hey what's up guys hope you've had a
great weekend so far i had a really nice
uh day friday me and marielle went on
like a pretty brutal like uphill hike
but had a really nice view when we got
to the top i'll put a little video here
so you can see what i'm talking about
but um yeah i hope you're having a great
weekend let's get into top five niches
of the week it's episode 115 and i did
my best to pull together five print on
demand niches that will help increase
your sales in the near term so why don't
we get started
quick gotta congratulate the two winners
from last week's print on demand
giveaway i already emailed you so if you
won just check your email inbox and you
should see a email from me with your
prizes also we're kicking off a new
giveaway so make sure you use the link
at the top of the description or go to
ryanhog.com forward slash giveaway to
enter it takes like two seconds to enter
but you can gain additional entries by
performing little tasks
also i've got a free eight day print on
demand mini course linked in the
description i'll send you one lesson a
day to your email address and i've got a
great print on demand facebook group
that i'd love to have you in
all right here's a sales update merch by
amazon over the last seven days uh it
actually includes my sales from today so
whenever you see this it's like seven
days plus
uh you know halfway through the day
today so 455 total sales uh bulk bulk
majority came in the united states uh
but also you know you can see that the
numbers
internationally are also um you know
adding a little bit here and there so
definitely appreciate that you know
sometimes i upload to the international
i notice that if you don't do it though
um a lot of the you know shirts will
just get moved to the international
markets automatically so we're building
an international brand as crazy as it
sounds even if you don't want to just by
selling on merch by amazon
all right let's get to these top five
niches niche number one is actually not
niche number one niche number one is
going to be just a niche analysis of the
top six best sellers and then i've got
four good ones for you after this all
right but i just wanted to illustrate
something and that is that there's not
always like a low-hanging fruit obvious
niche and i just wanted to show you that
like
if your aim is to have the number one
best-selling shirt it's not always going
to be realistic but if some crazy trend
emerges tomorrow you have a chance at
least right but it's you and everybody
else that is competing for this brand
new trend all these new submissions that
have no sales history and that's also
assuming that there isn't some existing
design that caters to whatever this
emerging trend ends up being
but what i did here is i just wanted to
show you i put the date that these
shirts were published underneath the top
six trending designs right now on merch
by amazon and as you can see we have
2018
2019
september 2020 2018
and then the last two are 2021 and 2021
okay so
what i'm really trying to illustrate
here guys is a lot of these
shirts that ultimately ended up being
best sellers
you don't necessarily know when you
upload it that it's going to be as
successful as it ends up being
as a matter of fact i doubt any of these
shirts behind me
thought they would be as successful as
they ultimately have become now what you
will also notice is that there is a lot
of positive customer feedback on these
shirts and just remember just like we
already know print on demand is a
long-term business model
keep a long time horizon all right i
don't know what it is about humans like
we want things like tomorrow we want it
today we want it now uh but like if we
can just keep that long-term perspective
not only in print on demand but in life
honestly if you can just kind of plan
ahead
uh you know we can get ahead in life i
think is a nice way of putting it at a
high level um this is some stuff i
should be talking about on my other
channel honestly if i can just find time
to get more videos up uh finance channel
but anyways you can just see here like 5
000 reviews 3000 reviews 3000 reviews
700 reviews 200 and then behind me 1300
so lots of reviews over a long time
horizon guys the cream will rise to the
top if you're getting positive customer
feedback
amazon's algorithm will reward you with
um great organic placement all right
niche number two now we're in the real
niches
niche number two and by the way like
there aren't really big trends so we're
going after some evergreens but also
like trending evergreens is that a thing
yeah it can be a thing uh db cooper all
right now i don't know why these shirts
are selling as well as they are um again
i definitely don't know everything but
you can see here bsrs 350 thousand 360
thousand hundred sixty thousand eighty
seven thousand and then forty seven
thousand right here uh behind me
so and there was also some other shirts
as well that were doing um
really like good bsrs in the range of
like a hundred thousand ish
db cooper interesting story if you
haven't heard it go look it up um and
rather than be trying to tell it right
now i'm making this this video go on a
little bit longer but interesting uh
story because i don't think they ever
found him right and he uh ultimately
like jacked he stole something jumped
out of plane never never to be found
again so pretty cool uh as far as the
niche goes i don't know if this is just
a trend or if db cooper's always selling
really well but it's one of those things
that just hovers under the radar uh but
definitely a fun one i would say
