what's up guys thank you for joining me
for a new video today
i'm doing what could spin off into a new
series i'm thinking maybe it'll be like
in every other week series
where i try to redesign some of your
t-shirt designs so i started a thread in
my amazon merch facebook group i'll put
a link to it in the description
and i basically said hey anybody want me
to take a look at your designs and see
if i can
attempt to do them better i'm not going
to say that i did them better because
that's definitely subjective
but i got a couple responses and i said
hey let's just run with this and see
what happens so if you guys want to see
how i would redesign some user submitted
designs then stay tuned let's get
started
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love to have you again that's where the
thread is so i'll also put a link to the
thread in this group you'll have to
apply to the group
and i'll let you in and then if you want
me to review your designs just let me
know just drop a link to it on amazon
all right so here is the first design
this one says sorry i missed your call
i was on my other line and it's a
fishing shirt
now i really like this idea just in
general as a
shirt template where you've got kind of
the
icons for a cell phone and i'm sure
there's got to be some other like niche
designs
that you can tailor to being cell phone
related um
at a minimum like the stuff at the top
right maybe it doesn't have to be the
call icons you see how it's like the red
decline button the green accept button
so what i ended up doing is when i tried
to make a better version of this design
i end up just saving it as a template in
case i want to come back and use it
in other ways you know sometimes too
i'll just have an idea pop up in my head
while i'm in the gym or something
so i'll write that down and then come
back to it later so i think there's a
lot of potential here
in just making more designs using this
templated approach
of the cell phone style anyways first
things first this design has
16 reviews four and a half star
average review so even though i
attempted to make it better
i don't even know if my design is going
to come anywhere close to the level of
success usage you have achieved
so gotta tip my hat to you and say well
done there
um one thing that i also maybe would do
is like you've offered it in a lot of
different colors
behind me you've offered it in 10
different colors and
you know i don't know that you need to
offer it in 10 different colors
i didn't look that hard at all 10 of
them but i know that like black is
probably the best looking color that
this shirt is going to be available on
the red color for instance like with the
red button it probably doesn't even look
good so you maybe don't need to offer
that many choices too much choice can
sometimes be a bad thing but anyways
this is what i came up with and i will
walk you through how i
got here now i'm not gonna design on
videos i've done that in the past and
sometimes i'll do it again in the future
but it's hard for me to really feel like
i'm making a good video when i'm
designing because it's kind of slow
um you know i do try to work quickly but
like i still can't
i don't know it just didn't work so i
went made the design i'll talk you
through how i got here
and i'll show you the designs side by
side but immediately what you can see
is that in my design you guys already
know i preached
that i really believe in the idea that
bigger is better so i tried to make like
the graphic in the middle really big
i not that not that theirs isn't big but
it's kind of more
busy and i kind of ended on or settled
on
a large centered graphic and then you
can see i matched
the text uh color scheme to the colors
from the graphic so i think that kind of
flows really nicely and it's not
hopefully you don't think it's too many
colors like i do notice that the buttons
here
the green and red call buttons are you
know
making it kind of busy in that there's
five different colors that i used in the
shirt
um you'll notice that i blew up the size
actually no i think i
walked through it here yeah so if you're
wondering what font family i used by the
way i used edmond
texture this is one of my favorite fonts
for designing because it comes
distressed already so it's very easy to
use
and it's bold and it is
tall so i mean it's all the attributes
that i really like in a font
if you guys want to use edmond texture i
have a link to it
in the description on creative fabrica
don't quote me but the last time i
checked it was like a dollar
and change to purchase that font so
pretty good deal
because that's like less than one sale
you know what i mean it's like if you
make a sale on amazon merch
it's paid for immediately and then you
got some profit left over still so
i do recommend edmund texture
uh so you can see here bigger better was
the thought process that i went to
uh went through sorry while i was doing
this design
i also mixed it up a bit as you saw like
with the color scheme whereas the design
on the left side
and i cut off the top part of it but it
was basically
white a white design with the green and
red buttons as the exception
and i went a little bit more out of the
box i also looked at amazon merch
or i looked at amazon use the search
merch tool
looked at other merch listings a lot of
the designs were black and white
so i thought you know what if i throw in
some extra color maybe i'll
differentiate myself a bit
so anyways if you want to go back and
just look at the side by side one last
time here
that's how i did so i'm not saying that
mine's better like i said you're
crushing with
all those reviews that means you got a
lot of sales obviously the customers
love it so really good job there
um i'm glad that the first person to
comment on my thread
had a design that i don't even know if i
made it any better
because theirs is so so good but all
right design number two
this one says best frenchy dad ever it's
got that nice
distressed look and feel and it's using
the sunset
approach to the graphic which i mean we
know that those vintage sunsets
sell extremely well now i don't know if
this one has made any sales yet because
it doesn't have any reviews i didn't
actually scroll down and see if it had a
bsr
but i do like this design as well
nothing immediately stands out as like
oh fix this change that
um the one thing that i would say is the
font is very small
so if i search those keywords and i'm
looking at all the other options in
search results
when you're in the the search result
page and there's
48 options remember your thumbnails
are rendered even smaller than they are
on the product page which is what
someone sees after they click your
product in the search results so if
