hey what's up guys i'm excited for
today's video i'm sure i'm not the only
one that noticed that pretty merch the
most popular chrome extension and add-on
for merch by amazon sellers had a huge
update recently i'm sure everybody saw
it so in this video we're gonna dive in
to what changed i'm excited to show you
some of this new functionality so why
don't we get started
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talk about pretty merch now for those of
you guys that haven't heard of pretty
much where have you been you've been
living under a rock this is the most
popular chrome extension that amazon
merch sellers use it's the first one i
always recommend grabbing if you're new
and what's cool is
there's a free version right so we
always love free things i put this web
page together i will link to it at the
top of the description above the
giveaway i'll put it right at the top
or go to ryanhook.com forward slash
pretty merch and i have two links on
this page one is to pretty much free
and one is to the pro upgrade but what's
cool is
right now
unless you want to preemptively upgrade
your account you can actually access all
the
pro features the ones that you typically
have to pay for
i believe they're all free until i think
it they said december 6th okay so we all
love free stuff uh this is the change
log so it looks like pretty merch pro
plus
is free until december 6. now here's the
thing i believe
feel free to check out the pro features
pro plus is their research tool so i'm
not 100 sure if the free pretty merch is
going to include the analytics and
products tab
let me know if it does in the comments
but um in this in this video i'm going
to show you like how i use all of the
well the full features of pretty merch
okay so you can see they added a new
research tool we're gonna be checking
that out for sure uh looks like that's
gonna for sure be free to everybody
until december 6th so take advantage of
that
um there is a new tier for tier three
hundred thousand unfortunately i'm still
waiting for my tear up i'm stuck in tier
200 000 i know shed a tier for me i'm
sure everybody's sad that i only have
200 000 upload slots
um they're working on fixing a product
syncing bug i think i had experienced
that i've got pretty much on a couple of
my different browsers uh i know
web developer right i have like four
different instances of google chrome so
i've kind of seen like some that work
some that had the product sync issue um
anyways uh pretty merch pro has the new
pro plus plan and that includes all the
pro features plus the research tool so
i'll break down the differences between
the
different plans at the end of the video
all right and let's dive into it so i'm
sure you guys have noticed when you log
in after installing the pretty much
chrome extension you have little tabs
going across the top and the default
view that you get is the dashboard so
really quickly i know we're all familiar
with it but
when you don't have the pretty merch
dashboard you see this and you know
what's funny i always like to remind
people that like there used to be a
different dashboard than this that was
even uglier
sorry if any amazon merch developers are
watching i'm sure you guys have better
things to do than to watch my videos but
there used to be an even uglier
dashboard than this one so it used to be
real bad okay but either way i don't
think anybody ever looks at this
dashboard because once you install
pretty merch you see this okay it
completely transformed your dashboard
and when you're looking at the default
view you get to see things like how many
designs you've uploaded well actually
not designs that's your product count
that you've uploaded today so i get
capped at 10 000 products a day each
design that i upload given i'm in tier
200 000 i enable all 64 products which
is across it's every product on every
marketplace
uh you can see today's sales which i
don't know why that's not available on
the standard dashboard but it's not uh
so you can see your sales just today so
as of uh me recording this video i have
14 sales for 40 in royalties
you can see a breakdown of what actually
sold today underneath there
you can see a chart of your last seven i
guess it's technically eight days
because it's today plus the seven before
that and you can see how many sales you
made per day and underneath there right
here behind me you can see a little bit
more of a breakdown between yesterday's
sales last seven days this month
previous month and beneath that all time
and there's little like buttons you can
push and if you push them it triggers a
big overlay and it has like a chart
that's month to month to month breakdown
of your entire i guess it depends on the
date date frame that you click but then
you can click the bars that represent a
month or a day and you can see a
breakdown of what products sold during
that time frame as well so it's really
nice for people to drill down into your
data
uh there's an analytics tab i don't know
if people really use this uh it's
probably the least used tab it doesn't
mean it's not useful but i just don't
know how many people really use it like
i love it for making youtube videos and
showing different data points for my
pretty merch account or my amazon merch
account
so here i'm showing you that i can you
can set your time period as far back as
you want i set mine to all time i
selected all six sorry seven
marketplaces seven with japan and i hit
analyze sales
so now i can see a bar chart uh going
all the way back to april 2017 when i
made my first sale you can see um
december 2020 was a huge month for me
over 2000 sales and hopefully this year
will be even bigger plan on it being you
can see my total sales break down by
market over 30 000 sales in the us 500
and uk 389 in germany et cetera et
cetera you can see the royalties and the
uh actual revenue so i've sold 570 000
in the us market in revenue thus far
um you can see a breakdown by product
type that made sales so i've sold
primarily standard t-shirts prior to
them making the change that they did
this year where they distinguish between
like designs and products um i would
just push everything to standard
t-shirts because they're the best
sellers but now i get to like diversify
my offerings you know what's crazy i've
seen a lot of throw pillows selling
lately when i say a lot i mean
relatively speaking um but i've been
seeing like at least one a day some days
