so in this video i'm going to share with you how i made over 200 000 in royalties with merch by
amazon royalties profits whatever you want to call it you will also get to know what merch
by amazon is how does it work and what are the correct ways to do merch by amazon hi my name
is rj martinez and i'm going to share with you some awesome information about merch by amazon
and how you can get started with it right now people that are interested in merch by amazon are
always curious about the amount of money that you can make with it here i'm going to show you the
amount i managed to make with merch by amazon and show you how to do it yourself this is going to be
more of a merch by amazon beginner friendly video or tutorial to help you understand what i do make
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hit that notification bell let's get into it merch by amazon is a fantastic idea for your print on
demand business there are several different ways that you can approach a print-on-demand business
there's not just merch by amazon there's a ton of different ways and then with merch by amazon there
are a ton of different ways to actually do the business model too there's not just one way at the
very beginning i was doing amazon fba and i seen the opportunity with merch by amazon i was doing
amazon fba and i was flipping shoes selling a lot of products breaking my back and then i was like
you know what let me put a few designs up on merch by amazon and see if they would sell and then next
thing you know it they started selling and i seen how fun it was and entertaining it was to me just
to put up a design on a product and then it would sell i wouldn't take care of none of the inventory
by the way no inventory no dealing with the customers no shipping out the product i was like
dude this is very amazing i can actually take all my focus on fba and come over to merch by amazon
and make a full-time income doing it hmm and i don't have to break my back
all right so one of the ways that i hit over 200 000 in profit with merch by amazon is i focused on
my strengths and what i'm good at okay one of my favorite things to do is research okay
i enjoy doing research personally myself i suck at designing so i started outsourcing right off
the bat i built a relationship with a designer and then we ended up working together like as of
today of me making this video we've been working for about four years together and he's a really
awesome person and we just built that relationship and then from there my workflow the workflow
is very very important when it comes to all this stuff and researching okay checking for trademarks
making sure that you're not infringing or just you know stealing someone else's
logo or any of that stuff or using something that you're not allowed to use okay so if you go onto
any of these websites where they're offering like you know illustrations and stuff like that if you
sign up for a premium price i kind of just pushed away from that and got an artist on the team
to help me make custom illustrations that way i'm not using the same illustrations everyone else is
using you have to think about how are you going to be different from your competition how are you
going to be different from everyone else that's so so important now as i'm fine tuning a lot of
this stuff right you know as i'm making all the designs and making sure like you know there's no
trademarks and stuff like that because if you do certain things against the terms and service for
merch by amazon you can get your account suspended right so this is one of the struggles as you start
to grow and put more designs on your account you want to make sure that you're on top of checking
all the trademarks okay so that just you can see how all the moving parts are all in place
recently i just hired someone to help me with double checking trademarks not only do i check
them but i have someone else double check them it never hurts to double check for those because one
little mistake you know and me saying this can get your account terminated and you do not want that
so what is merch by amazon merch by amazon is basically you put up a design on a product they
print and ship it to the customer for you and then if a customer doesn't like the product
they can return it but you're not holding none of the inventory you're not talking to the customer
you're not printing the shirts you know so you're not doing none of that stuff the most important
part here is the research the design part okay checking for trademarks stuff like that that's the
stuff that you're mainly focusing on but merch by amazon is a freaking awesome opportunity for you
to make like want to say passive income but you do definitely do have to double check it sometimes
and making sure that you're following the rules because when you come on to these new platforms
any of that stuff you always want to follow the rules or you know you can get in trouble
one of the biggest questions right is how to get approved i have heard people get approved
within a week within three days me personally myself i got approved within like three months
so i think it was like day number 92 i logged in i was like oh i'm approved i didn't get the approval
email so everyone's different when it comes to getting approved and i don't know how these people
are getting approved within that week or within three days or whatever it is i heard people some
people get approved within a year okay and then some people do not get approved at all they get
denied okay just to make that very upfront with you you may sign up and then you get denied so
what would you do there's other platforms that you can sign up for like redbubble you can do etsy
the best opportunity for you to get approved is have an amazon fba account make sure you fill
out all the blanks all right that's one of the most important things okay do not leave nothing
blank on that application because you can risk the chances of you not getting approved because
of that you're not taking it very seriously make sure you sound very professional when you fill out
all the information for you to get approved and showing some type of background with designing
may help too as well they see that you're an artist or or they see that you have a few designs
up on redbubble or over on etsy and you have a previous shop and you've been selling that may
be something that they can take into consideration right they really don't tell us so just to be very
clear they really don't tell us that but just all the researching and all that stuff that i've done
over the years has helped me think about maybe this is what they're doing and just writing
