what's up guys welcome to top five
niches of the week episode 107 and we've
actually got a niche that emerged out of
nowhere one of these niches that could
be a short-term trend but definitely
moving a lot of volume i'm gonna
announce that one this week also i've
got another big trend in june that we
may have overlooked in the past when i
was trying to say hey get ready we know
these niches are coming so we really
have five high-level valuable niches
it's gonna move a lot of units to cover
in this episode so let's get to it
before we get to the niches really
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oh and here's my amazon merch sales
update i'm still getting used to the
fact that i've been including these so
in the last seven days i did just about
1200 in royalties in the us market this
does not account for my sales
internationally
and anybody that's been paying attention
probably noticed that merch has been
uploading to the international markets
even if you haven't been so it's a
really just awesome way to have an
international print-on-demand business
and who knows what the future of those
international markets is going to look
like
it's not a bad thing like just because
they struggle to keep up with the united
states market sales where we have the
biggest uh customer base you know over
time like those things can shift they
can change uh it's also a function of
just how many people live in these
markets as well so
just take that extra take the extra
sales
all right niche number one and it sucks
that this one is trending but it is the
end gun violence niche uh the shirts
that are bestsellers are all orange also
i did just want to mention when i did a
trademark search uh and this time i did
it in the uspto database i wanted to
apologize last week i recommended a
trademark niche it's because i used the
um pretty merch pro plus trademark
search and it had marked the the niche
as being uh
like live as in someone's attempting to
trademark it which was incorrect it had
actually already been trademarked so it
got that wrong and i didn't double check
the uspto database
you know you honestly want to go
straight to the source uh that's the
easiest way to know for sure
whether or not you're going to be safe
so i mean i you know used a tool instead
of going straight to the source and that
was my mistake so i apologize uh but end
gun violence together toms
is trademarked with a logo associated
with it and i believe then as long as
you're not matching that phrase
or you know using that logo you should
be okay again though you know use the is
this niche safe video to validate these
things and also of course the amazon
merch algorithm is not perfect but i did
just want to show you guys that like
there are submissions getting through as
recently as just a few days ago on may
24th for instance this one was submitted
and it has a current bsr of 28 000 so
doing quite well uh so niche number one
you know the end guy on end gun violence
lots of different ways to spin this one
recommend uploading to the orange shirts
if you do go into this niche and it's
doing quite well
all right niche number two
and this is the pride niche uh if you
missed my top five niches last week i
did show you the google trends data
historically showing you that basically
between today
and into the first week of june we're
going to see the most volume of t-shirt
sales on the gay pride t-shirts so you
really want to be hitting this niche
hard right now
also i this is the best seller right now
they're kind of using the harry potter
font the glasses
making a reference to harry potter i
would highly recommend against doing
anything related to big brands um
especially like harry potter so that's
just i want to make a quick note that
even though this is the number one
bestseller right now on
when i typed in like pride i would
definitely recommend against this
all right niche number three
in niche number three is juneteenth so
we've talked a lot about forward-looking
june t-shirts and we had not mentioned
juneteenth yet so this is uh you know
definitely this has generated a lot of
t-shirt sales over the last few years
um funny story but last year on it
wasn't on juneteenth but it was like
the juneteenth parade
and me and marielle were in annapolis uh
maryland sometimes we hang out there we
were there yesterday took the boat out
it was beautiful but we were there and
we were trying to get some food but like
annapolis if you've ever been there
there's only a couple like main roads
like kind of where a lot of the you know
maine annapolis is and so we got stuck
basically like in a parade
like no joke like we were like we
thought we were geniuses we cut through
like a back road through honestly a
cemetery to get to try to get back to
where we were staying and ended up like
in the middle of uh the whole juneteenth
parade so i don't know sorry that was
kind of a long story but um we didn't
make it into the actual full parade we
were just where everybody was queuing up
so we were stuck for like 10 15 minutes
as everybody prepared for that parade
um so juneteenth though uh by the way
notice like
a lot of color like similar color
schemes in a lot of the best sellers
guys
when we look at best sellers it's not
because we need to clone and copy and
steal from the best sellers you
shouldn't do any of those things but
like take notes on what is selling well
because this is really the customers
voting with their dollars on what
designs design styles color schemes that
they like all right what graphical
elements do they like so take notice of
that research those
so niche number three juneteenth and
even like one of the best sellers right
here uh or is it the best seller looks
like the best seller
uh similar to that like messy bun um
hair you know we've seen that sort of
graphic trending in the past and they've
got a new version of that so take note
props to whatever graphic designer made
that one too really thinking outside the
box but learning from previous successes
this was uploaded in april of 2022 so
again showing you that you can do really
well with new submissions
all right niche number four
and this is father's day don't forget