we're thinking about this
in the order that it happens they have
to search then click you then get to the
product page so if you're not optimizing
for getting clicked in search results
when you're only one of 48 products
you're gonna struggle to get man as many
sales as you would if you're optimizing
for those clicks so that's the one thing
that i'd say is
the only thing that stands out so this
is what i ended up doing
in photoshop um again i just i looked at
the competition
and there was actually a lot of um
similar designs to this one a lot of the
sunset designs surprise well
should i say surprisingly we all know
that um the sunset stuff sells really
well and by the way let me shout out
real quick i didn't plan this but
all sunsets you know that uh graphic
website
that i joined i think it's like 20 i
don't remember right now
they're increasing their price at the
end of this week or in like a week and a
half or something so if you want to join
all sunsets it's like
20 i think for a year right so you pay
20 now you get access for a year if you
want these sunset graphics
you can either make them yourself or
just do the one-time fee and
download them from all sunsets that's
what i do so for instance the sunset
that you see there in the background of
my design is from all sunsets so instead
of having to design it i just drag
and drop it in as you can see i matched
the color scheme of my text
to the sunset so i have the yellow
orange red of the
on the best frenchy dad text i matched
to the yellow orange and red from that
sunset and then since i put
ever at the bottom and i made it big in
bold
i then matched it to the blue at the
bottom of the design
i'm not completely in love with my
design like the graphic of the dog in
the middle
to me is uh not the best one ever but i
also don't really spend time creating
custom graphics i just go to a couple
various websites
that i use to find them and use them in
my designs
so you know it could be better but this
didn't take me too long to make
and when we do the side by side i'm not
even that confident that mine's better
i mean i think both designs are great
the one thing that i do like to do when
i'm doing my designs as well let me just
throw this in there
is i like to use as much of the canvas
real estate as possible i like to get as
close to the top and bottom
of the canvas and the left and right
side of the canvas as possible this also
really helps me
when i upload to redbubble because when
i'm using my redbubble upload template
you know it's expecting the designs to
be relatively full size
so also that's why i like to you know
and when the design looks fuller
you're in my mind at least you're
increasing the likelihood of getting
clicked in search results because you're
it just feels like a subliminal like
value proposition it's a bigger
design you know and when we're selling
t-shirts online i really think
that bigger is better all right you
remember in top five niches of the week
yesterday
today's monday right yeah yesterday i
mentioned
in one of my bonus shirts this shirt
specifically and i said you know
sometimes it's okay to select only one
color for a shirt
and design for that one color and this
this
uh product that somebody had dropped on
the merch
t-shirt review thread it reminded me of
because they're both that vintage
distressed look it reminded me of this
shirt from yesterday
in my bonus t-shirts from top five
niches of the week
where i talked about select a heather
gray and make your color choices based
on that one color selection so
i went ahead and i did something very
similar this is what i was referring to
when i was talking about the kamala
shirt on the heather gray shirt
so you see it says best frenchy dad ever
the text
stays the same the graphic has been
removed you could still implement a
graphic if you wanted to
for me i was just doing this as proof of
concept so that i could
follow up on what i was talking about
yesterday for anybody that was wondering
and you know i just i like the way this
looks i wouldn't sell this though on any
other colored shirt
as you can see here even for the
background in photoshop i went into
amazon merch
grabbed a picture of the heather gray so
i had the exact match
and used that as the background so that
i could make a good color selection and
whatnot
so that's the side by side of the second
variant of the shirt that i uh that i
made
and there it is on the uh t-shirts
all right one more design so tokyo 2021
somebody made this i think because of
the tokyo 2021
olympics and if i can improve upon this
design i think i can also i just want to
make sure that anybody who goes after
anything related to tokyo 2021 olympics
is extremely careful not to infringe on
anything related to the actual olympics
including the word olympic don't include
that in your listing all right
so this is what i came up with it's a
little crazy i don't
sell too many products like this i do
not do the gradients very often
the story behind this is where i got
that graphic from with the basketball
and the shield
it came well there were a couple
variations of it but it came with a
gradient
on this variation that i chose
ultimately
so then i used in photoshop a gradient
overlay on the text
as you can see as usual big bold text i
used edmund texture again if you guys
want to check that
font out there's a link in the
description it's like a dollar
and uh i matched the gradient to the
color scheme
on the basketball shield so pretty
straightforward pretty simple
i didn't get you know i didn't spend a
lot of time on this one i kept it
short and sweet i didn't think it needed
to be overly complicated
um you know i'm sure you could take this
a completely different angle
and implement more of the tokyo
uh country esque maybe the tokyo
the flag you know the national flag and
whatnot i decided not to go that route i
decided to do something a little bit
different and i like how the shirt came
out i have no clue
if um it's anything that someone will
want to buy or not but
i just had some fun with it i didn't
want to go the route of like doing the
uh i don't know what to call that can i
call that an asian font without
offending anybody like you see the font
on the left side it
does have a little bit of like an asian
feel i didn't want to go
that route and try to like make a font
selection and whatnot i
like when you go down those rabbit holes
that's how you spend an hour on one
design so
i have the admin texture font if i just
want to get some designs knocked out i
just go straight to that and i don't
think twice
so that's really what i did with that
design so here you go side by side
all right and that's it for this video
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