hey guys i'm genuinely excited to tell
you about the massive
change that merch by amazon just
announced today this is going to be
huge for all merch by amazon sellers
because it's going to enable us
to take every single design that we
upload from here on out
and enable it for sale on every product
on
every marketplace and it's only gonna
count against us as
one submission yes you heard that
correctly if you guys sell on amazon kdp
you're already familiar with this
but anyways i'm gonna break down
everything you need to know in this
video because i already tested it
to make sure that i got everything
correct we're gonna read through the
frequently asked questions that they
published
and then at the end stay till the end of
this video i've got two tools for you
that are gonna help you take full
advantage of what is now
possible so let's get started
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this is the message that if you've
logged into your merch by amazon account
today you probably saw
and i will read it to you it says
previously your tier level described the
maximum number of
products you could create starting today
we are upgrading accounts
so tier levels will indicate the overall
number of designs
so not products but designs that you can
create
upgraded accounts will display your
number of published designs
along with daily product limit on the
dashboard page to support this change we
temporarily reduced
daily submission limits read more in our
faq and i did
actually look at the faq but first i
just wanted to reiterate that this is
actually kind of following the kdp
model where on amazon kdp the last step
of their their crazy three-step upload
process which i absolutely hate
because it actually like makes you go to
three different pages that's how much
info you have to provide
but the last thing you do is you set the
pricing and your royalty
and you can see that you're allowed to
sell on amazon.com.co.uk
germany france spain italy japan canada
and i believe yeah it says seven other
marketplaces underneath there there's
even more marketplaces
that they're constantly expanding so you
get a lot of coverage with kdp from a
single upload
now merch is basically following that
same structure
so here is uh here's the thing i think
they're rolling this
out on a well on a rolling basis and it
wouldn't surprise me if the higher tier
accounts kind of got accessed first
because i saw on my account that i had
these indicators and i went downstairs
checked out
my girlfriend's account and she did not
have them yet and she's in tier 100 so
it may be one of these things that
you don't have access to immediately but
what okay we're gonna revisit this by
the way because i
ran a test and i just want to show you
exactly how this works uh but we're
gonna go through this uh faq first
so real quick how many more products can
i create design based tiers will allow
you to apply
one design to all available product and
locale
options when the same design is
published across multiple products and
locales
it will only count against your tier
limit count once against your tear limit
for example if you're tier 10 content
creator you can publish up to 10 designs
and create a maximum
640 products across all locales with
rights
so instead of tier 10 you get 10
products right and you can choose what
marketplace but it's like one
one standard t-shirt on one market is
one of your 10
and you've published the same standard
t-shirt to another international market
boom that's two
now it's like oh one design check every
box for every product in every
marketplace
you get all that coverage so this is
just amazing
um on the dashboard page what is the
meaning of products submitted today
published designs and product potential
that's what we just saw right here that
i tried to highlight for you
products submitted today represents the
total number of products that you can
submit daily the number is based on the
tier level and may decrease
when capacity is limited so i think this
is actually already decreased 600 is
really not that high and i'm going to
show you the results of my test in a
second
published designs indicates total number
of designs that can be published from
your account and equals your tier level
so if we go back you see i'm in tier 200
000 and for instance like prior to this
update
when i looked at my published designs i
mean i look at pretty much i think they
just call it live products
but i was at about 169 000
okay so 169 000 was the old way the new
way that got chopped down to 139
804 and that's because i don't
tend to offer my designs on multiple
products you guys know i'm kind of crazy
and i
i said as soon as i got bumped up to
like 200k that i was gonna go for
basically all uniques on just standard
t-shirts i didn't think i'd get bumped
to tier 200k but i did
so i'm trying to make the most of it
anyways i'm definitely excited about
this
uh product potential is the total number
of products that can be published from
your account
if you choose to publish the maximum
number of allowed
designs across all available products
and marketplaces
so they just did the math and if you so
not every product type is available on
every international market if you just
go in and look
you can see um that like for instance
japan i think has like five product
types
and all the other non-us markets i think
have like
eight nine or ten maybe and us has the
most with like
what 15 or 16 at this point so if you do
the math like for me
uh tier 200 000 times whatever is 12.8
million
maximum so i'm actually at one percent
of my product potential now
this actually raises a question like
should i go and like delete all my
products that
i didn't check every product type box in
every marketplace and then re-upload to
maximize the value
of my slots you know that's not
something i would do unless i was maxed
out two hundred thousand out of two
hundred thousand
but it's one of those things now that we
have to consider and make sure you
subscribe to my channel by the way
because like
these are the types of problems that i'm
gonna help you tackle because you know
i've been in the game for a while over
four years
and i'm familiar with tools that can
help expedite these sort of things like
like if you need to delete products i'll
show you how to do that in an efficient
way
without um going crazy all right let's
finish up the faq will my current tier
level change with this update no
this change does not affect your current
tier level are the rules for moving to a
higher tier level changing no the rules
are still based on the number of
products sold
why is there a daily product limit
having daily product limits provide
content creators the opportunity to
publish new products within our capacity
the number is based on tier level
and is displayed on the dashboard the
daily limit resets every night
midnight pacific time do i need to
create all product
options for each design no you don't
have to but essentially
you should uh to make the most money
when will merge upgrade my account to
design-based tiers this is probably what
you guys are wondering so anybody that's
still with me
here's the answer they say we will
upgrade accounts
as capacity allows this may take a few
weeks
so again i'm guessing that the higher
tier accounts maybe got access first
since i have access
um let me know if you have access in the
comments below yes no
if yes let me know what tier you're in
if no let me know what year you're in
that way we can kind of crowdsource this
uh all right so here you go i already
confirmed this
but i went in and oh yeah i did this i'm
all over the place but first thing that
i did is i went and i tried this on
my girlfriend's tier 100 account and it
did not work
because they did not roll it out like
they said to her
account they're um you know i guess
doing it to the higher tier accounts
first most likely
on my account though when i did this i
submitted it
and guess what it worked so you see
there at the top
i screenshotted my product submitted
today it was 529 out of 600
and after submitting that it jumped up
to 593
out of 600 so it jumped up by 64.
