hey what's up guys hope you're having a
great day today sorry i didn't post a
video yesterday on wednesday uh i ended
up taking kind of an unplanned short
trip to the beach for a few days with
marielle we kind of
did a little say goodbye to summer beach
trip and enjoyed what was left of the
nice weather but i i hope you guys
enjoyed your summer and got to take a
trip somewhere that you like to go or
you know if you like to travel just go
somewhere new let me know what you did
with your summer in the comments below
i'd love to hear from you anyways in
today's video i wanted to talk about
amazon merch recently
increased our daily
upload limits for products so i always
got to make this distinction with the
new kind of upload system where
we can take one design and then we can
post one design to
i believe i haven't looked recently and
counted but i believe like if you check
every box for all the product types and
marketplaces
one design gets pushed to 64 products
now i use a lot of upload automation so
i kind of just let it do its thing
um but you know i try to max out my
daily upload products that i'm allowed
every single day uh so i had a 25
increase in my
daily product uploads that are allowed
so i went from 8 000 a day to 10 000 a
day and that's with me being in tier 200
000 which means i can upload 200 000
designs at any one time of course with
the daily limits it's going to be hard
to get there but that's a different
story so in this video i want to make a
quick suggestion
for anybody that is struggling to fill
your daily
product uploads okay and i have an
actionable step-by-step strategy that
i'm going to share with you in this
video so that if you
are having trouble finding the time to
get it done
please check out what i'm going to show
you and do your best to
follow along to fill those slots every
single day so let's get started
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all right so as i mentioned earlier
my
daily product upload allotment or i
don't know what to call it you know what
i mean it's like they kind of confuse
things with this new upload system but i
can upload 8000 products a day not
designs but products
and actually no that's what it used to
be uh today though as of uh this week
earlier in the week eight thousand
turned into ten thousand so i got a 25
increase in my daily allotment now
hopefully a lot of you guys did too i
saw people talking about this in um the
facebook community that i run
and it's great news right it's helping
people
get max value out of their amazon merch
tier limits right
like we know if we upload more designs
and more products we're more likely to
make more money than if we don't use
those upload slots like empty upload
slots make us zero dollars we all know
that we can agree on that right
so i know that a lot of you guys
work uh the nine to five and you have
families and everything else in life
that matters to you and for the average
person merch by amazon is just a
probably side hobby that makes a little
bit of extra money okay this video is
mainly for you because trust me i know
people in that i'm friends with and
they're doing merch by amazon and
struggling to get these slots filled and
i always say at a minimum just upload
text designs i'm going to show you it's
one thing to say it but i'm going to
show you step by step how to get this
done in minimal time
to get those daily uh product upload
slots filled okay especially now that we
have 25 more or if you have less than 25
more more than 25 more uh let me know
your tier and how many um product upload
slots you get each day
so okay follow along this is exactly
the step-by-step process that i would
recommend and it's not going to blow
anybody away it's pretty simple but it's
intentionally simple because it's geared
towards people struggling to find time
to get this done okay
so step one and i will link to this in
the description
but
create your designs okay if you don't
know where to start doing that
photo pia is like a web-based version of
photoshop built into a web browser and
it's completely free okay so no excuses
about not knowing how to create these
designs photo p is completely free okay
i'm gonna show you exactly how i use it
so it's photopia.com and i'll link to it
in the description uh when you start
your sorry i should have included a step
here but when you start your new project
make the dimensions 4 500 pixels wide by
5400 pixels tall okay and it'll look
like this when you're done
next go to the paint bucket tool on the
left hand side i think it defaults to
the gradient tool
but if you left click that and hold it
should pop out and you should be able to
click the paint bucket tool so click
paint bucket tool and then select the
color black
on the left hand side underneath the
toolbar
and then click into the canvas and it
will change the canvas from
white which we just saw to black
i like to do this because i like to
optimize all my designs for dark colored
t-shirts because they sell better
alright so the next thing is we need to
find a niche that is selling now you
don't need to pay for niche research
tools to do this but if you just want it
quick and easy kind of served right to
you
check out flying research it's my go to
print on demand niche research tool okay
and all you have to do is
log in if you're not if you're new you
need a subscription i'll put a code in
the description by the way i'll put a
link and a code that'll get you 20 off
but then all you have to do is click
best sellers
and click search it defaults to
com which is u.s market and it defaults
to t-shirts so i just click search
and i just scrolled and when i scrolled
i saw a text only design that i had
never seen before so i was like okay
maybe there's something to this um
before i guess there was one step in
between but you guys can skip this
you're just trying to do this as quickly
as possible but i i also went to um
amazon and i just keyword searched it
and then i looked at the bsrs to see if
it's selling really well as a niche or
if it's just one shirt that's selling
really well absorbing all the sales
turns out the whole niche is actually
selling pretty well okay it says pumpkin
spice and reproductive rights but by the
way you don't need to even slow down to
find like the perfect shirt when you
look at flying research if you see all
these crazy designs oftentimes the
designs have text
just do a text you don't need the
graphic just do text you don't have to
find a text only design either like i
just so happened to find a text-only
design that made my life easy because
it's also a new one that's selling
really well okay but it's not always
going to be this easy however when i'm
prepping for this video i got super
lucky i guess so it's a pumpkin spice
reproductive rights next thing i do
really quickly
tmsearch.uspto.gov i will also bookmark
or link that in the description
