hey what's up junah it's been a while
how you been
good good man good to see you
thanks for reaching out so i messaged
you because i wanted to collab first of
all it's been a while since we've
collabed and i love when we collab so
i was thinking
that we could potentially work together
on a video idea where
you know what are the what are the steps
of
launching a successful print-on-demand
product well for one we got to research
right
which is huge yeah
i'm thinking that we got the design
expert here and maybe we work together
on launching a like a mega successful
print on demand product what do you
think yeah we should try it out yeah
dude so since you're a much better
designer than me how about i work on
this research try to find something that
is uh you know i want to have like big
upsides so i'm thinking i'm going to
find like a trend and then i'm going to
niche down within that trend so that we
don't want to join abroad
and um
i'll share my process maybe i'll do a
video on my channel and then if you're
up for it i'll pass it off to you and
you create like kind of a design within
that niche
yeah that sounds perfect so
you'll do the research i'll do the
design i'll do it
so people can follow along and they can
follow both our channels and and kind of
see the whole thing
all right man well i'll be in touch soon
then with the niche okay
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all right guys i'm excited to get this
collab going with juno from detour
shirts make sure you check out his
channel it'll be linked in the
description below but we are gonna find
a winning niche to hold up our portion
of this deal before we get started just
wanted to remind you in the description
i've got a bunch of free resources make
sure you take advantage of the weekly
print on demand giveaway it's free to
enter the winners will be randomly
selected and announced on sunday i've
got a seven day merch by amazon mini
course that you can take advantage of
and i've got a great merch by amazon
facebook group that i would love to have
you in if you're not a member
all right so while doing my niche
research i'm thinking you know what
august is here what is the biggest trend
that we know is coming in august well
it's back to school and it is so big
that even though there's a lot of
competition if we really want that big
upside that we were just talking about i
think we need to be in back to school
because man like every kid is going back
to school kids got their parents taking
them back to school and there's teachers
there's just a lot of ways to work these
angles so i always optimize my approach
to print on demand for amazon merch
because i feel like it has the highest
earning potential and today is no
different so i'm going to be using
pretty merch and specifically their
research tab to get my research started
for this video also they have one click
away the research tab's one click away
the trademark search is one click away
that's also equally important to make
sure we don't infringe on somebody's
trademark all right so we have that on
lock and now i'm on the research tab and
i'm just gonna do what i do every week
when i'm preparing for top five niches
of the week i'm just giving it a quick
scroll
and if you're wondering like how do i
stumble upon these trends that everybody
else seems to find before me well
oftentimes it is doing exactly what you
see me doing right here just scrolling
through trends but the further you
scroll if you start seeing repetition of
certain designs or niches that's how you
might be early to identify a trend or if
it's a dying trend that already passed
you may also see the bsrs continuing to
decline but i think
we can
lock in back to school by the way i love
looking at google trends to kind of spy
on when the absolute peak is in terms of
search interest on google for any
set of keywords in this case i typed in
back to school and we see that august
22nd to 28th is probably what we can
project to be our peak season for back
to school so that would probably be the
best week of sales for us and ideally
we'll be able to organically rank on
some valuable keywords for instance if
we could rank on back to school shirt
that would be amazing uh we'll see what
we can do uh certainly we'll try um also
i noticed i really like this shirt i've
been doing a lot of research and work on
my new etsy shop and i noticed on etsy
man people really love this
bubbly 60s 70s vintage style
and i'm thinking you know what
using this as inspiration it says it's a
beautiful day for learning
can we cross niche this sort of style
this vintage style
with back to school right let's see so i
go to uh pretty much pro plus the
research tab and i type in 60 70s that's
all i type i just want to see in terms
of like designs what are we looking at
here what are we working with and we see
a lot of peace signs as you would expect
uh bsrs by the way in the range of 60
000 to 200 000 for the first row of
results second row uh 200 000 to 400 000
more peace signs one says all you need
is love uh one says groovy groovy groovy
groovy groovy just repeating the words
but it's got that wavy bubbly font that
i really like um juna hopefully you can
execute this i'm looking forward to
seeing your part of the video as well
but i'm thinking that you know i like
this idea i don't want to get attached
to it but
let me do some further research and
refine my search and see if i can find
some back to school or school related
niches that come in the 60s 70s uh
vintage retro design style
well hey what do you know they actually
exist so we've got second grade vibes
third grade vibes we've got uh fifth
grade and it's in that really cool i
don't even know how to describe it but
that font is it a font i don't know but
uh the way they did that fifth grade
shirt if you go looking at etsy there's
a bunch of like shirts just making a ton
of sales and they're just typing in text
with that font so if you guys know what
that font is you can email me or direct
message me and i'll keep it between us
because i couldn't find it when i went
looking for it but i love the way that
looks i love the colors too
uh behind me hello first grade got the
wavy bubbly
um over here on the left says senior
senior senior senior oh it has 2023
built in that's really cool
um behind me first day of school vibes
