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hey guys Ryan here thank you for joining
me for another video today I'm gonna
keep it short and sweet I'm gonna show
you how to upload your first Amazon
merge product now if you've been
following along with the tutorial you'll
notice that I jumped a step but I'm
doing that intentionally a whole nother
wave of applicants was recently accepted
either last night or this morning but I
know I saw a bunch of you guys in my
Amazon merge Facebook group link in the
description by the way and the new
applicants the most common problem they
have is they want to know how they can
upload their first t-shirt and the UI it
it used to be simpler for sure and merch
optimized the UI for seasoned sellers
which eventually even new sellers become
seasoned sellers so it makes sense but
in doing so they kind of left the new
sellers to the platform in the dust
because they don't really give you the
help you need to understand how to how
to upload and create your first shirt
your first product so what I'm gonna do
in this video is walk you through that
step by step yes publishing right now in
the United States is disabled alright
I'm recording this video in mid June of
2020 so if you're watching it in the
future
hopefully it's resumed but other than it
other than publishing being disabled in
the United States everything's working
in Germany and the United Kingdom plus
they just expanded what products were
available on those international
marketplaces so guys I'm gonna go jump
on my computer and we'll get started all
right let's jump into it I'm gonna count
this as a part of my Amazon merge
miniseries even though it kind of came
out of order but I know a lot of you
guys are struggling with how to create
that first listing real quick before we
start on Ryan Hoch I've sold over 1.6
million dollars on Amazon including I'm
in Amazon merge tier 20000 I have a free
seven-day merge mini course that'll
really help you get started as well
there's links in the description to that
as well as a link to my Amazon merge
Facebook community I'd love to have you
there and just letting you know I
published passive income reports on the
first or second day of each month if you
want to follow my journey as an Amazon
merch seller all the way back to when I
was into your ten by the way
last but not least I wrote a full Amazon
merge course almost sixty lessons it is
everything you need to know to succeed
on the platform drawing from my over
three years of experience if you'd like
to hit the fast-forward button check
that out alright now that we got that
out of the way it's demo time
this is what my dashboard looks like
when I log in to Amazon merge you can go
grab the free pretty merch Chrome
extension and it will transform the ugly
Amazon merge default dashboard into a
very pretty
merged dashboard so just wanted to let
you know if you're new to the platform
that's the first thing I'd do then you
can either click create on the tab up
top or you can click the little plus
sign and just click plus one and now
this is how we create products on Amazon
merch now the first thing I want to
point out to you is it says publishing
is disabled for certain products click
select products to view publishing
status designs created for disabled
products are saved as drafts when
publishing resumes you'll need to review
and submit your drafts alright so I
mentioned that publishing altogether in
the United States is halted alright so
what we're gonna need to do is click
this select products button up here and
then I'm gonna go ahead and click select
all deselect all twice so that every
check box is unchecked
all right now I'm going to ignore the
dot-com column because we can't publish
to calm that's the US market we have
choices though we can publish to code at
UK or dot de so the German market is the
next biggest market so I'm gonna say we
go ahead and publish a t-shirt to the
German market so I'm gonna publish a
standard t-shirt to de now one thing to
note we can only publish if you're in
tier ten if you were recently accepted
you can only publish one product at a
time one per day until you have a
maximum of ten products online so just
remember you you can't check two boxes
because then you're publishing two per
day and that's not allowed so one per
day alright then I hit continue
next up load in your artwork so I'm
gonna click into here and I've already
got some demo designs prepared I'm just
gonna go ahead and select one of them I
think that design said hello my name is
Erin it's like a little nametag sticker
shirt except it's not a state
it's just on the shirt as the design all
right so we see it mocked it up on all
the products where that design size
which by the way I guess I skipped over
that the design size you're gonna want
to use is 4,500 pixels wide by 5,400
pixels tall there's a website called
photo pea accom you can use this it's
basically the web browser-based clone of
Photoshop you can go up here to like
file new and you can say with 4500
height 5400 and click create
and there's your canvas and you can just
use the text tool and create a quick
design if you need to but after that
guys you know you would upload it here
you'll notice it gets mocked up on all
the other the products but again only
one product at a time if you're into
your 10 so now that we got that detail
hammered I'm gonna click Edit detail now
the youth checkbox will make it
available in youth sizes one thing to
note and this is going to be the next
video in the merch series there is a
strict youth content policy so the
content policy if you're gonna offer the
design in youth size is stricter as it
probably should be so if I check this
that means that nothing about this
design violates that youth content
policy which I'm going to go over in the
next installment of this series so if
you're not subscribed and you're looking
to get into merch and you just want to
do some research or you're already in
merch and you don't know this hit the
subscribe button and then we're gonna
work through this together in the future
all right now you can select up to 10
colors so do whatever you think looks
best
I think they've said that the darker
colored shirts tend to sell better than
the lighter colored shirts in the
resources but alright next thing if
you're in tier 10 you don't want to be
in tier 10 anymore because having 10
upload slots is not a good thing that's
that's nothing I mean I have 20,000
upload slots so how do I go from 10
upload slots to 20,000 well you have to
get sales what's a good way of enticing
customers to buy your product I have an
idea watch this let's key in the lowest
price possible to incentivize customers
so 13 30 euro gives us a
