Hey everyone this is Juna with Detour Shirts in this video i'm going to talk
about my merch by amazon tier 10 strategy part 1. Let's go!
All right guys so this is my merch by amazon tier 10 strategy part one this is going to be
a four part series kind of like how i did my redbubble series last month i thought i'd do a
merch by amazon series this month i got a lot of people asking um how to get out of tier 10
is it saturated is it still good to be on merch by amazon
i'm going to show you my strategy if i were in tier 10 you want to stay till the end because
this is part one i'm going to show you all the different parts at the end what each part will
be like so stay to the end for that and also stay to the end for another edition of trend
credits before we start for those of you new to the channel my name is juno i'm a t-shirt designer
graphic designer i design and sell t-shirts online i sell on merch by amazon as well as redbubble
and other pod sites my channel is all about helping you design and sell t-shirts online
so if that's something you like to do please make sure to subscribe hit that subscribe button
and like these videos if they're really helpful for you if they're valuable to you
so that's it um let's get into it merch by amazon tier 10 strategy part one so in this video
i wanted to start from the beginning what i would do if i were starting at tier 10 so
how would i get out of tier 10 is basically what this series is about and i would like to see if i
could actually do it so what is tier 10 if you're not in merch by amazon you may not know what tier
10 is tier 10 is the very beginning of merch by amazon but basically you get 10 uploads total
one upload a day so you can only upload 10 which is why it's called tier 10 and to get out of tier
10 you will need 10 sales and 8 uploads here's my plan i'm gonna actually do it with you i'm going
to create myself 10 new designs as if i were in tier 10 i will share with you what i designed
and how i did it and how long it takes for me to sell so you can see how long it actually takes
me to sell 10 shirts and i will see how long it takes for me to get out of it so hopefully i can
do it in a month it might take longer when i first did it when i first started it actually took me
two or three months to get out so i'm hoping it doesn't take that long this time hopefully
i've learned some tips and tricks to get out of it but i'm going to share that with you so um
first we need to do is research and i say research trends and the reason for trends well let me show
you first how to research trends i'm not going to actually get into it i have at least four
videos on my channel these are it finding trends using merchant former other ways to find trends
trends using red bubble how to use ds amazon quickview watch all those videos you'll see how to
find trends i'm not going to show you how to find trends in this video because i have so many others
but you might be asking why trends well trends is the quickest way to get a sale without spending
any money of course you could get a sale by buying your own stuff you could get a sale by using ads
but when you're first starting out on tier 10 your goal is actually not to spend any money
so when you're on the low lower tiers your purpose is to just get out of the lower tiers
make some quick sales so that you can get out to the next tier um one of the trends i showed
earlier i think in my last video on trend credits is this bad things happen in philadelphia when you
find a trend then that's when you brainstorm so brainstorming includes what kind of things um are
related what are you gonna do to make your t-shirt now what i like to do is i like to like grab maybe
six to eight different t-shirts that are already on there that are on this trend and so here are
six of them i like to grab some of the best ones and not to copy but this is my competition now
can i make a design that will stand out in this competition now a lot of you might be going
well i'm just gonna put up some text t-shirts and put it up there no don't do this don't do
this that's too easy that's not gonna that's not gonna beat this right you see there's color here
there's some thought and graphics here what you're gonna need is some graphics and these don't have
any graphics this is just text don't think that you're on merch by amazon and you're on a trend
and because you have cool keywords and you're gonna rank on page one that people will see this
and buy this instead of the other thing this is not the way to do it this is not the way to
design for trends is not what i mean so this is what i mean is think of an idea of
what can you do better so when i look at these shirts here i'm thinking what can i do better
and one of the things that came to mind for me was maybe some athletic design t-shirts and what
i mean by that is something like this you know i didn't see these on page one and so you know these
were really popular back in the day with property of and kind of this old vintage athletic style you
can see they're kind of the same with something in the middle so um then i think of what graphic
can i use in here so when i brainstorm about philadelphia i'm thinking graphics can i use uh
the philadelphia cityscape how about the liberty bell maybe a philly cheesesteak so i'm just
brainstorming what kind of graphic could go in there when i'm doing the athletic t-shirt and if
i can't think of any graphics that's when i go on to google and search and so you can see here i'm
just doing philadelphia icons not to copy these again just to brainstorm like um what kind of
other graphics does philadelphia or that represent philadelphia so you can see here and then i start
sketching out so you can see it's just really simple um some of them i didn't even spell out
the words right but you can see i'm getting the shape right where i'm going to put the icon you
can see here i'm maybe thinking about a bell and things and so from this point is when i get into
affinity designer and then start actually using the text and stuff so i sketch it out i brainstorm
and then i go into affinity designer and trying to make something that is better than the competition
is there or at least as good as so it needs to stand with it toe-to-toe and hopefully better
right so let me get into affinity designer and i'll show you what i came up with all right so
here i am an affinity designer i brought in those examples from amazon just to see not to copy again
just to see my competition so when i'm done with my design i'm gonna put it up against these guys
and just kind of see how how does it look against here will somebody pick mine
uh over theirs or does it stand toe to toe with it right all right so next i start designing
so here i like to design let me zoom out so i have like five ideas here and let me go over them you
can see i decided to just go with the liberty bell i just drew it out on paper and then traced it
you know i'm not gonna go over how i did that but you can see in some of my videos how i trace
um what i draw and then i'm just using these these fonts this one's called superstar m54
i'm also using some script fonts this one is montana typeface and you can see kind of how my
thought process is i like to make both and i like to start off with a black design black text
on a white background but then i reverse it up i know i'm going to do it on a dark t-shirt as you
