hey what's up guys welcome to top five
niches of the week this is episode 100
we made it to a hundred episodes and if
i recall i don't think we've missed a
single weekend
episode of top five niches i still
remember where i was when i came up with
the concept i was driving home with
marielle from maryland and we were just
in the car and it just popped up into my
head and i said you know what i'm gonna
record this video today and that was all
the way back you know basically two
years ago episode one was released that
day so i'm excited to be bringing you a
hundred episodes and a hundred more in
the future
also i'm excited to be wearing an
invisible bitcoin hoodie check this
thing out uh i guess the green screen
technology that i use when i record
these videos um because i had a green
screen behind me i guess the the
sweatshirt color is a little bit too
close to the green that it shows as
translucent so i'm wearing an invisible
hoodie but i have to say shout out to
uh vexels for this design for the all
over print i wore this yesterday to
a um the bitcoin conference in miami the
last day was yesterday there was a music
festival and i wore it you know late
because we went a little bit later in
the day we went to a pool party during
the day man it's miami you know what i
mean what's not to love about miami
miami is a great time i'm a little tired
and dare i say slightly hungover uh so
you know that's why my voice may be a
little bit hoarse but it was a great
time and uh you know i got i got some
compliments on the the invisible bitcoin
hoodie there so shout out to vexels for
for that design but anyways why don't we
get started with the top five niches
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all right let's get to these top five
niches actually real quick before we get
to them let me just remind you that um
the bitcoin conference
was streamed on youtube and i will drop
links in the description you can
actually just watch the main stage so
you can't watch all of them but i'll put
it in the description in case you guys
want to check out what uh you know what
it was all about because it's really
good stuff it's about financial literacy
more than anything um not just bitcoin
all right niche number one
and
instead of showing you niche number one
right away i wanted to just show you the
top
12 designs and show you their bsrs
because there are times in the year
where if you look at like the top 10 and
you look at the average bsr of the top
10 and this is with the the big brands
filtered out
we'll have a
really low you know bsr like there are
times where the average bsr of the top
10 shirts
filtering out the protected brands is
probably under maybe not under five
thousand but let's just say right around
five thousand
you know that's not that even that rare
but right now
the number one bestseller has a bsr of
5400 you see what i'm saying so i just
want everybody to kind of be aware that
like everything in life basically you
know things ebb and flow like
t-shirt sales on amazon they ebb and
they flow like there's going to be ups
there's going to be downs and right now
i don't think this is necessarily like
the best time of year for t-shirt sales
just judging off bsr what's cool is with
bsr the data point we don't really have
to guess we can kind of see it in front
of us if we if we look so i want to just
show you really quickly that average
bsrs right now are not that low meaning
sales aren't that high relative to where
we've been in the past
so niche number one just go scanning
through the best sellers if you are like
amazon merch tier 10 tier 25 tier 100
you're looking to scale up your account
you're deferring profitability most
likely you're chasing the trends where
the most sales are taking place
you're going to want to be in the you
know april
autism so
here's what i actually did by the way to
get these results behind me i didn't
search for autism i searched for april
as in like the month april okay and when
you do that you get you know the whole
row of best sellers right there
all about autism awareness okay so
sometimes you can kind of take a
different approach with your niche
research i'm not saying there's a right
or wrong way but i wanted to show you
that rather than me even
seeding the search with autism i just
typed in april the month name and this
is what i got okay
so pretty indicative of like you know a
nice big trend in the month of april
wouldn't you say if the whole first row
of results is all in the same niche
so here we go in like pretty merch pro
my uh niche research tool of choice by
the way you can always click analyze and
you can see an in-depth breakdown of
relevant data points and the one that i
usually look at you know most most often
is the date uploaded i want to see
shirts that were uploaded recently or i
want to know if like
you know are are
these shirts be being given favorable
placement in search results if they're
older shirts it certainly seems like the
amazon algorithm is
liking the idea of putting
newer submissions in front of customers
as well because i don't think they want
their catalog to feel stale which is why
honestly advertising some of your older
listings is also definitely not a bad
thing
niche number two
and here we go guess what i did here i
typed in may okay so i went to the
search bar i thought i had screenshots
of it um maybe i don't but i typed in
may as in the month of may
