hey what's up guys so i know a lot of
people got teared up on merch by amazon
recently and congratulations to all of
you my girlfriend marielle actually just
got to tier 1000 finally she's been
eligible for a long time i don't know
why it took so long for them to give her
the tear up but in today's video i want
to talk about scalable print-on-demand
t-shirt ideas because i know this is
going to be relevant to a lot of you
guys that just got you know double or
triple or quadruple your upload slots
available to you
so this is going to help you fill out
those upload slots and i'm going to show
you both like a manual way of going
about creating scalable t-shirt designs
and an automated way because you know i
love that automation so why don't we get
started
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a link at the top of the description so
let's start with the definition of
scalable designs now i'm going to be
showing you a bunch of examples that you
guys can write down and utilize in your
own print-on-demand businesses but
in summary a scalable design is one
where we can make a minor
a change
and save a unique different design so
what i'm really thinking is if we go
into like photoshop or canva or photopia
wherever you guys like to create your
designs and you have an awesome graphic
or you have no graphics it really
doesn't matter but if you have a text
layer and the value of that text layer
can
switch
and you can be in a whole different
niche
that to me is a scalable design and like
i said i will show you a bunch of
examples in a second and if you stay
till the end i'm going to show you some
examples that we can use for halloween
okay and you can i've done this before
for a bunch of different holidays
so why are we considering this as i
mentioned earlier the more upload slots
you have
the harder it is to fill them of course
everybody faces this dilemma i remember
when i first got to tier 500 and all of
a sudden i had 20 upload slots a day to
utilize i was like oh crap how am i
going to do this and that's when i first
started utilizing the scalable design
approach because i i mean it's simple
logic what i'm about to share but
if you don't fill your upload slots
it's a foregone conclusion you're gonna
make zero sales from those slots you're
you're not getting any value of the
unfilled slots so my goal was to fill
those upload slots which oftentimes
meant losing sleep while
uploading 20 designs a day
but you know i was i was determined to
make it work you know and then once
you've filled them up guys you can
delete the ones that you're not proud of
and replace them with more targeted
designs that you put more effort into
but the higher you tier up in merged by
amazon or wherever you're uploading
print on demand uh the more you'd want
to consider using the scalable approach
so how do we use this well you can
manually uh go in and edit the text
layer and again if you do text plus
image it's going to take a little bit
longer you know and i'm going to show
you examples in a second and it'll start
to make more sense but also there's an
automated way to do this it cannot edit
images but it can edit text and it's
called automate pod it's a chrome
extension that's very very easy to use
you can get it set up in two to three
minutes uh it's intentionally made to be
very easy and the best way to use it in
my opinion is to create a design
template kind of like the one you see in
this example where it says world's
okayist and then it inserts a job
so when you use the tool we actually
give you
lists that are pre-made of things like
professions and you can just say yes use
the professions and what it'll do is
it'll swap in and out the word world's
okayist designer then desire designer
becomes lawyer lawyer becomes teacher
teacher becomes doctor and it downloads
the finished designs for you so
you're
automating a huge portion of the
research design and upload process
and on the website there's a bunch of
tutorial videos they're very short
because like i mentioned it's
intentionally kept you know very
minimalist to make it easy to use and
accessible and there's variable
templates included as well so let's get
to these examples of scalable designs
uh there's i mean there's so many guys
so here i just took a stab at some of my
favorites and some of the most popular
ones
the first one i wanted to share is life
is better with x and x can be in this
case orcas or
a dog or life is better on the farm life
is better with friends okay and uh
exclude the fact that some of these are
big brands like that looks like either
someone's infringing on friends behind
me or that's an official licensed shirt
and you definitely see a disney shirt
right there on the second one
uh the next one i never dreamed i'd be a
and in this case it says i never dreamed
i'd be a sexy divorcee but here i am
killing it and i know that a lot of
these sell if you say i never dreamed
i'd be a sexy
insert something like again job you know
