yo what's up guys in this video i'm going to show you how to create a merch by amazon
t-shirt with no graphic design skills not didn't nothing prepare to be written
i'm doing it i'm doing it
now let's see how it looks so far yo welcome back to my channel my name is rj martinez and we're
talking about how to create a design with on merch by amazon with no graphic design skills uh let me
give you a little bit of an insight of who i am i have sold over 150k royalties with merch by amazon
sold over 50k and products all time so i do know a lot about the platform when it comes to ranking
uh a t-shirt and obviously a little bit of designing and stuff i i actually suck too
as well so don't get uh a little don't get confused and don't overthink about
uh the design work on the shirt it doesn't have to be really crazy i know a lot of people that
crush it with text-based designs i sell text-based designs on a t-shirt every single day and it just
a lot of people overthink it don't overthink it this is easy you can do it i can do it it's
easy and one of the main issues that people lack is just the photoshop right or [ __ ] or any of
those softwares right they get confused they get like they think about okay i'm gonna do this i'm
gonna design this and they're like they get overwhelmed with all the tools on photoshop
on [ __ ] and all this stuff and it's not that complicated it's pretty easy right just to get
started and figure out how to make like a simple design on for a shirt or whatever product you're
selling on merch by amazon but in this in this topic of course we're talking about a t-shirt so
one of the most important things is just don't overthink it for else it's literally that simple
don't overthink it i know that photoshop and i'm going to share a couple of tools with you guys to
help you guys uh be successful when designing a shirt right so that's very important
and we're going to go ahead and do another giveaway in this video too as well um so this
is how it's going to work you guys have to watch the video to the end give the video a thumbs up
um comment down below um give some insight because i'll be picking someone from the comments
okay first and foremost don't be cheating now that stuff and most importantly
hit that subscribe button and in that notification call and i'll be giving away a 30-minute coaching
call to someone down below in the comments okay so just a random lucky winner all right so one
of the most important things before you guys start even designing okay think about it this way it's
keyword research it's so important right um the most important thing is you want to see if there's
a demand for like the design that you're designing for right sometimes the goal is to go into a niche
with very little competition okay if you can get your design to rank organically with these
keywords on the front page and you make your cell you're gonna like rank in the top three after you
make your first sell now think about it this way it can it can be very simple like a very simple
text based design like a funny saying or something right and people overthink that they need like the
best design in the world and you really don't people buy like i said funny sayings on shirts
t-shirts and it's so simple it's really really that simple um as in like funny memes i'm sure
it's right there's stuff like that if there's a like if you go into the amazon search bar you type
in your shirt it can of any type of funny saying if you go onto the amazon search bar and you type
in a saying and it auto populates right right below the the search bar that's saying like okay
actually people are actually searching for this shirt so there might be some type of demand right
there if you're starting off with like you're you're using the amazon search bar which is free
um but of course there's actually other tools out there that you can pay for to actually help help
you with the search volume see if there's a search volume for that long tail keyword okay a long tail
keyword too let me uh show you guys so basically i'll show you guys but example right so a long
tail keyword is basically keyword keyword keyword so dog english bulldog right so that's three words
right there now right now funny now we put let's say we put funny at the very beginning funny dog
english bulldog right so now if you do that that's a long tail keyword right i wanna three keywords
and above right is a long tail keyword now if you put like a funny saying you can see when you go
into the amazon search bar you type something in and the same like there's a saying that pops up
and even when you search that long tail keyword you're going to see other designs pop
up and sometimes when you're doing the research you see funny sayings and in certain niches that
are selling really well right and the only way you can figure this out is by doing research okay
so one of the most important things like i'm going to tell you doing your research the very beginning
before you start your design before you start designing is so important so research is important
first keyword research is important because if you don't have your keyword research and there's like
no demand there's no search volume for that actual like saying or design or whatever the heck it is
you're not gonna make sales and that's important so keyword research is important it's before you
design and most people don't understand that part right there usually when you guys don't
understand like the keyword and all that stuff you try to figure out i have a good design right
and i don't you don't know how to get traffic to it like does the audience want that type of design
when it comes to merch by amazon are people looking are they searching for that type of design
are they looking for it like you have to ask yourself that right as this applies to like a
lot of the beginners because you think you think right you think you have a good design but you
haven't made no sales and you're asking yourself why is because your keyword research is not there
i've seen plenty of talented artists that are really good and they have really good designs
but they don't have they don't know how to do keyword research they don't know how to drive
traffic to the listing right and i'm telling you you can have like an okay design right a simple
plain white that looks good on a black t-shirt design right and it will make sales if you have
good keywords right you have you're in a new niche with very little competition you're ranking on the
front page already with these long tail keyword searches right and that right there is going to
