How I Made $1,000 Profit Selling Dog Shirts (Niche Breakdown)

About this video

RJ Martinez breaks down dog-breed t-shirts as a print-on-demand strategy, researching live on Etsy with the EverBee tool across five breeds: French Bulldog, German Shepherd, Corgi, Bernese Mountain Dog, and Golden Doodle. He looks for repeatable patterns and demand signals — listing age, conversion rate, recent views, and monthly sales — rather than one-off designs. Patterns he calls out across multiple breeds include a dog howling at the moon, a western/cowboy-hat design with a UFO, cactus and desert backdrop, floral silhouettes, ‘dog mom / dog dad’ and ‘mama’ wording ahead of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, coffee-themed designs, and ‘I got that dog in me.’ Examples he cites include a Corgi western design with 70 sales in the last month at six months old, a Bernese Mountain Dog western design with 16 sales at one month old, and a Golden Doodle design with 40 sales at two months old. He warns that versions using a Miller Lite can risk infringement and should be swapped out, notes breed-specific angles like bulldogs being called ‘potatoes’ (’emotional support potato’), and stresses testing: put the design up, do not get emotionally attached, and let the market decide. He pitches his Top Research Design Vault (20 low-competition niches weekly with keywords, links, competition scores, and AI image prompts). The video title claims $1,000 profit selling dog shirts, and the creator claims in the video that he has profited thousands of dollars with this research strategy and that one design done correctly can make over $1,000 a month.

Key takeaways

• Research dog breeds on Etsy with EverBee signals — young listing age plus early sales/conversion (e.g. 16 sales at 1 month) indicates a pattern worth testing
• Reusable cross-breed patterns identified: howling at the moon, western cowboy hat with UFO/desert, floral silhouettes, and coffee + breed designs
• Adapt the winning concept to your own breed instead of copying — swap breed, wording (mom/dad/mama), and details to make it unique
• Avoid brand infringement in otherwise strong concepts — creator flags the Miller Lite can appearing in some western dog designs as a risk to replace
• Test without emotional attachment: creator claims a single correct design can make over $1,000 a month, but says the market decides

Episode details: published February 17, 2026 · 16:20 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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