5 HOT Print on Demand T Shirt Niche Research Ideas Merch By Amazon #12 Low Competition Profitable
About this video
Martinez presents five hot print-on-demand t-shirt niches. 1) Middle sister: ‘I’m the middle sister and I’m the reason we have rules,’ an evergreen sibling niche; swap in big/little/half/step sister and middle brother, mix in birthdays (‘promoted to middle sister’) and holidays like Easter and Christmas. 2) Tattoos: sub-niche down by combining keywords, e.g. ‘yes I have tattoos and I also have an education and a career,’ plus tattoos and coffee, tacos, mascara, and examples found via Merch Informer product search such as ’tattoos, pretty eyes and thick thighs’ and ’tattoos and employed’; also adapt funny family memes (‘some aunts have tattoos… it’s me, I’m some aunts’). 3) Wedding: very competitive but selling all year, especially spring (April, May, June); ideas include boyfriend/fiancé/husband crossed out, ‘best man mode,’ anniversaries, mother of the bride, groom’s father, wedding coordinator, and sister of the groom, and mixing niches like middle sister into wedding. 4) Trail runner: retro/vintage sun designs, $14.99 example targeting men, ’let’s run 100 miles for fun’ variants for marathon/ultra runners, ‘hit the trail’ and ‘mind over miles,’ mixing in Bigfoot, targeting specific states/cities, and pitching shirt designs to local marathon events to sell 50 to 100 shirts. 5) Mother of boys / mother niche: ’life is better with my boys,’ evergreen beyond Mother’s Day; leverage Mother’s Day traffic to create a seller that continues through Q4, plus mom of girls, adoption, twins, number-of-kids math jokes like ‘mom cubed / mom squared,’ sports moms like t-ball mom, and mother-daughter trips. Throughout he stresses trademark checks, keeping research notes, and reporting pixel-for-pixel design theft.
Key takeaways
- Find low competition by combining two niches/keywords, e.g. tattoos + education/career or middle sister + wedding
- Sibling, wedding, and mother niches are passionate evergreen niches that sell beyond their main holiday
- Leverage a holiday’s traffic (e.g. Mother’s Day) to launch a design that then sells all year
- Use Merch Informer product search and Movers and Shakers, plus Google, Etsy, and Amazon search, for research
- Check trademarks in the mother niche especially, and report sellers who rip designs pixel for pixel
Episode details: published April 11, 2022 · 17:07 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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