all right so there's a lot of ways to
attack this guys um here's even more
kindergarten vibes and then behind me
again with that one font family it says
second grade but it's got that cool 3d
look and i love the vintage distressed
it's like very subtle um colors look
great so i'm really liking this
and then it dawned on me
why settle for one design especially
when i'm not the one designing them
right let's let's make june's life twice
as hard
can we double our sales by marketing to
both kids
and parents
right like i'm thinking first day of
school
getting dropped off
my mom's there with me well you know
what if she wants to embarrass me and we
wear matching shirts to the first day of
school i'd probably get mad at her but
let's
mark it to those parents the overbearing
parents that want to match their kid on
the first day of school right um
regardless of what grade they're in you
know but i didn't imagine we'd sell more
to the um you know kindergarten first
grade second grade if i had to guess
but can we double our sales let's let's
go for it
now i had to brainstorm some niches i
ended up calling my parents and said hey
i need ideas what was it like
back in the 60s 70s whatever era it is
where i'm seeing these t-shirt designs
with the bubbly fonts the peace signs
the flowers this color scheme etc uh
after talking with them honestly i
my dad kept coming kept trying to come
up with like funny ways of implementing
like led zeppelin into it and i'm like
dad i can't do it it's going to get me
in trouble we can't do led zeppelin but
he had a bunch of good ideas as far as
that went um they both had some good
ideas but ultimately
what we ended up coming up with was
groovy
you know and i always think of like
austin powers too if you guys ever saw
the austin powers movies i always
thought they were really funny
so why not mix like groovy which is one
of those words that really represents
that time and mix it with
being a first grader you know being a
second grader being a third grader etc
so for the parents shirt we could say
something like groovy mom
or groovy mama
of the first grader
right and then for the kid groovy
little miss first grader you see what
i'm saying so groovy mama of first
grader and then the kid gets groovy
little first grader something along
those lines we're kind of
cross niching we're well we are
definitely cross niching then we're sub
niching we're looking at other designs
that already exist by the way for
validation that also have pretty good
bsrs um keep in mind it's not back to
school yet
so i think these vsrs are pretty good
they're in like the hundred thousand
range the the 60 70 designs have like a
300 000 bsr i'm liking it so i think
we're gonna roll with this so before we
hand it off to juno i just wanted to
make a quick note if we are trying to
market multiple products in one order to
customers
with regards to merch by amazon where
we're kind of restricted in what we can
do how we can frame things because we
can't really edit the listings the way
that we could if it was like on etsy or
on seller central even
you can run ads if you have access and
set up sponsored brand campaigns as long
as your products are in the same brand
which is required you can set up a
sponsored brand campaign and you can set
up those types of ads that show up at
the very very top of search results but
you have to advertise at least three at
a time which means you need to have
three products okay so just throwing it
out there if you've if you've never
tried these it's worth considering
especially like i think in this use case
specifically but all right i'm gonna go
contact juna and hand it off to him all
right juna so i have been in the lab and
i think i found us a winning niche nice
nice all right what do you got yeah let
me let me share screen man um so
it's probably going to surprise you just
kidding uh that back to school is
probably the biggest trend coming up
i went down a design rabbit hole
and noticed this like trending design
style of 60s 70s like have you ever seen
that lately yes i've been noticing this
too
yeah this is cool
yeah so i mean you're the design expert
so as long as you can pull it off i
think we're okay
i think we can
yeah i mean lots of ways to do it like
you see right here but i i think this is
like you said it's a it's a trend we're
seeing and look at those low
low bsrs man yeah yeah the bsrs are
great like really low and that's like
without us being in the peak seat well
actually this is 60 70. so it's not
necessarily back to school but yeah this
yeah these are something right this and
the back to school together kind of
cross niche yeah you read my mind man so
look at these designs
yes they're already doing it
they have the grades they've got like
senior um the color schemes are great so
what i was thinking that we could do to
challenge you a little bit is can we
double our sales by marketing these
designs to
the kids and the parents together maybe
you know there you go
yeah why not because then you know the
parents are the one that's buying it and
i know there's lots of moms who want to
kind of match their kids or whatever on
the first day of school or whatever it
is so i think this is great
i don't know if this is gonna work give
me your feedback but the groovy aspect i
you know what's funny is i was talking
to my parents i said you know the 60s
70s thing reminds me of austin powers
and i always think of like him just
saying like groovy you know yeah yeah
you ever saw that movie
well you can see these are doing well
too i think groovy is perfect because it
already just that word kind of brings
that nostalgia so if we got we got a
word that brings that in the color
scheme and all of that i think it's just
all going to work well so
so this is yeah this is ultimately where
um i'm thinking it's gonna lead is we
have kind of like the groovy mom or the
groovy dad to the
student you know like the first grader
and okay
to the first grader themselves they
could just be the groovy first grader
right what is that yeah
i like it
awesome man so hey this is yours to take
it and run with it i can't wait to see
what you come up with all right i will a
good challenge i'll i'll do it all in
canva
use some good fonts and some and some
icon graphics and stuff i think this
would be fun
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