How I Made $200,000 on Merch by Amazon 💰 (MERCH BY AMAZON TUTORIAL FOR BEGINNERS 2023) | POD

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RJ Martinez presents a beginner tutorial on Merch by Amazon and says he made over $200,000 in royalties/profits with it. He explains the model: you upload a design, Amazon prints, ships and handles customers and inventory, and you focus on research, design and trademark checks. He says he came from Amazon FBA flipping shoes, started outsourcing design immediately because he says he is poor at designing, and has worked with the same designer for about four years, using custom illustrations rather than the same stock others use. He covers approval — he says he was approved after about three months (day 92, without receiving the approval email), that others report days, a year, denial, or never, and suggests filling out the application completely and professionally and showing prior shops may help, though Amazon does not disclose its criteria. He explains tiers starting at 10 designs, then 25, 100, 500, 1,000, 2,000 and upward — he says he is at tier 200,000 — and tactics to tier up such as low pricing and creating designs for friends, schools, churches or teams. He stresses a workflow split across days (research/trademark checks, design, upload, review), tools including Photoshop, Illustrator, Merch Designer in Merch Informer, and Over, sources such as Freepik, Vexels and Font Squirrel with commercial-use checks, the free Merch by Amazon Trademark Protection tool from Merch Informer, and putting researched keywords in the title, bullets and description to drive traffic.

Key takeaways

• He says he made over $200,000 in royalties/profits on Merch by Amazon by focusing on research and outsourcing design and custom illustration from the start.
• Merch by Amazon handles printing, shipping, inventory and customers; the seller’s job is research, design, listings and strict trademark compliance, with account termination as the risk for mistakes.
• Approval timing varies widely in his account; he says to complete the application fully and professionally and not leave blanks, while noting Amazon does not explain its decisions.
• The tier system starts at 10 uploads and grows with sales and account standing; pricing low, at $19.99 in his current standard example for about a $5 royalty, and making designs for known buyers can help early momentum.
• Use a day-by-day workflow, verify commercial-use rights for illustrations and fonts, double-check trademarks with dedicated tools and a second checker, and put researched keywords in the title, bullets and description.

Episode details: published August 27, 2021 · 18:19 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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