if my math is correct yeah is that
correct 64.
yeah 64. from one submission where i
checked every product type and every
marketplace now here's the thing
um if they're only going to give me 600
a day and i divide that by 64 that's not
very many
products that i can submit and it's
going to take me forever
to fill up all 200 000 slots like most
likely i'm gonna have designs constantly
falling off
that didn't get a sale before i can even
fill up all of my slots
so this is where you're gonna have to
kind of be um strategic about how you
use your slots
because i can with with 600 uh products
submitted
that means i can submit right now up to
600 unique
products or let's say unique designs we
got to get our terminology correct now
so i can take 600 unique designs uh for
instance today i mean i
had published before i did this test 529
hoodies only hoodies with designs and
then i
paused and i said okay let's check every
box like you see here
and after that went uh and got submitted
593 out of 600 now i've only got seven
slots left
so if i try to do this again it's not
even gonna let me so we have to consider
these things now
and the thing you should notice too is
that the next column over published
designs went from one thousand uh oh
sorry
one hundred thirty nine thousand eight
hundred and four to one hundred thirty
nine thousand eight hundred and five so
it went up plus one
but again the product submitted today um
it just sucks that they capped that
hopefully they remove that cap at some
point in the future
but we'll see i know that puts a lot of
strain on their servers but this is
really beneficial to the low tiers
you guys in the low tiers assuming that
your product submitted today is not
severely
capped at a low number this is one of
the ways where you can maybe close the
gap on the people that are in higher
tiers like me
because um you know for me i'm most
likely just gonna start uploading
i'll probably keep uploading the same
way anyways all right let's wrap this
video soon
i promised you two tools that were gonna
help you get this done because
it's one thing to say oh just check all
the boxes for all the product types but
those of you guys that have tried this
already know
that not every product uses the standard
dimension
designs standard dimension designs are 4
500 by
pixels that's what i design at because a
lot of the products i think most of them
do actually use those dimensions like
standard t-shirt premium
v-neck tank top long sleeve raglan
sweatshirt
but then the hoodies the pop sockets the
phone cases the tote bags and throw
pillows all use different dimensions
well guess what
you can use this free tool f-r-e-e i
know you guys love that word
called merch resize i'll drop a link in
the description all you have to do is
drag your design or designs plural you
can do multiple
drag them into the web browser and by
the way this runs locally on your
machine it doesn't upload your designs
and then you say do i want to hit
download all right here
and it'll convert to all of the
different product types which is
probably the fastest way to do this
or you can just select from the other
drop down that i'm going to struggle to
point to because i suck at the green
screen pointing
but you can change the drop down to pop
socket phone case etc and then hit
download
and do it one at a time so this is the
most efficient way of doing it if you
don't want to spend any money if you
want to spend money though
merch titans automation and i just ran a
test before this to confirm that it
works it does work
and while i'm here just want to show you
that literally you breeze through these
settings once
so right here i'm showing you merch
titans automation this is what the app
looks like
uh you just breeze through the settings
like set up your
com settings set your products so i
checked everything set your pricing
then go to dot co dot uk same thing
germany by the way notice here
do you want to auto translate text you
know what yeah why not
um france same thing and it auto
translates italy same thing auto
translates
spanish same thing japan same thing all
right
so then you can set the fit types select
your colors then all you do is you save
this profile and the next time you want
to upload you just hit load
click your profile load up your designs
in a spreadsheet which um
if you don't know how to do by the way i
did launch a course in collaboration
which
with merch titans uh in case you guys
are interested i'll link that in the
description below
and i'll show you exactly how i do all
this basically as
efficiently as possible because you know
me i'm all about that
and you know you don't need my course by
the way you can also just check out
merch titans automation i'll put a link
to them in the description but this is
how i'm going to be taking advantage
of the new merch by amazon structure
because
it runs in the background like i can
literally have it running in the
background while i record these videos
pretty much every day that i record
these videos it's running in the
background and just uploading for me so
also if you don't want to do the the
course with merch titans automation i do
have my full amazon merch course where
the bonus section walks you through
basically everything that's in this
course
and that's just the bonus section in
addition to everything else
so there'll be a link to everything in
the description guys i'm excited i don't
know what else to say other than like
the future is looking
bright for merch by amazon for everybody
now the low tiers the mid tiers the high
tiers
let me know your thoughts in the
comments below guys thanks for watching
like subscribe and i'll see you tomorrow
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