what's up guys welcome to another
automation week video today we're
talking about pretty merch the
must-have chrome extension for all you
amazon merch sellers i'm sure most of
you guys already have it but in this
video i'm gonna try to do a quick and
good job of highlighting why you should
consider upgrading to pro plus because
it puts everything you need to succeed
as a merch by amazon seller at your
fingertips
literal clicks away if not one single
click away so there's really no excuse
not to hone in on great niches do niche
validation uh drill down into all the
relevant data points while you're doing
niche research how to make informed
decisions about what niches you should
be in by maybe looking at your analytics
tab also expediting processes that can
be drawn out for instance doing simple
product deletions these days ever since
merch changed the structure of what a a
true product slot counted as in your
account you know if you upload one
design and then enable it on a bunch of
different products well in order to free
up one upload slot you have to go in and
manually delete all of those products
which if you've ever been to the manage
tab and done one of those manual
deletions just to free up one slot you
could have to click up to i don't know
what is it like 14 products and then
it's two clicks per deletion like 28
times and you have to have good aim
you're clicking all over the place uh i
know i sound ridiculous but like that
time adds up it really does and i know
you know what i'm talking about if
you've ever actually gone in and tried
to free up and upload slots so
alternatively use pretty merch pro and
i'm going to show you how easy it is to
do all of these things that we all do
in this video so why don't we get
started
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use the link in the description to my
automation week webpage where i put
links to all the tools all the videos
and tutorials as well as the maximum
discount codes for any tool that i show
you that is paid so you can find that in
the description also down there i've got
a link to the free weekly print on
demand giveaway that you should take
advantage of i've got a seven day merch
by amazon mini course all i need is your
email address i'll send you one lesson a
day and help you get acclimated
especially if you're new it's very
helpful and i've got a great merch by
amazon facebook group i'd love to have
you there it's growing rapidly and i
love it man lots of people helping each
other out uh scale up their sales and
whatnot all right so we're talking about
pretty merch we're all familiar with the
chrome extension 50 000 plus users
five star average review i mean kind of
speaks for itself uh but you can find
this on the chrome web store the free
version
will do a little bit of what i'm going
to talk about in this video but you
really want to consider pro plus which
like i said earlier includes literally
everything you need uh to succeed if
they're missing anything let me know and
i can pass it along to their team and
say hey can you add this
so so far though i think it's pretty
darn good what they've got going on so
for instance the dashboard alone
extremely intuitive i'm assuming most
people watching this have seen what the
standard merch by amazon dashboard looks
like when you install pretty merch all
of a sudden you can get data points like
what have you sold today you would think
that the standard dashboard would
include that metric it doesn't so not
only what have i sold today but how many
sales have i made how much royalties
have i made has anything been returned
if any order's been cancelled you look
up here in the top right corner and you
can see the international market sales
as well and if you click the little
flags it'll switch over to the
international markets and show you what
products sold in the international
markets as well you can see your
historical data over the last week and
uh while i took the screenshot it was
still calculating my all-time sales but
you can see that metric as well all at a
glance right
you can go to the analytics tab you can
see you know historical data over
specific time frames you can also do
what i like to do is typically just go
to your all-time data so from when
whenever you got your first sale through
today and kind of see what looks like
hopefully a graph that's up into the
right showing increasing sales over time
and you can even have it mix in the
various international marketplace sales
as well as i did here
you can look at your total sales
breakdown but in a little bit of a
different format here no longer charts
just broken down by marketplace
numerically as well as royalties and
underneath royalties your total revenue
you can see your best-selling products
by type best-selling products by fit
type best-selling products by color
what ryan why do we care because it's
typically a good indication of what will
continue to be your best-selling product
types fit types and colors in the future
it not it's not a guarantee necessarily
but this is data and when you use data
to make informed decisions
in this you know day and age in 2022 it
