hey what's up guys today i want to talk
merch by amazon upload strategy
i want to cater the discussion to the
new
um upload system that has been rolled
out it appears
to just about every account i mean here
i've got a screenshot of a tier 10
account
that has the new updated what do we call
it just updated upload system
applied to the account now just so you
know for reference this new system it's
uh both a positive and a negative it
kind of depends on what tier you're in
it seems like
a little bit of a negative for the lower
tiers because at least in its current
iteration
it seems to have limited the number of
products you can submit in a day
the benefit is you can have more
products
live for sale across amazon and the
amazon international markets
and instead of counting each product you
enable
against your tier it now only counts the
designs
you upload against your tier so you can
upload a design
make it available on a hoodie a standard
shirt
a long sleeve shirt and a tank top and
in the past that would count against you
as four now it only counts against you
as one
so we need to update our upload strategy
accordingly and given that there was
recently tear-ups
uh i think there's a lot of questions
going on so and also i just had a great
call with somebody from my merch by
amazon course his name is greg
and both him and his wife have merch
accounts
except one is in a high tier one's in a
low tier and
it was just a great discussion we
chatted for like an hour and it really
just kind of brought to light a lot of
the complexities
of being a merch by amazon seller if you
really want to get the most out of
what's possible
because as he put it it's like an
evolving journey like over time
everything tends to uh
you well it doesn't have to but you know
if you want to again like do the most
with your merch account you need to
evolve your strategy
with your tier and then also in rare
cases like what we're going to kind of
look at today
if the whole system changes by the merch
team rolling out this big upgrade
you also need to kind of understand
what's going on and adjust accordingly
so
anyways let's get into it
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let's look at uh tier 10 so what is
possible with your tier 10
account i borrowed this screenshot from
my merch by amazon facebook group which
of course is also linked in the
description below
i think the question associated with it
was that they had submitted
a uh design earlier that day but then
deleted it and they wanted to re-upload
something new but their products
submitted today which is all the way on
the left-hand side over there
uh remains one out of one so if your
product submitted today
bar only allows you to upload one per
day
what this is saying is you can either
upload a brand new design that you just
created
and enable one product type on one
marketplace which i would recommend
starting with
standard t-shirts on us market and then
submit it and you're done for the day
now i would recommend doing that
every day until you have 10 out of 10
published
designs okay you want to fill up the 10
out of 10 first and then you can
consider doing what i'm about to mention
you can go to your manage tab find your
um
let's say your best-selling design
assuming you've made sales which in tier
10 is i know it's hard to do it's harder
in tier 10 to do than probably any other
tier
and from there you can manage that
listing
and now what you can do and this is
assuming it's a fresh day where your
products submitted today
are zero of one you can then enable
a different product type with that
design now this is something that you
were not able to do
prior to this update it would have said
okay you've got 10 standard t-shirts
on the us market that counts as 10
products and you're in tier 10 so that's
10 out of 10.
nothing else you can do now what you can
do is you can go in and
enable all the product types on all the
markets
what is hindering you from doing that
immediately
is that pesky one product submission
per day limit which of course that
number will go up over time
and if i should have screenshoted it
before i recorded this video but i'm
pretty sure in the dashboard
announcement where they
where they told us that this was coming
this change was coming they said that
these were like
or they at least implied that these were
low limits that hopefully will be
increased with time but maybe they you
know as they roll this out they know
it's going to come with a higher server
burden server load
and they wanted to be a little bit
cautious so i'm hoping that like
they hopefully double these i mean why
not double triple whatever
for all the merch accounts but what i
would recommend is guys once you've
filled up your
10 out of 10 published designs which is
that tracker bar in the middle there
that you then go in and enable more
product types
on the us market i would prioritize and
then go to the international markets
also i mean this complicates the tier 10
issue a little bit because
in the past i recommended that you can
recycle your designs you can
delete one that hasn't sold re-upload a
new one but if you do that now in tier
10
that is going to eat up your daily
product submission and you're not going
to be able to use that product
submission
to enable um other product types so i
guess it's a striking a balance between
if you've got stuff that isn't selling
you do want to delete it and create a
new product listing because that's going
to increase the likelihood
like let's say mother's day is in the
past and you want to replace a mother's
day design that didn't
sell with a father's day design that's
good that's worth using your daily
product submission on in tier 10.