like multiple i think yesterday i had
like two or three so that's pretty
interesting don't sleep on the uh the
throw pillows
and also i had a picture that i've shown
you guys in a youtube video uh of all
the little like micro chihuahuas that we
have and i kind of edited them together
in a design tutorial that i did earlier
this year and it actually sold on a tote
bag the other day so i always get a
smile on my face when i see that cell
all right so we can break down by fit
type men women unisex kids you can break
down by colors
black shirts are my predominant best
seller of course the primary thumbnail
that you see in search results is black
so it makes sense that most people
um
buy a shirt in black also you know i
optimize my designs to look good on a
black shirt since that's the primary
thumbnail that people see if black is an
option so you know just making sense of
the situation there but that's a little
tip you know optimize for black shirts
that's what most people see
uh you can drill down into your products
sold okay so you can actually set like
the market um the type of product colors
so you get to drill down i actually like
to use the products tab to do this
though for the most part although this
shows you
more information about like the sales
returns royalties fit type etc
speaking of the products tab this is one
that is probably underutilized relative
to the potential that it actually holds
as far as like its usefulness it's very
useful
okay so when you click the products tab
guys
you get to see these filters right
search and you can do a keyword search
you can search on title brands bullets
description asin great you can break
down by marketplace love it but here's
where i really like to do my
magic let's call it so you see where it
says more filters so if you click that
here's the best utility that i think the
product tab holds i'm going to show you
i mean it's packed with utility i don't
want this video to go on too long but
this is one that everybody needs to be
made aware of okay when you're here
you can use the created date filter
and you don't have to use that one but
it's one way that you can kind of filter
and i'll show you why i'm saying this is
useful you can pair that with the has
sold yes no
or just say pending removal you know 91
to 180 days it does the math for us and
it knows that like no sale and based on
when it was uploaded it's going to be
removed in a certain time frame this is
extremely useful if you're not in tier
200 000 which i'm sure the majority of
people that watching are not into you
know t200k yet i'm sure you guys all
will be one day but you know until you
have infinite upload slots
you kind of need to be
you know strategic about how you use
your slots
obviously a slot that's not filled is
not making you any money so try to get
them filled but also what happens when
they're all full you can't upload
anything new you're going to need to
make space for the new designs well come
to the products tab use some of these
filters that help you identify products
that have been live for a long time that
have no sales delete them but here's
your guys gonna be blown away if you
haven't seen this ready
you can bulk delete
so use these filters
and then there's even a select all
checkbox so if you have a filter that
you really like select all
and in this case i just showed you three
products but you can select you know
more than three as many as you want and
uh when you hit delete it hits you with
one more pop-up to confirm that you
actually want to delete these
so five plus five equals ten and then
click delete three products and it goes
and it does it for you now if you've
never deleted a product from merch by
amazon it is a slow
uh boring process i don't know what else
to call it you have to go in your manage
tab you have to click twice and then
click the pop-up like it's
i'm one of these like crazy people that
is always thinking of like how many
clicks something takes and then how much
time it's going to take and i say like
all right if it takes this long to
delete one product and i have to delete
a hundred well it's gonna take me this
long and then i'm just like man i hate
my life this is taking way too long so
bulk delete to me
is perfect you got with print on demand
you know your time is money so anything
you can do to save time take advantage
of it all right
and of course the reason we're here
sorry i put it at the end i probably
should have put it at the beginning but
hey if you're still with me hit that
like button by the way if you like this
video so far the research tab this is
the new functionality this is what's
going to be associated with pretty merch
pro plus
okay
now they have just built out
a research tool straight into pretty
much which means it's straight in your
amazon merch dashboard it's crazy that
honestly kind of crazy it took this long
to do because when you think about it
it's like perfect you know what i mean
you're now one click away from seeing
the best sellers the trends et cetera so
these are the default filters
by default you'll see it's sorting by
best sellers and then you can search on
uh keywords if you choose to you can
have it search title brand and bullets i
actually suggest
that you use title only as your default
all right title only based on my
experience testing it
returns better results okay if you leave
it in like the brand or the bullets
we all know like the primary keywords
are typically in the title so if you let
it search brandon bullets you're going
to get
less relevant more fringe matches so i
actually recommend using title only you
can sort by marketplace you can sort by
product i'm sure they'll expand the
marketplaces and products soon you have
a bsr range filter i haven't really
played around with that much but if
you're looking for like high-end
competition like high-end sales
potential but
don't want to compete with like the
products that everybody sees you may
want to consider dragging the left side
of that slider from one and moving it to
like a hundred thousand that way the
highest ranking bsr point you'll see
will be 100 000 bsr or greater um
remember you want kind of you kind of
want to zig while everybody else zags
and using that bsr slider and just kind
of moving it away from the default is
probably a great way of changing like
what you see versus what everybody else
sees so that's a quick little tip there
now if you um scroll down you'll see the