point zero zero estimated royalty
meaning that's the lowest price possible
we can list this for which gives
customers the best deal possible if
you're in tier ten delay profitability
give customers a reason to purchase from
you instead of from other people give
them the best deal possible lowest price
possible if you're uploading to Germany
it's thirteen point three euro if you
upload to the UK or the US the base cost
varies per marketplace so remember that
all right now we can scroll past this
and here we are first thing I'd like to
point out add all product details in
each marketplaces language so normally
how this tool works this tool we upload
one design and we are typically able to
take one design push it to as many
products and product types and
marketplaces as we want to so if you do
more than just the German market you'll
have a little tab and it'll let you
write in English and then let you write
in German so you can optimize it for
each marketplace but since we're just
doing for the German market we should be
able to just key it in so I'm just gonna
say hello my name is Aaron nametag
alright and I'll put that in the title
the brand and the bullet and if you want
to I mean again we are selling this on
the German market but keep in mind it's
written in English so you have to use
your discretion to say well should I
translate it into German or should I
keep it in English if the design is in
English probably keep it in English but
here's what else you can do English to
German you just google it right so many
questions that people ask me during the
day
by the way I love it I love that you
guys comment I love that you message me
on Facebook and ask me these questions
but like sometimes I literally just tab
to Google search your question take the
first link and send it back just saying
it sometimes it's that simple a lot of
times it's that simple all right now all
I did was English to German type that
into Google and then I copy pasted the
design title that I typed in and here we
go
it translates it I'm gonna copy it we'll
jump back over here and I'll just put
that in feature bullet too because that
will get indexed in search results all
right now product availability on Amazon
non searchable or searchable
if we're trying to sell products I have
an idea let's do searchable which is the
default no problem there and then it
says last but not least by submitting
for production you acknowledge you have
the necessary rights to the original
artwork brand name product title key
product features and product description
aka don't write in star wars don't write
in Avengers don't write in any key like
trademarked phrase this is an imperfect
system you will probably at least once
get a rejection it won't say why and it
may be something as simple as a
trademarked word in your bullets so just
so you know this system is imperfect as
I said over time you'll get used to how
it works but also if you infringe on
like a if you blatantly infringe on a
trademark like you upload a Star Wars
design or something in tier 10 you'll
probably just get instantly kicked off
the platform permanently so heed my
warning play it safe keep it simple
there's still a lot of money to be made
without like infringing on other
people's intellectual property anyways
that's it all you have to do guys is hit
publish when you do this you'll get one
last chance to confirm your products
you're submitting a design to the
following products standard t-shirt
these products will be published as
searchable all customers will be able to
search and find these products on Amazon
you'll not be able to edit these
products until they're finished
processing so as soon as you click
publish which I'm not going to do
because as soon as I do that you'll be
able to see a bunch of designs that are
published under my accounts so in order
to keep those safe I'm not gonna do that
but just so you know when you hit
publish there's gonna be a little bit of
a delay where it's processing your new
upload your new product the listing will
not be created instantly and it will not
instantly be live but it typically won't
take more than like a day max I don't
know if in tier 10 you might get all
your designs manually reviewed or at
least scrutinized to a little bit of a
higher degree than normal then if like
me into your twenty thousand were to
upload that being said you know give it
24 hours when it moves to live you'll
see it on the pretty merch dashboard by
the way so you can see right here if i
zoom in even more on the left-hand side
of my screen where it says live products
we'll see zero initially when that's
live you'll see one also you also have
up here next to my little unicorn you
see where it says PS so when you
initially publish the product you might
see out number one in under review then
that should shift from under review to
processing where you get in trouble is
if it stays in under review if that
happens then you may have triggered
something with their algorithm where
it's not sure if you you know did
something against the content policy or
something along those lines and
ultimately if it stays in under review
and someone reviews it and says nope
this isn't allowed it'll show up in the
rejected column otherwise if you see it
in PS 4 processing it's just a matter of
time before it goes live unless just
real quick just saying I know I said
this was gonna be a short video I keep
dragging it out I'm just trying to be
helpful sometimes they get stuck in
processing alright as you're seeing here
whatever this is that's in processing
right now in my account has been there
for I don't even know how long weeks if
not months it is what it is my
recommendation is don't bug the merge
admins because they are a small team
they've got better things to do then try
to fix your issue and I don't even know
if they can fix it I don't it's not like
there's some magical like cranks that
they're operating you know like I
picture like a crane operator with all
these levers to pull like you know maybe
these people don't necessarily have the
ability to go into the massive database
and switch the status from processing to
live they follow a normal workflow I'm
sure I don't work for merch I'm just you
know I've worked in the IT industry for
like nine years before I got to quit my
job thanks to things like Amazon burst
but anyways guys thank you so much for
watching this video if it helped you out
at all all I'm asking is hit the like
button and consider subscribing like I
said we're gonna continue the Amazon
merch miniseries I'm gonna be helping
you succeed as a merch seller and just
learn the ropes we're gonna go over the
content policy in the next installment
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