hey what's up guys welcome to my merch
by amazon for beginners series for 2022
and beyond merch by amazon is my
favorite way of making money online
because all you have to do is apply for
an account which we will cover in this
video and if you're accepted you can
launch an international e-commerce
business and piggyback off of the trust
in the amazon brand because the products
we sell are actually sold by amazon as
far as our customers know and actually
they basically are sold by amazon i mean
they're fulfilled by amazon shipped by
amazon the front end says sold by amazon
they're prime eligible
so there's a lot of money to be made and
for each sale that takes place with a
product that we designed we get paid out
a royalty so what is not to love and
somebody's probably like i don't know
what merch by amazon is what's the catch
i really don't know that there is one i
know it seems like it could be a little
too good to be true but sometimes in
life we get lucky because you don't need
to put a credit card on file or pay for
some service or anything like that you
get paid pure profit now i got into
merch by amazon in 2017 and to date i've
done over three quarters a million
dollars in sales that's 750 000
in sales if you asked me back then when
i first got my account if i would have
thought that would be possible i don't
know what i would have said i might have
said yes honestly because that's also
the same time i was learning amazon fba
and i'm a you know i'm a dreamer i
always plan big so anyways guys this
series that i'm doing is meant to bring
you up to speed if you are new to merch
by amazon but it's also going to be for
seasoned sellers because the merch team
behind the scenes is updating their
resources section so i want to
reacclimate myself with the resources
section and my plan at least for the
first couple videos is to just go
through the resources section together
and see like what information the
official merch by amazon team is putting
out there but before you can get to the
resources section of course we need to
get a merch by amazon account and i know
there's still a lot of questions
surrounding the application process so
that's what this first video is going to
deal with so why don't we get started
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all right so we are here at
merch.amazon.com
or you can go to amazon.com forward
slash merch i'm pretty sure that works
just as well you should see a page that
looks something like this they've made
minor changes to it over the years but
for the most part it has stayed
relatively the same and you'll notice
there's a sign up button so you have to
click sign up when you click that it'll
take you to a sign into your amazon
account page and here's the thing
if you don't have an amazon account you
got to create a new one if you have
created an account and applied already
implying that you've been rejected and
now you're applying again
i recommend as you can see here that i'm
already doing maybe using an incognito
browser which you can click the the top
right corner of your browser and click
uh go incognito like new incognito
window
all right and that is one way of signing
yourself out of your amazon accounts or
go ahead and just use a different web
browser so you can download another
version of chrome you can use microsoft
i mean i wouldn't use microsoft any
microsoft web browser because you know i
worked as a web developer for eight
years they're notoriously bad but you
could do that in theory
you could use the brave browser firefox
etc lots of options but you will need to
use a different amazon account than the
previous one that you were rejected
in your previous application if that
happened otherwise
sign in and it'll take you here now i
don't know how far we're gonna get while
recording this video but i'm gonna try
to walk you through the process but i'm
also gonna give you some real talk along
the way so here's the services agreement
and rather than spend you know an hour
reading through it i'm gonna trust that
you did on your own time because i
certainly did wink wink no i didn't i
have no clue where does anybody read
these i mean honestly south park did an
episode on how nobody reads these and
they just keep getting longer doesn't it
feel that way
all right so agree to the services
agreement
next page says sign up for a merch by
amazon account all right they need our
business contact information bank
account and routing numbers and social
security number or other tax
identification number continue
all right and now they're going to make
me do the one-time password all right so
we are past the one-time password they
just text you a code you put the code in
and you're good to go it looks like they
need our country and now they need our
business information and then after we
do that we have to add bank account
information and tax information so i'm
going to go ahead and get this done real
quick
all right and this may be the worst
amazon merch application video ever
because i realized that i don't want to
like submit my business again because i
already have my merch by amazon account
and i don't want to submit my tax id
twice either and trigger something in
the system that flags my actual seller
account that's five years old that's
done uh so much money in sales over time
so what i'm going to do is basically let
you know that once you have submitted
your tax information and everything
that's required about your business
you then
are able to
answer a questionnaire about your
experience as an e-commerce seller
and a lot of people including like older
videos on youtube that are really
popular and get a lot of views will tell
you kind of strategies about what to
write and it implies that a human is
going to be on the receiving end of that
and actually read what it is that you
write now to my knowledge nothing has
changed recently and
in fact no human will read these
applications they are algorithmically
either accepted or rejected and a lot of
whether or not you get in has to do with
where you live okay what area in the
world you live in now generally speaking
and i by the way guys i don't work for
merch by amazon i'm a youtuber right
generally speaking uh if you live in the
united states i know there's a high
probability of you getting accepted if
you're not accepted on your first
attempt
you typically just want to reapply all
right now the the record and you know
i'm a youtuber for however many years
i've been talking about this stuff i've
heard a lot of people's stories about
reapplying for an account
the record
and i don't remember who it was but i
know i had them on for an interview
was 13 applications 13 times they had to
go through this whole process
now it is what it is you know at some
point you probably should just throw in
the towel but if it's any less than 13
you may want to just use that as
inspiration and keep trying but
ultimately i do wish everybody the best
during their application and i don't
recommend skipping the optional
write-in portions however
i do think that you should protect your
own time and not spend too long on those
parts because
the biggest determining factor on
whether or not you're going to be
accepted into merch by amazon has to do
with
where you live like where your business
is based out of so i do wish you good
luck with getting accepted but the best
i can do is just keep it real with you
not mislead you i've got over five years
experience
in merch by amazon and uh been a part of
communities the whole way through
listening to other people struggle to
get accepted and theorize about why they
weren't accepted and unless you're
watching this video in like december i
know december is also probably the worst
month to be applying for an account so
if you get a rejection and it's during
you know the busy season for amazon
where their servers are just like
overloaded with web traffic because so
many people are doing holiday shopping
um that is the other tip i would say if
you're applying at the end of the year
not the best time
but either way you shouldn't be
discouraged because often times people
reapply and they may get accepted
i don't want to try to do like a whole
global regional breakdown of what
countries i know have a tough time
getting in uh from and what ones seem to
get in with ease because i'm just kind
of doing it off of hearsay it's very
anecdotal but i will say that you know
the united states seems to have the best
luck and from there it kind of feels
like either a coin flip and then there's
certain places where i know they just
don't seem to accept uh applicants from
and i couldn't tell you why right and
even me saying that is still anecdotal
based on what i've seen over the years
but if you guys want to theorize i
invite you to in the comment section so
feel free to talk it over with each
other let us know how many times you've
applied if you're still not in or if you
are in how many times did you have to
apply me personally i had to apply twice
i applied in late 2016 and then again in
early 2017 and the second time i applied
by the way i never heard back from the
first time but this is also a long time
ago
i think today everybody hears back from
them with an exception or rejection
the second time i applied i think it
took like a month so when you apply you
don't get an instant response it tends
to happen in waves and everybody hears
from
the merch team all at once on the same
date whether you were accepted or
rejected which also again just lends
credence to the idea that no human is
reading these um i'm like 99 sure guys
that this is an automated process so do
with that what you will but anyways guys
thank you for watching before i leave i
wanted to remind you that i run a free
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take advantage using the link in the
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selected and announced every sunday also
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amazon merch school it shows you how i
went from tier 10 all the way to tier
200 000 and made over 750 000 in sales
to date you can learn everything i know
about merch by amazon in this course if
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