tends to be a good thing right so it's
good to have that at your fingertips and
extracting that data without pretty
merch would be
pretty difficult um you know what i mean
you'd have to you'd have to do quite a
bit of work uh as far as the products
tab all right and the analytics and
products tab are part of pretty merch
pro okay not pro plus which is like the
ultimate highest tier uh subscription
that you can get
uh but with the products tab the main
thing that i think is like the most
utility
is deleting products specifically and i
know you guys know this better than i do
i'm in tier 200 000 i haven't had my
slots full in a long time even if i'm
running my upload automation daily it's
really hard to fill up 200 000 upload
slots because anything that hasn't sold
in the last 365 days falls off so
it's like i'm putting a bunch up and
then a bunch are falling off
the platform automatically removed for
everybody that's not in tier 200 000 i
recommend these filters when you need to
free up upload slots you can go to has
sold no
and then if you want to you can do
pending removal and you can just go by
um you know basically the the closer it
is to a removal pending the
more logical it would be to just remove
it now because it's going to get removed
anyways right and you can find out what
products you should be deleting to free
up space for your next ones this way by
applying those filters i also want to
recommend that
like i was saying earlier if you publish
one design to a bunch of different
products well you need to delete all of
those products the best way to do that
is uh it all depends actually on your
your strategy for doing titles and
brands um
a lot of times for me i'll do like
unique brands
based on the title i know it's kind of
crazy like it all depends right there's
not really a right or wrong way but a
lot of times i'll take like the unique
keywords for that listing put it in both
the title and the brand because merchant
former did a study on this a while back
and it showed that you know they had the
best results that way so i've kind of
made a habit of doing it so for me i
might use the brand filter type the
brand name in knowing that it's only
going to show that one design
and if that doesn't work for you maybe
just do a strategic title search but
this way you can do a bulk delete so
let's say you have 14 products to delete
well you can click the checkbox for
select all click delete and now you're
two clicks uh well i guess it's three
you're gonna have to hit delete one more
time but in three clicks instead of 28
clicks you just freed up an upload slot
and i mean
i if you don't see the value in that
like i i just think a lot of people are
like no i'll just do it manually and
then
a month or two months or three months
into running your business you're like
i'm not where i want to be and it's like
well
it's probably not for lack of effort but
was your effort misguided were you
sitting at your computer spending extra
time clicking 28 times when you only
need to click three times to perform a
deletion those little things i mean they
add up so much man i don't know i used
to obsess over that stuff because you
guys already know i was working as a web
developer then working a second job and
then working on all this stuff youtube
and all these other businesses at night
you know what i mean so
me hyper analyzing how i spent my time
really allowed this to be possible
otherwise i would have just given up
right and i'd still be at my nine to
five so um it's not coincidence
you gotta you gotta make sure you know
what you're doing with your time
um also the research tab all right now
we're getting into the stuff that i
think people really care about
research tab is available with pretty
merch pro plus i believe they took it
out of beta in 2022 and it's been
absolutely awesome it's fast uh it's
intuitive very easy to use it's got the
best search function okay and um across
across the board as far as research
tools that i've used their search
function very good very intelligent and
you can see here you don't even need to
perform a search by default you see the
best sellers and if you just come here
every day
somebody emailed me today and they sent
me a not a nice email and it was
unprovoked i don't know why they did
that and i said how can i help you and
then they responded they said i can't
find any good niches and i was like wow
they actually wrote me back again that
was weird because the first email was
like really mean and um
i said okay here's the strategy go to
your research tool
and scroll
every day and look at i don't know a
thousand shirts a day and you don't have
to look at each one just scroll you
start to see patterns and then if you do
it daily you start seeing changes day
over day and when you start seeing new
trends emerging the further down you
scroll the less people see them when
they start making their way up here to
the top that means that they're best
sellers that means that everybody knows
they exist and your competition is
peaked right so if you're hungry for
that big success
well you know there's a couple ways you
might go about finding the future trends
