hey what's up guys happy thursday today
i want to talk about merch by amazon i
want to specifically highlight a story
that was shared by a new member of the
merch by amazon facebook group which you
can find a link to in the description
but enrique shared his story about how
in his first week
on merch by amazon he made 15 sales
while in tier 10 and what's great about
it is that he breaks down the exact
strategy that he used and it's something
that can be implemented by everybody of
course it's not guaranteed we can't
guarantee anybody sales unless you want
to buy your own shirts but i'm going to
share exactly what enrique
shared with the group so why don't we
get started
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all right so i'm going to break down
enriquez post from the merch by amazon
facebook group into a couple different
sections and then i'll just kind of uh
talk about you know the strategy how he
implemented it and what not and i did
get his permission to share this so why
don't we get started hey y'all i'm
pretty new to merch and just wanted to
share some strategies that worked for me
and might work for you sellers in the us
i've only uploaded five designs and have
passed 10 sales already and he says how
first thing he did is i posted on his
facebook page letting friends know that
i've started a side hustle designing
t-shirts and offered to make specialty
shirts for them or their business at
cost
so we've already shared by the way i'm
breaking away from his story
i've shared on this channel the story of
i forget his name but he was on one of
my favorite merch by amazon podcasts
like from three or four years ago called
uh merch minds
and they had a guest on who was a seven
figure merch by amazon seller every year
and what he did was he would contract
with local businesses
and you know i think he landed a couple
of like bigger businesses as well
basically to do t-shirts for their
business and uh instead of he didn't do
him at cost which is how he made a
little bit more money but i'm doing that
cost is fine too if you're in tier 10 uh
who cares right dude at cost 13.7 cents
for a standard t-shirt um or you know
like the person on the merch mines
podcast i think he was charging like 25
bucks for a shirt
back when uh amazon merch was paying
higher royalties so um like at 1999 back
then you made seven dollars not five
dollars so just for reference
all right back to um back to enrique's
story
uh if they contacted me by friday today
okay so he made he said hey guys like my
facebook network you know my social
network i'm starting a side hustle
designing t-shirts i can make you a
specialty shirt for your business uh or
you know anything you want personally at
cost 1307 if you contact me today
three people contacted me one person
wanted matching shirts for her and her
best friend
so that's two shirts one person wanted a
funny back to school t-shirt for
teachers so that was one shirt
and one person wanted t-shirts for her
and her office staff so that was eight
shirts and that's a private design that
they did not bring public so only her
and her staff can buy it but together
that's two shirts in the first order one
shirt in the second order and eight
shirts in the third order that's 11
shirts already by the way you are doing
them a big favor right you're doing the
design work and you're allowing them to
get these shirts
at 13.7 cents per instead of like most
people who want a custom shirt they go
to google they type in custom t-shirt
design and then they end up at um
like custom inc paying like 40 a shirt
you know what i mean
and again that's a function of you know
custom ink pays to show up at the top of
search and most people don't know any
better and they click that and then they
end up overpaying so this is i like this
strategy
by the way if you would like to start
your own facebook page like maybe you
don't want to make a profile but you
want to make a page you know if you
don't want facebook having all your info
of course they do datamine a lot if you
have like the app on your phone for
instance and you know even through your
web browser on your desktop computer but
that's a story for a different day uh
here's how you very quickly make a
facebook page right so in case you're
wondering you want to make a business
page like i have my personal profile
which by the way don't reach out to me
there because i don't accept any friend
requests there and i do get quite a few
of them hit me up on the business
profile you can find a link in the
description actually um that's the one
that i use for business and i do respond
to um to people there all right so
here's how you make a facebook page for
your business it's very easy to do log
in to facebook and then on the left hand
side look for the little flag that says
pages
when you click that
you should see a button that says create
new page so go ahead and click that
now facebook their web developers are
world class they understand the
importance of a clean straightforward
easy to understand ui user interface
that's what you see right here i took a
screenshot so you really just need to
provide the required information
and that's it and then you've got your
facebook page and they just made a
change where it's like in the top right
corner you can kind of see your profile
picture and you can click that and you
can switch between profiles so if you
have multiple business pages or you've
got your business page and your personal
profile you can click in the top right
corner and you can switch between
profiles it's kind of annoying honestly
but um
who knows it'll probably grow on me at
some point in the future but anyways
that's how that's how you make a page
it's very easy to do also
if you want your page to look a little
bit nicer and you don't want to spend
hours on graphic design trying to make
the banner and the profile image and