best sellers again by default these are
basically what you see when you just go
to the category that all the merch
products get listed under and uh do
nothing although one thing that's
different and that makes these research
tools great is it filters out
automatically the big brands so we're
not seeing a bunch of marvel and disney
shirts okay so those are already removed
for us
what's cool too
you can click the little shield icon
over any of these products and it will
pull up the product analyzer so here you
see all the standard information it's
basically a replica of what you see on
amazon but it puts all the relevant data
to us the sellers
right in front of us okay and they've
got like a little green checkbox
availability buyable so it's not like a
um
you know let's go brandon shirt that
used to be viable but then it got
removed so
that's always good to be aware of bsr
changed recently so it's tracking
uh increases or decreases obviously uh
you know it's kind of counterintuitive
but a decrease in bsr is
signifying a sale or more sales so you
want to see decreases in bsr as it gets
closer and closer to being the best
seller right you can see the price point
estimated sales a month estimated
lifetime sales
you can see the reviews it links
directly to the review see the bullets
etc down here at the bottom near me
there's a keyword analysis it tries to
weigh the most valuable keywords
associated with this listing so if you
want to enter this niche it you don't
need to guess what keywords to target in
your title your bullets etc um go ahead
and just take the guesswork out of it
and use this it's giving you the
keywords it's got a little copy button
as well so you can just copy them
all right so here's some quick examples
of how you might use this this is how i
would go about using it so if i want to
sell christmas shirts i type christmas
into the keyword and then i switched it
over from title brand and bullets i
switched it over to title only that is
my recommendation and i kept it on us
market that's where i like to optimize
my research and designs for then i hit
search okay and you can see here some of
the results
another usage you might want to look at
future trends okay future trends is what
it sounds like it's looking for
significant jumps in bsr and when i say
jumps i mean in the right direction
signifying like increased sales velocity
so when i say jump i mean decreases in
bsr okay and this is not like a perfect
science they're doing this
algorithmically um this is me speaking
to the web developer side of my brain um
if you know one day maybe there'll be ai
that can say okay these are the right
trends and these aren't uh right now
though it's really just looking for like
i said significant
uh gains in bsr um drop-offs in bsr
signifying like
no sales to a lot of sales ideally and
you know it's not a perfect science but
for instance when the let's go brandon
stuff was just starting off you would
find them
littered in the um the bsr movers okay
so this is a good spot to keep your eye
on
just in case you come across a new trend
that's just emerging
you've got the lowest bsr and this is
basically the same as best sellers
except it just does a sort by
low to high and best sellers is
basically almost the same with a little
bit different so
for the most part it's the same i'm just
going to rank them in order numerically
and then all the way at the end you've
got the new designs okay so this is
not doing any sorting based on like bsr
the way that future trends is this is
just new submissions
to merch by amazon that were picked up
by the pretty merch research tool so go
ahead and check this out and i mean i
probably wouldn't spend as much time
here i'd probably spend most of my time
honestly just going to the lowest bsr
and scrolling and scrolling and
scrolling this is the type of thing i do
when i do my top five niches of the week
i do it repetitively and that way when
something new is emerging i kind of
recognize it pretty quickly just because
of the repetitive nature i'm spending a
lot of time looking at the best sellers
as you scroll down it will load more
products so you can pretty much scroll
forever and it's just gonna keep loading
more and more and more and um
depending on what filters you've got
generally speaking you're gonna see
um them ranked in terms of like most
sales to fewer sales okay so as you get
further away from the top you're seeing
less sales velocity so just factor that
in
all right and speaking of top five
niches of the week make sure you guys
are subscribed i'm gonna try using the
pretty merch research tab for this
week's top five niches so i'll let you
guys know how it goes so make sure you
subscribe so you catch that now i did
mention i'm gonna walk you through the
pricing so pretty much
standard zero dollars you can use the
link at the top of the description go
install the chrome extension completely
free right now if you didn't already
pretty merch pro is what we're all used
to existing prior to this most recent
update that was 9.99 a month and you got
access to the um full dashboard
including like the historical charts you
get access to the
analytics tab the products tab and those
are all great but pretty much pro is
going to get you access to the research
tab as well so you're gonna be one click
away from all the trends all the best
sellers all the inspiration you need for
your niche research so uh that would be
i mean honestly it's still new like i
said i'm gonna use it for top five
niches of the week and give you an
honest review but thus far i like what i
see guys and i'm sure it's you know it's
new so they're going to keep building it
out and adding new functionality so yeah
guys check that out the link in the
description will take you to either
pretty much for free or pretty much pro
and you know i love when you guys use my
link because then i get a little
kickback so i appreciate that
uh so ryanhog.com forward slash pretty
merch
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already before i sign off wanted to
remind you i did write a full course
walking you through how i went from tier
10 to tier 200 000
exactly step by step how i would
recommend starting scaling and then
eventually if you choose to automating
your merch by amazon business so you can
find out more uh in the description but
thank you guys for watching enjoy the
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