can see back here they're all on dark t-shirts because dark t-shirts sell better and so i'm
gonna do it on dark t-shirts as well so when i start off with a dark or a black text on white
i reverse it and do white text on black just like that so you can see here i use this font and then
i didn't like it i used this script font i didn't like that as well so i just kept the same font and
in order to give it some variety i put this one in a rounded rectangle i didn't like that as well
so i made it bigger because this kind of seems like this could stand out but i really
like the the round arc thing so i use that here instead and this is going to be my final here
i like this one it's big and chunky easy to read it still has that feel of uh that athletic design
athletic department design and it works well you always gotta check if it works well in white too
so you can see here it works really well in white and black and so i'm going to go with that so then
i move over to making a color i'm just picking these colors i actually use kind of the colors
of the philadelphia eagles you can just take those colors here i'm not using the exact color
but because they're popular in philadelphia i thought those are some of the colors
i didn't want to use all the vintage colors that i'm seeing here i wanted to stand out a little bit
different so i chose a different color palette you can choose whatever color palette you want so you
can see the white still stands out on black and then this kind of comes in i use that establish
1682 i added that later because i went on the internet and looked when was philadelphia founded
1682. i thought that gives it a nice touch because you know athletic t-shirts like to put dates and
things like that and then i went one step further i put a weathered distressed background on it or
you can see here i kind of weathered it i'm not going to show you how i did that here i might
do another video on how to do that i did it in affinity photo but you can see it kind of gives it
that nice texture to make it look vintage have a more vintage retro look so that's what i did here
and now you can see kind of just an example of mine against the other ones here mine still stands
out it's not just text it has some color it's bigger you can read this here better so i'm hoping
that mine does well against here we'll see as i put it on here again you want to give yourself the
best chance of selling that's what when you're in tier 10 you want to add your best 10 don't
just put text t-shirts on tier 10 and hope that somebody buys it and that's not a good strategy
put your best work forward you have a whole day to design one thing and so do all the work
do as much work as you can make it stand out make it your best work and so this is what i'm
going to do here and then i'm going to upload it i'm going to go back to my strategy and show you
the final part like i said at the end what are my other strategies for tier 10 so i'll
go back into my presentation for that so just one more thing before i show you my strategy
i have this free download on my site at detoursshirts.com this is just a tier 10
help sheet many of you downloaded it already i'm going to use this too to track my stuff when i
do my tier 10 thing so you can see here my first one all you do is put in the design name
bad things happen in philadelphia i'm going to put the date that i'm adding it to merch by amazon
i'm gonna keep track of it and if it doesn't sell by eleven two i'm gonna take it off and replace
it with something else that i hope will sell so if this sells right here i'm gonna take this and
type in bad things happen and do a check mark that i did got one sale the thought is if you
have a pen and paper and print this out and you can just write it in your pin with your pin so
all right so my strategy my next parts are this this is the strategy for tier 10 merch by amazon
first research brainstorm design that's what i showed you today my next part i'm going to
show you how to upload use keywords and kind of do some free promotions then i'm going to show
you how i'm going to do this over and over i'm going to show you all my 10 designs because by
this point i should have 10 designs uploaded and see if any of them sell and then the last part i'm
going to show you is maybe by then i'm gonna take some off or hopefully i get some sales and i can
analyze maybe if something sells i'll put it on a different product or something to get another sale
and then i'll update some designs and then i'm just gonna review everything that's going on
so that is it for this video thanks so much for watching i hope this was really valuable to you
just to let you know that tier 10 is hard but you can do it and it takes a lot of patience
but it also takes some strategy thanks so much for staying all the way to the end if this video was
helpful for you make sure to like it and if you haven't already please subscribe to this channel
so that you can see more videos like this and now it's time for the trend credits
All right this is the trend credits for today this is dabbing jack-o'-lantern shirt you can see here
there's not very many in the results so it's a trend that's not as saturated
there's so many political shirts on right now i wanted to do a trend that's not a political
shirt because there are a lot of political trending shirts all those funny things that
are being said i've done so many of those trends i wanted to do a halloween trend again
we're getting really close to halloween this is probably this is probably one of the last weeks
you probably want to upload halloween stuff right now so this is one of them uh dabbing
jack-o'-lantern let's look at some of the designs here again don't copy these do your own style
do your own version of this um but you can see here just to look at the competition the bsrs
very low sub 500 some of them 210 here five so you know a jack-o-lantern with a skull
um body or a jack-o-lantern by itself with some hands and stuff you can see
they're selling and just to check Merch Informer dabbing jack-o'-lantern it's getting a A.
You can see some other versions here so that's my trend credits for today
dabbing jack-o'-lantern um again and if you don't have Merch Informer maybe if you're on tier 10 or
one of the lower tiers you might want to wait on getting this but if you're in the higher tiers
and or if you just want to get all this stuff you got Merch Informer graphics you got all
these things that come with Merch Informer i got a link in the description gives you 20 off so
if you want to look at some of these things to get ideas on what is trending you can do that
thanks again for staying all the way till the end and hopefully this trend helps you
and other trends that i have in my other videos look at some of my other videos if
you haven't watched all those i think in the last two weeks or last month i've been adding
trends to the end of all my videos if you haven't watched those watch them and you can
see some of the other trends and i'll be using some of these trends in my tier 10 strategy as
well so i'm going to be using some of the same trends that you are and to see if they actually
work so that is it for this video thanks so much for watching don't forget to like and subscribe
and until next time guys keep creating and keep learning see you on the next one bye