father's day june 19th so roughly what
three weeks away
so definitely it's like peak father's
day gift sales right now as well
you know you want to tie pride to
father's day you know gay father
whatever that's probably a great
opportunity as well or even juneteenth
to father's day another great probably
opportunity looking for opportunities to
cross niche at the top
one of my biggest success stories
honestly was doing that i did it on my
mom's account when she was in tier 10. i
made her a design that cross niched two
major trends and while she was in tier
10 she made over 150 sales i think it
was and was eligible for tier 500 where
she is now because her account's not
that active but it's still making money
i next time i'm over at her house i'm
gonna look into her account because i
know the other day she was like why did
i just make so much money i think she
had made like 500 bucks royalties
deposited into her bank so i got to
figure out like did she have a shirt go
viral or something because um she
definitely sent me a picture and i was
like damn
i don't know i gotta check
all right so father's day niche number
four now is the time for sure the next
couple weeks to be in that niche and
lots of ways to spend father's day
here's one awesome dads have tattoos and
beards
right and that's just a text only design
find a nice big distressed font
easy keep it simple
all right niche number five
and i just kind of was thinking outside
the box here
i wanted to know when
fishing
is at like peak trend okay because i had
some you know i got friends family that
love fishing i'm not a big fisher myself
but i was thinking that this is probably
peak interest in phishing well what do
you know when i looked up historical
data pretty much the month of june is
peak phishing interest according to
google trends by the way google.com
forward slash trends to use google
trends for free to basically data mine
the biggest search engine in the world
and that gives you good uh indicators on
like timing these niches and fishing
basically the next week or two weeks is
peak interest so i think now is the time
to get some fishing shirts up of course
the bsrs are doing really well forty
thousand seventy thousand ninety
thousand hundred thousand etc also i
love the uh the basquatch i think i made
that one of my bonus shirts for today
because they took the sasquatch design
that sells really well they slapped a
fishing pole uh in his hand a fishing
hat and a you know fish a bass or
whatever in its hand so i'm loving the
the basquatch design someone just kind
of taking a couple different niches that
trend and cross niching them brilliant
so this design right here says real cool
papa so clearly they are cross niching
father's day it doesn't have to be
father's day i guess but you know gift
for dad uh like my dad's birthday is in
june so i mean that's another example
where you know it could just be a
birthday gift for dad and an interest so
in this case um definitely makes a great
yeah it does say far f title intro is
father's day gift funny fishing reel
papa dad joke t-shirt whatever all right
got it so it's a fishing shirt for dad
all right seller trends here are shirts
that have seen a significant jump in bsr
recently so we have the juneteenth shirt
right there last day of school mom of
2022 graduate
dog father behind me which is another
father's day for dog owners shirt so
take notes guys
all right looking ahead if you want to
sell shirts related to seemingly random
holidays
june 29th we have hug day so that's a
great shirt for you know hug dealer or
any other like you know free hugs type
t-shirt of course make sure they're not
trademarked uh june 30th meteor day very
cool july 1st international chicken wing
day
july 2nd world ufo day
july 3rd build a scarecrow day all right
so there's some random holidays of
course there's no shortage of these
random date associated holidays and i
always like to remind you i like to
upload these to seller central or if you
have etsy for instance um because hey
they can sell you know they may only
sell during these periods each year but
if you don't have the like you know with
merch by amazon you have to make a sale
in 365 days or it gets removed well if
you upload to seller central and you
don't make a sale in the first go around
of 365 days like maybe you missed hug
day
even though i'm giving you a month out a
month in advance uh if you keep it on
seller central it'll be up there next
year and you may make a sale next year
all right bonus t-shirts i have two
uh the basquatch i really thought that
was a funny take on the sasquatch design
that we know is so popular
and also 452 reviews all five stars
that's brilliant also i love the design
as well it contrasts really well against
the black t-shirt so really well done
and this one camel towing got the retro
it's a tow truck and it's got the retro
kind of vintage design and it says when
it's wedged in tight we'll pull it out
so camel toeing call them if you get
stuck hilarious i love that love the
design the the font the curved font etc
just really well executed and hilarious
all right deleted designs brought to you
by merch ninja so here you go take a
quick look
see if you can see any themes i don't
really see anything that stands out
completely um
so yeah so i don't know we can't see the
keywords either sometimes merch ninja
actually does have the keywords so you
can click and see like a
merch ninja
saved copy of what used to be on amazon
but if you click any of these it goes to
the dogs of amazon page
oh and here's another reminder guys the
top gun shirts are still out there and i
did remind you last week to ignore the
top gun shirts associated with the movie
because they're not filtered out yet by
some of the big research tools because
that's a manual process but somebody
didn't take my advice and they made a
top dad shirt and this is easily the
type of design that will get you
permanently i don't want to say will
because i don't work for merch i don't
work for them but
could definitely get you a permanent ban
it is not worth it however many sales
you make in the near term it is not
worth it
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