but i can assure you that if you just
scroll it's like an infinite scroll you
can keep scrolling it'll keep loading
more and more shirts and they are in
order of bsr which is indicative of how
well they're selling hopefully you guys
get what i'm trying to convey here
the reason you use a research tool by
the way instead of just going through
amazon's catalog is if you go to
amazon's catalog there's no way of
filtering out the non-merch by amazon
products after page one and it's gonna
mix in all of these big brands like
disney and mtv and marvel and you know
all you know all those
so it's gonna just ruin the whole
process for you and it's gonna take
forever so that's why i think it's you
know this is a business treated like one
it's okay to invest a little bit of
money plus you can deduct it against
your profit at the end of the year when
you're filing taxes i'm not a cpa but
come on that's like business 101 you can
do that so i think it's well worth the
investment that's why i invested in
pretty much pro plus as you see here
also they recently rolled out the
trademark search i don't know if you
guys have seen that yet but you're one
click away from the research tab okay i
found this niche and within that niche i
did a quick search and i found this sub
niche and now i'm going to design in
that sub niche because it looks like it
has potential oh but wait is it
trademarked well do a quick trademark
search and
this is just a quick screenshot of what
it looks like but you can see that it
puts the class of the trademark in here
which is extremely valuable if you hover
over it it tells you what class that
like is and why it's relevant
um because if you just do a standard
trademark search
you can't forget a few things one is
that just because it says live doesn't
mean it's like
actually registered and gonna be a
problem when it says live in the uspto
that means that oh it may in the future
it's basically published for opposition
it may become live it may not right it
can also be abandoned um there's a lot
of things right a lot of nuance to this
this is the one-stop shop easy way of
validating your trademarks it works
extremely fast it's very intuitive just
like all the other software that you
know is packed into pretty much pro plus
so i do recommend uh utilizing this if
you end up using pro plus also notice
you can check your shirts your pop
sockets your pillow cases and your tote
bags you're probably safe as far as just
looking at shirts actually no it says
all so yeah the default is all nevermind
my bad you can see the little bubbles
here and should somebody actually
trademark something on a pillowcase
which i'm sure there's a few
you know you'll see it right there
also when you perform a keyword search
and you're looking at sub niches there's
a couple different views the grid view
is actually pretty cool it's got the
most detail packed in
at a glance in search results but i
prefer to look at the grid view and when
you switch it to grid you get a ton of
products i actually took two screenshots
so this is basically like two different
um
two different i don't know i kept
scrolling basically so but you see how
quickly and easily you can intake a
bunch of information i mean let's just
say you already knew you were going to
design in this sub niche but you didn't
know how to go about designing now i'm
not telling you to clone any of these
designs you can do what you want i mean
you definitely don't want to like
actually clone it but
as far as like
when you take a look at the best sellers
within a sub-niche
again use data to make informed
decisions now you don't have to guess
what customers preferences are because
the cream rises to the top amazon's
engineers they're not dumb they knew
to put
the best sellers at the top of search
results because that's where you get the
most visibility
it's essentially like saying hey the
customers like this design style so
rather than guessing how to go about
designing in this niche
learn from what's already out there
what's already established and what
people are buying with their money right
they're voting with their dollars
uh guys thank you for watching this
video again uh check out pretty merch
pro plus i put a link in the description
as well uh along with a 15 off code
which is the best discount that i have
seen to date so take advantage of that
if you're going to upgrade no reason not
to thank you for watching this video
quick reminder i do have a full merch by
amazon course walking you through how it
went from tier 10 to tier 200 000 the
entire last module is dedicated to
automation by the way so kind of
piggybacking off the theme for this week
except it's going to be like very
detail-oriented like you're looking over
my shoulder with all the templates and
everything that i use so i don't just
say build your spreadsheet i say click
here download my spreadsheet that's
already built for you all you need to do
is fill out this one column well
probably two columns and then feed it
into the tool and you know hit go and
then go do something else with your day
while it works for you anyways guys this
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