and these were the results i got so if
earlier we typed in the month name april
and we it ends up taking us to the
number one trend
in the month of april well i said you
know what may is not that far away it's
april 10th right now
why don't we type in may and see what
comes up as sub-niches of the month of
may and what do you know you get a bunch
of
well a lot of just like mexican-themed
taco themed um you know behind me let's
let's taco bout books um i almost don't
even have to duck out the way cause the
sweatshirt's see-through so you could
pretty much see the uh the screen behind
me but uh it looks like there's gonna be
a lot of fiesta um we already know cinco
de mayo is gonna be some some cerveza
but don't check the youth checkbox if
you do anything related to you know
cinco de mayo but this this is
definitely a prevailing theme in may if
you trust the search results that i got
right here
all right niche number three
and this is ukraine the ukrainian shirts
uh are definitely still selling quite
well by the way funny thing being at
the miami beach convention center with
like 25 to 30 000 people
you actually see a lot of the
best-selling t-shirts from uh from merch
by amazon like you know i'm probably the
only person there that sees these shirts
and is like laughing and i'm like you
know i was there with my girlfriend
marielle and i'm like you know i'm
elbowing her like oh look it's another
merch shirt it's another merch shirt you
know and she was she was pointing them
out to me as well so i guess if you're
around enough people you you're gonna
see them right like that shirt all the
way on the left side there the number
one bestseller definitely saw that a few
times all right and um yeah so it was
just kind of funny you know the mind of
a t-shirt seller we're just walking
around trying to pay attention to you
know the bitcoin stuff and then i'm like
oh but that shirt that shirt that shirt
and um like i alluded to earlier i was
taking pictures of people that let me
and telling them like hey you want to be
featured in a youtube video we're going
to review the best bitcoin shirts so
look forward to that dropping probably
this week
all right niche number four and this is
easter okay we know easter is coming up
very soon
so it's you know there's definitely not
a lot of time to get the easter designs
up although for what it's worth like
easter
there's gonna be shirts that are
purchased after easter as well okay so
it's it's one of these holidays where
you can probably make sales year round
also you know depending on how you theme
your shirt like like a picture of a
bunny rabbit like that can that can sell
year round no worries even the excavator
right that's probably for you know i
know that
younger kids love the construction stuff
right from what i hear i don't have any
kids my own but i know the construction
stuff sells really well so
you know maybe putting a construction
theme on things we know that the t-rexes
sell really well um one thing to note
anything with peeps in it i would stay
away from so peeping it real i would not
be selling anything related to that
personally that's just my recommendation
also i went into easter because we see
easter's trending right and you're like
oh great ryan thanks for telling me to
sell easter shirts right easier said
than done how many people are gonna
upload an easter shirt and not make a
sale a lot of people
but
why don't you take a little bit of the
guesswork out
maybe type in easter 2022 and evaluate
those results all right now this doesn't
guarantee that the shirts were uploaded
in 2022 but like
99 plus percent of them were right
because are you selling shirts that are
themed for 2023 right now you could
but generally speaking most people
aren't and then those shirts probably
aren't making sales so they won't even
really be indexed all right
the reason i'm sharing this is if you
type in like easter 2022
what you can then do is use the pretty
merch pro plus analyze
and look at the dates they were uploaded
and if you see hey they were uploaded in
the last month or two months
and they've got decent bsrs
well maybe you can learn something about
how they were able to you know achieve
that level of success
relatively quickly also another quick
note the first shirt up there in the top
left
too similar for my liking to the um
friends tv show logo so i would not
recommend um you know always got to do
your research i know it's easier said
than done but i mean a lot of shirts get
removed every single year trying to
rip off the friends tv show logo so i
would not do that also how funny is this
one behind me
egg hunt champion i don't know that's
kind of
yeah i won't say anything else but
people are crazy whoever designed that
shirt i would never have thought of that
all right and so here we go looking at
you know one of the newer uploaded
shirts from just a month ago on march
8th uh you can see here the shirt says
happy easter it's a bunny rabbit outline
with that leopard print
kind of pattern that sells really well i
don't necessarily understand why it
sells as well as it does but it's not
uncommon to see some of these like
pattern overlays
being used in in some of the more
popular designs
also shout out to that design for using
a white t-shirt that's a nice way of
standing out i think merch informer sent
an email out the other day where they
recommended that and it's actually like
a great piece of advice if everybody's