and also i mean
maybe i'll if there's interest guys if
there's interest let me know in the
comments i can show you how to make
designs like the one i'm pointing to
behind me and probably even like the
first design i mean i could show you how
to make like all of these designs
honestly so if you want me to do that
video let me know and i can see what i
can do this week i think i could i'm not
gonna like replicate pixel for pixel you
know what i mean but i'll show you
basically on a design perspective like
how to make very quickly very similar
designs to what you see trending right
here behind me
comment in the description or comment in
the description comment below
all right niche number three
and i don't again not sure why but look
at the like 60s 70s style designs it's
not just
um what you see behind me here where i
the keywords i used were 70s costumes so
i typed in 70s costume
and look at the bsrs 50 000 55 100 6 114
124 000 behind me 175 000. there's also
just like that
um
i don't know what to call it like kind
of the bubbly flowery fonts
i feel like have kind of reemerged
recently i don't know if like i just
missed it or for me like i started
seeing a lot of them in like the
the roe v wade time like era with those
shirts when they started to kind of
emerge that sort of like
kind of wavy like bubbly fonts and
ultimately they would form a rectangle
but you could have like three lines of
text three rows of text um so that may
just be something worth
exploring because you don't just have to
make a generic like this is a peace sign
70s shirt you can also like
just i don't know
anybody who's like paid attention to
kind of like what trending designs have
been out here
for a long time there's lots of common
design styles that tend to send sell
really well year round and like let's
say a new trend emerges tomorrow well we
can go take that trend and instantly
make like 10 15 20 designs each one of
them just being a different one of these
like very popular design styles that are
always selling well and what i'm really
saying is like a lot of them involve
text and you can make a design that
wasn't a 60s 70s kind of style instantly
become that by just using a good font
all right so just throwing it out there
because it does seem to me from the
outside looking in like there's been
more interest in this sort of design
style recently so but the keywords
behind me here that you see was 70s
costume
and i found them by looking at the
bestseller there with the 50 000 bsr
all right niche number four
and this is something that like i've
come across before i don't know if tarot
cards like are always selling extremely
well but i just typed in tarot so
t-a-r-o-t
and just another you know reminder that
like sometimes you can just find ways of
like i'm pointing behind me anybody
listening to the audio only version uh
behind me is a tarot card that has been
cross niched with the like mind your own
uterus
t-shirt niche okay so not only are like
tarot cards like one of these evergreens
that seems to sell really well pretty
much year round i think one of them
was uh it was the the lovers tarot card
you see the one in this in the number
two slot there
called the lovers tarot card um not
really my thing but uh that one i was
like why is this one you know got a 80
000 bsr why is it doing so well and
based on the number of reviews these
probably are just like consistently
selling you know making a couple sales a
week maybe even a sale a day um you can
kind of tell they're doing well by the
number of reviews but then i just wanted
to show you that again you can also
cross niche them with current trends
like behind me the uh
mind your own uterus uh tarot card if
you have that sort of design ability
then it's something you should consider
um you could probably just find like a
generic tarot card looking design
on a website like maybe vexels i don't
know and then just like get your own
graphic and just kind of overlay it on
top too that might work
all right niche number five
and niche number five is
awesome since
month
year okay awesome since month
year
now
if you have the upload slots this can be
a very fruitful
uh
potential niche right you need some
upload slots though because
even if you're only targeting the
current month which is right now july
uh you still need to kind of cycle
through the years but you'll notice like
the the two like this is the year 2022.
so what
like what do you see primarily we see
1972 because then people are turning 50.
1982 people are turning 40. 2012 people
are turning 10. if you're gonna sell
them to 10 year olds make sure you check
the youth checkbox but
it's just a nice easy low hanging fruit
way of making some sales if you truly
don't have a plan of like what to design
uh the big takeaway the reason why i
feel comfortable saying hey it's a
birthday shirt is that it's not just a
birthday shirt it's like a birthday
month shirt so
you can always just kind of prepare
yourself by staying one month ahead um
look at the review counts by the way let
me hide myself again
review counts
three
zero
one
two
one
four
all right like they're not like crazy in
the review counts i don't know how many
people are actually going and trying to
enter these niches but i don't know if
it's gonna make anybody rich but it
certainly is a nice way of making some
consistent sales with an emerging niche
and this is gonna always be there you
know what's next awesome since august
year right august year and then where
year comes is whatever you want it to be
again i would prioritize the um the even
decades so like 10 20 30 40 50.