lawyer teacher whatever but here i am
killing it
next i break for
x and in this case you know x can be
turtles it can be
whatever deer i don't know it kind of
makes sense to be driving in your car
but um again you can scale this out to
any animal and just call it you know
gift for
ex lover animal
lover and then say i break four and then
the animal i'm just talking about
keyword strategy there so that you can
get indexed on like broader phrases and
help somebody find it if it's not
something that people are already
looking for um i think i break for
turtles i've definitely seen people with
that bumper sticker before and by the
way even though i'm showing t-shirts in
this case you can also upload these to
redbubble stickers for instance and call
it a bumper sticker
uh here i like x and maybe three people
where x can be coffee a dog
hunting
whiskey wine
dogs again orcas cats
so many ways you can use that one
it's not always by the way a lot of
times you can use multiple lists
so it could be you know in this case
animals it could be
hobbies you know i mean it could be
scrapbooking right it could be whatever
so there's a lot of different ways that
you can
utilize most of these scalable design
templates
here's another one x is my happy place
and you've got music you've got the
beach you've got sailing you've got the
gym
next one trust me i'm a
x
and in this case all of the examples are
trust me i'm a lawyer uh one of them
says trust me i'm almost a lawyer or two
of them say that actually and the fourth
one says trust me i'm a lawyer and by
the way guys when i take this approach
to design
you know you really got to figure out
what you want out of um your print on
demand business and also that can evolve
over time like my journey has certainly
evolved over time i'm just going to
quickly mention that when you see some
of the bsrs on the screenshots i've
taken here in these examples like they
can have a 5 million bsr 8 million bsr
behind me 6 million bsr
if you have like i say i have 200 000
upload slots if i can make one sale a
year on 200 000 products
each year and make five dollars profit a
sale i'll make a million dollars profit
a year you see what i'm saying so i
don't need to have all the best sellers
like in taking this approach to merch by
amazon specifically in this case i'm
keeping my account safe
and i'm really not
i'm typically not against a ton of
competition because these can be pretty
fringe evergreen niches and this is kind
of how i like to operate here's another
one it's super simple it says addicted
to x
and this shirt says i'm addicted to blue
cheese but you could replace blue cheese
with almost anything
and here they took it a step further
they said addicted to x and y so in this
one it says addicted to math and
cats
and yes you can do this with automate
pod as well you can insert multiple text
variables you just need to add a second
column to your list of variables and
it'll pull right from there
a couple more before we wrap up this is
what an awesome x looks like and i've
sold a bunch of these shirts this is
like going back all the way to when i
was in tier 500 i remember stumbling
upon this niche and uploading a bunch of
them
uh and then here a couple halloween ones
as i promised you guys
so this one is this is my human costume
i'm really n
x so whatever x is there this is my
human costume i'm really an elf this is
my human costume i'm really a unicorn
i'm really a whale like you see in this
example
and one last one you can't scare me i'm
a x
and it looks like a lot of these are
selling for teachers you can't scare me
i'm a
science teacher kindergarten teacher
math teacher et cetera we know halloween
is big right now and a lot of people get
excited about selling halloween stuff
but they're like oh it's oversaturated
well what about halloween plus
something else halloween plus
being a teacher right teachers want to
wear a halloween shirt to school
so there's a couple examples of scalable
designs guys if you would like to check
out automate pod i will give you 10 off
a month
for life from the subscription yeah
unfortunately it's a subscription
service but you know we have to get in
there and actually write the code and
make this work so um it's a subscription
but if you guys want to check it out
we'll give you 10 off for life using the
code sushi uh this is good through this
sunday if you would like to check that
out why the code sushi because i had
sushi for lunch i know at least one one
of you guys was uh wondering so i'll put
a link in the description guys and
before i wrap the video up just wanted
to remind you one last time i have a
free 7 day merch by amazon mini course i
have an amazon merch facebook group and
i have a full merch by amazon course you
can find out more about all three of
those
in the description so please take
advantage of that guys thank you for
watching please like and subscribe if
you haven't already and have a great day
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