whatever else
just throwing it out there because i am
a canva user and i know that it works
very well very effective you can use
canva and you can brand your whole
facebook page your whole business your
youtube channel whatever it is uh
they've got templates and like basically
they're like pre-built out for you so
you can just kind of tweak it
um whatever you want to change very they
make it very easy so canva is what i
it's what pops into my mind if i'm
helping somebody like start their
business i'm like guys just use canva
it's very easy they have all these
templates so you can find a link in the
description to canva if you want to
check it out
all right back to um back to his story
here
i made the back to school shirt and the
other shirt public and then posted the
designs on my facebook page and made two
more sales from that so this person's
probably well connected on facebook or
at least um their posts are showing up
in other people's news feeds because
like we you guys already know without
visibility you're not gonna make any
sales so he's sharing uh information to
his facebook page and he's clearly
getting some visibility because he's
generating organic sales from shirts
that he made for somebody else so what
was um a single design this was the
school design i think he said it was for
a teacher and there was only one he made
two more just from sharing it on
facebook
by the way these pictures that i have
here they're not his design i just kind
of went to amazon
looked up back to school shirts and just
to kind of keep the video a little bit
more interesting
so i made a funny t-shirt and wanted i
wanted for myself and purchased it but
then i also shared it on facebook as
well thinking that maybe friends with
like-minded sense of humor would want it
and made one more sale so he made a
shirt for himself purchased it himself
and and that's by the way that's the
only way to guarantee a sale is to do it
yourself which by the way is allowed
because merch by amazon shirts are sold
by amazon so there's no issue there uh
so it's not it's not really purchasing
it from yourself all right but he shared
it on facebook made another sale okay so
hey guys if you're not sharing your
stuff on facebook um you know i don't
necessarily blame you like i don't share
very much on facebook but if you're
active on facebook no harm done you know
what i mean but you got to be a little
bit creative as well with your messaging
you can't just sell to people they're
not going to like that
what really helps facebook's algorithm
put it in more people's news feeds
meaning increased visibility is i'm
waiting for you to answer uh yes you
guessed it engagement so craft your
posts in a way that they will engage
with if they hit that like button if
they comment even comments are great
facebook sees that people are responding
they'll show it to more people and then
you have a increased likelihood of
making sales guys
all right back to the story that's 15
sales in less than a week i'm not
looking to make money i'm looking to
tear up quickly so i love that he's got
a good long-term perspective there as
long as i fill up the remaining five
design slots i should be able to tier up
to 25 on the next update by the way
those updates the tear-ups they are at
an unknown interval and they typically
happen globally
so before you ask when the next tier
up's going to be we would just be
guessing my guess is that it'll happen
in the next week though because it has
been a while but yeah so he should be
tier 25 on the next update and he says
and who knows maybe if i hit 25 sales
before then i can skip to 50. uh at
least i know i'll be getting out of tier
10. so as far as i know i don't think
you will skip any tears there was a
bugged tier up i think the last tier up
session the last global round of tear
ups where people actually did skip tears
and some people got teared down but i
don't anticipate that will ever happen
again i'm pretty sure that was a bug
that the merch team addressed so you
should go from tier 10 to 25 i don't
think they're going to let you skip to
100 because i've never heard of that
happening um but anyways great job keep
up the good work man uh we're all happy
that we're happy for you and we're happy
that you went ahead and you shared what
was working with everybody in the merch
by amazon facebook group that by the way
you guys can join uh just use the link
in the description all right so just to
wrap up he says so reach out to your
friends
let them know what you're doing and
share your designs you may be surprised
like i was at how effective it can be so
social sharing guys it's free you know
what i mean social networking is not
dead um but again you know you got to
play the game we know that the
algorithms prefer posts that get
engagement so with your messaging
um say something like drop a comment
below let me know your thoughts or do me
a favor and hit that like button give me
a reaction you know anything like that
is going to help get your post seen by
more people and that's really the game
it's a function of visibility you know
what i mean 100 people see it five
people click it one person buys it now i
just made that up i'm not saying that's
what's going to happen but you know in
theory that that's probably about right
all right guys thank you for watching
this video really quickly just wanted to
remind you i have a free 7 day merch by
amazon mini course that you can take
advantage of there's a link in the
description also for like the fifth time
there is a merch by amazon facebook
group that you can join uh link is in
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but not least guys i did write a full
merch by amazon course walking you
through how i went from tier 10 to tier
200 thousand you can find a link to that
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