um
and yeah i mean you can see also
consistency in the color scheme it
doesn't mean you must use those color
schemes like honestly when i see this
sort of thing behind me all six
bestsellers looking very similar
you know i like to be a little
contrarian so okay i don't just see that
i can switch the color scheme what if i
don't sell a black shirt what if i sell
a white shirt and i find a good
contrasting color scheme which by the
way is not going to be hard because you
already know i'd like to write down
these hex color codes that i think
complement each other well so all i have
to do is go to my list of hex codes and
find one that looks good against a white
shirt which by the way i put in the
labels so it's gonna take me all of like
five sec no joke like five seconds to do
right like make your processes refine
your processes make your future life
easier on yourself if you're not already
doing this i know a lot of you guys are
i think i just did a color video this
past week too where i kind of talked
about like color schemes writing these
things down
whatever you got to do again to make
your life easier
all right
seller trends these are shirts that have
seen a big jump in bsr recently uh in
the top left corner that's kind of the
design style i was referring to with
like the 60s 70s vibe but they kind of
like split it out and made it into like
a one two three like a six rows of text
whereas a lot of the best sellers tend
to just be like three rows of text in a
big rectangle but either way whatever
works all right
um mother by choice for choice
men shouldn't make things laws about
women's body so a lot of the like roe v
wade stuff some christmas in july stuff
ho ho hold my beer
um i found a really funny um
funny bonus t-shirt that i want to show
you in a second all right looking ahead
uh random like date date related
holidays uh august 24th is vesuvius day
august 25th so we're a month out
kiss and makeup day
august 26th national dog day august 27th
just because day
august 29th international bat night okay
so anybody who loves bats international
bat night is the 29th
i think but the image behind me well it
says the 27th so i don't know double
check
double check on international bat night
all right bonus design i thought this
one was hilarious now i wouldn't sell
this myself
because it's too close in like an
intellectual property infringement
but i just love that they sold one color
all right you want to buy this tank top
well it only comes in the color red it's
christmas in july and it says ain't no
laws when you're drinking cloths like
santa claus you know what i mean it's
got a big picture of santa drinking a
beer uh i just love the i mean again
like i'm not trying to tell anybody to
do this because it's definitely way too
close if you ask me to to the white claw
seltzer hard seltzer like alcohol brand
but
i just love the design style like i just
think this is like a really well
executed design you know it's got the
you know a lot of big top designs are
designed in circles i love the color
scheme the color contrast i love that
they didn't get too cute by offering 10
colors they just said nope it's going to
be offered in red and i'm going to make
a design that looks great
in terms of like the actual foreground
design portion against that red
background so i think this is really
well executed all right deleted designs
brought to you by merch ninja and i
don't know why all of these are deleted
but here you go if you want to hit pause
definitely see a sesame street design
down there another boba tea
um it's a week over week we've seen a
couple of those so be careful uh let's
go brandon has been deleted now that i
just read that um probably gonna see a
longer time to publish this hopefully
they're not still doing that but who
knows with youtube these days all right
guys as we sign off from this video
ryanhog.com forward slash giveaway take
advantage of the free print on demand
giveaway this week's winners will
receive a license to flying research
print on demand research tools they just
updated it
added a couple new pieces of
functionality so definitely um you know
have been liking that and if you're
running ads they're um they expanded
basically the keyword functionality
which has been really cool
automate pod hey this is useful if you
want to sell those birthday in july year
and if you just want to like literally
step away from your computer and let it
create any number of designs for you you
can automate you just keep a variable
for the month and a variable for the
year and
upload a spreadsheet where you have like
the you know variable values that it
resolves to
everything's taken care of for you it's
that easy it doesn't have to be hard
all american graphics premium pre-made
graphics that will help increase your
sales definitely check them out as well
thank you to all the sponsors and bubble
scout which will help you keep up with
the redbubble trends as well as sales
projections all right guys and thank you
for watching of course i have my full
print on demand course i'll link to that
in the description in case you want to
learn my exact process to scale up to
six figure sales every single year show
you exactly how i do it so check that
out guys thank you for watching please
like and subscribe and enjoy the rest of
your sunday and i'll see you tomorrow
with a new video