh do you guys see anything that we
could work with here
math is a piece of pie I do like that as
a niche how about that
um
maybe maybe not maybe we just start
blank guys and I'll just kind of show
you how I go about making my own designs
in general with a blank slate so I'm
going to set the width to 4500 I'm going
to set the height to 5400
and I'm going to hit create I'm going to
set the background color you can just
click in and set it to Black because I
typically do optimize for black and
let's see if we can at least grab like
from the elements on the sidebar here
the pi symbol otherwise we might be in a
little bit of trouble pi
all right we don't have the pi symbol so
we don't need it that's the thing we
don't necessarily need the pi symbol
also you're definitely capable of or
it's you're able to upload your own
custom graphics so in this case the
absence of the pi symbol is not going to
stop us from using Kittle to make this
design but also it's almost like a
little bit of a challenge in that what
if we make a different design it seemed
like every single design we just looked
at in um
Merchant former in one way or the other
had the pi symbol in it what if we make
a design that does not have the pi
symbol uh in it
now I maybe I'm talking crazy here maybe
that's you know this one oh it does it
does
um maybe I'll see it save this on my
side monitor too so I can get the digits
of pi if I need them
uh let's see so why don't we just say
math is a piece of pie we'll just add
some standard text here
change the color to white just like that
we should definitely make it bigger I
think it's easiest just to drag the
corner
okay
you can Center it
math
and let's find a good font I didn't
pre-plan this so why don't we get a nice
big like
bold
um
font family here this is why I like to
use the sometimes use like the
design templates because they have good
like font pairings too so I don't have
to go through it in real time but we'll
use the word math okay and this font is
Adventure uh three Adventurer three
okay so math
we can Center it there
and this is something by the way that
I'm going to show you here that I don't
want to say a lot of people I mean most
people watching probably do this right
but it's not uncommon for me to see
um people maybe get this wrong
is a so when I say is a it does not need
to be as big as the word math when
people look at my shirt they are
thinking math and pie math and pie and
maybe double PI right Pi but also a
piece of pie maybe but the is a does not
need to compete for attention with
everything else so what we can do here
is why don't we bring the font size down
to like 500 all right math is a
okay
we could even say like is a piece of
right we could even just do that math is
a piece of because it doesn't you know
what does p sub need to be why does it
need to be bigger why does it need to be
on its own line it doesn't so you see
how we did text contrast right there
we're not even in color contrast we're
just talking about size contrast and if
you wanted to you could perhaps change
up the uh font family as well but these
things like
this isn't you know I mean this is like
kind of basic level
um approach to design but this is how
like 50 or more of my designs in 2022
when I made over 80 000 profit on Amazon
merch just Amazon merch by the way not
all the other places I sell this is how
I do it with text only designs it's
because like you just pay attention to
like the simple things that make your
design good enough right with my air
quotes good enough you know to make a
sale math is a piece of now this is
where maybe we have you know something a
little that cuts a little bit against
the grain by not including
the pi symbol and we actually just go
for a piece of
um
let's see is there a piece of pie where
we can actually go grab the uh Pi symbol
here I don't know if I like the pink
though
I don't know if I like the pink but you
know what we can do is we can add this
pink piece of pie here okay and then
down here in the bottom right corner I
can click and I should be able to
experiment with different kind of color
schemes for this piece of pie how about
that I think the orange looks good
especially for optimizing for
um this being sold against a black shirt
that's why I always
like you know on on merch specifically
but even if you're not selling on merch
like in your primary thumbnail you're
only going to get to show the design
against one color product most likely so
pick one that looks that you're gonna
make it look really good against even if
you offer other colors all right I love
the way this orange pie looks looks like
pumpkin pie let's just call it that
against the black background so I just
went ahead and uploaded a pie symbol
that I found uh you can go to places
like creative Fabrica for instance where
I know you'll have the the usage rights
I don't want to go recommending websites
where you might not so always if you're
going to grab pre-made Graphics guys
just make sure you have the rights to
use them and what you can do here is
just kind of put it right there in the
um middle of the pie piece of pie you
could even rotate a little bit by
clicking that you know spinny symbol
there at the bottom and kind of keep it
angled with how the piece of the slice
of pie is angled and do something just
like that guys I mean pretty simple
maybe I'll change the color of it as
well from black and match it to the
piece of pie since you know the the
black is just the color of the shirt and
in this case that's what it's
representing and if we offer it in
different colors then that may change so
Kittle provides the document colors
right there so you can actually just
kind of Click through them and see which
one looks best I think that yellow safe
to say looks best guys math is a piece
of pie I'm like looking at it right now
as I read it like hopefully I didn't
make a typo and it was just sitting
there the whole time because I know you
guys would let me know in the comments
and I don't want to get lit up today
um what do you think though I mean Pi
Day there's a lot of fun designs there's
a lot of different ways to spin it you
could even go Venture into like KDP and
make some Pi Day themed Math workbooks I
mean that's an easy easy low-hanging
fruit uh thing to do this is one of my
favorite like holidays for print on
demand for a lot of the reasons I shared
today in this video let me know your
thoughts on Pi Day have you made any Pi
Day designs in the past uh do you make
any sales what's your favorite pie day
like pun or Niche I'll show you mine in
a future video I think I'll have plenty
of opportunities to talk about that uh
yeah guys this is coming up so
definitely get it get on it make some
sales as you know the February niches
are basically all coming to pass now uh
the big ones the trending ones so yeah I
got my eyes set on Pi Day guys thanks
for watching uh check out Kittle I'll
drop a link to that at the top of the
description as well as merchant former
in case you need assistance in honing in
not only on the big trends their archive
feature that I showed you earlier
is a great way to uh do that but beyond
that you can also use their product
search feature filters out the products
you can't sell shows you the best
selling products gives you sales
projections all that good stuff so check
out Merchant former I'll also link to
that in the description and I'll drop a
20 off code that they gave me to share
along with it alright guys thanks for
watching I'll see you tomorrow with a
new video
again
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