13 Profitable T-Shirt Ideas To Make Money With Today

About this video

Martinez runs through t-shirt niches he pitches for June sales. The list is: grandma and grandpa, using funny/loving quotes and nicknames and mixing with birthdays and trips; chickens and other farm animals, built on funny sayings; Juneteenth on June 19, which he calls Black Freedom Day, notes falls the same day as Father’s Day in his framing, and says statement designs in Black culture can sell all year; traders, broadened beyond crypto, blockchain and NFTs; work sarcasm aimed at management and colleagues; adventure and summer, where he argues a simple early text-based design such as ‘and so the adventure begins’ can become a consistent seller; Fourth of July, which he says is still worth designing for close to the date while generally recommending designing three months out and watching delivery cut-offs; breast cancer awareness mixed with baseball or other sports, hobbies and occupations; Gemini and other zodiac/birthday-date designs, including niching down with pride/rainbow styling; coach plus nutrition-facts designs scaled across baseball, football, weightlifting and other sports; chess lovers, using king, queen and piece imagery; birthday plus video gaming (‘birthday boy/girl, time to level up’), with a warning not to copy PlayStation or Xbox controllers or use logos; and birthdays generally, mixing ages and retro styling with a person’s favourite animal or interest for months ahead.

Key takeaways

• Mix two proven niches together — e.g. awareness with sports, birthdays with gaming, or coach with nutrition facts — to scale one idea across many audiences.
• Simple, early text-based designs can become a niche’s consistent best seller; you do not need complex artwork for trends like adventure/summer.
• Design about three months ahead where possible, but still test close to events like the Fourth of July and keep shipping cut-offs and returns in mind.
• Zodiac and birthday designs can be niched down by specific dates, signs and styling to reduce competition.
• Avoid trademark risk in gaming designs: do not replicate console controllers identically and do not put brand logos on shirts.

Episode details: published June 17, 2022 · 10:48 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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