everything out maybe they're doing this to get the approval right having an amazon fba account and
filling out all the information that seems to be one of the best ways to get approved on merchant
amazon all right so the tier system okay when you first start off you start off you're at tier one
you can only upload ten designs and then you go up to tier 25 then tier 100 then tier 500 tier 1000
tier 2000 then it goes on and on me personally i'm at tier 200 000 all right and that's in the higher
tiers of course but i started off at tier with 10 designs i can only upload 10 designs and then
i worked my way up and built my account up i'm always a big fan of testing so i'll put my prices
at cost and get that momentum on my account to where you know if i have 100 sales i want
200 cells right and then upload 80 of that which would be 80 designs uploaded for me to get tiered
up now they're a little they're messing with this a little bit it seems like because they're tearing
people up just because they have the cells or they want to give them more room to put designs up it
seems like they have the cells for it but they don't have the uploads and they just tear you up
or they just see your account in a good standing i want to say and then they just tear you up they
don't tell us this information by the way but it's just you know me like i said just researching and
paying attention to it okay so that right there the tier system some people get stuck in the
lower tiers and they're just they try to figure out how the heck they get out of there there's
several different ways that you can do that you can make a design for somebody that you know you
know what i mean like hey i'm gonna make a product for you designed for you you can purchase it
yourself and send it to them or you can have share the link with them and hopefully they purchase it
credit design for somebody you can either reach out to a family or friend you can even reach out
to like these go to local churches go to local schools see if you can create them t-shirt design
or something like that for the class or whatever it is maybe weddings baseball teams pricing your
product really low you will definitely get an increase in sales tested this for like a good
year on my account i'm done doing that i'm just going straight to you know the price point of
19.99 for my standard t-shirts and kind of getting that five dollar royalty on all my products
so getting on the lower tiers you can just do that right very easy very simple
but applying everything that i talked about as far as keywords stuff like that and research very very
important some of the tools are out there that can help you with that type of stuff but one
of the most important things is learning how the customer is going to search to find your product
and the tier system is good because it prevents people from spamming you know we have some people
that come onto the platform and they will actually like steal other people's designs or what they
would do is just infringe on someone else's brand and stuff like that they don't read the rules
they go in there and just take their information take their design and create something and just
leverage off their brand and that's a no no that's one way to get in trouble on emerge by amazon
okay so it's important that you go in and read all the rules before you start on any platform okay
that applies to red bubble that applies to etsy any of these print onto map platforms make sure
you understand the rules because they're giving you the opportunity to sell to their customers
right and for you to make money so it's like free money but you can't just take advantage of the
platform they have rules and you have to learn them very important how to design a t-shirt how
to make designs for these products let's say just a t-shirt right me personally i focus on a lot of
t-shirts i do sell other products on my account so let's say you're designing for a product it can be
a t-shirt pop socket cell phone case or whatever it is okay do not overthink this okay i see a lot
of people make the mistake of they have to be the best artist or they have to have the best talent
to make a certain design or illustration it can be a very simple text based design that makes sales
and you can you can crush it with this text based design some of the top sellers
on amazon are text based designs okay so i have a video right here and i kind of go into more detail
about that you can check that out up there but the text based designs they do really well okay
text based design with the illustration does well illustration does well so there's different ways
different types of designs that you can create right depending on the individual itself that you
watching this video depends how you want to go about this okay funny new sayings for niches
different niches what i mean by niches is like baseball football hobbies anything with hobbies
or interest that you can create a design for a funny saying does well text-based design does
really well don't overthink it just get to work and learn as best as possible how to create a
good design that your customer wants not what you want what your customer would want all right what
tools can you use when it comes to designing for t-shirts you can use photoshop you can use
illustrator there's infinity designer there's [ __ ] there's merch designer inside of merchant former
okay and i know a few people that have used that okay and they're making over ten thousand dollars
a month consistently using that tool there's the over app you can use that using your phone too
as well just by making creating designs stuff like that but the point is is all these tools
pretty much they do the same exact thing it's all personal preference and what you think fits
the best for you the most important thing is just figuring out your workflow and how you're
gonna attack your goals and how you're gonna accomplish them right and workflow is probably
one of the most important things when it comes to doing all this okay day one i'm gonna research
that means research what does that mean checking for trademarks researching the
niche researching for keywords day two i'm going to design day three i'm going to upload
day four make sure you go over everything and making sure that you got your workflow correctly
all right so where can you get illustrations from you can get illustrations from like free pick
or vexels okay i heard nothing but goods things about vexels i use free pick for a little bit okay
but the thing is here you want to make sure that it's okay for commercial use okay so when
you're you're researching wherever you get your illustrations from okay you want to make sure