generate traffic to your listing and return there will get sales but you have to understand this
so you have to do research you have to dive in and see like see what people are searching for
and this may take a little bit of time this may take 20 30 minutes of your time of doing research
right it may take longer once you get good at it it gets easier and easier and easier as you dive
into new niches it's a rinse and repeat process and i know there's people out there that are
crushing it with merch by amazon making five six seven eight thousand ten thousand dollars a month
whatever it is and they're doing this same exact method that i'm telling but i'm sharing with you
guys right now okay research first now there's a ton of tools out there that can help you right
there's free tools that you can get started with uh one of the tools is going to be canva
you can use canva right you can either use like uh fonts that you can purchase or free fonts that
you find or free fonts that you have that are good for commercial use so very important that you guys
understand that you want to make sure anything that you put on your shirt is good for commercial
use right you own the rights to that the font or the illustration or whatever you're using right
so that's very very very important canva is like a very user friendly tool i know they have like the
pro version right and then i think that might cause for the transparent background and this
is very user friendly these ones right here if you don't have like because ever at one point
when i was doing designing for shirts and all that stuff i couldn't open photoshop because
my computer sucked it's a little crash right and it sucks like ah man computer crashed i have two
programs open it crashes boom and then it resets so these right here like web-based so it's easier
for you to create designs right so that's really really awesome so canva is a really awesome tool
and you can do so much with it from social media posts to creating t-shirt designs there's so much
you can do right the other one is uh one of my favorites okay i don't know this is like a toss-up
number one number two and i'll be i'll create some more content on canva too but the over app
okay this is like this is gonna be number this one should have been number one uh but i put canva up
there but the overwrap i'll put a card right here too as well check this youtube card out i've made
a video on this it's so easy right this is one of the coolest apps on your phone i know there's word
swag too as well but the overlap is really really awesome you can do a lot you can upload fonts that
you purchase okay and they have some free fonts on there that you can use too for commercial use
and then there's some illustrator illustrations like if you have custom illustrations if you have
illustrator on your team or whatever it is you can actually upload them and then just put text
over the um the actual design and you can upload it straight over to merch by amazon on a t-shirt
and it's really awesome because it's really user-friendly because you can rep out like
30-40 designs in one hour if you put your mind to it right as you do your keyword research keyword
research right first keyword research and then design right and then you design next and that's
so important because it's it's cool because it's all user friendly it's all the fingertips
right you can be sitting on the toilet right and then all of a sudden come up with an idea
when you're sitting on the toilet and then you make a t-shirt design or you can be watching tv
and you're like oh that could be a good t-shirt design right and just or out in public right
you're out about and then you have more ideas come to you boom t-shirt design boom like that's a good
t-shirt design right so think about it that way um and if you're wandering off and you're
and you're having a conversation with a buddy and you're like oh wait that could be a t-shirt design
i'm gonna go make this real fast and they're like what is he doing this guy keeps wandering on i'm
making t-shirt designs buddy don't worry about it uh well anyways yeah so but the over app is
freaking like amazing it's really powerful really really powerful next one is the merchant former
right merchant former they have uh with my buddy neil they have done so much with merchant former
over the time it's like real cool how you can just upload your own fonts on there tool as well
this is on the computer though you can't do it on your phone i don't believe but it's web
based and i have an affiliate link down below so make sure you sign up with that affiliate link
but there's a lot you can do with merchant former right all right guys so i'm in the back end of
uh the merch merch designer right i signed into my account um as you guys can see um when you
log in here this is really cool because look at this do you what do you what kind of product are
you doing you're doing a uh you're gonna do a t-shirt hoodie sweatshirt right pop socket
there is a cell phone cases down here let's do a t-shirt for this example right and they
have a few other other platforms on there but we're not talking about that at the moment so
this is a cool thing too so you can see that okay one my top selling color right i'll merge
by amazon is black t-shirt then it goes navy right now but let's say if you're designing
for a white t-shirt so let's say you have a all-white text based design if you can switch
it really easy to make it look good on a white t-shirt by changing the the color font to all
black it's a real simple it's a real simple song you can knock out two uploads right there and
because usually sometimes people don't want it on a black shirt they want it on a white shirt
okay so something to think about and i've done that where i make sales over and over and over and
over but on a white shirt in a niche and because i just literally simply just changed the color font
over to from all white to all black that simple guys for reals um so let's go over here let's uh
type in here let's type in subscribe to my channel okay and let's say this is my design all right
and i'm not no designer by the way but uh let's say i have a simple text based design right
okay now obviously we want to change the color on this bad boy
right we want it to be white okay and then we want it to be really big and this is another thing too
you want this to take up as much as the shirt as possible okay this is very important okay
for the thumbnail as you're scrolling down okay when a customer is scrolling down on
amazon.com and looking for a shirt you want it to stand out you don't want it to be this small