if that's not the case though then go in
and especially if you've got products
that are selling well
enable other product types on those
listings now moving on from tier 10
i do have a picture here of a tier 500
account this is taken from marielle's
account
they finally upgraded her out of tier
100
it's crazy how long it took because she
i think she got like 300 or 400 sales by
now um she's doing really well
anyways she got she got skipped over a
bunch of tear-ups and i think yesterday
or the day before she made it to tier
500 which is awesome
so unlike the tier 10 account she has 10
product submissions allowed per day
and then as you can see in the middle
there up to 500 unique designs can be
submitted as well so
she has 420 420
design submissions available
and what i told her is that every day
she needs to make sure that she submits
at least i mean i guess at least it's
really at maximum but
i think every single day she should be
submitting a
unique design on a standard t-shirt on
the us market
meaning what that's going to do is it's
going to push up that published designs
number
we want to get that at least 90 percent
full so we want to get it close to 500
or just hit 500 out of 500 now the
reason we want to do this guys is
because
she has enough sales already to get to
tier 1000
she just needs to fill the upload slots
and i mean knock on wood
not get skipped over on the next tear up
like she did for the last
i don't know four or five months so guys
if you're in a similar position where
you are eligible for the following tear
up
which means that you've probably got
let's say i mean there's no strict rules
but it seems like you need about 75 to
80 percent of your tier in sales
typically and you for sure need to have
filled most of your upload slots
otherwise they won't grant you extra
upload slots
now guys this is important because when
you're in tier 1000
your product submitted today goes up i
don't know exactly how much if you do
let me know in the comments below if
you're in tier 1000 but
it's hugely beneficial because whatever
designs you publish to get from
80 out of 500 to 500 out of 500
like i told her you don't need to spend
too much time on the design and research
and all that
you just need to make sure that you're
filling those upload slots because later
on you can delete them and replace them
with better
better researched better optimized
designs but like right now it's just
hey if they do another tear up in two
weeks you need to catch that train
you don't want to miss that train
because you don't know how often these
tear ups are going to come
so that is priority right now for her
and if you're in a similar boat i would
recommend doing that
if you do not have enough sails you
don't need to rush to fill up your slots
i mean you still don't want to let do
like seriously
i used to have this rule when i was in
tier 500 there were 20 upload slots a
day
and i really never went to bed until i
had filled my daily uploads
so there were nights where i lost sleep
because i was like yo
nope i'm doing 20 designs and 20 uploads
and i know that's not the case anymore i
mean now it's 10 so
but um you know just sharing a little
bit of my experience four years ago
and then also uh today what marielle is
going to be doing so that she can get
her account to tier 1000
as soon as possible tier 200 000
uh definitely a different story here
also i'll just
mention again that my products submitted
today bar
it's constantly bugged i don't know why
and i'm not complaining because when
it's bugged it allows me to submit
uh pretty much infinite designs so i
do my best to do just that i i mean
remember there's a throttling mechanism
so i can't just like hammer the uploads
constantly
they do move pretty slow and that's by
design by amazon's engineers
that being said i just leave that thing
rolling all day and typically while i'm
asleep
if they're going to let me do it i'm
going to keep doing it so you can see
here i have
143 basically 144
000 um published designs out of my tier
200 000 so 200
000 max many of those are duplicates as
soon as i had this rolled out to my
dashboard i immediately just started
re-uploading
my entire um i just i think of them as
like really batches
so my batches of designs if i go into
like where i store them on my computer
they're
well organized and each folder has like
a different niche
so i just started re-uploading except
now instead of uploading to
standard t-shirts on us market only i
started uploading to
every product on every market and for
each design that you do that for
you will see your products submitted
today
go up by 64 at a time unless you're like
me and you have it bugged so
i can't i don't know what to tell you i
don't really know why that happens
um it's been happening basically every
other day
so on some days it fills up and on other
days it doesn't and i try to take
advantage
as you can see here product potential i
have 271 000
products out of a possible 12.8 million
i've got a long ways to go
uh will i ever hit 12.8 million of
course not because these will get pulled
off
automatically after 365 days of no sales
so i'm just envisioning like a
repetitive cycle of daily uploads to try
to
replenish the designs that fell off 365
days ago
i know this all sounds crazy but uh i
don't know that's how i'm gonna play the
game i mean you can obviously do
different things
while you're in tier 200 000 you don't
need to wait till tier 200 000 by the
way
if you have access to advertising you
can do things like cameron did in my
video yesterday cameron
has made over four thousand dollars
profit in a single day from merch by
amazon because he used ads
to boost the organic rank of some of his
shirts
to the number one organic spot on very
high value
trend specific like time of year
specific keywords
and as a result was able to just crush
the profits and if you missed that
interview i will link to it right here
because it's definitely worth watching
at least
watch the first like 10 minutes um
before we kind of get into the weeds of
like
advertising um deeper than i think some
people you know if you don't have access
to ads you don't need to watch all that
but
it's a good story and worth knowing that
it's possible
too all right so anyways tier 200 000
definitely a very different game from
being in tier
500 or tier 10 that's why you got to
kind of evolve your strategy with your
tier
but anyways that's what i wanted to talk
about in this video before i leave just
wanted to remind you guys that are still
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