um i just did a quick search to make
sure it wasn't trademarked and it was
not so we're good to go
so then i go back to photopia i use the
text tool i keep my text centered the
font that i used is called league gothic
if anybody wants to match the exact font
that i used um you don't need to match
the exact font i used but i like this
font because
it's tall in bold letters
but they're thin and horizontally like
they're they don't occupy a lot of
horizontal spacing so you can fit long
words uh into one line pretty easily
like the word
reproductive in this case with our niche
so i knew it wouldn't be an issue if i
used league gothic however there's
infinite fonts that you can choose from
so don't overthink that either
if you have like a few fonts that you
really like just write them down write a
little list down it's your go-to font
list okay notice i did white text on a
black background
um to this day i still see
uh some you know even students in my
course
that
use poor contrast
and then want to get more sales the
first thing i say is can you send me
some of your listings and then i'm like
ah the designs the contrast you know
remember it's you and it's all your
competition in the search results
your design needs to just be good enough
when i say good enough i'm saying do the
minimum make it easy to read
make that that means like big bold text
and good color contrast white text black
background do we need to overcomplicate
this no keep it simple you know we do
too much sometimes all right anyways i
said pumpkin spice and reproductive
rights
okay i don't even i don't need to know
what's going on with this niche um we
know it's selling we know it's not
trademarked we're doing a quick simple
easy text only version done okay
next thing i do i turn off the
background layer because we don't want
to upload a black background
design to merch by amazon otherwise the
black background square is going to be
there on all of the shirts and it's
gonna look ridiculous okay
so then i go to file and this is in
photopia file export as png now it
downloads it to my computer
next up
i
am ready to upload it to merch by amazon
okay but you guys are probably wondering
like oh we have to find the perfect
keywords and it's like yeah having good
keywords helps immensely but
you know we're doing this quickly so
what we really probably should do is
just kind of evaluate one or two of the
competitor listings i mean honestly one
is probably enough if they have good
keywords that indicate
what this niche is really catering to
okay
and i mean the the one that flying
research put on our radar right here
says pumpkin spice reproductive rights
okay that's fine they put the text from
the shirt right there in the title front
loaded it with that text after that they
say pro-choice feminist rights okay boom
to me it's like i feel like this is the
best seller and that's their title now i
have an understanding of this niche so
when it comes to me trying to optimize
the keywords i don't need to overthink
this
i've got a grip on
uh who you know is buying this niche or
who this niche is catering to right just
from reading the title there
okay so i uploaded to merch by amazon
boom no problem and one little thing
bonus tip if you will guys
we already created the design the design
i'm doing air quotes here because it's
just text
but look all i did was i applied a
couple colors to the text right like i
put the text on new new rows here
okay and this is a
fall oriented design because you know
pumpkin spice everything nice pumpkin
spice reproductive rights whatever
but the fact that it says pumpkin spice
it's like okay pumpkins fall
got it okay so i put like
a little i don't want to call it a
gradient but i did like orange text and
then some kind of middle
yellow orange
tan
type colors
on each line of text so that each line
is differentiated so it's going to look
a little bit nicer a little bit more
premium
stand out a little bit more in search
results and if we upload a second design
we've just occupied twice as much online
real estate in this niche and we went
from potentially uploading
zero products today because we didn't
have enough time or whatever excuse you
know i get it life happens you know what
i mean um but like we went from
doing nothing to doing something and if
you have the extra time to just change
the color of a couple rows of text or
change the font you know what i mean
just minor tweaks
then you already know the drill download
it upload it uh download it from
photopia upload it to merch by amazon
this doesn't have to take long you know
what i mean you can get this done super
quickly and then before i leave you i
want to make one last tip
a repetitive process
each time you iterate through it
think about how you can make it easier
on you if you plan on doing it again in
the future which i mean we're talking
about designing and uploading t-shirts
here
for merch by amazon yeah we're going to
be doing it a couple more times in the
future right unless we quit today
so why not do something like
download another version of google
chrome you know if you guys have ever
seen my videos where i don't have the
full screen i have four different
versions of google chrome i mean i was a
web developer but four versions of
chrome i'm looking over here my side
monitor four versions of chrome
uh firefox brave you know a bunch of
different web browsers part of it's
because i was a web developer part of
it's also because
each browser has its purpose in my day
okay so i can have a web browser where
you know i can download google chrome
developer edition right i'll link to
this in the description if you guys want
to actually follow along take this
advice uh literally you click download
it's free you double click you install
it no big deal i would pin it to your
taskbar meaning when the application's
running right click pin to taskbar by
the way i only use windows sorry mac
people but i've just never used a mac
um then the next thing i'll do is go to
your settings
and scroll down to the bottom and you
should be able to assign it to open
specific tabs when chrome opens tab
number one merged by amazon tab number
two photopia or whatever you use to
design tab number three if you're using
it you know your research tool of choice
could be merchant former uh flying
research is the one that's my go-to
and yeah so then you got one two three
you've got your print on demand tabs you
know when i helped my girlfriend
marielle start her print-on-demand
business
i did this for her or i mean i didn't
you know what i mean like i i talked her
through it she does it she's got a
browser that does just this but it also
includes her etsy shop and printful
okay so it's i mean it makes sense it's
like her print on demand browser so when
she goes there she's doing print on
demand anyways guys thank you for
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