okay they're not gonna see it you want it to be nice and big okay but you also want it to fit
inside the design dimension so if you have a illustration here and you have text above it
and text below it you want to make it as big as possible and you want it to take up as much as the
design space as possible it's very important okay it's going to help with your click-through rate
better click-through rate more cells more sales the better ranking you'll have on amazon
and the faster you appear on the front page it's very important guys okay so
understand that so you guys have this okay you have it all done subscribe to my channel
you put on the back like thank you or something but i don't know put thank you down here below or
something just this is a simple design right let's say this was my design you just want to make sure
it's a good size it looks like an awesome size and literally this is how simple it is you can see all
the cool tools that are on the left hand side like clip art you can add some clipart in there right
even a zebra right there's a frog there's all kinds of cool stuff in here okay
different shapes and then you can draw something if you want and there's a layer section
but this is a web-based kind of app right you don't have to worry about your computer crashing
because you have it's taking up too much space or wherever the heck it is right so yeah let's
say this is our design it's literally that simple all you have to do is come over here to download
boom boom and it's in that png form and i'm going to come over here to my merch my amazon account
and i'm going to go over here to create a product upload i want to upload it we're just focusing on
the standard t-shirt in the dot com let that bad boy upload and then what i would do your goal is
to make sure it looks good looks good make it look good on all the darker colors right okay
price point 1999 boom boom and then you're gonna come down here you're gonna fill out
all these the keywords remember you're going to have all this research already right your keywords
okay so you know what you're going to be targeting as you're making this design okay you already know
in your head so this should be a no-brainer when it comes to brand title 4.1 bullet point 2 and
description and literally that's simple okay so i wanna show you guys a little quick design and how
you would upload it and yeah that's really cool right so that saves you a lot of time
that pays for itself right there alone because as you as you're designing and you're getting better
and stuff like that little things like that you don't want it to hold you back you want
to just be the best and right and once you start making sales it's really important here's a tip
you want to be the best in your niche if you're making one cell in that niche you can make two or
three or four or five sales in that niche and uh next you know you're in an evergreen niche
that's making consistent sales over the period over a period of time right what is evergreen
it's basically it's not a holiday design right it's a design that sells all year round okay
and one of my most favorite things to do okay when i started this merch my amazon journey okay
i'm gonna share this with you guys was outsource right building relationship with uh with the va or
right or just a designer or illustrator what is it like a designer is a person that's doing the
fonts on my shirt illustrator is a person that's doing the custom drawings that are very unique
and when you put those two together it's powerful because you're creating less
competition for yourself you have a really unique illustration and then you have the
designer that's going to be putting like the fonts and the text space over the illustration
that right there you combine those two you create less competition for yourself why is that it's
because you know that other people are using like vector sites and membership sites most likely
there's other people doing the same exact thing as you i'm not saying it's not bad
but you're creating competition for yourself if you do it that way now if you're have your
own illustrator and they have really powerful illustrations and you're using the fonts and
stuff like that paid fonts as you start growing your business and you start reinvesting you can
crush it you can do a lot of damage me personally i did that straight from the very beginning um
and i work with a team all about building a team building that trust building that foundation and
just going to the moon right um so that's that's one that's that's one of the ways too that you
guys can do like if you guys don't understand how to design this is a it's a little bit of a process
but once they once you have the team in place and everyone working together
it's a really really amazing and that's exactly what i did at the very beginning
i think i made like 400 in one month and then i took all that money and just reinvested it then
i think i made 1200 and then i make 2 000 or something like that roughly or something like that
but it was just a consistent stream of income right and it was really really cool and that right
there is big it's really big and you guys can see what exactly what i mean it's like creating a
unique illustration that no one else has and then you put in some text around it or whatever it is
in your niche and just dominate your niche because it's a rinse repeat process after that right
because you're literally when you come in there you see that this design's already selling
you just you're in competition with yourself now like okay what else can i do what else can i do
to be better than myself and dominate this niche you can see how big that is and most importantly
guys you want to check for trademarks right as you're doing this as you're going along okay
over time when you start designing stuff you want these certain phrases some of them are trademarked
so you have to be really careful you don't want to get in trouble you don't want to get no dings
on your account it happens as you grow and stuff like that it's normal it's part of the process
but if you do it too many times you can lose your account so you want to be very very careful right
you want to be very careful so make sure you guys have that like a system in place where you guys
are as you're doing your research you research the keywords too making sure they're not trademarked
as you go in so this is very important um it's very important because it's part of the game right
you don't want to get in trouble for something that you didn't mean to do and that's it it's just
part of the game yeah hopefully guys this video has helped and watch my other videos right here