they're okay for commercial use okay that's one of the main things with using any of the
illustrations from any of these websites you want to make sure it's okay and they're not stealing
the illustrations from someone and uploading to the platform so you always want to double check
now where would you get your fonts right there's a place there's a website called fontsquirrel.com
you can go on there and check out what fonts they have available the same thing with this
tool as well you want to make sure it's okay for commercial use whatever website that you go to or
whatever you're using for these designs you want to always double check to make sure it's free
for commercial use because you do not want to be breaking any of the rules stealing someone else's
you know font or stealing someone else's illustration and using it and then you're
not knowing that you're using it you might be doing it on accident you don't even know it
okay so it's always best that you double check and make sure that it's okay for commercial use
all right so how to search your niche for like trademarks okay before you start to research
you always want to double check for trademarks right kind of keep that in mind as you're doing
research it's important that you do that because if you don't next you know you create a design and
then you get a rejection on your account you're like dude i did all that work for no reason why
why did i do all that work for no reason and then next thing you know it you get a rejection so
it's important that you do it before you're doing your research you want to do the trademark checks
as you're doing your research so it kind of goes hand in hand so you can do the research you can
find a good niche and also send his trademark that phrase they're saying this trademarked right
so there's a tool that i recommend that you use it is free it's the merch by amazon trademark
protection by merchant former okay i'll put that down below in the description download it
plug it into your google chrome extension and that's going to help you check for trademarks
and i have another video on that down below too as well where i'll put it up here you can check
that out and see exactly how you would use that tool you know as you're doing research and it will
save your account and you don't have to worry about like oh is this design you know you know
borderline or is it am i breaking the rules okay so one of the things that i always put in place
for myself is if i feel some type of way about a design i will not put it up okay and then you know
there's some people where certain phrases will get trademarked and you already have the design up on
your account if i feel some type of way i'll take it down even if it has a ton of reviews i've done
it you get mad of course you get mad but there's times where i have a design up and it's like dude
let me think about this and then the day goes by i'm like all right this is not worth risking my
whole account right here so i'm just going to take off the design so i'll take i take down the design
sad a little bit but there's times that that will happen okay now but the most important thing here
here is is amazon has given us the opportunity to make money by leveraging their customers right so
this is easy all right but just follow the rules and making sure that you're you know designing
within the rules and and the trademarks and stuff like that is it's another game in itself right but
you want to make sure that you're not breaking any of those rules okay so trademark checks are just
as important as the research itself now creating a listing is just as important as the research
trademark checks and creating the design okay creating the listing you have to understand that
when you're doing your research you can do keyword research too as well along with that niche okay
because if you don't have good keywords in your listing okay you're not gonna get traffic to
your product no traffic to your product means no sales and keywords or keyword research is one of
my favorite things to do too as well i do make a lot of about that on this channel having the exact
phrases together in the brand or the title depends how you're going to go about this if you're
creating your own brand on amazon you know you're just going to put it underneath your brand but as
far as the keywords and title you know you can put some really solid good keywords in the title that
will drive traffic to your product good traffic to your product needs more sales more money
and then you have your bullet points and then you have your description right i see some people not
even putting in descriptions and they're crushing it with their designs right so the title is a big
important factor when it comes to ranking and then the bullet points and the description next as far
as like ranking on google okay so it all plays hand in hand so if you have a top seller and then
you're just getting a ton of traffic and you're making sales and you're generating those reviews
on your product bullet points and description is gonna bring in more traffic to your product right
but then you'll see some of these pilots that don't have no bullet points or description and
they're just crushing it so it kind of depends on how you want to do this what do you want to
focus on what do you enjoy the most when you're putting a new listing or a new product on amazon
merch by amazon whatever you want to call it so it all depends on you but uh best practices
is figuring out how a customer wants to search to find your product and how are you going to give
them what they want think about it that way okay when it comes to research tools are probably going
to be one of the most important things and all in one tool is going to be merch informer okay
you can do all the research you can spy on your competitors you can even design for products in
the back okay so it's like an all-in-one tool one of the things is you want to go into a niche where
you know yourself because if you do that that makes it can make all the difference because
you can be number one when it comes to creating a design and you're you know you're the first
design up there because you know the new saying in the niche because you know and breathe it and you
know what people are talking about in the in the blogs or in the threads or whatever it is right
you know what your customer wants so if you know a niche and you know you can make designs for that
niche and be the best do so take take advantage of that be number one so if you want to grow your
business i would definitely recommend you sign up for merchant former the link will be down
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