checking
the black shirts you know that their
primary thumbnail and search results is
going to be black and so what are you
going to get you do a keyword search you
get a sea
of options all black t-shirts though
what if you're the one shirt that's like
pink or the one shirt that's blue or the
one shirt that's white
you know what i mean like sometimes you
can think outside the box a little bit
and this can influence the customer
psychology when they're scrolling
through 40 something shirts
and they're all black except for yours
and all of a sudden your stands out
niche number five
all right niche number five guys this is
a little bit forward thinking but we are
uh
basically one month away from mother's
day all right and
i mean
i think within a month out like if
you're looking at some of the best
sellers for easter right we don't have
to guess when they're uploaded we can
see that data point a lot of them get up
there a month early
some of them get up there earlier than
that right but i think a month is a
pretty safe bet you know especially if
your upload slots are limited
if you are uploading more than a month
out that may not be the best use of an
upload slot especially in tier 10 if
you're in tier 10 i think you just want
to chase the biggest trend this week
because you can easily delete something
and re-upload something new if it's a
new trend the following week just do
that anyways mother's day is coming
one thing i noticed is there's quite a
few i didn't necessarily screenshot
everything but there's a lot of like
cross niching um
it seemed like baseball softball and in
general sports like i know i saw some
other um like volleyball and
so cross niching sports with mom i
noticed that was very popular as well
you don't need to just make like a
boring like mother's day 2022 shirt like
there's a lot of ways to attack this
niche so i would definitely recommend
getting creative
all right seller trends shirts that are
uh related or shirts that have seen a
significant jump in bsr recently
got some easter ones we've got one that
looks like a jack daniels bottle but uh
i guess it's just a 20 year old birthday
shirt what else promoted to grandpa
uh funny pinata shirt by the way pinatas
are going to be related to the fiestas
and we know that that's what pops up
when you search for may so you know
maybe consider that
ukraine et cetera
all right looking ahead if you want to
sell stuff related to seemingly random
holidays here we go may 10th is clean up
your room day may 11th is my mom's
birthday and it's also national
receptionist day may 11th is also school
nurses day
may 12th is international nurses day
guys if you're new to print on demand
some things just sell really well
anything related to nursing sells really
well there's going to be a lot of sales
that take place maybe you're in to the
nursing niche is school nurses day you
know how we say sub niche and some
sometimes we're like well what does sub
niching mean like what a that's an
example of sub niching like we i said i
tell you nursing shirts sell well you're
like okay what type of nursing shirts do
i make then then i'm like okay school
nurses day is may 11th so you've got a
time frame you've got the sub niche of
not just nursing but school nurses
uh and then or international nurses day
right just make sure you can uh you have
the right to sell that on a t-shirt do
your validation i always include a link
in the description to my video called is
this niche safe i do recommend you check
out that video if you've never seen it
because it has my best process for
keeping your account safe when you
upload
all right finally uh may 13th is
international hummus day and i do like
me some hummus all right bonus shirt
this is something i liked while i was oh
doing my research actually no it's not
it normally is but today i'm giving a
shout out to detour shirts because juna
did a custom design for me
for me to wear to the bitcoin festival
which i did bitcoin uh conference and so
he actually did a video on his channel
where he went through the whole process
i sent him some graphic elements that i
liked um not related to bitcoin just for
t-shirt design elements and you know
he's a great graphic designer so he
shows the whole process he did for
making my shirt
and uh we wrapped the video up with me
reporting into
to him basically saying hey i'm here at
the conference wearing the shirt
everybody loves it i did get some
compliments so shout out to uh detour
shirts and i'll put a link to their
video as well in the description
all right deleted designs from merch
ninja i don't know how they track these
but they do so here are some recently
deleted designs there's some christmas
themed shirts there's some uh location
themed shirts like even just saying
houston with a star i don't know i think
it's related to like the mlb team but
i'm just guessing um so that was removed
and the wonder woman logo getting pulled
i mean come on that's obvious
also i noticed there were a couple
shirts related to green jackets
and i'm sure i'm not the only person
that knows that the masters is being
played today it's day four of the
masters the you know most popular golf
tournament i think it's safe to say uh
probably in the world
i would not upload any shirts related to
green jacket even if you see a couple of
them that are selling pretty well right
now okay i would not touch that
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